Tesla - the MANX...

Meet Tesla, our new beautiful addition! Isn't she gorgeous? Our landlords finally agreed 2 days before Christmas that we could get the boys a cat for Christmas. We adopted Tesla from a soldier in Aviano that decided he couldn't care for her anymore. He actually adopted her from someone else that was leaving Italy and didn't want to carry her with them. The soldier we took Tesla from is anticipating going back to the US for a "Compassionate Reassignment" due to a surgery his wife just went through. He knew he wouldn't be able to take care of all the necessary work to get her back to the States is a short period of time so he put an ad in the paper. We were the first to respond and picked her up last Saturday.

here she is sleeping on one of the boys' computer chairs.

She is still a bit skittish but has only been here a week. Tesla, who was named by Caleb, is a Manx cat, which means she naturally has no tail ~ just a little nub where the tail would be and a curved spine. Makes her backside look a bit hunched over. She is a VERY vocal cat and loves to talk to us. She walks around crying and talking a lot. Particularly when she wants to be in the room with us but is still too scared to just jump into our laps. She has slept with both boys so she is sharing her love with them and adjusting just fine. She is still a bit jumpy and can run pretty fast if we scare her by getting up too quickly. Even though she is quite fluffy she doesn't shed very much at all. I have held her and petted her and brushed her and have had only a stray hair or two on my sweaters. Not bad - so far it looks like I shed more hair than she does.
Tesla is trying to ignore the camera here - silly girl.