Numero Me, the head- butting lap-cat who needs to be with you!

If you envy people who say their dogs (or cats) make them feel like the center of the universe, and you want to adopt the kind of very loving cat who is extremely unlikely to ever get adopted by anyone else, Numero Me is a perfect choice for you! Please read about him below and, if interested, send in your answers (to the questions asked at the end of this write-up) to philoctete@mailbug.com (please send them in the email itself and not as a file attached to your email - thanks!) and you'll receive a prompt reply, guaranteed! (If you are still seeing this, he has yet to find an adopter.) If you sound like a good match, we'll exchange references (a vet reference from you or something attesting to job skills/employability, and in return you will receive contact information for recent happy Affectionate Adoptions adopters!) and arrange for a day/time for him to be brought to you for a meeting -and, if you like him, to stay. You're sure to love and to want to succor this damaged but doggily devoted poor little dude!<br/><br/>Numero Me lived on the streets for a long time (he is thought to be only two as of autumn 2025, but he could be older), and he shows that in his desire to possess you. He walks all around you as if to say You are His. When you are standing, if you are not petting him, he wants to be rubbing against your legs (asking you not to leave), and he frequently stands on his back legs to get you to pet him. When you sit down with him and kiss his head, he head-butts you, puts his nose to your nose, and purrs constantly. “All he does is head-butt,” reports his foster person; “he’s a head-butt buddy babe.” (She also says: ”He’s perfectly perfect, except he’s like, ‘I need to be with you.’” I think some of this intensity would calm down if he could be with a person/people who spent more than a few minutes a day with him - right now he is in a room by himself and I think he would be a more normal affectionate cat if he could share a living space with his person/people. He loves entertainment and would love to hang out when people are watching television or preparing food - just hang out with them.) He likes it when you hold him in your arms (for a little while, not a long time), and he loves doing lots of nose-to-nose nuzzles with you.<br/><br/>He combines some of the things people cherish dogs for with more cattish ways (like climbing all over you and sitting against or in your lap). He'll be obsessed with your hands - big or small, soft or rough, long-fingered or short-fingered, they will have a fan in Numero Me! Why? They're the things that do the petting he so loves. (He purrs CONSTANTLY when he’s doing his Pet me Pet me Pet me.) He keeps a close watch on what your hands are doing and is anxious to show a left hand that he loves it as much as a right hand (and vice versa). If you think he's finally settled down, curling up against you, and he hears that They have taken up a book or a phone, he often gets up again to come and rub against Them, just so they fully understand what their real function is.<br/><br/>Hold on to your phone (or book) - he might just knock it away! He tends to keep the same close watch on YOU - if he sees that you are getting up, after having had a session sitting with him, he often jumps up and stands between you and the door, giving a soft meow and rubbing your legs to persuade you to stay and pet him. Or sometimes, if he feels or hears your body shift and he thinks (possibly erroneously) you are about to get up and leave him, he'll cuddle even closer up against you, maybe to be "winning" or maybe to keep you in place like a paperweight.<br/><br/>Once you're gone, he seems uninterested in playing or even watching the world outside the window, but he does not show "separation anxiety" and is quiet and well-behaved in your absence. <br/><br/>He likes to knead and suckle a towel or blanket, if it is nearby you (he doesn't do it ON you), and that makes him purr! Another sign of insecurity, perhaps, is how he follows you around when you are trying to do things - he doesn't think your hands ought to be cleaning the floor or even engaged in cleaning his litter out of the box: they ought to be petting him. If you raise your voice to him, he takes himself off like a hurt, scolded puppy and hides in his cat carrier until you show him by speaking gently to him that he does not need to punish himself and can come out for a petting.<br/><br/>After rescue from the streets, he was being kept in a cage WITHIN a cage in a GARAGE by this rescuer, who had him neutered, vaccinated, and tested (supposedly he broke out of the carrier on the car trip to the vet - hence the abrasion you may be able to see on his nose in the pictures - and spent the rest of the trip on the driver's lap) but not examined by a vet except whatever vet was at the neuter clinic. The estimate of his age comes from that rescuer, but if he gets adopted, your vet may give him an older age.<br/><br/>It’s important to him to have some big portion of him touching part of you, and when he is restless it is so that he can connect with various parts of you - lean against your left arm, then lean right up close onto your right hip, for instance. Sometimes he stands right in front of you and looks up at you, expectantly wanting his head and cheeks and chin to be touched by you. It's what he lives for. Though he's not fond of really squeezy hugs and being disrespected (he resists when you do undignified things like flap his paws about or ruffle his fur crazily), you can hold him in your arms belly-side up and if you DO flap his paws about and disrespect his dignity, he’ll hiss once and then immediately come back for kisses. You need never feel undervalued or unappreciated ever again, he'll make it so clear what your company means to him! (Don't feel disqualified from adopting him if you are gone from home most of the day. Whatever you have to give will be the whole world to him.)<br/><br/>He's splendid about using the litterbox, not being destructive in your home, and taking things through oral syringe. But this cat is so uninterested in toys and playing that if you offer him the chance to chase a laser light (delight to most cats & kittens I've tried it on), he ignores the toy and assumes you are offering him the chance to butt your hands with his velvety head - an offer he takes up with characteristic alacrity! And, the thing that will most make him difficult to find a home for, he tested (it happens when healthy cats are thrown out to defend themselves against other strays) positive for both feline leukemia and FIV. This means that to give him the healthiest and longest life, you'll want to put immune system-boosting supplements (available on Amazon, for instance) into his food and make sure he gets a health-supportive diet (junky food won't help his immune system). One or two of the references you'll be given before adoption will be happy Affectionate Adoptions adopters who can tell you that adopting a feline leukemia cat has been the best decision of their whole lives!<br/><br/>Other things to bear in mind: Because he is SO forceful about wanting to be petted, he may not be the best match for really small children. He’s very affectionate but also very interactive. And though he is big with the cuddles (he is very much into them), he does have limits of what he will tolerate (he never scratches or lashes out, but if you playfully play too hard with his feet, for instance, he’ll hiss, as mentioned above). And be prepared for him, on his first day, to possibly hide a little or, if not that, be looking for your trust and not sure of you at first. The last thing I wanted to mention is that he may never get over this “I am dying of starvation” situation his body/mind was in - he is almost always up for a meal and when he eats, he eats ravenously. Yet his figure is lovely, his fur is well-groomed, plush, and lustrous, and his body is well-toned. <br/><br/>If interested in adopting or fostering, please send in your answers to these questions - thanks so much for your time. If we think you’d be a good match with him, we can arrange for a FaceTime call between you and Numero Me!<br/><br/>1. What diet would you feed him - dry? Wet? Canned? Raw/homemade? What ratio of dry to wet, and would you leave dry food out all the time? Please mention what BRANDS you'd feed. Thanks!<br/><br/>2. What type/brand of litter and what kind of water would you offer him?<br/><br/>3. Do you have any experience with cats who have tested positive for feline leukemia or who have special needs? If so, please explain.<br/><br/>4. What sort of home would he share with you? Who else besides you and him (if anyone) would be in the home (please mention humans and non-humans).<br/><br/>5. Would he be indoor, outdoor, or both?<br/><br/>6. What are your views, pro or con, on neutering/spaying?<br/><br/>7. What are your views, pro or con, on declawing?<br/><br/>8. Under what circumstances would you decide you wanted Affectionate Adoptions to take him back? (Please do not put him on the streets or in a shelter if you decide he is no longer to be part of your family/household.)<br/><br/>9. Please say something about yourself - what your source of income or job or profession is, your hobbies/interests/leisure pursuits, your age or approximate age. Thanks!<br/><br/>10. {Optional} Is there anything about Numero Me, in the visual material or the description of him, that particularly "speaks to" or appeals to you?<br/><br/>Thank you again for your time and for reading about Numero Me!

