This cat spends his days on a sailboat watching dolphins 🐱⛵️🐬

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He has a better life than I do.

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[Kurt V.]

1. yeah i could handle that.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. He looks like a Turkish Van, a breed that loves water.

[tblue37]

3. K&R. nt

[3catwoman3]

4. Definitely a Turkish Van.

Also known as a Turkish Swimming Cat. I had such a cat once. He was quite a character. I knew there was something different about him when he slipped into the bathtub once, after walking around the rim for several minutes. I was getting out, and was fully expecting a panicked kitten to claw his way up my body in a desperate attempt to get out. I was so surprised when he began to calmly walk around in the chest-deep water, happy as could be.

I adopted him when I was stationed in Japan, and brought him back to the States with me. I totally adored that cat. He lived to be 20. He died the night of the closing ceremonies of the Nagano Olympics, in 1998. That was somehow, strangely, a bit comforting - sort of a cosmic symmetry that he Japanese Olympics would end the same night Max's life did.

[catbyte]

6. Wow.

I'm speechless.

[3catwoman3]

7. Why?

.eom.

[catbyte]

9. The karmic circle of life and how, I don't know, poetic, the circumstances of his passing were

and how you described your feline friend. It was touching.

[3catwoman3]

11. He came into my life at a time of great need.

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I had only been stationed in Japan a few weeks when my younger brother, my only sibling, died in a scuba diving adventure gone wrong. It was an agonizingly lonely time. Someone who lived in the same BOQ (bachelor officers' quarters) building found the little guy, and told me about him. I was missing my own 2 cats, who had to stay behind in the US unless I wanted to put them in quarantine for 6 months, which I decided would be cruel.

I went up to her quarters to see him, and, smart little kitten that he was, he jumped up into my lap, sat down and folded his front paws, and started to purr. I was captivated instantly. I first thought he was a girl, and named "her" Maggie. When Maggie's testicles became obvious, I changed the name to Max. His presence made coming home to my empty BOQ room less stressful - there was someone there who needed me and was happy to see me.

Even people who didn't like cats liked Max. He was pretty sick the last few weeks of his life, and I was just about ready to take him to the vet to be euthanized. I was very grateful that nature beat me to it. He had filled such a empty spot in me that I was having a really hard time gearing up to take that final action - couldn't bear the thought of being without him.

[democratisphere]

5. What a gorgeous cat!

Looks to be quite a character.

[trueblue2007]

8. thank you thank you for posting this video. Loved it.

[rusty quoin]

10. I really love these type videos. With all that is disturbing today, they make me feel good.

[Fla Dem]

12. Gorgeous cat and what a wonderful life it has. But am always truly amazed

at cats like this when my own is afraid of her own shadow. Love her to bits, had for 13 years, but she runs and hides in her safe place at the least little thing.

[Beringia]

13. I tried to show my cat some moose that were outside the window

He could not care less. He did bring home a raccoon once. The raccoon was up in a tree making a big fuss and noise and my cat was going back and forth on the window ledge. So I think my cat had harassed the raccoon in some way and the raccoon followed him home.

[red dog 1]

14. Salty & Pippa do have a pretty good life, don't they?

Nice one, catbyte!

(I love the shot of them sleeping together)