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Hi Marty,
hi big guy.
Hi, I'm Leslie David and
for my video I'd like to introduce you to the other member of my household,
Marty David.
Marty is a black and white domestic shorthair cat.
I adopted him through Little Buddies back in 2006 and they estimated that he
was about a year old.
I'd previously had to put my cat of 13 years to sleep,
and as they say, "a house is not a home without a cat."
We always had cats as pets when I was growing up.
My previous cat, Max, was a silver tabby.
I had gotten him as a 9 week old kitten and I knew I didn't want another baby,
so I went online to look for a young adult.
I thought about getting a breed since there are Siamese and Bombays up
for adoption but in the end I decided to go with a plain mutt cat.
This is what Marty is.
Going through the adoption pictures online his face just
jumped out at me.
As you can see, Marty has beautiful black and white markings.
And he has a little moustache and goatee, show them your face, yeah.
I called the adoption agency and made arrangements to go down to the
adoption fair,
and
where I met the cat.
And when I met him it was love at first sight.
I got some information about his background,
he was picked up by a woman who had been feeding a colony of feral cats and
he showed up for dinner.
Marty loves to play and chase balls so periodically I have to go
around the house
and get them out from under the furniture and put them back in his
toy basket.
He also knows how to hunt,
when I watched him with a mouse
when I watched him with a toy mouse, I figured if he ever got a real one it would
be toast,
and sure enough I heard this ruckus one day and he pranced into the
kitchen and dropped this thing at my feet, like
"Look Mom!"
and I thought at first, OK, it's one of his toys until I looked down and I realized
that it had legs.
But anyway,
uh...
he's been with me for quite a while now, I guess we've been together for
about seven years,
and I hope we have many, many more years before Marty goes over the Rainbow
Bridge.