Kitten at the vets tonight.

kezzer,
River is sooooo adorable!!
I just love the pictures of her!
My fav is her in the basket....
I could tell she is loved and it is wonderful that your husband took her home!!!

Nomar's mommy

I gotta ask, why is that other one called Snakefood? (not sure I want to know . . .)

I've got another question, about the what different cat's colors are called.

I had a 3-color cat and we called it calico - black / brown / white or I guess blue / red / white. If there had been no white, she would have been a tortoiseshell or tortie. Plus I know there is variation in depth of color, some cats are just paler almost dusty looking and others are very deeply colored.

Now, is a torbie the same as a tortie? I think tortie-and-white in the UK is the same as calico. I know we don't all live in the US and sometimes we use different words for the same thing.

About Snakefood... I'll try to make a long story short. After The blizzard we had in March, an animal shelter near a friends job flooded and any animal that did not get adopted would be put down. So this friend had gone there saw her and said she loved her mnarkings etc. But what I think was that the cat's name was Sarah, which is her daughters name. So she brought her to us. Well, I didn't think Sarah fit this cat, plus knowing plenty of human Sarah's I just couldn't have a cat named that. Thus the search for the perfect name began. I looked in baby name books and on kitty name sites online and found nothing. So one day in June, hubby and I are sitting outside and I'm still trying to come up with names. The only thing close to suitable I could finally come up with was Patches. Hubby said, no, Snakefood, cuz she's trying to be Snakefood. ( A few nights before she had gotten into the room where we keep our snakes and had agrevated a few of them through their cages.) Well, we decided to each call her with the names we chose and well, she ran to hubby, jumped on his lap and started purring like mad, so the name stuck!
sunlion: I'm stumped as to what that coloring would be called too, she's only gray and brown, so is that a tortiose shell or calico? And what is a torbie?
And does anyone know< is it true that female orange tigers are rare? I had been told that years ago, and every orange tiger I've ever met has been male, until River that is. Is it true they are rare or is it just a myth?

Awwww! What a sweet picture!

What a lovely story (Snakefood) and how lovely and lively River looks!