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My cat is VERY playful and huge. It always makes me smile and laugh when he stalks something. He weighs 23 pounds and is 19 inches long, not including his tail. His sisters, who he bats at constantly, don't take any scrap from him, either! We always laugh when they get into a slap fight!

I trained him when he was just a kitten that my husband saved from being carried off to be killed. The raccoons in our neighborhood had been killing kittens all summer. He screamed, and my husband ran out and tackled the raccoon. Bonzai ran under a bush, shaking. My husband took him inside and there he stayed!

PHOTO: PAULA FLETCHER

He's been a constant joy ever since. He stayed in our big bathroom for a year so I could feed him special kitten food without our other four, now three, cats eating it or him eating adult food. He'd still sneak out sometimes and we'd let him so he could get used to the others and they to him. He's actually a big scaredy cat! He hates thunderstorms and fireworks and was afraid of the moving snake I bought him which was funny. All the cats gave it a wide berth!

Someone did something to the strays in our neighborhood; the one stray who survived is fixed under a TNR program, so we're glad we took Bonzai in. He's just hilarious! Especially when one of his "sisters" sneaks up on him and he jumps four feet into the air!

PHOTO: PAULA FLETCHER

Story submitted by Paula Fletcher in support of A Better Life - Pet Rescue. Vote for your favorite Fur-tastic Scrapbook story here!