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This is my new buddy. He is a one year old Siamese (I think) with tabby markings.  He is a very sweet cat, and very social.  He talked to me from his kitty carrier the whole way home.  I was expecting him to be a little afraid of me, but the moment I let him out he was very affectionate.  On his first night at my house he was very timid.  He didn’t explore more that 10 feet or so a way from me at any time.  I walked him around room to room, and let him explore while I was standing there.  When I sat down on my bed, he hopped up, and declared it his own, as you can see.  He has been becoming a little braver bit by bit.  While he still cries if I go into the bathroom and shut the door, he can now be a whole room away without crying (as long as the doors are open).

I for one, am not good at coming up with names for animals.  My friends Jackie and Chris, who helped me adopt him, were calling him Zeus, but I think he is a little to timid for that.  And I don’t the god Zeus would like people rubbing his belly.  Alan recommended Cringer, as in the cat that he-man had in the cartoon.  I don’t think anyone would get it…hell I didn’t even get it.  My friend Robert, and his wife Alyssa recommended Phoenix.  My brother recommended mister mistiffelees, jazzpurr, plinko, tabasco, taboo, simba, mufasa, zebra and Layla killer.  All good names, but I think I’m going to go with my mom’s suggestion of Charlie.