The Contest

Pigs must be flying.

Hell must have frozen over.

David Huntley now owns a cat.

Most people won't get the significance, but Heather? Teri? Can you believe it? It's true. Not an indoor cat, but an outdoor cat. (Does that matter?)

We have a mouser!....we hope.

Just getting the thing from the farm where it was born to our house was an adventure.

We weren't sure if it would even stick around but we've been feeding it and it's still here, in our garage!

So after we thought the thing would actually stay around, we figured it needed a name. We decided to set out a jar and some paper and anyone who wanted to, could enter a name. We only had 8 entries. Zach didn't actually write one down but I told him that Kitty Poopy Pants would not be an acceptable entry.

Lexi wanted Cute Cat and Cutie Pie.

Trey thought Scardy Cat would be a good name. True enough.

I entered several. First I wrote down Kitty because that's what Dave has been calling it and I didn't figured he'd write it down himself. Then I wrote down Fraidy because all it does is hide, Tiger because it is striped and The Mumford because I love that name! We could call it Mumsy for short. I also wrote down Silver Bullet because it's gray. All the kids loved that name, we laughed about it for quite sometime.

Leah only said one thing when we asked her what she thought the kitty should be called. Duck. Well okay, then. I wrote it down for her.

Phase Two, they could write down anything, but then the parents would get to pick two names we liked and then the family would vote on those two.

So at supper tonight, we read through all the names and had a good time with it. Dave and I laid out all the names and each took turns picking out one that we didn't like. So in that way, we narrowed it down to two. Fraidy and Duck.

And the winner is... Duck!!!!

I love it. We'll probably call it Ducky. And Trey just couldn't figure out why. It doesn't make sense to call a cat Duck!! But that's what I like about it:)

And someday, when it's not such a Fraidy Cat, I'll get a picture of it.