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Van City Kitty: Gretchen Rebecca

A new kitty twice a week! Yup, we want YOUR cat photos and stories! Click here to find out how your cat can appear on Van City Kitty . This week's kitty is Gretchen Rebecca, sent in by VIA reader Jennifer Mohr.

A new kitty twice a week! Yup, we want YOUR cat photos and stories! Click here to find out how your cat can appear on Van City Kitty.

This week's kitty is Gretchen Rebecca, sent in by VIA reader Jennifer Mohr. Here's what Jennifer had to say about her:

Nicknames: "Retch," "Gretch," "Retchy," "Little girl" "Gretchen Rebecca!" (the latter for when she is in trouble)

Breed/Colouring: Tuxedo Norweigen Forest Cat

Hood: East Van

Habits: Gretchen was born & raised in East Van. Her human adopted her when she was 6 weeks old, starting off with a small amount of cute fluffy fur and a 'stache, she has since grown up to be a 4 year old thin cat with a massive amount of fluffy fur that gets into everything!

She loves to wake her two humans up at 5:30 am by jumping on their heads and meowing for her food. She is also a fan off lying on warm clean clothes, running around her small apartment at top speed and sitting on her 3rd floor deck people watching. She is also a HUGE fan of men. She likes her women, but will crawl, lay, jump and knead any man that she meets. Her favorite food is Temptations chicken treats. She loves dipping her paws into your drink and daintly licking it off. Her favorite game is to act cute, roll on her back...then bring out the deadly claws of love & hold you in her love/death grip, knibbling on your fingers.

Her arch enemies are the water bottle, the dust buster and the lights that flicker across the living room walls from the cars outside, which she loves to stalk and attack. She also likes to sleep facedown on the back of the couch!

Hangouts: Back of the couch; the deck; burrowed into a pile of clothes; top of the bookshelf (highest point in her home); sprawled on her back in her unlady-like pose; exposing her belly under the coffee table.

Other info: Gretchen gets away with a lot, mainly due to the fact that her humans find it hard to look at her and not laugh. The pretty face off-set by the 'stache...she's gotten away with a lot due to her cute moustache!

Name: Gretchen Rebecca

Are you looking for a (or another) little furry beast to love? Please check out Happy Tails, our weekly segment featuring the BC SPCA and one of the animals they currently have available for adoption. (You may have noticed that many of the Van City Kitties came from the SPCA!) Check back every Saturday for a new Happy Tails segment!

And if you adopted your pet from the SPCA and would like to share your awesome story on Happy Tails, send an email to [email protected] or [email protected].