While browsing through magazines in the waiting room at the vet, I came across an article about Chartreux.
The article was in French, and my French language skills are not that great; thus, more questions were raised than answered, and so I went searching on the I'net for more info on the breed.
From thence, did some more I'net searching to find the nearest breeder ~ purely for fun, couldn't realistically afford the time/space/money for another cat ~ and found the nearest breeder to be a mere hop/skip/jump away, in Sainte~Marthe~sur~la~Lac. And as it turns out, the magazine article I had originally read was in fact a profile of this very cattery ~ right down to including all the photos on the website.
Perhaps if I had perused a bit more aggressively, I'd've noticed their website address somewhere in the article; let that be a lesson to me the next time I try to browse through French~language magazines.
"In keeping with the French tradition of naming livestock," says theCat Fancy website, "... breeders began the names of all kittens born in a calendar year with a specific letter of the alphabet, skipping the letters k, q, w, x, y and z. Therefore, the name of a Chartreux indicates age. Cats born in 2002 have names starting with t."
Should I ever be so fortunate as to have a Chartreux born in 2004, I'd be ever so mightily tempted to name her Vitameatavegamin Girl {being Veggie, of course, for short}; so, perhaps the world is ever better off that my whims are not ever granted.
Posted by edgar at February 17, 2004 11:24 AM[guilt] sniffle, you don't love us anymore. we slave, and slave for you... and, what do we get in return... [/guilt] we could go on and on but that would just be cruel. have a good weekend dear Ed. *squishes* love us.
Posted by: munin at February 20, 2004 04:05 PM