Did I mention... I'm now a cat person too?

That’s right, the Andrea Norberg you know, who makes noises that only very sensitive microphones could hear when she sees a cute puppy, is now a cat person.

Can you believe it?

It had been 3 years since I had to put my beloved Buster down, and while I still feel as though something broke in me when I lost him, I was starting to feel that I wanted a small furry creature to share our humble abode.

The Moopsy doesn’t love being outside. It’s too busy for her.

As it happened, some friends had somewhat recently acquired a new cat - a former stray from the Cat Distribution System who, when they’d taken her in, turned out to be pregnant. They kept her and once the babies were born and getting more mature, she was not happy to be with them still. As such, she was offered up to be our first cat.

Now don’t get me wrong. She’s a menace. She still likes to claw and bite when you move in a way she doesn’t want you to, or if she thinks it’s time to wake up (and thankfully, she’s not an alarm clock cat in the sense she doesn’t wake us to feed her as she has an automated feeder to do that, but if she senses us stirring around the time we normally get up, she’ll come up, purring, and then she’ll settle in next to you… and bite your arm, still purring away.).