Blissed-Out Bogie

First off, this is NOT my cat, Dexter. This is one of Dexter's brothers, Bogie, whom you have met just once before on these pages. Isn't he a cutie-pie? He looks so much like my Dexter, and yet, they are quite different. Dexter's facial markings are more symmetrical, Bogie is bigger in size, and Bogie has less white on his front toes.

In fact, at one of their earliest vet visits, when they each weighed in at a bit more than two pounds, the vet differentiated among the three little Itty Bitty City Kitties by how much white they had on their feet. And so meet Mr. "Least White on Toes." (The honor of "Most White on Toes" goes to the third brother, Skeeter, whom you've met here and here.)

My little sister and her daughter and I went to visit our oldest sister in Harrisburg on this day (our sister is doing better than ever, thanks for asking; and thanks for all continued prayers on her behalf!) and Bogie lives with the friends my sister is staying with, so that's how we got to say hello. In fact, it was much more than hello.

Bogie likes to play the role of official greeter. So he jumped up on the table and my sister's little daughter Kaylee began to pet him. And pet him. And pet him. And pet him. And even stroke the very tips of his ears. And pet him some more. Boy, did that make Bogie happy! "Bring on the pettin's!"

What a blissed-out cat! You can almost hear him saying, "No, no, please don't stop!" And so the soundtrack is a Cars tune from the late 1970s, Don't Cha Stop.