New member in the household

We had a fairly interesting Saturday. We started with a trip to the animal shelter where we've adopted Kipper, Patches and Eowyn from and found our new cat, technically a kitten at the moment. Practically the first animal we saw when we walked in the new facilities of the shelter.

Introducing Lycia.10 weeks old, female, terrific marking and fearless, mice and Airedales beware. Be afraid, be very afraid. In the meantime she's pretty much taking over the house though we have started with the house rules no matter how cute she is. Eventually she'll have to earn her keep.

Eowyn has been told not to eat her, so far so good on that front. Patches sees the competition and is trying to "out cute" her, its not going to work but he has nothing to fear, Patches is Patches.

Lycia is quite the camera hog already.

And she knows how to get comfortable for a nap.

If we hadn't arrived when we did she would have been gone soon enough, there were lots of people coming in after us looking for kittens and Lycia was definitely the best as far as we were concerned. We chose the name, the one the shelter gave here was "Wiggles", so we saved her from that burden. Because of her dark gray and black color I looked up some goth names on the web and there was Lycia. We had a couple of other names we liked: Bailey and Delaney (Celtic).

After leaving the shelter we ate at a restaurant on the way to Oxford, stopped and bought cat food, a collar and cat litter then stopped at the our camper dealer for their open-house before heading home for the canine indoctrination. After supper we left for the play. It was very good and a little crazy.

Well, I expect Lycia to be as much a part of this blog as the dogs are. Hope you enjoy it.