I'm learning a lot about cats...

since Elise joined our family about a week ago (sorry I couldn't get her eyes not to glow in a pic).

She was so boney when we touched her that we knew she was starving and she's been in our alley for a while and she was bringing her dead birds to us to show us honor instead of eating them, so we did what any feeling human would do and fed her our tuna. Next thing we know she's living with us in our house (the birds are very thankful...Ty our dog thinks we're nuts). The first thing we did was take her to a spay/neuter clinic to to get spayed, but apparently after they cut her open, they realized that she was already spayed...sad...then they clipped her left ear so she wouldn't have to go through this again (the universal signal that a cat's been altered...who knew?) Now I need to take her to the vet to see if she has a micro-chip b/c they didn't check for that last time...just in case she's someone's baby. But even with Anna Kate's help (trying to get her to come out from behind our washer)

we can not get Elise to do something that's not her idea...so she may not be going to the vet any time soon. Meanwhile J.R. is swimming in our indoor pool and playing in our NEW indoor sandbox that we acquired about the same time as Elise.