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Such a Good Kitty

by John Cole|  July 23, 20169:48 pm| 101 Comments

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And I think this is the Tunchiest of Tunch pictures ever:

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I wonder if he and Steve would have gotten along. I think he would have killed Thurston as a puppy. He also seems so small compared to Steve.

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  1. 1.

    Baud

    July 23, 2016 at 9:50 pm

    That is an awesome photo.

  2. 2.

    SiubhanDuinne

    July 23, 2016 at 9:52 pm

    Here is a confession. I love Tunch so fucking goddamn much that I have an entire photo album of pictures of him, just because I can. Gone for three years, never forgotten.

    And I would have loved to see Tunch and Steve in the same space, maneuvering for domination.

  3. 3.

    MomSense

    July 23, 2016 at 9:55 pm

    Has anyone seen The Secret Life of Pets? One of the cats had so much attitude. She reminded me of Tunch. The best scene is at the end when they show all the pets greeting their humans at the end of the day.

  4. 4.

    Jerzy Russian

    July 23, 2016 at 9:57 pm

    Why did Tunch need “one for the thumb”? I didn’t know cats have thumbs.

  5. 5.

    gogol's wife

    July 23, 2016 at 9:57 pm

    I have Tunch as my mouse pad and on a beloved hoodie. I miss him every day.

  6. 6.

    atlliberal

    July 23, 2016 at 9:58 pm

    They are both magnificent in their own way. Without Tunch, you would not have Steve. I’m glad Steve made it home safely. (even if covered in burrs)

    )

  7. 7.

    schrodinger's cat

    July 23, 2016 at 9:58 pm

    Tunch photos on Tunch blog! I has a happeh.

  8. 8.

    schrodinger's cat

    July 23, 2016 at 10:00 pm

    @MomSense: Japanese kitteh, Shiro Neko is Zen Tunch.

  9. 9.

    Mnemosyne

    July 23, 2016 at 10:02 pm

    Neutered male cats can actually become very attached buddies. It’s probably a good thing he and Steve didn’t live together, because you would have been sleeping in the garage while they ruled the house.

  10. 10.

    Gin & Tonic

    July 23, 2016 at 10:03 pm

    Thanks for the pics. That was one hell of a cat.

  11. 11.

    lollipopguild

    July 23, 2016 at 10:03 pm

    Caption for the last photo= Resistance is futile.

  12. 12.

    debbie

    July 23, 2016 at 10:03 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    I can’t believe it’s been three years.

  13. 13.

    eemom

    July 23, 2016 at 10:04 pm

    Miss the great white kitty….and I’m not even a kitty person (very allergic).

    Miss General Stuck too.

    Fuck death.

  14. 14.

    RepubAnon

    July 23, 2016 at 10:05 pm

    Glad that Steve’s OK. Maybe get him a cat tracker collar? Under inverse Murphy’s Law principles, if you have a way to easily find him, he’ll never wander away from the house again.

    https://wiki.ezvid.com/best-pet-trackers?id=adw&gclid=CKbEt5eBi84CFURlfgodEI4F1Q

  15. 15.

    MomSense

    July 23, 2016 at 10:05 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    I like his little streak of black fur. I think the Maru videos are still my favorite. My youngest and I giggle like fools.

  16. 16.

    David ?▶️Hillary/Harley Quinn 2016▶️? Koch

    July 23, 2016 at 10:05 pm

    as a cat lover, I can say Tunch sure was beautiful.

  17. 17.

    Baud

    July 23, 2016 at 10:07 pm

    @eemom: What a horrible day that was.

  18. 18.

    Felonius Monk

    July 23, 2016 at 10:08 pm

    Thanks for the pictures, John. He was one fine beast.

  19. 19.

    Emma

    July 23, 2016 at 10:09 pm

    @eemom: God yes. I was mostly a lurker then. I remember crying until I got the hiccups.

  20. 20.

    Quinerly

    July 23, 2016 at 10:09 pm

    @efgoldman:
    And the mustard?

  21. 21.

    Major Major Major Major

    July 23, 2016 at 10:10 pm

    RIP.

  22. 22.

    Anya

    July 23, 2016 at 10:10 pm

    @eemom: I miss them both. I often think about what General Stuck would’ve made of this election. I miss his commentary.

