© 1998 Mark McCullough All Rights Reserved

Albion Argent (aka Albie or any rude name his conduct provokes), Our latest Egyptian Mau, another silver like Tintagel. He's our first non-Grandtrill Mau. We got him from Karla Hensley's Shainefer Cattery (Chicago). An extremely sweet cat if you're a human, but hell on wheels to the other cats and absolute death to anything alien that gets into the house (like three bats and a chipmunk), with an iron will when he makes up his mind. From the first day in the house, as a tiny kitten, he showed that he was the Alpha Prime cat, ignoring the his three new and much bigger housemates to explore at will.

Albion's role in the Star Trek universe would be as a Borg. But a nice one, if you can imagine that. Except that anything he wants to assimilate, he will assimilate!

Albion Argent: EM So G 3.0 Y L W- C+++ I++ T A+++ E+++! H+/++
                   S++ V++ F+ Q+++/++ P B PA PL+ (as of 3/22/2000)

Albion Argent's Cat Code Revealed

Albion Argent

his name, named by both Catherine and Brian

EM

he's an Egyptian Mau

So

Silver, spotted (breed requirement)

G

Green eyes (breed requirement)

3.0

3 years, 0 months old (as of 3/22/2000)

Y

sex - male, neutered, no interest

L

size - I'm average cat size, just right for your lap

W-

weight - I'm slim, but healthy

C+++

claws - I have ten razor-sharp implements of death.

I++

inside/outside - I live indoors most of the time but will sneak out sometimes

T/++

temperamant - I have a few special humans I really like, the rest I tolerate/I like meeting new people and am affectionate with most (more often the latter)

A+++

activity level - All photographs of me are blurred
(We had trouble finding usable photos for the page. Here's a typical one.)
Here's a pic of Catherine doing a show stretch of Albion. It isn't too blurred.

E+++!

eating - Nothing even remotely edible is safe when I'm around (Albie can be dangerous when he goes after food, which he always will!)

H+/++

hunting - I chase anything that moves, but am not quite sure what to do with it if I catch it/I kill an occasional small rodent, bird or lizard, but would never eat one. (Well, *hardly* ever.) (The 3 dead bats and chipmunk we've found in the house were almost certainly the work of Albie.)

S++

smurgling - When I'm in the mood, I can smurgle with the best of them.

V++

vocalization - I have long, meaningful conversations with people (less as he's gotten older).

F+

fetching - I can be coaxed into fetching a favorite object when I'm in the mood.

Q+++/++

intelligence - I'm working on my PhD thesis/I display near human reasoning sometimes, such as double takes and abstract reasoning

P

lap affinity - I'll use your lap if you're in the right room and I'm in the mood

B

belly sensitivity - Well, OK, you can rub my belly...but not too much!

PA

purr activity - I like to show my appreciation when patted or fed

PL+

purr loudness - I'm a little louder then the average cat.

Return to the CATBAR Main Page.