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"You're My Best Friend" by Queen
STUDLEY
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- This is Studley. He is 15 yrs old. He is my
'wonderful, white, whiskered one'!!
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- Studley was an outdoor cat that my (now Fur Angel)
Morgan, and I adopted, when she was in one of her 'romantic
times'. Even though any cat I own is an indoor-only cat, he was
willing to give up his freedom and a bachelor's ways to be
Morgan's life partner!!
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- And before you wonder, he is neither deaf nor
blind!! (I get asked that a LOT!!) He IS very loving and
affectionate, and 'poses' himself as if there were a photographer
following him around! He is also very graceful, and prides himself
on how far he can leap!
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- He loves to get patted on the butt, and is especially fond of gently but firmly pulling on his tail!!! He is the 'bathroom monitor', so any time we go into the bathroom, he will follow us in there, and ask to be petted or have his tail pulled!! Sometimes I even lift his butt off the ground while pulling gently on his tail, and he loves it!! I think it must feel like stretching to him!! And when we are not petting him, he will pretend his tail is some small animal that he is stalking!! He does it soooo well, that if you watch for a while, you'd swear that his tail was in fact not a part of him, but some little critter he was trying to catch!! Then, when he inevitably leaps for it, and it 'gets away', he looks bummed for a second, then acts like he's not interested!! Then he'll flick it, and catch the movement out of the corner of his eye, and start to stalk it all over again!! I figure it's the 'mature' cat's version of a kitten chasing it's tail!! It's a wonderful 'show' when you are otherwise occupied!!!
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- And he is always very punctual about bedtime!! I wonder if he can actually tell time somehow!!! When I'm working on the computer late, and it gets to be about 11pm - midnight, he comes over and starts meowing to me, and gently puts his little paws up on my legs, and when I look down at him, he looks at me with this 'Ahem!!' look on his face, and says plaintively 'merrrow?!?', and it's very clear that he's letting me know that it's time to get off the computer and go to bed now!! And if I'm in the middle of something important, like working on this site, and try to keep working, he will keep coming back in every 15-20 minutes to remind me that he's still waiting for me!! And he's so cute about it, that I usually give in, and go to bed!!!
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- He loves to sit on my lap or right beside me, but
he wants me to be touching him at all times. If I move my
hand, he'll wake up, get up and come up to my face and demand
attention!! He'll either make a soft little merrrowww, or hold one
paw in the air, while curling and uncurling it, with this hopeful
little look on his face!! Or both!!
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- He's a sweet, wonderful boy, who loved Morgan, and
loves our little adopted girl, Doodle!! And he's my Best
Friend!!
Studley is also a survivor of FUS, a potentially deadly illness!! He got it 5 years ago, and because he was treated in time, and now and forevermore eats special food, he was only sick for a few weeks and is now a completely healthy, happy little boy!!! To find out about this dangerous illness, please click on the poster below to go to our good friend Boomer's site, who is also a survivor of FUS, and has some vital information that you really should read!!!
Ooohhh, look!!!
Studley is now a purrrrrrrroud
memfur of CLAW!!!
Just click on his crown below
To go to our CLAW page!!!
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