Rotunda

I have been wanting to have some updated pics of the ducks and geese on here but haven't managed to get any taken. I need to do it quick as they end up fully feathered within a few weeks and aren't as cute anymore...B#4's duck did make it through the night and is doing great(phew!!!) Anyway, this is Rotunda(not her real name). The story behind Rotunda, which is my name for her, is that she started out as an Otis. The girls told me that our new kitties were males but as time went on we realized that they were actually females but we didn't change her name from Otis. Now Otis(do we dare call her Otisina?) is pregnant and should have her babies any day now. She has always been a bit rounder than her sister, Olivia(pictured on right), but now has definitely earned the nickname that I gave her of Rotunda.

Otis the cat, Rotunda the fat.

Gentle and sweet, pudgy and neat.

She waddles around; Till our laps she's found

purring and pawing; scratching and clawing;

Till she falls asleep;

We stroke her and scratch her, enjoying the rest;

Here on the chair with the cat we love best;

And one day soon her kittens we'll meet;

With Otis as mother their sure to be sweet.

There's nary a kitten, nary a cat, who could ever be

Like Rotunda the fat.

By B#2,3 and 4