Meet Pooka

 Pooka was well sought after.  We decided that a kitten for Christmas would be the ideal idea.  It had been 6 months since Miss Moppet died and the house construction had reached a stage where we could 'safely' take on a kitten.  Sooo,  the entire week before we headed to Utah we were searching online for a kitten.... BUT... each one we asked about was already gone or spoken for.  Sometimes the listing would only be 2 minutes old and the kitten would already be gone.  Finding a kitten didn't look promising.

Whittaker spent the entire drive to Utah reading any new listing he could find from 3 different sites.  Late that evening we managed to contact one that still had a kitten available and made arrangements to meet at a 7/11.  

Apparently meeting someone at a 7/11 to pick up a new kitten is a family event.  Caleb and Sarah, joined Jim, Whittaker and I to meet Pooka for the first time.  She was so sweet, petite and snuggly.

Fortunately, she was also a VERY good traveler.  We had 24 more hours before we would be home.  We spent the night and she slept between Whittaker and I.  The next day we were in the car essentially all day.  She spent 90% of the time on Whittaker's lap.  A few times we had to put her in her kennel.. hoping she would use our makeshift litter box in the end of the kennel.

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Once home... she has rarely been put down.  There is no shortage of people willing to hold her.  She doesn't appear to mind.  She is such a chill cat... Sooo docile.   (except at 11pm) 

She loves to be in a box by the fire place... and the cookstove and she's taken over the crochet couch that Noella had claimed.  

In fact,  she seems to want to be anywhere Noella is.  The feeling was not mutual though.  Noella made it known that she could be close but no closer.

As soon as Noella's back was turned... Pooka stole all of  Noella's spots.

Unless Emerson intervened.   It was an exhausting task to keep Noella and Pooka from hissing at each other.

Eventually Noella allowed Pooka to join her... 

as long as she stayed behind her and didn't play with her tail.

Noella has plenty of reprieve from Pooka's attempts to make Noella into her kitty equivalent of a BFF since... well... she is rarely put down!