Some dyer has made a yarn that looks exactly like my new cat, Miss Ember.


Ember



Yarn
Pity it wouldn't knit up that way. 

Some of you (I charitably assume) will have read my post from a month or so ago about how my big Tiger cat passed away form a heart attack or stroke.  I still miss him terribly, too, but the younger cats, especially Radar weer just lost without him.  He raised Radar from a kitten and Radar doesn't have the desire to be an Alpha, so he has been pretty unhappy without anyone to look up to.  It's not been so bad for Blue, he still had Radar, so his world hadn't really changed all that much. 

So a couple of weeks ago, I started the search for another cat.  I wanted a female, because I thought they would be more likely to accept her, and an Alpha.  It had to be one who liked other cats, especially an obnoxious overgrown kitten like Blue, and one who would generally fit into the family circle.

Last weekend I turned up a good candidate.  After meeting her at an adoption event, I brought her home.  Meet Ember



She's very sweet, but she has the right amount of tortitude to stand up to the boys.  It's been 4 days and so far there hasn't been anything other than a bit of wailing.  I think it's all going quite well.  She came from somewhere down in Southern VA and she's about a year old.  Naturally, she had a litter of kittens which had already found homes, but she's since been spayed and I think she's gorgeous.  The boys are not so sure.