  23. 23.

    schrodinger's cat

    July 23, 2016 at 10:12 pm

    @MomSense: Shiro’s coat is almost identical to that of Tunch, he has no black fur. Here he is rolling in dirt

  24. 24.

    schrodinger's cat

    July 23, 2016 at 10:14 pm

    @Mnemosyne: Or they would be like Larry and Palmerston.

  25. 25.

    schrodinger's cat

    July 23, 2016 at 10:15 pm

    @Quinerly: Is in the Subaru, in a field in WV.

  26. 26.

    CaseyL

    July 23, 2016 at 10:17 pm

    Aww, and here I am sniffling. All hail Tunch! Never forgotten, forever missed.

    Imagining Tunch and Steve as co-conspirators gives me a happy.

    John wouldn’t be able to see the TV through the sheer mass of critters on his lap.

  27. 27.

    Haydnseek

    July 23, 2016 at 10:18 pm

    I know it’s not your fault or intent, but this just brings tears to my eyes. I’m reminded of my cats that died before their time. Strangely, I’m saddest about the cats that lived a full, loving, 20+ year life. Leaving the vet whose going to put them down, even though you’re doing the right thing, is a pain that never really goes away.

  28. 28.

    HinTN

    July 23, 2016 at 10:19 pm

    @lollipopguild: The revolution will be supervised.

  29. 29.

    muddy

    July 23, 2016 at 10:20 pm

    @Mnemosyne: I have a male tuxedo cat called Ailill. His male friend Diarmuid passed, and he was lonely. I adopted another male, Breekin. Then kind of accidentally adopted another male, Ruari, a month later. Ailill was not that interested in Breekin until Ruari came, then it was all “you and me against him, dude!” It’s been over a year and still Ailill and Ruari are sworn enemies.

    The problem is that despite a large number of litter boxes in the house, Ailill won’t use a box once Ruari has used it. Ailill would rather go on the floor, and he always went right under Ailill’s feeding station, just to make his protest specific. I’d rather he didn’t go on the floor, especially since in an old house it runs across the floor and goes under the baseboard if you don’t catch it instantly.

    I took note of when and how often he was doing it, it was only once a day, late in the day. After I fed him I put him in a large dog crate, which was big enough for a litter box and a cat bed. Left him overnight. Let him out in daytime and closed the door so Ruari didn’t use it. Did the same the next night, and the protest was basically token. On the 3rd day, Ailill comes around in the afternoon showing an interest in the crate. I opened it and he went in and used it, I didn’t close him in. I never thought he’d get the idea so quickly. Now he asks for his special litter when he needs it, and is back to sleeping in the bed with me. I think he is just so happy to have litter again.

    Meanwhile Ruari keeps checking the floor in the old naughty area, wondering why Ailill hasn’t christened it recently. Breekin has snuck into Ailill’s litter a couple of times, but Ailill allows that apparently. Just not that horrible Ruari and his reeking poisonous piss.

  30. 30.

    lollipopguild

    July 23, 2016 at 10:24 pm

    @muddy: Sounds like the making of a TV mini-series.

  31. 31.

    Drunkenhausfrau

    July 23, 2016 at 10:26 pm

    The magnificent bastard.

  32. 32.

    muddy

    July 23, 2016 at 10:28 pm

    @lollipopguild: Telenovela.

  33. 33.

    khead

    July 23, 2016 at 10:29 pm

    RIP Tunch.

    Tunch and Steve would have gotten along fine given enough time. Trust me. We have 8 and only one is a real asshole to the rest of them.

  34. 34.

    pseudonymous in nc

    July 23, 2016 at 10:29 pm

    Never not missed; always glad to have known him.

  35. 35.

    JMG

    July 23, 2016 at 10:30 pm

    I am glad you are able to post these wonderful pictures of your beloved pet, John. Memory is the only palliative (there is no cure) for grief.

  36. 36.

    Wormtown

    July 23, 2016 at 10:30 pm

    Love, and miss Tunch.

  37. 37.

    Exurban Mom

    July 23, 2016 at 10:32 pm

    I can’t forget that day. Scared my family with my horrified reaction as I read the news. He was magnificent and will always be remembered.

  38. 38.

    Chat Noir

    July 23, 2016 at 10:38 pm

    He was a beauty. He looked just like my Sherman (RIP). Cats really are magnificent beings. ?

