Cal Was Not Always Cal

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If anyone was not aware, our cat Cal was originally our warehouse cat where I worked. For whatever reason, he always gravitated to me, and thus, he's now our cat since I retired. But even when I was still working, Cal came home with me on Wednesdays and weekends, and because he was always meowing and looking for me when I did my business travel, he came home with me and spent time with my wife during those times. But that's not what I am here to talk about. It's his name and how we came to be known as Cal. When we originally picked Cal up from the farm where we got him, his name was Debra. Of course, all of us in the office agreed Debra was a silly name for a cat, and so we renamed Debra, Callie. Not sure how we came up with that, but it was certainly better than Debra. Of course, as you can imagine, both Debra and Callie are girl's names. So far as we knew, Cal was a girl. Until one day Callie had some blood in her stool, and so we took her to the vet to have her checked out. The vet called us and said, "Callie's fine. Just a little case of the worms," and she prescribed us a medication to give her to clear that up. "One other thing," she added, "Callie has balls." And so, as this new revelation occurred to us, Callie was no longer an appropriate name for a boy cat, and we shortened the name to Cal. And there you have it. BTW, as I was playing with AI the other day I had it cartoonize a picture of Grayson, but also had it do one for Cal as well, and this is what it came up with.