"studio" <tlack@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On May 5, 5:03 pm, "MaryL" <stanco...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
>> Wrong! It took a couple of years, but he
>> eventually bonded and you could not have asked for a more loving
>> companion
>> than he became (and completely indoors).
>
> Wow Mary, you're more stubborn than a cat!
>
>> He lived to be almost 20 years of age.
>
> He definitely wouldn't have lived to that ripe old age in the wild.
> He must have been...what's the word.......happy.
>
>
Yes, he really was happy. And smart! I was a graduate student at that
time
and lived in an apartment (actually, the second floor of a very old frame
house). The kitchen had a stack of four drawers for utensils, etc. I
would
come home, night after night, and discover that he had opened *every
drawer.* He would open the bottom drawer, climb into it, then open the
next
drawer, etc. He knew how to open every door and drawer and even knew what
a
door knob was for -- I watched him stand on his back legs and put his
front
paws on both sides of the door knob and try to turn it (something he
couldn't do, though, since he could not actually "grab" it). I had
friends
who would laugh and laugh because he had a remarkable way of showing them
that they simply "were not welcome." The door to the hall closet was
fairly
loose and had a big gap underneath. When friends would come over, he
would
go to that door, reach under it and pull it open, then go inside, reach
under the door again and pull it shut! And he would sit inside the closet
until they left. He truly was a remarkable cat.
MaryL
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