  39. 39.

    schrodinger's cat

    July 23, 2016 at 10:38 pm

    @muddy: Real Housecats of Balloon Juice.

  40. 40.

    ThresherK

    July 23, 2016 at 10:39 pm

    @RepubAnon: The idea is being floated to put orange collars on inside cats. That way if it’s outside people will recognize it’s missing, should be indoors, and is not just feral or stray.

    Plus TheOatmeal loves cats.T

  41. 41.

    redshirt

    July 23, 2016 at 10:41 pm

    I’ve had the FEED poster up in my dining room for 4 years now.

  42. 42.

    trollhattan

    July 23, 2016 at 10:42 pm

    Awwwww. That’s what I need to say.

  43. 43.

    Garbo

    July 23, 2016 at 10:46 pm

    We love and miss you, Tunchie.

  44. 44.

    rikyrah

    July 23, 2016 at 10:48 pm

    Kay, you wrote this this morning:

    Kay says:
    July 23, 2016 at 8:48 am
    @Baud:

    I listen to it around elections partly because I feel they snuck up on me in 2004 in really an unfair way :)

    I didn’t know how much they loved Bush. They adored him. Some of them tried to say they had the same fervor for Palin but it wasn’t the same. The truth is religious Righties here wouldn’t respect Palin because her kids were out of control. They would say she wasn’t supervising them because she wasn’t home enough. The biggest compliment they give women is their children are “well raised”- they mean obedient.

    So, what did they think of First Lady Michelle Obama?

  45. 45.

    rikyrah

    July 23, 2016 at 10:49 pm

    @MomSense:

    Has anyone seen The Secret Life of Pets?

    I did. I loved it. Very funny.

  46. 46.

    the Conster, la Citoyenne

    July 23, 2016 at 10:49 pm

    Tunch was this blog’s spirit animal. So many ways that cat animated this blog community. What a shocking, terrible day. RIP Tunch, you floofy magnificent bastard who kept us on the same page through all the crazy human politicking. EAT.

  47. 47.

    rikyrah

    July 23, 2016 at 10:49 pm

    Tunch still scares me, but I do miss him.

  48. 48.

    Tim C.

    July 23, 2016 at 10:49 pm

    I’m not crying! I’m just sweating from my eyes!

  49. 49.

    ThresherK

    July 23, 2016 at 10:50 pm

    @Haydnseek: I am waiting for that to happen to us. My wife has always had a cat, and when we moved in together we started getting them in pairs.

    Well, with the exception of the already-very-grown cat she had when she met me, we are on our fifth and sixth cats. The elder just celebrated his tenth birthday, the younger is six. The other four cats I’ve had a hand in raising lived to five, six, nine and nine, in order. Three of them add up to 20, or one long-lived cat.

    I know I’m not cursed. It’s just a relief to see her cat have a tenth birthday.

  50. 50.

    geg6

    July 23, 2016 at 10:56 pm

    @Exurban Mom:

    I was at a party for my sister and her new husband (they’d had a destination wedding that few could afford to attend, so party when they got home). Checked in to BJ during a lull in the action and promptly burst into tears and loud sobbing. People thought someone in the family died. I can’t even begin to tell you how difficult it was to explain my grief over a cat (I’m a well-known dog, not cat, person among my IRL family and friends) that I not only had never met IRL but whose owner I had never set eyes on IRL at that point. A few got it somewhat when I explained the connection between my Koda and BJ, but I know they were all thinking I’d lost my mind.

  51. 51.

    Yutsano

    July 23, 2016 at 10:57 pm

    Proper authoritahs have been alerted. I miss the glorious fat bastard.

    EDIT: We just need to poke Sister Sarah out of hiding now.

  52. 52.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    July 23, 2016 at 10:58 pm

    Tunch! I doubt Thurston would have survived him. And I can’t begin to imagine the throwdown with Steve.

    They leave such big paw prints on our hearts. RIP Tunch.

  53. 53.

    asiangrrlMN

    July 23, 2016 at 10:59 pm

    Oh, Tunchie, How I miss the BJ mascot! I have a mug, a couple of shirts, and a thong with his furry face on it. (Valiantly restrains from making the obvious joke). Sir Willie Whiskertons III is a magnificent cat in his own right, and I bet he and Tunchie would have been bestest buds, but no one can replace Tunchie in my heart.

  54. 54.

