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Teddy
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Male
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American Shorthair
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| Home: |
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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We were just going to the SPCA to "look" at cats when we saw Teddy. He was the sweetest and cutest cat there, and he was featured by the window since he had been shown on the local news station that morning as an advertisement for the shelter. Oddly enough, though, nobody had come to adopt him. My sister and I found ourselves playing with him within minutes of entering the shelter, and about an hour later, we begged our mom to take him home. She wanted a bit of a lap cat, so she held him for a while. He was so calm and happy, and my mom instantly fell in love with him. We ended up taking him home that day.
Since we did not plan on adopting that day, we did not bring our cat carriers. We instead took one of the cardboard ones the shelter provided, along with the little "goody bag." The cardboard carrier came to our advantage when we discovered that Teddy was poking his nose and paw through the holes in the box, and that we could drop a treat into the box through them. He was smart enough to figure out that whenever he meowed, he got a treat. When we got home, Teddy got to meet our other cats. He "played" with both of them right as he was let out. He was quick to discover that Patches was the queen of the house, but Brinley was too shy to play with him, so she ran away every time he began to wrestle her.
He has now found his place in our home and our hearts and he has since then done many silly things. He loved his kitten food and he ate it constantly, and he earned the nicknames of Chubbs by my sister and Jumbo by my grandmother. He also loves snuggling with stuffed animals. Once, when my stuffed animals were on the floor, and when Teddy wanted a playmate "his age," he was able to identify the few cats out of the pile and he snuggled them.
Teddy's favorite pastimes are playing in little houses that my sister and I make out of cardboard boxes, getting pulled around the house in a laundry basket, eating, sticking his paw under the cat water fountain, and looking at birds out the window. His favorite toys are a stuffed sheep that rattles, a cat blanket that he likes to 'milk,'s a fake mouse on a string, a laser pointer, and a unicorn slipper that he carries around in his mouth. One of my favorite things about Teddy is that every time I come to the front door, he is in the hallway to greet me, and every time I come in through the back door, he jumps on a chair to say hello.
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