Kona

Meet Kona. She is my husband's first adopted cat.  He adopted her right before his 5th year in college.  Her story is quite interesting.  Before my husband took her in, she "belonged" to the Texas A&M equestrian center.  Kona was spayed by veterinary students and the top of her ear was clipped before releasing her back to the stables.  However, about a year after Kona and her brothers and  sisters were born, my husband's friend who was in charge of the stable's cats noticed that some kittens were disappearing, and that perhaps, they were being eaten by bigger animals.  So she called on her friends and asked if anyone was willing to adopt a cat.  My husband originally planned on adopting Kona's sister, but he melted when he saw Kona.  She was very tiny, and more Manx-like.  And let's face it, a kitty without a tale is definitely fun to look at.  Kona is our Halloween Kitty.

Kona's personality is borderline anti-social.  But I think she's mostly scared of new faces.  She rarely likes to be picked up, although, she loves to be petted and belly-rubbed.  She is definitely playful, but only when she thinks no one is watching.  And she totally has some weird quirks! She's our most quirky kitty.  She LOVES stinky smells.  We know it's time to wash our bathroom rug when Kona starts to love on it.  He favorite thing to do, is to get into smelly shoes! So if you come to our home, you can't say that the stinky feet are not yours because Kona will make a liar out of you! She will find the shoes and basically make out with them for a good twenty minutes.  We have a very long video of her licking my husband's flip flops.  It's a bit creepy but it's better than her cork-chewing habit.  (Anecdote on cork-chewing/eating on a later post)

Over-protective of MY shoe!

Kona is also our best player in hide and seek.  If she chooses to hide, good luck finding her.  She always finds the best places to hide and to drive you crazy while trying to find her.  Her most recent place, which took me about a week to figure out where in the kitchen she was, is the chair! Yes, she hides in plain sight!  Our chairs are always pushed in under the table and in order to get away from our two other cats, she just naps on the chair all day, where unless you're looking for her, it's pretty impossible to see her.

Kona under the door mat.

Kona is a true KITTY!  She naps all day away from it all, plays with the most random of objects like our super small 99cent Ikea rug, and is sometimes ditsy.  The funniest thing she does, is to jump on tables, desks, or the like, without checking if there is enough room for her to land, so as she's mid air, she re-thinks her move and ends up belly-flopping onto the side of the table only to look at whoever is around and pretend it never happened

She is pretty mischievous.  She loves to chew on things, especially flowers and plants.  In this picture she's chewing a some flowers my husband bought for me.  But even better was when she defied my husband and chewed and swatted the very tiny pineapple, off the pineapple plant my husband had just bought.  Although he continually reprimanded her for messing with the plant she waited for the perfect moment when he was looking right at her, to give the innocent pineapple the final bitch slap that sent it off the table.  We love her either way.  It's hard not to considering she makes us laugh on a regular basis.  The most common thing she does, that drives me crazy and makes me laugh hysterically for hours is when she very seriously comes out of her bathroom covered in litter.  She puts on her most serious face and walks all like the very proper lady cat she is. 

Here's our dear Kona making her way of our her bathroom very upset at the photographer.  She doesn't see any reason as to why I'm taking pictures like a paparazzi does when Octomom goes out for the morning paper.  

and here she is 20 minutes later still thinking there is nothing wrong.   But of course, just when you think she's turned into an inappropriate lady cat she surprises you by laying on her belly with her legs stretched out behind her and crossed!  That's right, she may have been raised by horses, but she never loses sight of her manners!

Perfect leg-crossing form.  No peek-a-boos.  Pure lady-cat-like behavior.