    Omnes Omnibus

    July 23, 2016 at 11:07 pm

    @asiangrrlMN: A Tunch thong? The mind reels.

  55. 55.

    oldster

    July 23, 2016 at 11:08 pm

    He was a hell of a fine cat.

    Thanks for the blog, John.

  56. 56.

    Haydnseek

    July 23, 2016 at 11:08 pm

    @ThresherK: It’s hard. But if I may be so bold to suggest, you have the right idea. Please don’t give up. Cats make our lives immeasurably better. I take care of several cats that have been abandoned by their owners. I can’t Imagine doing that. Apparently others simply don’t have the compassion gene.

  57. 57.

    K488

    July 23, 2016 at 11:09 pm

    Thank you for the pictures. I think of Tunch every day, as his visage graces a mug on my work desk. Very glad to hear that Steve returned safely.

  58. 58.

    muddy

    July 23, 2016 at 11:11 pm

    @redshirt: I have the FEED Tunch on a canvas grocery bag. I use it constantly and people comment on it all the time.

  59. 59.

    Barb2

    July 23, 2016 at 11:13 pm

    Japanese Bobtail.

    What is interesting of all the mostly bobtailed cats – page down and on the right is that cute photo of the BJ cat in need of a home – the black sweetie.

    Yes the link to that photo goes back to the BJ post for the dark bobtail.

  60. 60.

    ThresherK (GPad)

    July 23, 2016 at 11:15 pm

    @Haydnseek: Oh, I wouldn’t go without. My Best Cat Ever was only here for six years in my life and she bonded with me real fast and real strong. I sorta graduated from “cats seem to like me” to “I’m on Team Cat” with that one.

  61. 61.

    seaboogie

    July 23, 2016 at 11:16 pm

    Tunch in the last photo is absolutely magisterial.

  62. 62.

    p.a.

    July 23, 2016 at 11:16 pm

    That day sucked. Big wings for a big cat.

  63. 63.

    Mike J

    July 23, 2016 at 11:20 pm

    Why do all these people have anhydrous caffeine laying around to pour into their mac&cheese&bourbon?

  64. 64.

    Betty Cracker

    July 23, 2016 at 11:25 pm

    Good old Tunch. Gone but never forgotten.

  65. 65.

    asiangrrlMN

    July 23, 2016 at 11:29 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: It might still be in the BJ store :D

  66. 66.

    Princess

    July 23, 2016 at 11:29 pm

    Gone but not forgotten. A giant among cats. Tunch.

  67. 67.

    seaboogie

    July 23, 2016 at 11:31 pm

    @Haydnseek: My first childhood cat that I got for Christmas when I was five lived to be 24. My first adulthood cat was hit by a car at the age of three, but her replacement is now 21. She’s deaf and arthritic, but still very much her own little cat self. Little Zoe is now my longest cohabiting soul I’ve ever known, and she is kind of like the Energizer bunny in the way that she keeps going and going – even with chronic kidney disease for the last few years. She’s not terribly affectionate, but I will miss our mutual “knowingness” when she shuffles off this mortal coil.

    My landlady’s cat is visiting me just now, and he is my “Boyfriend” – this kitty and I are a mutual admiration society. Unfortunately I have been given notice to move by Oct. 1 because LL’s sweetheart is moving in, and I will really miss our “shared” kitty.

  68. 68.

    satby

    July 23, 2016 at 11:32 pm

    @Baud: It was a horrible day. My now ex BF couldn’t understand why I was sobbing for hours about a person and a cat I never met. He couldn’t grasp we had all met, just not in the conventional way.

  69. 69.

    No One You Know

    July 23, 2016 at 11:34 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Scrapbook for a cat. That’s a fabulous idea. I’m going to start one for my cat. I think I’m about to be grateful for my compulsive picture habit.

    Today we started the palliative regimen: high-protein wet food mixed with egg yolk to slow down the muscle wasting, salmon oil for the dry skin, prescription disguised in the the gooey stuff. Vet says she has no pain now. I hope he’s right. Her appetite seems to have picked up a little. Hoping her energy does soon.

  70. 70.

    stinger

    July 23, 2016 at 11:43 pm

    Great cat. Much missed. Thanks for the photos.

  71. 71.

    Haydnseek

    July 23, 2016 at 11:44 pm

    @seaboogie: Knowingness. Beautiful. This is the connection, emotional, physical, and, in that mysterious cat way mystical.

