Introducing Ounce Yossarian

Yossarian is the homegrown boy, raised underfoot at Ounce Cattery. 

Name
Ounce = our cattery name named after the majestic snow leopard (also known as "ounce")
Yossarian = named after the ficitional character and protagonist in Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22.  In the novel, Yossarian is a 28-year-old Air Force Captain who is stationed on the island of Pianosa during WWII.  Like the original, our Yossarian believes the world is out to get him or at least his humans are and lives by the motto "live forever or die in the attempt"  or maybe it is "eat often, but sleep more" (see personality below).



Markings
Yossarian is a Brown (Black) Spotted Bengal.  His ground color is warm brown with rosetted, mostly arrowheads, spots.  His coat is so thick and soft that I don't mind at all when he face plants me with a full body rub.  His coat is also so glittered that he glitters indoors!  :)

Birthday
Yossarian was born on April 21, 2011 at Ounce Cattery.  He has one brother named Holden who is a Seal Lynx Point Spotted Bengal.



Parents & Pedigree
His mom/dam is SimplySimes LesisMore of Ounce (SBT 042909 067) and dad/sire QGCH Lucian (SBT 092608 045). 

To see Yossarian's pedigree, click here.

Personality
Yossarian is the first cat out of our cattery that is - well - shy and skeptical.  He is most at ease when he has a little place of his own that is quiet and controlled.  We find him often in baskets or paper shopping bags or boxes.  Although his favorite place is curled up in his toy bin (see below). 



Not one who likes being picked up, he does love plopping down on the keyboard or out of the blue lying down in my lap to get attention.  Like I would need that, his purr is so loud the neighbors can hear him (not that I would've expected anything else from Zelda's son!).

He lives with his daddy, Lucian and can be found grooming him frequently. 

Health
Yossarian is completely healthy having received a check up and all his shots onsite.  Yossarian is scheduled to visit our local feline cardiologist in March. 



Awards
Yossarian entered his very first show on October 1 and 2.  Like his father, Yossarian has tremendous car sickness and while the Jazzy Cat Cat Show at Cal Expo should have been the ideal show, Yossarian wasn't having any of it.  He did receive many color ribbons, but would not open up to let the judges see just how pretty he is. 

Questions?
If you have questions about our boy, please don't hesitate to email me at stacy@ouncecattery.com.