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Jack, the Cat of the Day
Name: Jack
Age: Nine years old
Gender: Male
Kind: Domestic Shorthair
Home: West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
 
   Jack Jack, Jack Fruit, Jackson Brown, or Nutty is the true bomb diggity of cats. I'm not just bragging because he's mine, either, as he shares the house with multiple other cats, and though they are all loved, Jack is king. I grabbed him along with a couple other feral kittens off the street around eight or nine years ago, before I learned that doing so can leave you with way too many cats! (Yes, the easily tamed can be adopted out, but too many never got as friendly as I'd hoped or only liked me.) Jack was untouchable for a time, and I had him in one room with a few others. I would lie on the sofa with a book and my hand dangling down the side, and he'd brush by my fingers over and over. About a week later, he jumped up on me. He immediately jumped down, but you get the drift.

    Fast forward to eight years later: there's nothing I can do to frighten or even startle him. I often raise my arms and stomp toward him making monster sounds, and he loves it. How do I know? He jumps onto one of several cat condos or chairs and rolls around on his back meowing at me. He adores attention from me. Then we head butt several times. We also have a thing where I lift both of his back legs off the floor and thump them down about five times - it's another favorite of his. When I spend time playing or talking to another cat or dog, he races up meowing determinedly, demanding he be the center of attention. It truly amazes me how social he is because I have quite a few scaredy cats in the house who run from noise or visitors, even after years of safety living here.

    As no one is completely perfect, I'll add that Jack can be a bit of a pain with some of the others. He gets in his moods and harasses those lower on the totem pole, but as soon as I reprimand him, he'll go back to rolling on his back. He absolutely knows he's beyond any serious reproach. He is the only cat allowed in the bedroom at night with the two dogs and me. It may not be fair, but I can't have running, hissing, meowing, and jumping on me all night long. Jack adores the dogs and rubs against them before he lies down each night. When he wants to leave the room, he jumps down and scratches the mattress till I let him out. Five minutes later he's back, yowling at the door. Occasionally he does this several times before I stop reading and turn off the light, and I want to kill him, but again, he's beyond reproach in the end. He is a genius and a gem beyond all words. My Jackie Brown!

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