April 11: National Pet Day

Happy National Pet Day!

As you may know, I have a very cute kitty named Sophie.

She is rather silly. Her latest "thing" is to sit next to me at the counter and lick my elbow.

She has a lot of energy. One of my favorite Sophie stories is the time she went missing in the house. We all knew she was in the house, we just couldn't find her. Normally, when you call her name, she scampers over immediately. But this one night, she wouldn't come out. We looked under beds and in bedrooms. My mom was heading upstairs when she saw a little blur of movement out of the corner of her eye. Sophie was sitting in a fake plant, way up high on a shelf above the television. She was probably 10 feet up, nestled in the middle of a fake plant. What she was doing there, we have no idea. She knew she wasn't supposed to be up there, so she was remaining quiet. She hasn't gone up there since. But we love our Sophie, quirks and all!

February 20: National Love Your Pet Day

Alright, so today is actually National Love Your Pet Day (not the 18th, which is what I previously thought). I guess my cat is just lucky because she got extra attention twice.

 This is my cat. Sophia Marie. We have, and always will, just call her Sophie though. She's sassy, has a cattitude, is sneaky, but is very loving.

We adopted Sophie almost 8 years ago. Two friends and I had donated some proceeds from our knitting booth to the local Humane Society. While I knew better than to ask my mom for another pet (at the time we had an old cat named Mr. Kitty), I was drawn to one kitty. She looked like a feminine, petite version of Mr. Kitty. The next day, my mom made an excuse to go back into town and we wound up at the Humane Society. It was a dream come true. Except then it turned into a little bit of a nightmare. My dream kitty was gone! But she had been there the previous day! Luckily, it turned out, she had been transferred to a local pet store in hopes that someone would see her and want to adopt her. We jokingly call her Clearance Kitty (behind her back obviously, never to her face) because she was discounted! We don't know why she wasn't adopted earlier, even though she is very quirky, very loud, and very conversational (if you ask her questions, she responds with different tones of "meows"), we wouldn't have her any other way.

So here you go Sophie, this day is for you!