Perla Kitty

This is Perla Kitty. She is definitely one of a kind. I'm not a cat person. I've never liked cats nor had the desire to own a cat. So I'm sure you're wondering why I now own a cat. My ex-fiance did love cats. He had two Tombo and Goose. The summer of '09 Tombo aka Tommy  disappeared. We looked everywhere for him. Anyways, Perla was his/our replacement. Yes. I know you can NEVER "replace" a beloved pet but Goose was getting lonely. We adopted her when she was six weeks old from Petsmart.

She loved playing outside as a kitten but of course the ex rarely let her because he was worried she'd disappear too.

Hiding out in the plant. She was such a playful kitten. We even taught her how to fetch little toy mice.

A year late we split and the cats went with him. Another year later tragedy happened and  now I have Perla. I didn't want anyone else to have her. She was technically my cat too.

This is her now. (She is three years old this summer.) I had this fabulous idea this past winter. Puzzles. Kev and I bought two. The first one was only 1,000 pieces and we had the whole thing together in 2 days. This was 2,000 pieces. No big deal. Right? I spent hours, days, weeks trying to place each piece in its spot. As you can see it took the dining room table and a card table to spread all the pieces out. Anyways, Perla loved to sit in the box. I would make her get down but the next time I walked by she was in the same place. By the way... I never finished this puzzle! My OCD usually forces me to want to finish but on this one I gave up. The first 1,000 were easy. They had lots of color variation and patterns to match. The last 1,000 were either blue, white, or green with VERY little color variation.

Perla finds strange places to rest. I left the cabinet open one day and this is what I found.

With Hatfield on the bed.

Chilling on Kev's duffle bag he left out.

A very curious kitty trying to open the bathroom cabinet.

She still loves being outside and I let her out. It makes her happy and I don't have to clean the litter box very often. One day I left the car door open while I was bringing in groceries. She wanted to check out the inside.

Like I mentioned before, she loves to play with Lilly and lets Lilly chase her around. Here's a short video Kev captured one night in the kitchen.