Blue Burmese, This cat's funnier than most people I've met

by Stephanie
(Pittsburgh)

I convinced my brother to adopt a cat from someone I knew on facebook without ever even meeting the kitten.

A couple months later I moved in with him (my brother), as it turned out, and had a chance to meet him—the cat, that is—who had been named Minimog Malkinstein.

We soon figured out that he is a prime example of the Blue Burmese breed, with his gray nose and body, subtley striped and hardly spotted belly, and those silver paws. He’s got the most amazing fur ever, especially in the light—it’s hard to believe it’s all natural and real.

Anyway, Minimog soon became quite attached to me, for whatever reason, even though I didn’t know him when he was a kitten. It’s like he knew I put my brother up to getting him! He follows me around everywhere, cries when I’m not home and when I cry, tries to knock the door down when I shower, and always cuddles in my lap as I do my homework.

Aside from being adorable, he’s also hilarious. Sometimes, he thinks he’s a bird and will sit at windows chirping with them, other times he thinks he’s a dog and will actually play fetch with me. He also does the funniest little thing where he’ll get close to a wall or piece of furniture or the like, stand on his back legs, and just kind of paw the surface of whatever he’s against with his front paws, but they slip so it looks like he’s trying to run up the wall.

One time he went to give me bedtime kisses: he licked my face when I laid down to sleep, turned around, and walked (fell) right off my bed. I nearly died laughing at him.

I don’t know what I’d do without him.