D o m i n o

She was found abandoned behind a pizza parlor in September, 1997 and given to the Humane Society of Seattle/King County in Bellevue to put up for adoption, which is where I found her at about the age of 10 months.

Named "Sophia" by the shelter folk, but that's no name for a cat. And what else can you call a black and white cat with a white spot on her forehead and another on her back, with a pizza parlor connection but
D o m i n o?

Pumpkin

In late October of 1998, after Domino brought in a family of mice and invited them to live in the sofa, it was time to close the cat door and find someone to keep her company, and maybe teach her how to hunt. After two weeks of looking in every shelter in King County, I finally found Pumpkin in the PAWS shelter in Lynnwood. It took three trips to adopt him, but it was worth it. He's playful and friendly and has already made history of two toy mice.

It was a week before Halloween, and he was the only orange cat in the place, so they of course named him Pumpkin. The vet tells me that in about a year he probably will fill out enough to look more like one. A year later it turns out they were almost right - I'm thinking of re-naming him Simba