If you envy people who say their dogs (or cats) make them feel like the center of the universe, and you want to adopt the kind of very loving cat who is extremely unlikely to ever get adopted by anyone else, Numero Me is a perfect choice for you! Please read about him below and, if interested, send in your answers (to the questions asked at the end of this write-up) to philoctete@mailbug.com (please send them in the email itself and not as a file attached to your email - thanks!) and you'll receive a prompt reply, guaranteed! (If you are still seeing this, he has yet to find an adopter.) If you sound like a good match, we'll exchange references (a vet reference from you or something attesting to job skills/employability, and in return you will receive contact information for recent happy Affectionate Adoptions adopters!) and arrange for a day/time for him to be brought to you for a meeting -and, if you like him, to stay. You're sure to love and to want to succor this damaged but doggily devoted poor little dude!

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If you envy people who say their dogs (or cats) make them feel like the center of the universe, and you want to adopt the kind of very loving cat who is extremely unlikely to ever get adopted by anyone else, Numero Me is a perfect choice for you! Please read about him below and, if interested, send in your answers (to the questions asked at the end of this write-up) to philoctete@mailbug.com (please send them in the email itself and not as a file attached to your email - thanks!) and you'll receive a prompt reply, guaranteed! (If you are still seeing this, he has yet to find an adopter.) If you sound like a good match, we'll exchange references (a vet reference from you or something attesting to job skills/employability, and in return you will receive contact information for recent happy Affectionate Adoptions adopters!) and arrange for a day/time for him to be brought to you for a meeting -and, if you like him, to stay. You're sure to love and to want to succor this damaged but doggily devoted poor little dude!

Numero Me lived on the streets for a long time (he is thought to be only two as of autumn 2025, but he could be older), and he shows that in his desire to possess you. He walks all around you as if to say You are His. When you are standing, if you are not petting him, he wants to be rubbing against your legs (asking you not to leave), and he frequently stands on his back legs to get you to pet him. W