by PearlyredTexas

Created on: December 18, 2009

I think when you bring a cat home you really need to name it after you have watched it in the household around your other animals. I chose all three of my cats in different ways but mostly related to their behaviors.  My oldest cat, her name is Gillian. Gillian never intended to come into my household but I guess God saw that I needed her after I lost my other two to old age. I had gone with a friend to a Pet Smart in Arlington Texas as she was going to pick up her two Siamese cats, she was adopting through the Siamese Adoption Alliance.  When we got to the store I told my friend I did not really need any cats since I already had a few dogs at home running the house already. While my friend was filling out her paperwork to adopt her two cats, I wandered around the store and looked at all the cats in the windows. I came to two beauties looking back at me and I swear they were saying, “Please take me home with you”.  Gillian is a beautiful gray and white snow-shooed Siamese. Her coat looks as if it was  painted with the perfect lines on her.  When she looks at your with her big blue eyes she appears to be cross-eyed.  I was told by my vet she has some rare eye disorder but it does not affect her vision. Gillian is what we call a “Diva” cat! She will only let you hold her when she wants to be held and she hisses at other cats unless she is grooming them. She sleeps in the weirdest places, such as the closet, my pillow near my head at night and I've found her many times in the dirty laundry basket. But no matter where she is, she is always anti-social and won't associated with anyone at all. Even when I have company it is very rare you will find her being social to anyone so to me the Diva is in the house!

Prior to my purchase of Gillian and her cat mate, a tabby Siamese I named Sassy. I was told they needed to be adopted together because they both had come from Illinois and were raised together.  So the big hearted person that I am, held them both and well, they were going home with me as my new “babies”  I didn't really know what I was going to name them until I got them home and watched them for a few days. Well, once I got them home and let them out of their cages, Gillian told the dogs with a few claw swats with her paws and a big hiss and turned up tail, that this was her house and they could just stay out of her domain.  How I named her was funny. I was watching one of my favorite

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