Our New Addition :)

Meet the new addition to our family!

This is Pepper. This is Pepper before we let her come inside. She (well, I am pretty sure the cat is a she!) showed up on our back porch early in November. The kids would pet her and give her attention and she did incredibly well with that. She also didn't leave! We began to notice that she would curl up on our back porch and be there in the morning, waiting to greet us. Finally, one day Dave(!!) said let's feed her some milk. Forget it. The cat said, "You had me at milk..." (Jerry Maguire, anyone?) and really never left. One night, some beast came on the back porch and we heard a terrible howling. I persuaded Dave to let us put her in our garage overnight, so we set up a large cardboard peach box on the floor of the garage with an old towel in it and a bowl of the beloved milk beside. After a few days of that (and Pepper being really great and not going to the bathroom anywhere in the garage) we decided to let her actually come in. Before we did that, we made sure to call our neighbor who is the information hub of our street and beyond and ask if this cat belonged to anyone. She said no, that she thought we'd gotten a new pet. ;)

She has done G.R.E.A.T. with the kids. I can't believe she puts up with as much as she does. She did have quite a bit of dandruff, but that has gone away with her getting more food to eat and fat in her diet.

We bring her to the vet this coming Monday to make sure she is healthy, but I haven't found any fleas or any other nasty things on her.