Dr. Simon Says ... BOB

The Attention Seeker

“It’s all about Bob.” That’s the phrase Lakewood neighbors Susan and Jim Stege often use to describe their attentionloving tuxedo cat with an endearing halfmustache. Today, Bob is 18 pounds of pampered kitty love. You’d never know it by looking at him, but he was once a scruffy, scrawny tomcat. Bob began his life running around the streets of Lakewood before being adopted by the Steges’ friend and taken to the ‘burbs, but he didn’t play nice with her other two cats. Susan and Jim Stege adopted him and brought him back to Lakewood, and Bob’s aggression quickly subsided. Not long ago, Susan found two hard lumps in Bob’s leg. When she took him to the veterinarian, the vet discovered two BBs under Bob’s skin, left over from his past life.