Tito Red spent three days in Vets in Practice animal hospital in Mandaluyong City, a few blocks away from the shop where a friend gets her weight loss vitamins. We took him there last Friday for neutering and asked for a two-day confinement while we were busy with house-transfers. Last Sunday, he was vaccinated with anti-rabies shot and given boosters. He was also given a tranquilizer pill to calm him down for the long ride from the hospital all the way to Cavite.
It was his first time to receive treatments since we got him five years ago. We were compelled to give him that since we’re transferring to a gated community and we don’t want him to populate the new neighborhood with kitties. Tingting, his best buddy for 3 years, was given to the care of a family friend.
Tito Red’s neutering and vaccination at Vets in Practice cost me around P3,500. Not bad for a first-timer who will soon grow into an orange tabby cat. His attending doctors and handlers were good and pleasant, and they do really care about the animals brought to them for medical care.
Tito Red: An example of an adorable lazy domestic shorthair
Last month, I visited a vet to check on their prices and services and she asked me about Tito Red’s breed. I told her that he is the usual plain house cat I picked up from the street. Someone who literally has no breeding, a “pusakal”. When he was little, he’d usually jump on the bed and sleep there or make his bed on top of the television set, rides on his huge plate during meal time, clings to a
pull up bar and let out an angry growl when hungry. It took a while for Tito Red to be re-educated. Apparently, he’s got manners now.
I learned that Tito Red has a breed which is that of a domestic shorthair cat. Domestic shorthair cats were used before to help eradicate rat infestation in the English colonies, so I assume that Tito Red’s ancestors were of English lineage. Royalties (hehe). A domestic shorthair’s look also varies, depends on where on earth they live. American and European cats have a stocky built, while their tropical counterparts (like Tito Red) are thinner and lighter.
Domestic shorthairs, or the typical everyday cat, account for almost ninety percent of all cat breeds. Obviously they breed triplets or quadruplets every 3-4 months. Neutering or spraying is a solution to having unwanted kitties.
That lazy orange cat we all call Tito Red is turning 5 this month. We thought it was appropriate to celebrate his birthday together with Buboy, his official masseur. We can’t remember the exact date when he decided to live with us. He just came around as small hungry reddish kitty who stayed outside our door feeding on leftovers. Before we knew it, he was already inching his way inside the house and slowly establishing his territory and position as the 5th member of the family.
Wherever the family goes, Tito Red goes. We have plans for him concerning his diet, grooming and lodging. We will send him to a vet next month to prepare for his transfer to Avida Settings, christen him Tito Red Ayala, being the first pusakal to live in the village, and probably prepare his first communion invitation eblast. Kidding. But what keeps him busy these days is the time he spends on watching Tito Mong work on his computer. He likes Mac.
It was his first time to receive treatments since we got him five years ago. We were compelled to give him that since we’re transferring to a gated community and we don’t want him to populate the new neighborhood with kitties. Tingting, his best buddy for 3 years, was given to the care of a family friend.
