Fiat Lux

We're please to announce that a new kitten has come to join the household - meet our new baby GIMLI:

As a volunteer, you see literally hundreds of kittens at the SPCA during kitten season. Some stick in your heart more than others, and for whatever reason Gimli caught at mine. After seeing him go without a home for 2+ months, Scott and I decided ours was the right home for him. We brought him home today.

Gimli is an active, high-energy kitty, currently about 5 months old. He was very much in need of space to run around and play in, and being locked up with so little play room was taking a toll on him. He also had a really nasty cold for several weeks which didn't help his adoption chances. Despite it all, though, he purrs like a jackhammer the minute anyone picks him up. I had thought that when the time came for a new kitten we'd probably get a tortie, but nope! Our boy is almost entirely black except for a patch of white on his belly and the tips of his paws.

Gimli (yes, named after the Dwarf in Lord of the Rings) was the name he was assigned at the shelter. After calling him that for 2 months, I can't think of him as anything other than Gimli, so we're going to keep it. It might not have been the name we would have chosen but it's good enough.

The resident kitties are still trying to decide what to make of the newcomer. More pix are posted in the Gallery.

More to follow as he settles in, I'm sure.