My new kitten Betty

[susandennis]

I found Betty at a city shelter on June 1st 2002. She had had a litter of kittens and the shelter people figured she was about year old. So, that makes her about 5ish now in kitty years. But for the past few days she has been exploring her inner kittenhood.

The wall that separates the kitchen from the bedroom is only about 6 feet tall and my ceilings are 10 feet so there is a very fun gap up there to explore if you are Betty. And she's just found it. She hangs over the edge and peers into the closet. She paws up the post and stretches. She sits and watches. She is cracking me up.

Then she comes down and starts scampering everywhere. Twice in her years here she has gotten herself lost. Once she spent a day in a drawer until I found her and once she got out and down the hall and had clawed a neighbor's Sunday paper to death before I found her. So she has a bell on her collar (along with complete contact info). So if I can't see her scampering here and there I can hear her.

Jake appears to think that the whole business is just silly. But, then, he's still not so sure we need to keep her. I need to get a picture of her up on the wall but until then, this is still my favorite.