THE RESULTS ARE IN!!!  Thanks to SPC Hope, Mr. Cat is pleased to announce his new “American” name: Kamar .

SGT Leech shares a treat with Kamar.

Kamar, which is Arabic for moon, is a yellow-haired tabby cat who still joins me most evenings for dinner. SPC Hope suggested the name because of Kamar’s “moonlight visits” to my office.  But (duh duh duhnnnn,) the saga continues.

All my life I’ve always had cats around. My mom, my sisters & I could narrate the never-ending soap opera with them over the years.

It all started with my grandmother’s cat Jane, then our adopted tabby Donovan (who died of a heart attack in 95,) then my teenage best friends Yogi & Scari, who dated & produced generations leading to the present man of the house, Bud (who is currently dating a younger woman who just had babies.)

SGT Leech hard at work, Kamar looking for a treat!

Now, it’s only right that the storyline would follow me here… Maury says: THERE IS ANOTHER MALE!!!

That’s right, there’s another cat meeting me for dinner when Kamar isn’t around & his name is Gravy! (My neice Hannah named him that for some strange reason Gravy & I bond on nights when Kamar is away on guard duty (or so I’d like to think) & is obviously a war vet who is disabled because of his damaged left eye.  Gravy doesn’t speak as much English as Kamar but I understand him just the same.

...and here's Gravy!

The two haven’t been around at the same time but in the words of SGM Falardeau, hopefully, “It’s all gravy!”