Izabella turns 1!

My baby cat is a kitten no more! She turned one year old yesterday and weighed in at 10 pounds (dwarfing the senior Phoebe who at age 10 still rules the roost despite the size factor, but still much smaller than the incongruously named Itty Bitty Kitty who waffles between 14 and 15 pounds). A far cry from the 2-pound, 8-week old kitten who followed us home from a walk only to find her new family when we had to take her in rather than leave her outside and alone at night in October. No one responded to our posters and she didn't have a chip, so we decided to make her a permanent addition. And what an addition she has turned out to be! Aerobatic, highly chatty (she's mostly Siamese to our uneducated eye, but with a tabby-shaped face with Siamese coloring) and very personable - she's a quintessential cat and the first one we've "raised from scratch". Happy Birthday Izzy! Many Happy Returns!