Location: Dublin, Ireland

This is our kitten Spideog, which is the Irish word for robin (spid-Og is how you say it). We adopted her from the DSPCA over a month ago (by the way they are GREAT, so donate, they deserve it!) and she’s spoiled rotten now and has taken over the house – and for a first-time pet owner I have morphed into the lady to signs emails from herself and the cat and am about this close to ordering myself kitten-themed needlepoint patterns! Spideog is pretty ridiculous – she spends most of her day napping in awkward positions, hunting any bug that might fly in an open window, purring like a motorboat, snuggling, and follows my boyfriend or I room to room, crying outside the bathroom door and putting her paws under it if we dare to lock her out. She is so good and so sweet, and sure someone has got to mind the neighbors and eat the cobwebs and attack the belt of my dressing gown, those things don’t take care of themselves you know.