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?!!)