We gave up on the too-perfect-to-be-true cat and went to our local RSPCA where, after much deliberation, we chose a rolly-polly black boy with white chin and paws, and big yellow eyes. No photos yet, so here’s an ‘artist’s impression’:
As recommended, we put him in a quiet place – the bathroom – with food, water, bed and litter tray to recover from the trauma of being in a new place. He went straight under the bathroom cabinet and has been hiding there ever since, though this morning the food was gone and there are paw prints in the litter.
He’d been dubbed ‘Randalf’. We have to come up with a better name than than, not the least because it’s bound to be shortened to ‘Randy’. Paul has been going through famous black and white photographer names: Adams, Talbot, etc. I’ve been working out what ‘ink’ and ‘black’ are in other languages. Apparently ‘sumi’ means ‘ink’, ‘charcoal’ and ‘corner’ in Japanese and other eastern languages. And ‘kuro’ means ‘black’ in Japanese.
So Kurosumi then? Love the artists’s impression! Hope he settles in well.
Ansell (Adams) doesn’t work any better than Randy, does it?
Lol, no!
Though I did think Adams might work. Then we can be the Adams Family.
Congratulations! We didn’t name our cat for a couple of weeks, we gave her personality to come out. Since she was wild and had to be kept in a large cage most of the time, and would fight us anytime we tried to do anything with her, we named her Royce Gracie, after the famous Brazilian cage fighter. We call her Gracie. After a year she’s a little calmer, but still without any notice, she will take a running start to climb up my husband’s legs to his back, and she still fights our son when he comes over.
you know what I mean…”we gave her personality TIME to come out.”
A couple of weeks, eh? We’re still thinking up names, but I know nothing is going to stick until he emerges and we have a chance to use them on him.
Gracie is a great name.