On Sun, 18 Oct 2020 11:44:21 -0400, jmcquown >
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>On 10/18/2020 11:23 AM, Silvar Beitel wrote:
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>> Could be. He's from Florida. :-) And only 8 months old, so I suspect he will fill out and could actually be a pretty big adult. And oh my yes, he's talky. With a really high-pitched squeeky meow.
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>> Which is funny, because the gray cat is the talkiest cat we've ever had. And he's not exactly an old timer. He's 2 1/2, acquired in January.
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>> The story:
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>> We've always had cats. At times as many as four. As we got older, we didn't replace them as they passed on, thinking it would be irresponsible. The last of the batch died in January 2018[1]. Our son and daughter-in-law moved in for a while with their two cats to save money to buy a house, which they did in 2019, and we were again without cats. Mrs. B. wanted to get another cat. I was the stick-in-the-mud that was adamant about not getting any more. Mrs. B. was all "Puleeeeeeeze?" and I was all "NOPE!"
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>> We went to Arizona in January of this year, one of many trips there we've made over the years to visit my parents and friends, and just to get a warm break in the winter months. This time, we decided to take a few extra days in Mexico, so we drove down to Puerto Penasco and stayed at a B&B, whose owner just happened to have a bunch of rescue cats living in her courtyard. And one of them took a liking to us. "Take me home with you!" he said:
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>> https://photos.app.goo.gl/VzPEzH6SUwmJgJTs7
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>Your grey cat reminds me of my cat Persia. She barged up to my
>apartment door one blustery winter night when I lived in TN. The temps
>were dipping into the 20's. She demanded I let her inside. I opened
>the door and she marched in like she owned the place. Which, of course,
>she did.

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