Take Your Pet to Work Week, "The Trio"

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I don't have any photos of Tovarish, Tomodachi or Maneki, so I'll have to describe them and hope that everyone can kinda picture them.

First is Tovarish, the eldest of them and the "matriarch". She's a grey tabby DSH with a buff-coloured belly and an "ink spot" a little below where her tail meets her rear paws. She has white "eyeliner" that is interrupted by a thin strip of smoke along both sides of her nose. She has a penchant for reacting to medical emergencies (she even escaped our apartment earlier this month when I got a new bed, stopping just outside the apartment of a neighbor who needed to go to the hospital but couldn't call for help [the apartment manager asked me to get Tovarish, then he realized that he needed to call 9-1-1/9-9-9 for the neighbor].) She has been reacting to medical emergencies for a decade already (she's ten years old now) so I can picture her "working" for Medical in U.N.C.L.E (when she's not pulling her "Harriet Houdini" routine/"Your [expletive] Cat" antics.) It takes two to do what she does alone!

Next up is Tomodachi, a tuxedo DLH and the lone male in the household. His age is unknown since he (along with Maneki) were rescues/confiscated from a hoarder who refused to keep any records of any of the cats on the property. He's being "groomed" to step into Tovarish's pawprints when it comes to alerting to medical emergencies if/when required, but he's not as alert as Tovarish is, medical-wise (he's more security-detail, I think.)

Last is Maneki, a dilute calico DSH female that I got at the same time as Tomodachi (they came as a pair in a 2-for-1 adoption at the local Humane Society, confiscated at the same time and place, but they're not related.) She is also being "groomed" for Medical, but her temperament is more Section II imho (if U.N.C.L.E actually existed irl.) She, along with Tomodachi, has reacted to neighbors/neighbors' guests who have been going around without the required face masks [and sometimes clothes, too!] inside the apartment complex (we live in an apartment complex that houses both elderly and disabled tenants, the majority having some form of underlying medical condition.) She doesn't escape as Tovarish does, but she's hyper-aware of what's going on around her inside/just outside the apartment.

Edited to add: Found out something interesting about The Trio! They won't start eating their dinner unless they actually see the patient eating (I thought it was a once-off, but it isn't!) Neither Illya nor Napoleon will get away with anything in Medical!

Comments

[jkkitty.livejournal.com]

Medical cats, sounds interesting. They all sound beautiful and I especially love calicos (next to black long fur)

[vysila.livejournal.com]

Your babies sound wonderful. The medical alerting is pretty doggoned amazing.

And there is nothing like a handsome man in a tuxedo, there just isn't. (One of those owns me.)