Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Gentling Ginger V It's a girl!

Bob's been in much closer communication with Ginger, and we can now say with confidence--Miss Ginger. Maybe considering her beat-up appearance we should say Ms. Ginger.


Now a new dilemma--an official name? For reasons, or nonreasons, I'll go into later, we use presidential and first lady names for our pets. We've had Eleanor and Frankie D. (Also Miss Lucy Mercer--but, again, a story for another day). The current ruling feline is Dolley Madison Pando--sometimes known as Dolley Mae. A fella cat was going to be easy--Thomas Jefferson, but a chick cat?


We have two choices--going for the nickname, we can dub her Elizabeth Virginia Truman, or going for the red-headed angle, there's Thelma Catherine Ryan Nixon. (She named herself Patricia when she started college.) I'm leaning toward Thelma Ryan (Ginger) Pando. She quiet, a bit aloof, and from the looks of her left ear, able to endure adversity. Seems like a natural. Besides, do you think that there's ever been a cat named after our 34th first lady?

Here's Thelma. I'll try to get a close-up of that right ear.

3 comments:

Pat's Place said...

I am sure the former first lady would be most honored! Neat tradition. How did you discover the gender?

Trilla said...

You ask 2 questions, Pat. First, it's a long story. I'll post in in the next day or two. Second, I wasn't present, but I believe it was a serious close-up inspection of the essential parts. I'm glad Bob still has eyes!

Eveline Maedel said...

Just read Ginger's story in the SCN journal and am glad to hear things are progressing well!