Lucy
Golightly Lucy
Lucy is a LaPerm cat. The LaPerms are a
new breed, all decended from a single curly cat that showed up in a litter
of farm cats in Oregon. These are medium sized cats with very
curly fur. They come in both long and shorthaired varieties. Lucy is a
longhair.
Lucy's mother is owned by a friend who is
a cat breeder. Because I enjoy kittens and they are not quite the novelty
for my friend that they are for me, I leapt at the chance to have a litter
at my home. Lucy's mother, Kloeshe's Turtle Dove, was sent to me while
she was supposedly four or five weeks pregnant with a probable three
kittens (according to the vet's estimate, determined by palpation).
Turtle was a little spooked out by being
shipped to a house full of big strange dogs, so we put her in a room
by herself and left the carrier cage open so she could come out at her
own pace. The next night, I came home from work. Turtle was still keeping
to herself, so I just stayed in the room reading for a while, to get her
used to me. Suddenly, I heard a faint little mewing sound from the
carrier. I looked in, and there was Lucy. She was the litter.
So much for the vet's estimate...
Lucy is a sweet, quiet lap cat. She is
wonderful with the dogs, and they seem to regard her as a sort of small
piece of furniture that moves. Sometimes people ask if Greyhounds get
along with cats. My dogs pretty much ignore this one. I had another
that was sort of romantically fixated on Cody...but that's
sort of the exception. The cats seem to think the dogs are provided
for entertainment, sort of like cat TV. Also, the dogs and cats seem
to share a mutual interest in each other's food. Sort of a "the grass
is always greener" phenomenon.
Lucy appeared in a Japanese book of cats. She hasn't
been to Japan, but she met a photographer from there. You can take a look at how
Lucy looks when she's annotated in Japanese, and if you read
Japanese, you can read a short text about LaPerms. (I have
no idea what this says - if you want to enlighten me, that would be cool.)
The International Cat Association's standard for the La Perm
Golightly Greyhounds - P.O. Box 234 - Smithtown, NY 11787
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