This is Maynerd. We brought him home from an adoption day...in a cardboard box...when he was a kitten. He is the most awesome cat I've ever met. He is gregarious and playful, patient and gentle. He was our very first "child" and yet adapted to the addition of our human kids as if he knew all along that his place in the hierarchy would someday be usurped. When the girls were tiny, they would quite literally haul him around the house by his neck, an ear or a back leg and he never once scratched or bit and rarely even let out a yelp - instead, just looked at us with his gentle eyes as if to say, "do you see? do you SEE the humiliation I put up with to be a member of this family?" the girls have grown up a bit and now he curls up, purring in Britta's lap when she's watching cartoons and sneaks into Emily's bed when you're reading her a story. He does tricks and manages to win over many self proclaimed "cat haters" who visit. I am thankful that we have such an awesome, awesome pet as part of our family.
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