My husband and I have been devoted cat lovers for years. Bastet, a charcoal tabby with white markings, born around Christmas, 1989, died on December 22, 2004. Not long after Taffy, an orange tabby, died at 19 1/2 in 2000, we adopted Cleopatra (Cleo), a black and white kitten, born on March 31, 2000, who died this fall of 2012.
We adopted three young cats, born June 14, 2012: Ra (brown tabby) named after the Egyptian sun god; Isis (gray tabby tuxedo and white) named after the Egyptian fertility goddess; and Aida (black fuzzy) named after the Ethiopian princess in Egypt in Verdi's Aida.
