| I'd never heard of Bongo Cat until now and it brings back fond memories. Back in 2006, a while after the passing of my previous cat (Kira), I became the new subordinate of two six week old sibling tuxedo kittens, Buzz (male) and Blossom (female). They were pre-named by the cat rescue place and I didn't have any better ideas, and so those names stuck for a while. Explaining "Blossom" was sometimes a challenge if you know me, 20st at the time, petrol head, beer, curry, other things, but do love cats. Anyway, Buzz grew into this almost 5ft long (but not fat, or overweight) slightly clumsy cat in his "teens"; there was a laptop flooded by a glass of water, a not inexpensive B&W speaker broken by an attempted leap (grrr)...usual cat stuff. Privately I started calling him "Bongo", I don't know why, it just seemed appropriate, and suited him. I also started calling Blossom, his sister mini-bongo around the house, but then mini-puss. Blossom was the runt of the litter (there were three cats in the photo, I offered to take all of them, Buzz was the middle cat, Blossom was the tiny one). Anyway just a story. Sadly Bongo (Buzz) passed away due to kidney issues at the age of 10 back in 2014. I miss him, he was so good natured (as is Blossom) and an amazing lump of feline friendlyness, seeing this today brought a wee tear to my eye. Anyway, some links to these awesome pals: https://imgur.com/bMr725m ("Bongo") https://imgur.com/YGZZOAW (Younger days) https://imgur.com/oq124oJ ("Bongo...again") https://imgur.com/Fsgmqsd (When Buzz broke into a bag of paperwork when I left the house for a couple of hours) https://imgur.com/NZLsF59 (They still managed to squeeze into their kitten bed somehow even after five years) https://imgur.com/voqjl0F (Blossom, pretty much today, a bit of a lopsided sit, but 14 and a half years old and still as crazy as ever). |