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| Name: |
Vinny
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Age: |
One year old
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| Gender: |
Male
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Kind: |
Cat
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| Home: |
Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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When
Vinny joined our family (consisting of four humans and two
rambunctious dogs) eighteen months ago, we had no idea that he was
going to win our hearts so completely and in such short order. Four
months earlier, my sister and her husband had adopted a stray female
kitty who turned out to be pregnant. Bonnie, who was featured on Cat
of the Day on March 11, 2002 duly gave birth to four beautiful kittens.
Vinny, with his spectacular colouring and symmetrical tabby markings,
was dubbed "Calendar Girl" or "Callie" for short. The only problem
was, as we found out from the vet when he was three weeks old, Callie
was a boy! We had mistakenly thought that all cats with his
coloration are female. At this point, hoping that we had not
inflicted permanent emotional harm on him, we changed his name to
"Sunshine Boy" and hoped for the best. Six weeks later he joined our
family, and we renamed him "Vinny." (He looked like a Vinny!)
Vinny has since grown into a handsome hunk of cat. He weighs fifteen
pounds and counting, and, fortunately, has a very sweet disposition.
He loves launching himself at stationary objects such as his
scratching post and the back of my computer chair. He's particularly
goofy late at night, when he keeps us in stitches with his antics. He
zooms into the bathroom when he hears me start to run a bath, and sits
on the edge of the tub trying to scoop up the water as it runs out of
the tap. While I'm in the tub he puts on a floor show for me, chasing
plastic kitty springs and doing acrobatics on his scratching post.
Although he's not a lap cat, he loves being cuddled and brushed, and
purrs loudly at the slightest provocation. He gets on well with our
dogs, who respect him and allow him his own space. Vinny is spoiled
absolutely rotten and deserves to be - he has brought so much love and
laughter into our lives!
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