Tigris

My friend Cindy is a psychic beacon for lost and wounded animals. You name it: birds, dogs, cats, and other critters simply show up at her house in a rural neighborhood, as if some light goes into the sky from wherever she is and they see it. As a result she has always had far too many cats and dogs etc. than anyone should have in her tiny house for sanity reasons. One cat who showed up was hungry and pregnant, and when it had kittens, she had three left and had to find a home for one.

She brought them over to us. One had a manx bobtail, the other had a regular tail, and one had a half-tail, with a crook at the end. Rykah got to choose, and she chose the latter kitten. We were going to name her Tiger, as she is tiger striped, but I decided on Tigris, like the Tigris river, as I thought that was a neat variation.

Tigris has a big butt and hind legs, apparently from her partly-manx heritage. She was not happy about losing her family, but I think the fact that my friend saw her weekly helped her adjust.

She is very loving and very possessive, but easy to offend, as if she feels innately "the outsider" and it doesn't take much to make her avoid us, as if she's had her feelings hurt. But once you make it clear to her that you are paying attention to her and you really do love her, she relaxes and then wants to sleep with you all the time.

She has a lot of "sheer personality", like some kind of "cat-charisma", and next to Georgia she is the most outdoorsy, hunting sort.