Memsahib's Voyage

Sparta the kitten with her master, savior and very best friend John.

John has long needed a companion on this trip other than a 62-year-old, missed his dog Fredi a lot, and has been a totally good sport about being stuck in Demopolis all this time.

So when we heard the story of Sparta the kitten, she was signed on forthwith.  There is no public animal shelter here for cats, only dogs, and the cat shelter lady is very ill.  So her animals have been distributed temporarily to various foster care homes and Sparta had to live in a cage while waiting for rescue after being abandoned at a local gas station.

She is totally black with yellow eyes (good luck on a ship) and is a sweet, well-mannered little girl who has adapted instantly to life on the boat (or at least life on a boat on the land as we are living it).  John and Sparta are inseparable and she has already learned she can always get a pet and play by jumping on his computer keyboard.  I am glad we have Sparta to distract us while doing time in Demopolis and John really deserved her — and she him.

Sparta on her favorite perch on John’s hanging locker where she is mistress of all she surveys.

Sparta spends a good deal of her day whacking this mouse, which squeaks with each whack.