Princess - Number Seven Of Seven - Finally Finished :)

Last but certainly not least is Princess.  She's a special case in that she's a rescue cat, but she did not come from a shelter.  Princess was found by M/M2 one evening at our local Wal-Mart.  It was very cold out and apparently she was starving and so desperate that she allowed the two of them to catch her.  They put her in the car and called me and asked me to bring up a cat carrier and some food for her.  I showed up and she let me put her in the carrier and inhaled the entire plate of cat food I had brought.  The poor little thing definitely was starving and cold so I brought her home and put her in the half bathroom downstairs to keep her away from the other cats since we didn't know her health.  I spent some time in there with her giving her more food and water.  She finished two more plates of food and part of a third one.

Our initial intention was to take her to the vet the following morning and then to a shelter.  The next day she ended up at the vet and got a reasonably clean bill of health other than her weight being too low.  They estimated she was around 2 years old and they felt she had been a domestic kitten at one point.  Somehow between the vet and the shelter she ended up back here and became seven of seven, but yet she still didn't have a name.  M and P ended up naming her Princess, there's some debate today as to who actually gave her the name, but it stuck.

She's definitely a cute little thing and ironically enough she bonded with P which was wonderful as none of the first six really did and it was a sore point with P.  She's a very energetic and playful cat - she can play "red dot" with the best of them.  She's also very athletic, she can rival Boots on a good day when it comes to jumping - in fact much to my chagrin she can jump from the floor directly to the back of my desk chair and manage to "stick the landing".

Unfortunately for her, we have to occasionally keep Boots and Francis away from her.  None of us are really sure why the two of them have such a dislike for Princess - especially Francis since she's always been a very mellow cat.  Perhaps it's because she's a young female and Francis was the young female.  As far as Boots goes - nobody knows what's going through his mind.  :)

That aside, she's growing up happy and healthy and P just adores her.  She does like to take up residence in some strange spots from time to time such as this picture.

Or sometimes just in J's chair like this, after having a small plate of treats.

All in all, we've got seven wonderful cats, but it is nice to have at least one young one and one we actually rescued from outside.  As I think is obvious from the first six "bios", we tend to rescue older ones since they tend to not be as likely to be adopted and I'm sure we'll continue to do so going forward.

This (I'm sure thankfully for some) will wrap up "cat week" - hopefully it hasn't been too boring, but I really just wanted to write some nice things about them while they were all still with us.  As I type this, Sampson is asleep in my other chair, Ginger is passed out on the bed, Emily is on her pillow in the hallway and the rest are scattered about.

- M