El Gato Negro

When I lost my Dante-san 2 years ago I decided to forgo pets for the rest of my life.  Dante was my best friend, my travel buddy, and loverboy.  He had many friends, admirers, and nicknames, and he was loved.

This summer I inherited a new kitty, her name is Cleo.  I'll be honest I was not excited at first.  She was standoffish, and let's face it, she looks exactly like Dante which made me feel a little like a traitor.  But she grew on me, she attached to me like glue, and she's just got so much darned character that I couldn't help but fall in love with her.

Cleo is an upside down cat...she is happiest looking up at the world from her back.  If you don't hold her with her feet up and her head in your hands she will get down immediately.  It's almost as if she says "hold me right, or don't hold me at all."








One of the funniest things about this cat is she likes to go on hikes, that is when she's not being a ferocious killing/hunting machine.  So today I took some pictures, and shot some video, of a day in the life of the kitty we refer to as El Gato Negro (or sometimes El Brato Negro because she's a bit of a spoiled brat).

She's a hoot! I'm glad to have her around in my life, she's my little buddy in the garden, she's chatty, she's naughty sometimes, and I'm not ecstatic about the offerings she lays on her alter of homage to me, but she a good little gato.

Here is the you tube video of her hiking: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EQY_rftRc8