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Jun. 24th, 2007 03:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
proximoceptionOur new kitten is great fun, a frenetic tumbler, extraordinarily violent but usually sensitive to whether she's hurting you. We got her a bit too early, as she'd been abandoned. Only now is she muzzling out of that Tweety Bird/Tyra Banks looking stage of total helplessness. She plays incessantly with our boy cat, a very funny sight as she's only slightly larger than his head. She jumps on him from the side, he falls over, she grabs his face and they go at it. When he gets a grip on her he tonguebathes her maternally for a while.
We named her Akira, for both Kurosawa and the Denman St. sushi joint where Julie and I had our first meal together--and, since it's a boy's name, something of a homage to our girl cat Otis, who we lost a few months ago at age 17. I'm not sure it fits, so far. With both our older cats we picked one name and then drifted away from that toward something that felt more like them. Ingmar, for Bergman, is now Ingy--who's far too well-adjusted, loving and loveable to make a good homage. Alice, an astonishingly uncurious and unresourceful cat (and kind of retarded), lost all dignity as BooBoo over several stages ("she's like a black noodle"/Boodle/Boo).
We named her Akira, for both Kurosawa and the Denman St. sushi joint where Julie and I had our first meal together--and, since it's a boy's name, something of a homage to our girl cat Otis, who we lost a few months ago at age 17. I'm not sure it fits, so far. With both our older cats we picked one name and then drifted away from that toward something that felt more like them. Ingmar, for Bergman, is now Ingy--who's far too well-adjusted, loving and loveable to make a good homage. Alice, an astonishingly uncurious and unresourceful cat (and kind of retarded), lost all dignity as BooBoo over several stages ("she's like a black noodle"/Boodle/Boo).
