The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
When I adopted this cat, I named it Duchess because I thought it was a she. It grew and grew and, in a few short months, it was bigger than my daughter’s mommy cat. That was when my husband said it couldn’t be a she. He asked our younger daughter, Alex, to lift the cat. Sure enough, it has balls — I mean, testicles.
So, my Duchess is a Duke. Actually, we call him Garfield these days because of his insatiable appetite. Maybe, he’s really a pig wearing a cat’s fur. 
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he’s not a pig!!! (even though he’s fat) xP
o, sige, piglet na lang.