Tom is smitten with her :)
Our cat search story: It was much harder than we expected to get a cat here. After we decided we really wanted one, the search began. I assumed that we could just call the humane society, go visit and pick out our new cat. Wrong. After our neighbor called the SPA (the equivalent of the humane society here) for us, we went to visit Romeo - the one cat they said we could have. Though they had over 200 cats up for adoption, based on our criteria, he was the only one that matched our situation (we have a 2 year-old cat and don't let her outside). Well, Romeo was a nice cat, but he was very large - probably 20+ pounds, so 3x Maggie's size. He was also very quiet - not what we thought would fit Maggie's active inclinations. The SPA also told us that, if we adopted from them, they would come visit the animal every once in awhile until it died. After we heard that, we weren't too sad not to adopt from them! So we drove the 45 mintues back home without a cat.
Our neighbor made a few more calls for us since we are not yet fluent in French and German and found a few more leads. However, after one promising conversation, the woman never called back and then another place sounded like they had restrictions similar to the SPA. Argh! We then mentioned to some friends at church that we were looking for a cat. It just so happened that their friend's cat had just had a litter of 4 kittens. We went to visit them and, viola, we had a cat! We've had her since Thursday and are looking forward to getting to know her and see what kind of personality she has. Just let us know when you want to come meet her!
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So cute! I'll be thinking about the name thing...
she's adorable!
Adélaïde- or Ade for short! (pronouced ADDY)
brouillé means scrambled(so says google language tools)? Although abbye says its hard to pronounce(whoops, abbye's english/french dictionary disagrees), Brou-brou maybe? Cute kitty!
How about Carlita? Yes, little Carlita, this will be your new home.
Ok, since I assume you will not name your cat Carlita, you could go with obvious French names like Madeleine or Amelie. But I did a little research and have some less common (though likely still common) French names. Perhaps the little feline would answer to Capucine? It is a flower (nasturtium), but sounds a bit like cappucino, so your Italiano amigos would assume that you so named your cat because she is hyper, as if she prefers cappucinos with breakfast. My second suggestion is Flavie, which is fitting for a calico because it means "yellow hair." Third, what about Gigi? It sounds nice and was also the name of the sarcastic cat in the movie "Kiki's delivery service." I also like Zoe.
Hey there, Katie and Tom. I just saw your blog through Abbye's blog. Adorable kitty and it looks like y'all are having some wonderful adventures.
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