Sure enough, Miss Jerrianne and Miss Kathlyn went to the "Purr Rendezvous" cat show last week but Pretty Kitty and I stayed home. It turned out that we could have gone, too ... it wasn't just for cats with pedigree papers, after all. But I'm not feeling bad about missing out on all that commotion ... and I don't need ribbons ... especially since Miss Jerrianne said, even after seeing all those beautiful kitties, she still liked me best of all.

I heard there were lots of interesting cats in the show ... Abyssinians and Russian Blues and some other cats that look a little bit like me, in one way or another. But Miss Jerrianne said she didn't see any that looked like me overall, so I might have done quite well, if I had gone. There weren't any of those Korat "Si Sawat" (good luck and prosperity) cats from Thailand there, though she would like to have seen some. She wonders whether one of those silver-tipped blue Siamese cats with green eyes, if it met up with a ginger colored cat of some other persuasion, might have produced female kittens that look something like me ...

Although such a pairing might seem an unlikely coincidence, we do seem to have certain features in common -- especially our strong opinions and our very large greenish eyes. All kittens are born with blue eyes and, except for Siamese cats, most of them turn toward yellow after a few months, but green eyes then come on gradually and take up to 2 to 4 years to develop. My eyes are definitely getting greener, now that I'm getting close to my first birthday. They are already close to the yellowish-green color of "peridot," as a Korat cat's eyes should be.