Leo the Cat: Vancouver Downtown Eastside, BC

Leo is a Small Orange Tabby Cat

Usually orange tabbies are big, huge cats, big boned with big meat around the big bones. Leo is small.

He lost his right ear in an alley fight, just before he was rescued. John found him in a back alley bleeding with pieces of his right ear hanging.

Leo is extremely unhappy, he going to be tortured. Marguerite is going to cut his nails. To make sure Leo doesn’t scratch and bite anybody, he was wrapped in a towel.

I don’t understand why people make it so difficult to trim the nail of their pets.

My cat wasn’t the Einstein of the cat’s world, he was mostly at the other end of the scale, but he adopted me. It took him only 3 times to learn that getting the nails cut was good!

Each time after the cutting of the nails, he got a few small pieces of smoked salmon or of sliced meat. Whenever he saw me getting the nail clippers, he meowed, jumped onto his platform and flopped down to get his nails cut.