Mysterious visitors, with rippling muscles and glowing eyes, prowl among the towering kitty condos of our nation’s capital, asking no quarter and giving none. Some days they are glimpsed by human visitors, some days they lurk alone. In the dark of evening, they maraud their eerie domain, leaving shredded scratching posts, scarred catnip mice, and kibble crumbs, the only evidence of their ferocity. This is the story of their feline lives, recorded unflinchingly, here alone, in BIG PURR DIARY!
Juice is a sweetie, who is nicknamed "Ducky" for her explosive, quacklike meows.
Juice is a 14-pound brown tabby lady, whose gaze is hypnotic and whose appetite is historic. She takes her din-din very seriously, and all she need do is swat the tail tip of another rescue cat at a food bowl, with a firm warning quack, and they know to take off first and ask questions later.
Molly is a bright-eyed spitfire, who can box a catnip mousie across a tiled floor like Sugar Ray Leonard.
Molly is a very Queen of the Felines, whose languid gaze melts hearts from afar. To brush her chin with a gentle finger, as she reclines in her plushy pet bed, is to look upon a little fuzzy face aglow with gratitude, and to see clearly what one cat can offer. When she trots up to rub gleefully against your leg, you have truly received the most regal compliment.
Occasionally, adventuresome visitors explore the theory that they may touch Molly's spine, or reach for her head from above, and yet, live. Molly is always pleased to correct this erroneous notion with a lightning bolt from her nicely clawed business paw, accompanied by an emphatic warning yelp.
Bread is a spectacular athlete, who seems to slip the bounds of earth and soar into the wild blue yonder whenever a feathered cat teaser twitches above his head.
Juice is a spectacular buff tabby fellow, whose ability to escape bounding from Cat Room 2 is quite literally legendary. Bread is a dwarf mountain lion. His steely muscles may well harbor enough raw power to propel an aircraft carrier at 22 knots. If foolish, foolish humans were to disrespect or harass Bread, they would surely disappear without a trace, for he does not suffer fools lightly. He may be picked up, gently, and sometimes purrs contentedly in your arms, but if you do not return him to the floor upon his polite request, he will leave a mark.
Uno is a lightning quick feline jokester, who sometimes falls asleep in the middle of fiercely battling your hand. Then he gently hugs your fingers while drifting off into twitchy-toed kitty dreams.
Uno is an orange and white young fellow, whose bright orange eyes appear fixed in a perpetually perplexed facial expression (due to the prominence of his brow). Uno is phenomenally dexterous and sometimes aggravates the professional shelter staff by repeatedly leaping straight up into the food and toy bin, like Steve McQueen's motorcycle leaping barbed wire barriers in The Great Escape. Uno is a dedicated gladiator, who delights in tangling with each of his roommates in turn, yet remains cheerful and good-natured when some particularly aggravated playmate deems it appropriate to pound him back to the Stone Age. This complete absence of grudges is somewhat peculiar for a cat.
Like Bread, Uno will hurtle into the sky like an eagle in pursuit of a mouse or feathered cat teaser. It is a stroke of good fortune to the avian world, that these cats are strictly indoor-only.
Constance is a jaw-dropping flirt, who yelps anytime someone enters the room, yet fails to snuggle, tickle, and love her.
A year-old Mediumhair dilute Tortie, Constance spills over with come-hither trills, and climbs into laps with other cats already on them.
When introduced to a stuffed mouse, with just a dusting of catnip on the outside, Constance ecsatically somersaulted across Cat Room 1 like an Olympic gymnast. Molly, who would traditionally snatch the toy first and ask questions later, crouched inches away, staring at amazement at her evidently deranged roommate.
Molly’s fur is as soft as a gosling’s wing, and her eyes are ever aglow with pure delight.
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