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Van City Kitty: Meet Marvin

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

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

Brought to us by VIA reader Celia Chung, it's Marvin:

Breed/Colouring: Domestic shorthair/grey tabby

Hood: Kits

Habits: Finding out the nearest surface in use, and then sitting on top of it; shredding papers (especially important ones); eating yummy treats; chasing strings; swatting bugs; staring down the neighbour's cats.

Hangouts: the cat tree by the window; the couch; the computer chair (especially when it's needed!); behind the computer monitor.

Other info: Marvin was born on a barn at a small town in New Brunswick. One by one his brothers and sisters were given away to other barns/farms to be barn cats, and he being the runt was left behind. Luckily he found his way to me, a bio grad student at the time, and began his cushy life as a house-cat. He's named after Marvin the Paranoid Android, because when he was an 8 week old kitten he had the saddest little meow - which he still uses to beg for treats sometimes. Now, at 5 years old, Marvin boasts a luxurious grey coat, a sweet personality, and the loudest purr you'd ever hear!

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 Rory.Blanchard@novusnow.ca.

Name: Marvin