"Fresca"
Full Name: Fresco Regalo de Carino
(fresh or sweet gift of love, I think)
Nicknames & Phrases: Darling, Reach out & touch
someone kitty, BlobBerta
Given B-day: April 21, 1991
Current age: 16
Quirks: Love bites, sitting up on her haunches when
someone approaches and reaching for them.
History:
I'd always wanted a poly kitty & knew of some
people in town who had a litter of
them. They weren't well cared for. Neglected, is the word I want! The
people agreed
immediately when they heard that I wanted a kitten but I never heard
from them
after that. I also didn't know how to reach them. This was all done
by word of mouth.
The months passed & I'd gotten Chester.
One day I got a call from my sister who said that
she had my kitty for me. I didn't even
know what she was talking about! I'd thought that maybe the people
had another home
for her by then. To be perfectly honest, I had reservations about taking
on another cat by
then. I was living in this tiny little apartment and I already had
8 cats in my care. I was
afraid of not only overcrowding but also that my landlord would go
ballistic when he knew
I'd added another cat. He didn't, though and I got my darling!
:-)
When I got to my sister's, I was captivated! She was
around 9 mos. old, at the time and
gorgeous! Then I checked out her feet. I knew she had extras but not
that many! She had
24 toes total! Those extra large feet give her incredible balance.
She's been known to sit
up and stand up on her hind feet alone for measureable lengths of time.
She has a great
grip, too! If she wants to hold onto one of my fingers, she makes sure
that finger doesn't
go anywhere!
Having those extra toes also means that she has the extra
bone and muscle to operate
them. On one of those rare occasions when she decided to fight back,
I got in the way of
one of her slaps. Not fun! If she'd do that more often, she
wouldn't be picked on quite as
much!
Fresca is a gentle, loving kitty who'd rather holler and
run when she's picked on than pick
back. Even though she outweighs most of the others and "outguns" everyone,
she doesn't
much care for rough-housing. She belongs to the group of kitties that
the "terrorists" (See:
Dif-"fur"-nitions) of the
Bru Clan like to aggravate. My name for the group
is, "The old,
the defenseless and the chicken-hearted." Fresca, of course, is the
"chicken-hearted."
She doesn't have much to say any other time unless she's
playing. When she's playing, she
talks up a storm! I love her voice! She sounds like a kitten! Of course,
you've heard her
greeting, so you know what I mean! :-) Like with Bru, it's kind of
hard to imagine that tiny
little voice being issued from such a big kitty!
Sitting up is one of her many charms. When someone approaches
her and she wants some
loving, she sits up and reaches out for them. Often, if she knows that
she's been spotted,
she'll also stand on those rear feet until the current object of her
affection reaches her.
Then, she arches her back on the way back down. Other times, she'll
come back down as
soon as she knows she's been seen. This why I don't have a picture
of her sitting up, yet.
I usually don't walk around with a camera and she drops
back down before I can get the
camera ready for action. Not to worry, though! I'll get one and it
will be posted, here.
Fresca has always been a loving kitty but as she grows older, she's
more demonstrative in
her loving. She's always given love bites and they're becoming much
more frequent. This
can be unfortunate, in a way. My darling has never learned the concept
of the word, "gentle."
Her love bites are precious, mind you but she does get a bit overzealous,
sometimes! :-) She's
also been settling down in my lap more often and I love that!
Her most recent thing is to
"attack" me from behind. This means that when I'm on the computer,
she stretches from
the bed to the back of my chair and pats my back. :-) Usually, she
does this from the floor.
I don't know what kind of interaction she had with people
before I adopted her but she's
very nervous around new people. She may have always been shy. It sometimes
takes awhile
before she's ready to greet someone new. I'm hoping that since she
has her own room, she'll
overcome some of that shyness! :-) Another of her charms is that if
you hold her in your arms
on her back, she'll spread all four legs for maximum belly availability!
Try it! You'll both like
it! :-)
If you're cruising around in here and you hear a
tiny little, "Mew!", look for Fresca. She'll
be sitting up and reaching out for you!
A
game of cards, anyone?
Come 'ere...I
want to love on you!!!
Adopting a new kitty isn't always tough as it can
seem to be. With lots of love and patience, your new
and established kitties could become best friends in
a relatively short period of time! Trust me on this! :-)
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