I, Student: The Reality of Romeo

As you know, I wrote about our cat, Romeo, on my former post. Some of my friends told me that he does not look so chubby.. well, even though actually HE IS. Therefore, I decided to show you his reality. Here he is;

Pregnant!? / Turkey!?
* Romeo is a male cat.

His fat goes limp like something melting down slowly when he goes into sleep. It is like Daifuku (大福), a Japanese traditional sweet, is made from rice cake and some stuffing (traditional one has red bean paste inside). Compare with the picture above ("Romeo in pregnancy")!! I am sure touching his tummy exactly feels like touching Daifuku! Mmmm, I want to bite! XD

Not only his chubbiness, you can also take a look at his "boooo (thumb's down) face" when my camera accidentally flashes.

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Booooo face..

Although the time saving system here gave us one hour of extra sleeping time on November 2nd, Romeo's stomach does not understand that the feeding time for him has been changed. He had woken us up at 5:30 before, and because his little brain does not recognize human winter time, of course, the alarm time of his satiety center automatically orders him to start meowing - oh my gosh - at 4:30 in every morning! As I wrote, once he understands that we are not going to get up just by his meowing, he starts to jump up onto us with his 17.5bl of weight!!! We have to change our posture as lying on our tummy to protect our organs from Romeo to crash! I know he does not mean to kill us (I hope); however, we still have to keep being in patience until the clock tells 7am, time to feed him.

Some people who owns a cat would say that we can just leave some dry food while we are sleeping. I know it works for SOME cats. For Romeo? NO. He'd eat off EVERYTHING in a bowl AS SOON AS he finds them. Also the doctor's (vet) order we've got from Yasuko, an agent of adaption agency, ties our little desire which we wish that we could feed him as much as he wants.

The flyer of Romeo we got from Yasuko recently says; "He needs someone with an iron will to make his diet stick. Cuddles and laughter will be your reward and a guarantee you'll never be bored." This fryer was spread last January for seeking out the nice foster family for him, and oh man, the picture of him is much chubbier than him now. I am so glad that the former family and Yasuko took great care of him. On the other hand, I wonder how hard it was..

In addition, my younger female cousin, Mika, emailed me a picture of her baby boy from Japan and said, "Romeo's weight as 8kg (= 17.5lb) is exactly the same as his, my 7 months old boy." Oooookkkkaaayy, I guess now I understand why my shoulders have been so sore in these days.. I feel like I became a mother of 7 months baby all the sudden.. hum, indeed, he meows for milk too.

Anyway, here is the picture of her baby boy, Kensuke. Soooooo cuuuute, isn't he??? I actually met him in May 2008 when I went back to Japan for HOLIDAYS. Time flies so fast.. at that time, he was just a little tiny baby though.

While his owners are in such great suffer from his health concern, he fell into a deep sleep as soon as he finished off his wet can food in 30 seconds. I bet a speed-eater ends up gaining lots of flabby too..