Kitten Interview Day!, Hoping for a new Special Friend. Options

[Jon730]

Today was the day. The local kittens are six weeks old, and I was finally invited to interview them.
As I had hoped, one chose me. He left the pile of kittens in the basket, ran up my leg and sat on my shoulder, when I said, "OK! Who wants to win the lottery? I have an opening for a CAT!"
He will remain with his mother for a couple of weeks more, yet, then right to the Vet, and home.



Names, names. Because he is a Tuxedo Cat, I wanted to name him "Linux", as in , but this was vetoed by my niece, who said, "If you name him after some Geek Operating System, I'll never talk to you again!".OK.
His father is a HUGE cat, so maybe:
Dreadnaught?
Catapotamus?
Magnus?
A friend suggested "Hiram". I made a wisecrack about him teaching the cat a certain Handshake, and we left it at that.

This requires more thought. I am grateful for the two weeks.

Because for the last few decades I have always rescued "Used Cats", I had not seen kittens for a long time. I must have laughed nonstop for fiteen minutes! I needed it, because of course there will always be an empty place from Miles.
A whole basket full of clowns who have had WAY too much coffee!
This is his proud godmother, the Employee of the Mother Cat..(Who will be spayed thereafter! A limited time litter offer!!)

[Jon730]

Oh, Jon....................he is absolutely adorable! And he REALLY sat on your shoulder? How perfect is that? Sounds to me as though YOU passed the interview

He climbed on top of my head, he tried to get into my shirt pocket, he was all over me, I melted and cooed like a little girl..then "OOpps! Gotta go wrestle my brothers!!", then the Cat Lady was trying to herd them so I could get a picture, and they were bouncing all over the place and scurrying around with Attention Deficit Disorder, and it was absolute chaos...a madhouse.
I cannot wait to complain about "He found a hidden jingle ball at 3:00 AM!"

Okay, I understand your feeling about Linux since I understand computers.. but if your niece vetoed that one..what did she suggest?

Oh, she did not have a suggestion. She graduated College two years ago and Knows Everything™. I love her and am terribly proud of her, but sometimes she is very like a cat.

We have arguments all the time about...Well...