Pete the orange tabby is the cutest cat in the Boise area, according to Statesman readers
After several weeks of searching for and voting on the cutest cat in the Boise area, The Idaho Statesman subscribers have spoken. Thank you to all the participants!
The winner is …
*drum roll*
Pete, the 13-year-old orange tabby from Boise!
His owner, Lori Mann, said he was a rescue cat, who now lives at her home in Boise.
When entering the cat in the contest, Mann shared how she and her husband came to adopt him. She said her friend’s daughter decided he was “too much work” and wanted to put him out for adoption.
“I about fell out of my chair, because cats are no work at all,” Mann said. “I gave him to my mom for a week, who had just moved to Boise. She had him for a week and just said they hadn’t bonded. And so my husband said, ‘We’ll take him.’ ”
She said Pete has lived with them for 10 years now. Mann said that Pete is a funny cat as well, sharing several funny stories about the orange tabby.
“My husband got him a heating pad, so in the morning he gets up, trots in, hops up on his heating pad and goes back to sleep,” Mann said. “He howls in the middle of the night because we have a lot of tile and so the acoustics are great. We say he’s singing the song of his people.”
“I wouldn’t give him up for the world.”
This story was originally published November 7, 2024 at 4:03 PM.