  72. 72.

    PurpleGirl

    July 23, 2016 at 11:45 pm

    @Jerzy Russian: What most non-cat owners don’t know is that there is a secret research project to either create a thumb or train cats to use one of their digits as a thumb. See the milk ad from Cravendale milk (a UK company)…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6CcxJQq1x8

    ETA: I miss Tunch too. And Balloon Juice is why I got into watching kitten cams. One of the the commentariat talked about the cams and I looked into them.

  73. 73.

    JCT

    July 23, 2016 at 11:49 pm

    Such a handsome fellow – nice way to end a long day.

  74. 74.

    seaboogie

    July 24, 2016 at 12:07 am

    @No One You Know: Good luck to you and your feling companion with your regimen.

    On the subject of scrap-booking, maybe y’all will indulge me with several words, since this is a cat thread.

    So my childhood cat that I got for Christmas when I was five moved with us kids to Toronto from WI after Mom and Dad divorced, and we went to live with Dad when I was 14. Ryder truck full of kid’s beds and dressers and bikes in the back, Puss doped up in my arms while we drove for three days – the three of us kids moving right when Dad had to shift gears on the truck.

    A few years later, after dating a few women who “wanted to be our mother” (Dad is very handsome) whom we summarily rejected, Dad met Marilyn – a wonderful woman with the requisite sense of humor and loving warmth to become our step-mother. However, Marilyn was raised on a farm and didn’t hold to having a cat in the house. We patiently explained that Puss was older than my younger sister, and therefore a part of our family, and given a choice between Marilyn and our cat – we stood solidly behind Puss.

    Dad married Marilyn and she became the mother that we always craved. And Puss had a particular genius around sussing out who was the dominant female of the family, and sucking up to her. In Puss’ later years she had gone deaf, and when I phoned up the parental units I could hear her yowling from the kitchen (back in the days when a phone was still attached to a wall) while Marilyn cooked a turkey every month – half for the cat, and half for them. Puss would lie on the rug in front of the oven, waiting for her turkey.

    Not long before Puss passed away at 24, Marilyn hired a professional photographer to come in to take her portrait. What you could not see in the pic of an emaciated, messed up old cat posed against a backdrop of black velvet were Marilyn’s hands supporting the kitty so she wouldn’t fall over, because kitty had a brain tumor (or as they say in Canadia, tumour). Marilyn (who was very thrifty) and my father spent thousands of dollars on Puss’ elder care.

    Once Puss was gone, Marilyn made a whole photo album dedicated solely to Puss, and you couldn’t mention Puss’ name for a few years, else Marilyn would start to cry. Now Marilyn is recently gone too, and this is a very sweet memory that we all have of her – she took on our entire rag-tag bunch, including our kitty.

  75. 75.

    seaboogie

    July 24, 2016 at 12:12 am

    Hey WP, help me out – I just wrote a heartfelt thing that went away….

  76. 76.

    MLC

    July 24, 2016 at 12:13 am

    Regular reader, infrequent poster. Thank you for the great and utterly expressive photos of Tunch.

  77. 77.

    Mandarama

    July 24, 2016 at 12:22 am

    Oh, that was such a sad day…my sister called me to tell me I needed to check Balloon Juice NOW. We were heartbroken for you.

    I still wear my Tunch t-shirt!

  78. 78.

    Mary G

    July 24, 2016 at 12:27 am

    His like will not pass our way again, like President Obama.

  79. 79.

    Interrobang

    July 24, 2016 at 12:29 am

    Tunchie!

    What a horrible day that was. I literally gasped and then started to cry. (It didn’t help any that a good friend of mine had just lost a cat in almost the exact same way.) My deepest condolences again, John.

  80. 80.

    seaboogie

    July 24, 2016 at 12:30 am

    @No One You Know: No act of kindness is ever wasted….

  81. 81.

    cbear

    July 24, 2016 at 12:33 am

    Ah, the Tunchster. He was a good cat.

  82. 82.

    Billy K.

    July 24, 2016 at 12:43 am

    All of the Tunch, all of the time!!!!

  83. 83.

    sacrablue

    July 24, 2016 at 12:48 am

    @Barb2: He is actually still with us and he is an amazing cat. He isn’t black, he is smoke. His eyes are two tone as well. There is a green ring around the pupils and gold on the outside. His favorite thing at the moment is drinking water from the bathroom faucet. So cute. I miss the lovable Tunch so much. OBEY.

