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Lexi
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Age: |
Seven years old
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| Gender: |
Female
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Kind: |
Tortoiseshell, longhair
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| Home: |
Olympic Peninsula, Washington, USA
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Lexi
is a very special small cat in a large body. She was eating herself
into the grave when she was adopted from the animal shelter weighing
seventeen pounds. She could no longer groom herself and hardly moved.
She was not a very happy cat, either.
After two years at what we lovingly call "Fat Camp" she is down to under
thirteen pounds. We are aiming for about ten pounds but may never
achieve that. Still it is a goal. She was removed from a free-feeding
situation and gets fed twice a day, a spoonful of wet food spread out
all over a large dinner plate. She has to 'hunt' for her food, licking
the plate clean, rather than wolf it down and go to the next cat's bowl.
Food is still her greatest love, and I can tell by the scale whether she
has been cheating on her diet.
Her personality has changed to be very typically tortoise shell - she'd
like to dominate the domestic situation. There are three other cats in
the home who disagree with that analysis. It makes for a very lively
home. She'd like to be an only cat, but that is not in the cards. She
truly knows when she is being naughty and earns a time-out in a bedroom.
Yet most of the time, she is a sweet as she can be and has a loud
motor... these redeeming features, along with her smile, and her habit
of curling up next to my body on the bed, make her my Cat of the Day.
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