She looks a great deal like my cat Velvet, who lived to be sixteen and a half, and whom we got when I was too young to remember.

I should get a picture of her, and make it an icon for LJ. I have angry cats and freaked-out cats and Puss in Boots doing the Pathetic Stare of Doom, and I even have the ballerina-and-kitten picture that hangs on my wall at home, but I don't have my cat.

Gypsy sounds wonderful, quirks and all. The quirks are really what makes them great.