Aaron Landry

Pasha on her summer throne on Flickr

(Post originally on Minnesota Meow)

Name: Pasha Pawnder Poletto
Nicknames: Pashy Pants, Pashalina, Muffin Head, Pashy PooPoo, Fur Gauchos, Little G (for little girl)
Born: 12 Mar 2004
Lives in: North Oaks
Lives with: Nicole de Beaufort and Christopher Poletto

Pasha found a home with Nicole and Christopher after Christopher spotted a flyer at work that had three little alien-looking “muffin top heads” on it. They were orange and white with huge, ridiculously cute alien eyes. Nicole and Christopher fell in love right away… with Pablo.

Nicole remarked on how feminine “Pablo” was for a boy cat but they were sure it was a guy although they hadn’t seen definitive proof. “It was just too damn fluffy up in there.” Nicole continues:

When we picked her up, we took her straight to the vet for a check up and shots. The vet cooed about what a cute little guy we had. We dropped the little critter off a week later for desexing. When we returned to pick him/her up, we were greeted with a grave-faced vet: “It’s a girl!” Thus, Pablo became Pasha and she’s been our fur baby ever since.

She was raised in Washington, DC and relocated to Minnesota in January 2007 along with Nicole and Christopher.

Pasha enjoys “kitty lifts,” where she is hand carried up to a faucet’s dripping edge to drink. She would leap there herself but as Nicole says, “it’s a lot more fun for her to be served running water.” She’s an indoor kitty but occasionally gets to stalk around the deck. She likes eating plants and has already devoured several huge Christmas Cacti. While Nicole and Christopher are watching television, sometimes a strong waft of aloe sweeps over the room. Later, they’d find the plant eaten down to its nub. Pasha talks and is fond of saying “ack ack” when she is hungry. She loves sleeping in the sun and on terrycloth towels. She’s more interested in shadows than other animals and never met a laser pointer she didn’t like.

Christopher is a scientist and Nicole is a consultant. They’re foodies that live in the trees in North Oaks in a mid-century modern that to them “seems custom made for kitties.” They’re considering getting a little brother puppy for Pasha but scared what her reaction might be.

You can find more on Pasha at her blog, Que Pasha? and Nicole’s Pasha Flickr Set.