  84. 84.

    Barb2

    July 24, 2016 at 1:03 am

    @sacrablue:
    Oh thank you for the update. When I saw his photo, and his sweet face I hoped you still had him. That face, and that look.

  85. 85.

    JustRuss

    July 24, 2016 at 2:39 am

    I lost my best kitty buddy of 19 years just over a year before Tunch’s demise, and from the same cause. Reliving that pain sucked. Hope they’re together in kitty-heaven, playing Quien-Has-Mas-Attitude?

  86. 86.

    Gemina13

    July 24, 2016 at 3:20 am

    I loved Tunch. He was an excellent cat, and I miss him. I was a lurker for the most part back then, but Tunch was one of the reasons I started reading Balloon Juice. Reading about his end tore my heart out, especially as my cat, Lucky, had had to be euthanized barely a month earlier.

    Steve, though, is also an excellent cat, and I love him too. If I find a cat who measures up to Lucky or Tunch, I’ll be happy, but if I find a cat like Steve, I’ll do cartwheels.

  87. 87.

    Ruckus

    July 24, 2016 at 3:48 am

    Ran across a YTube mix of a bunch of songs that I can’t quite place in a type. Some of them were somewhat popular. One in particular that sort of resonates with the thread.

  88. 88.

    Leto

    July 24, 2016 at 4:16 am

    RIP Tunch, you magnificent fat bastard.

  89. 89.

    Csbella

    July 24, 2016 at 6:57 am

    Awww beautiful Tunch. A few of my livingwithcat friends don’t have a clue about BJ but knew Tunch via photos I’d share. Immortal cat.

  90. 90.

    donnah

    July 24, 2016 at 8:01 am

    Most excellent cat. We miss you, big fella!

  91. 91.

    J R in WV

    July 24, 2016 at 8:29 am

    Thanks for sharing these photos, John.

    Tunch was wonderful. RIP

  92. 92.

    HinTN

    July 24, 2016 at 9:36 am

    @Gemina13: There’s a kitten waiting at the shelter now. Get two, they’re far more fun. In less time than you will notice they will have won your heart, whether like Steve or Tunch or not. Our squeaker is growing into himself at one year. Our squawker has always been an old soul. Go now!

  93. 93.

    Miss Bianca

    July 24, 2016 at 10:02 am

    I love how in the top photo Tunch is staring at the Tunch-sized pile of fur like he’s waiting for another cat to emerge from it.

    RIP, Tunch.

  94. 94.

    Althea

    July 24, 2016 at 10:08 am

    I have come out of hiding to comment, because I still miss Tunch. I totally loved that kat from afar. My kitty is 20 y.o. now and is in failing health although her sweet, loving, happy personality has not changed and she is still eating. We’ve been through so much together and am thankful for what days we still have left together. Long Live the Tunch.

  95. 95.

    WaterGirl

    July 24, 2016 at 10:18 am

    A day late to the thread, but I am crying at the loss of our beautiful Tunch. Truly a prince among cats, once in a lifetime. We haven’t stopped loving you, even though you are gone.

  96. 96.

    RobertDSC-iPhone 6

    July 24, 2016 at 10:45 am

    Team Tunch for life. All hail the Tunchinator!

  97. 97.

    Sherparick

    July 24, 2016 at 3:10 pm

    JC, he was and always will be a great cat and your soulmate. He lives with us still in our hearts. He reminded me of the tomcat who adopted us in Germany. He was also affectionate and patient in teaching me the ways of cats. Thanks for the photos of Tunch, a great cat.

  98. 98.

    cat copeland

    July 24, 2016 at 5:36 pm

    @Jerzy Russian:
    SURE THEY DO!!! They’re hid UNDER those magnificent claws, silly!!!

  99. 99.

    SamR

    July 24, 2016 at 5:37 pm

    Tunch was the best.

  100. 100.

    cat copeland

    July 24, 2016 at 5:40 pm

    John, a big “thanks” to you and Mustang Bobby(BBWW) for the rising stock in tissues I’ve used this past week!!

  101. 101.

    Paul in KY

    July 25, 2016 at 8:10 am

    Proudly wear my Tunch boxer shorts. RIP, big guy.

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