Saba? Miss Saba?

This is our new little kitty. She looks a little crazed in that picture, no?

In this next picture, her tail is a blur.



See? That's because she moves it constantly. It's always swishing and twitching like it's a whole separate animal--unless she is sleeping. That kind of twitchy tail is usually a sign that a cat is getting annoyed and is going to bite or scratch, but she does it even when she is perfectly content, purring away. I think she learned to do the tail thing because she grew up around a lot of school children. Maybe.

She's also got an itty-bitty, tiny extra toe on each foot. (Unlike two of our last kitties, whose extra toes looked more like human thumbs.)

She came to us with the name Miss Miss, but I don't like that name very much. I actually want to call her Saba. What is Saba? Saba is the Japanese name for a kind of mackerel that looks like this:



They've got black and gray tiger stripes on their top half, and are silvery on the bottom half. (They're also delicious in sushi.)

Anyway, Saba? Miss Saba? Saba-yuki? (Yuki means snow.) I don't know.

So far, she's been pretty good. She misses her old home, I think, but she's adapting pretty well to our place.