Miss Pepper Potts it is!

"WaHaHaHa! My evil plan

to take over this house
is working!

Now for the WORLD!"

Miss Pepper Potts AKA Miss Potts, Pepper, or Pepper Potts, has adjusted quite well to our home. She has brought much joy and excitement to our house. This quiet, nervous little critter has turned into quite a wildfire! She loves all her toys and finds great fun in getting caught up in Brutus' fluffy tail. Leo wants to play with her, but he needs to learn how to play a little more gentle. Templeton is as kind as can be. Cricket could care less and Chloe seems a little ticked off.
Pepper Potts has bonded extremely well with all of us and never wants to be alone. She likes to sleep on my bed. Last night, I woke to find her sleeping on Chad's chest. AAwww!

Miss Potts came to us from our friend and former neighbor, Kathy! Miss Pott's mother was a stray with older kittens when Kathy found that she was pregnant again. Kathy brought her in her home and let her have her babies in a safe place. Chad and I alway have a soft spot for the underdog(cat) or the unique and we fell in love with Miss Pepper Potts the first time we saw her. We also wanted to help Kathy out, who by way, has taken in the Mama cats older kittens in an attempt to tame them and place them in loving homes.
Here are some of our cute moments with Miss Pepper Potts over the last five days!

The Family Guardian

At 2:00 pm yesterday, I walked into the livingroom to see the little box with the sleeping kitten in it surrounded by 4 kids, 3 dogs and 1 extremely curious but nervous cat. They all waited patiently for her to stir. Brutus, my Chow Chow, took his usual role of guardian. He loves babies of all kinds and feels it is his duty to protect them from whomever he thinks they should be protected from. In this instance, it was the cats. (Though none of the cats would ever try to harm her) We were surprised to find Kassie, our Maltese, taking on the same guardian role, until we realized she was just guarding the bag of treats we brought home with the kitten.
Miss Pepper Potts, as we have named her for now, is an American Bobtail. She has no tail, just a little tuft on her butt. Her mom was a beautiful Bobtail also, though her siblings both had tails. When we picked her out, we laughed as she chased her siblings tails as we thought about what must have been going through her head: "Man, what is that thing stuck to your butt? Mom and I don't have that. You are so wierd."

Brutus is still guarding her this morning as she naps in her box. Seeing him reminded me of the study of Ruth that I am going through right now with the Women's League. Boaz was the family guardian and Naomi and Ruth found protective covering from him in a land where they needed protection. Boaz went beyond what he needed to do for them, but he guarded them with his life and made them his own. If I was the only one in this house who had a say on her name, I may have named her Ruth. But I will always be reminded of the protection that Brutus continues to offer Miss Pepper Potts and the protection our Family Gurdian in Heaven gives us everyday.

I CAN ALWAYS FIND A LIFE LESSON FROM AN ANIMAL!

(I will add a picture later so that you can see her tail or lack there of! You can see it in the picture of her curled up by herself. Isn't she cute?!!)