A Formal Introduction ~

WELL......
here he is...
our little boy Iggy ~
(so sorry for the 'pink' overload, Hannah loves Hello Kitty stuff!)

when we first went to visit him Sunday at the
Almost Home Pet Adoption Center

he was sitting quietly in his cage...

quietly, that is...
until he saw her.

in a flash he was hanging on the side of his cage,
...little furry arm reaching out to my little girl,
begging her to love him ~

oh boy.
...you should have seen the look on her face...

((she may be 16, but when she was cuddling that boy-kitten,
she looked like she was two again...))

now don't get me wrong...
there were plenty of kittens there waiting to be adopted.
but

this little guy worked SO hard at being loveable
that we just knew he would love us forever...
(I like to think that our beloved Sam had a ...um...paw in sending him our way)

he is approx. 6 weeks old,
is a buff & white long-haired, ring-tailed monkey that
now runs amok through our little farmhouse,
purring so loudly I'll bet you could hear it from where you are
and
of course,
sending our two senior Ladies of the House,

Tippy (15 yrs.) & Suzy (14 yrs)
into an absolute panic-stricken, wide-eyed & bushy-tailed frenzy....

...lots of hissing and spitting on their part,
and naturally, Suzy hasn't spoken to me in days.

how did he get his name you ask?
well, the kind folks at the center had named him
"Pig Pen" but we couldn't call this little ball of fluff that ~
so Hannah shortened it to
"Iggy"

(although I do call him Piggy Iggy when he's eating!)

so, there he is...
not a replacement of our beloved Sam,
but another little life saved....

...and a tender heart mended yet again.

Blessings from the Farm...
Lori