Last Updated December 19, 2007

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BB
Approximate Birthday-01/2006

(A.K.A. BEEBE, BEEBEREE, MR. COOL, THE DUDE, BBC)

BB is one cool cat. He is the the essence of cool. He doesn't run and he doesn't think twice. He likes just about everyone and will let you talk to him and pet him lightly, but that's about enough, thank you very much! He's a bit of a commitment-phobe when it comes to people. "Just take it easy. Don't tie me down, babe. It's nothing personal."
BB often hangs around with either Tuxes or Cali, even though all three have been neutered/spayed for months and months. BB opts to stay in the garage with Cali some nights. Other nights, he's prowling with Tuxes. I'm sure he does a touch of solo carousing as well. He's really the neighborhood cat. Seems like he's never met a stranger. Everyone knows him and everyone loves him as far as I can tell.
BB and Tuxes had what I consider to be the first true cat love story I've ever seen. BB was solo during daytime hours, but as soon as Tuxes came out of hiding when it got dark, they were usually inseparable. Tuxy is a very skittish girl, so he's guard her while she ate at our outside bowl and they'd playfully swat at each other's heads. In March 2007, we took BB in to be neutered. He recovered nicely and was no problem at all. We noticed their interactions before we neutered him, so we thought BB might not care about her after. Nothing could be further from the truth. A few weeks later, we humanely trapped Tuxes (BB was no challenge to catch in the least), so we could spay her. BB obviously missed her the few days she was in the clinic. We kept Tuxes in a large rabbit hutch in the garage the first few days after her spay, so she wouldn't jump around too much and hurt herself. Well, BB would Tuxy or Mark or me and would insist on coming in the garage. We weren't sure it was a good idea, but BB such a jovial dude that we thought we could handle him if he started misbehaving. BB, sweet soul, would lie as near to her as he could and stand vigil. He was still eating and drinking and such, so he wasn't on a hunger strike, but he wanted to be near her and she him. It seemed to calm her. After the 2-3 days of her rabbit-hutch recovery was over, we let her out of the cage to live in the garage, day and night--her spay had been complicated because, as we later found out, she'd been pregnant, so we wanted to take extra care that she wouldn't hurt herself; therefore, I was unwilling to just open the door and let her go without living in a safe place for a few more weeks. Nearly every night, BB would come to spend the night with her. If we surprised them, we'd find Tuxes and BB lounging together on one of our motorcyles or on a cloth folding chair. Without BB, she only lived in the rafters of the garage. I don't think she came down to eat, drink, or use the litter pan, until BB joined her at night. All these many months later, we still see them together sometimes, always at night, still teasing each other and taking turns eating. I've never seen such cat devotion.