Birthdate: 08-06-2002
Gender: Male
Weight: 10lbs
Breed: Domestic Shorthair
Colorization: Orange Tabby
Biography: As appeared on Catster page and written by Peter Travanna Arrival Story: Late last year I decided Mr Bates needed a Friend, so a visit to the Ballarat Animal shelter was required. They had 3 Cats, a manificant Black Long Hair who just sat in his basket & watched, a titanic old Black Short Hair who at 8 years old was to old & a large, skinny somewhat ugly Ginger Male who on seeing me threw himself at the bars of his cage chirping & mewing to me. On being allowed to handle the Ginger Tom he promptly bit my nose then kissed me, THEN very gently held my right eye with his fangs & licked my eyelashes, a most interesting first meeting, anyway $85 late & the as yet un-nammed Ginger Cat was mine, on returning to collect him naturally I had to think of a name & based on the circumstance listed above + I'd just finised a review of a book dealing with the real Vlad Tepse [ who as you may know is the GENUINE Dracula ] I chose Mr Vlad Tepse as a name for my new Furrrrry Man. WHY did I select Vlad?, easy the black long hair just stared at me & made no attempt to communicate, the other one was far to old & Vlad "sold" himself to me. MONDAY 2Oth DECEMBER 2010 After a longish struggle with a serious internal issue my Darling Orange Vampire Cat Mr Vlad Tepse went to Rainbow Bridge at approx 3:12AM in the morning. I - - - I just lack the words to say Vlad was such a larger than life Cat and I loved him so much. There is a VERY big gap in my and Mr Bates lives now. Vlad for now you got to travel on ahead but Norman and Me are not to far behind and we'll all re-unite to continue our travels together soon LOVE YOU and RUNNNNNN FREEE Vlad following your dreams. All my love your heartbroken Owner. (Elizabeth - Maggie meet Vlad in the summer of 2011 and they became engaged in September. Peter was trying to move to the US and gave me care of Vlad's page. I care for his page and his brofur Norman's.)

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