Apparently I was lucky…

… with the Siamese   


Me to the new cat: どこいるの?

Cat: silence

Me: dammit, time to teach the new cat Japanese...


I suppose they could just have been ignoring me because we had barely met and I was being too informal…?



新しい名前は、星です。黒い毛の中にたくさん白い髪があります。


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