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Name: Ralph
Age: Seventeen-Eighteen years old
Gender: Male
Kind: Tuxedo Shorthair
Home: Newnan, Georgia, USA
 
   Ralph arrived in our back yard, howling bloody murder, about thirteen years
ago - it was night, and he came from behind our back fence, yelling loudly- we
opened the door and he walked in- he was nearly dead, very thin and
malnourished, every bone showing, and he looked to be a hundred years old,
although the vet said he was maybe 5-6. He was front-declawed and 100% not feral
or wild, he desperately wanted human companionship and laps to sit in and above
all, food.

     He was probably abandoned or dumped by whatever heartless villain had him
front-declawed, and there was no way the poor guy could have survived without
front claws- he also has a digestive disorder, he can't get much out of the food
he eats, it goes through him too fast- the vet put him on Flagyl immediately and
that helped a lot, but he still has food go through him too fast, and the
results are in the biological-weapons category because he only partially digests
things - if he visits the litter box the whole house knows about it very
quickly.

     He's picky and fussy about food, of course- typical tuxedo cat attitude,
a.k.a. Tuxitude - and he wants laps and pets and chin scratches now, on his
terms- and he can be a totally sweet lap cat if he wants to be and if it's in
his interests to be one-- or he can be a cranky dictator if his needs are
inadequately met- neither we nor the vets know how he is still alive after all
this time, with his digestive probs and other complaints, but alive he most
certainly is, and he makes very sure we know it. He complains more (and more
loudly) than his namesake Ralph Kramden, and is just as surly and crusty, but we
wouldn't trade him for the world- the picture shows his favorite place, curled
up in the sunshine in the catnip plant- probably gooned out of his little mind
but happy and content.



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