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A Description of my Cat





This is my cat Yuki. Her name, which I chose because of her bright, white fur, is Japanese for snow. The first thing you would notice about Yuki is her two differently-coloured eyes (heterochromia). Her right eye is blue, while her left eye is oily green. When the lighting is well, her eyes are similar to polished marbles. Although she is combed often, she is always racing around the house and tripping over herself (she is a very clumsy cat that has hit her head while running one too many times than average), making her fur look uncombed. She isn't the most well-behaved cat and often enjoys using our furniture as her scratching post, as shown by one of the pictures above. She also sleeps a lot. That's why 2/4 of the pictures are of her sleeping.

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