We, my husband and I, already had one 6 month old all black female cat. I sweet talked my husband into letting us take the kitten. Our friend told us what to do with her food and how to train her to use the litter box.

She was so tiny, we kept her in the bathtub with blankets, we were afraid she’d get lost in the house. It took us a quite a few days to come up with her name. I was trying to come up with some cutesy name, but my husband wasn’t having it.

Well our other cat was named Pantera (yes after the Heavy Metal group), Tera for short. So we decided to go that route again. I started looking through our CD collection (which consists mostly of Rock and Heavy Metal).

One band my husband listened to a lot at the time was Sepultura. I went through of few of their CDs and we came up with Chaos, off of Sepulturas Chaos A.D. It’s a fitting name, really. Chaos has her own way as does any feline.

She is not a cuddlier nor affectionate at all and likes to socialize from afar. She’d rather just sit and stare at you. She can be rather lazy, but does get a bit of an energy boost every now and then and will just start running the hall for no reason.

She is not a noisy cat either. Only time you will actually hear Chaos meow is when she finds one of her favorite little toys (a glitter ball) and meows at that. Chaos is a very clean cat!

Chaos will literally wipe her paws on the side of her litter box before she jumps out of it. Chaos has, as I call it, a smell fetish. Probably goes along with her being so clean. Like I said she is not affectionate, but if you just get out of the shower she will be your best friend.

She will rub all over your feet and she will get up behind you and rub in your hair. Same if you just put lotion on. When I am giving the baby a bath or sitting in the tub myself she is right there sitting on the side of it. And when I am done cleaning, especially bleach cleaner, she again will rub herself all over it. Chaos is her name and it fits.

We wanted to get a cat anyways, and we figured that taking him in would have special meaning. A time lapsed between us actually adopting him and his friend’s passing.

He was left outside most of the time and acquired fleas and ear mites. We had to fight the critters pretty hard to get rid of them.

Cricket has seemed a lot happier since he’s not getting bitten all the time. He seems to sleep all day, but gets very hyper active in the evenings and early morning. He’s become our natural alarm clock…one that pounces on your face!

He seems to like just about any toy (or non-toy) we put in front of him. He is also fond of our vertical blinds (at least someone likes them). I don’t think he’s particularly smart since he’s chases shadows and does some obviously unintelligent things regularly.

But he’s cute. He’s my Cricket.

We do not know if he is a purebred or not. The animal shelter found him on the streets and rescued him. When we went to the animal shelter, they have a room where they keep all the cats and kittens.

There the kittens and cats are let out of their cages so that people can interact with them. When we entered the room and sat down on the floor, a small black cat came up to me almost instantly. We bonded quickly.

We ended up adopting the small black cat. His name was Edgar when we got him, and couldn’t come up with anything to name him. So the name just stuck with him.

He didn’t really like the car ride home, so I had to hold him all the way back. He’s a very sweet cat, but can be quite ornery. He enjoys playing with bells, toy mouse , and even chasing the woodland creatures around our house.

Now that he’s been fixed, he’s not as energetic as he once was. He sleeps a lot more during the day, and plays with our other cats during the night. Almost every hour, he will jump on my bed at night and cuddle up with me for some scratching.

He does this from between 11:00 pm to 5:00 am. When I wake up at around 6:00 in the morning for school, he’s somewhere in my room.

Usually he likes to walk between my legs as I’m getting dressed. Our cats are fed three times a day. When I wake up (6:00 am), when I get home from school, (4:00 pm) and after dinner (9:00-9:30 pm).

They aren’t the skinniest cats in the world. But they aren’t the fattest. Edgar is a reasonable size for a housecat. He’s healthy from playing outside and we take him to the vet for check-ups seasonally. We love all our cats, past and present.