AriesTocat

Aries the youngest among the siblings with his lovely wife Analyn had to spend a few days in Pampanga to visit his in-laws. So we were tasked to look after Tocat (short for Ariestocat), their uber-cute tomcat during their absence. It was such a welcome change for us considering that the last pet we had was a "psychocat" (see post entitled Pussit) while this one is oh so malambing, house trained and behaved. I commented that with the way he responds it seems that he went to an obedience school -which Alia quickly added must have been a "Harvard Obedience School" at that.

whodat cat?

Tocat knows how to fetch, does not mind if he is on a leash when Alia walks him during mornings, does his thing only in his litter box, and knows how to open cabinets and doors. And more importantly he understands the word NO.

He is not a pedigreed feline. Yup! he is a trueblue "pusakal". Aries found him still a kitten at the parking lot of UST. He saw the little cat's tabby-like markings noticed his intelligent eyes, liked him instantly and therefore took him home. Since then, Tocat has been the couple's house companion in their Manila Condo.

He also makes a very good subject for my brother's SLR camera as shown in his pics below:

catatonic

it's a feline thing

an eye for an eye

it wasn't me

rowrrr!
whaat?!

His regular food is tuna (solid in water) and whiskas. He does not eat anything else and moreover does not like it mixed. Therefore we have to serve it to him in his dish neatly divided or else he will not consume it all (maarte rin). He likes sniffing my mom's plants and one time ate some of our palmera's leaves. It made him vomit it out after a while which I think it is his way of detoxifying. He likes taking a nap at the stairs so that he will have a good view of what's going on in the house. Daily he will rub himself between my legs, my mom's, my nephew's, Alia's - everybody, anybody.

Alas! His stay at our house had to end. Mom asked Aries several times if we can just keep him but bro had grown fond of Tocat as he had raised him since he was a little kitty so his answer was no. Awww too bad! He said though that he will try to look for a new pusakal for us to raise. sha sha sha.

let's paws... for now