Breed: Domestic Shorthair
Colorings: black and white tabby (underneath is brown a little, so his official adoption papers list him as a brown and white tabby, but my vet disagreed)
Date of Birth: August 11, 2006
Other Facts: has a twin brother, but I wasn't able to afford adopting both of them at once, so his more shy counterpart is somewhere unknown. :(
Favorite Toys: balls and anything that has a bell (lattice balls, feather chaser, Ginny's collar...). Also, a yellow mouse that he inherited from his housemate, Azabel.

Avocado's my troublemaker. He's a very playful, very energetic, very weird, very lovable cat. I got him when he was seven months old, and it's been an adventure to say the least! Even though he's an indoor-only cat, he still managed to find his own way out of the house by pulling down the screens on the windows. He's too clever for his own good, as seems the case with most animals we obtain. He loves dogs and playing fetch, going in the doghouse, laying like a dog, and generally thinking that he is a dog.

He's also a klutz. Within his first two weeks in the house, he had broken a bottle of wine, a model ship, a ceramic doll, and many other things I've since forgotten. He occasionally misses the jump onto the top of the fridge, or the jump from the top of the stairs to the bottom (which results in CDs falling everywhere with him), and he's fallen down the scratching post and landed on his butt. It's always amusing to sit and watch him, no matter what he's doing.

In August, he snuck out of the house and got a large gouge in his tail. Despite a surgery to sew it back together, it didn't take and he had to have another emergency surgery to remove about 1/3 of his tail. Now he's mostly scared of going outside (we're working on that and he's getting better) and of strange places, but other than that he's the same mischievous cat.