Listo (pronounced 'Leesto') is a blue tabby Tonkinese, and son of Reckless and Starbuck.

He is my big soppy neutered boy, and adores me and wants to be on my lap all the time. He's very gentle and sadly found that his father decided he did not like him quite suddenly. I was hoping that he would be a companion for Starbuck, but Starbuck decided that ANY male - even a neutered one - was too much of a challenge.

Listo is happy with the situation, as it means he can slob all over me all the time! He's a gentle boy and the first to make friends with new additions to the household, especially kittens.
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(Incidentally, Listo is an Italian word for a young man who thinks he's just too sexy for his shirt. My Listo was named after the first cat I met in Oxford when I moved here nearly 20 years ago and couldn't yet keep a cat myself. He belonged to John and Rachel Cecil, our next door neighbours at the time. He was a stunning blue tabby 'moggy', but clearly with aristocratic forbears, as he had a lovely oriental type and great intelligence. John and Rachel reckoned he was gay, as he spent so much time preening and admiring himself, but was definitely not a ladies man! The Cecil's Listo died only recently at an age which must have been over 20 years. He was my first friend in Oxford, and I still remember him vividly and with great affection.)