Cholo

When Miss Shelley -our English teacher- told us to write about our pets I remembered my Cholo and experienced -again- all the emotions that he made us feel from the first day we adopted him as a member of our family, not just any member but the loveliest, littlest one, not in body size for we had Marissa already, a Siamese cat, who very soon adopted the role of an older sister and cornered him around to show him who was boss.
It was both nice and odd watching Cholo and Marissa playing or sleeping together, although this wasn’t such good thing for Cholo, for he never understood the old saying “fighting like dogs and cats” and went through life trying to make friends with cats, which got him some nasty scratches and scars over the years, Cholo was a lover, not a fighter.
I guess he considered all cats to be Marissa’s relatives or friends for he got so happy whenever he saw one, he wanted to go and play with it. Just like many exceptional beings Cholo was a pacifist, very much ahead of his time!



Here is a portrait of Cholo and Marissa , painted by famous avant garde artist Héctor Falcón.