Way overdue: another gratuitous cat picture

It's been a long time since I posted a gratuitous cat photo to my blog. So when I managed to get a photo of Kitty looking up at the camera lens, for once, I thought I'd better take advantage of it.

I spotted Kitty in a neighborhood I was driving through while previewing some homes for clients in 2004. It took me 20 minutes to calm her down enough to catch her and take her to the nearest vet. Although the vet said she was basically healthy, she was skinny and was missing most of the hair from her flanks down to her legs. After I took her home, I put her on a special diet for stressed-out felines, and within three months she looked healthy and beautiful, like she does now. I only feed her expensive, high-protein cat food and she is indoors all the time now.

Why "Kitty"? At the time, my husband disapproved of human names for cats. I wanted to call her Simone, but the only name she answers to is Kitty.