Puff the Magic Cat

Meet Puff the magic cat. She's my one-year old adopted female cat. One fine morning, I found her crying outside the gate of my house. This was a few days before the devastating typhoon Ondoy hit Metro Manila. Minutes after I took her in, I spotted her brother also meowing desperately as he chased a man walking in front of him and was obviously oblivious to his existence. I named Puff's brother Cream. Together they are Cream Puff.

Why did I say Puff the magic cat? I have at least two good reasons to date. First, she managed to hide herself underneath a moving car and managed to stay there until the car brought her back. It was raining like cats and dogs (pun intended) that afternoon when "clues" to her whereabouts became more apparent. To cut the long story short, the driver went back to my place, parked the car and searched for Puff under the car where she was found nestled inside the rear bumper. She must have covered a distance of two kilometers through a hilly drive punctuated by lots of humps. Talk about a cat hitching a ride.

Puff is like a runt. She doesn't grow much. She still looks like a kitten EXCEPT when she wants to keep other cats at bay. Boy could she growl! At first I thought the big cats are the ones making the low and threatening growl. But it was Puff all along, like she swallowed a sub-woofer!! This is why I also now call her Sub-woofy if not Puffy. She's really a very sweet cat, but hates competition to the max.

Puff's favorite food is wet Whiskas. She loves to sleep on top of a black pillow shaped like a cat but not after kneading it like she wants to milk the poor thing. Maybe it reminds her of her mother cat. Or maybe she's just being Puff :)