Let me start by saying that I love this boy dearly, but he is a HANDFUL.
Loki is an athletic, highly intelligent house panther who we adopted after we lost Benjamin, our big docile sweet pea, to cancer in 2020. My husband picked the name Loki for him and I often wonder if we had named him something calm like Percy if he would be better behaved.
In any case, Loki is now the God of Mischief in our house and he wears the title well. He can be a big bully to his siblings, especially his older sister Deanna. He also steals paint brushes. I have to store them in a locked metal cabinet. I long for the day when we can renovate our small ranch house to include a “cat-free” studio space.
Loki is beyond clever and he can also be loving and gentle when he chooses to be.
We adopted him from Mending Hearts Animal Rescue and we hope he knows how lucky he is to have such patient cat parents. Sometimes we see sad posts that say an adopted pet was returned “through no fault of their own.” On his really bad days we joke that Loki is going to be returned through “no fault of his own.” Of course, that would NEVER happen to him. We would never give him up. He is family and sometimes family members can be a-holes.