Actually that should be Overlady.
I wasn’t expecting to get her until at least next week when I will be seeing the person I got her from anyway but she called me last night and I brought the little one home this morning. She’s very quiet and affectionate. I haven’t made a final decision on a name yet. Here’s another pic just to show off how beautiful she is.
She seems so tiny and fragile. I’m just about as nervous and worried as a new parent.
UPDATE: It’s official. Her name is Dax. She had her first visit to the vet today and she was very good.
UPDATE II: More about Dax. And thanks for the link.
June 27th, 2008 - 2:35 pm
Is she a tortoiseshell? She looks a little bit like a tortoiseshell. (Which I like for reasons totally unrelated to cat-dom or aesthetics – the genetic inheritance of the coloring is kind of cool, and because it’s X-chromosome linked, only shows up in females [and a few chromosomally abnormal males]).
June 27th, 2008 - 3:10 pm
Yes, and she has some faint tabby markings, sort of like she was supposed to be a tabby but the stripes got lost in all the different colors.
June 28th, 2008 - 2:15 am
careful… that one would fit in my pocket. Keep an eye on her. I may be tempted to pilfer the kitty.
June 28th, 2008 - 1:47 pm
a name suggestion: Venus. Maybe Aphrodite, but that’s a bit long for a cat.
June 28th, 2008 - 5:25 pm
Ya know, with pics like these, you’re supposed to put them in the extended entry with a “CUTE ALERT!” warning
Anyway, the good thing about cats is that you can delay naming them for a few days while a personality asserts itself enough for the correct name to become apparent.
It takes them months to learn their names, so a few days of “hey you” won’t hurt.
June 29th, 2008 - 9:25 am
We have decided that she definitely must have a Star Trek name because our two longest lived cats so far have had Star Trek names. (not that I’m superstitious) Before we got her we were thinking about Q but she seems too sweet to be a Q. Now I’m thinking about naming her Dax just because it’s a nice simple name (and a ST character) so unless I think of something else in the next day or two it’s going to be Dax.
June 29th, 2008 - 12:38 pm
How about Troi?
On Star Trek, Troi was a pretty female…and the cat is a pretty female.
June 30th, 2008 - 12:29 pm
yuk… not troi… anything but troi… Please don’t name this wonderful cat after Miss Psychobabble. Dax works better.
June 30th, 2008 - 9:27 pm
Which begs the question:
Lela, Tobin, Emony, Audrid, Torias, Joran, Curzon, Jadzia, or Ezri?
July 1st, 2008 - 6:20 am
Well, you know they say cats have nine lives.
(Please tell me you had to look up those names.)