I promised my long suffering husband that Dash will be my last addition and, as my older guys leave us for the Rainbow Bridge, I also promised I wouldn’t replace them.

I wanted to have one of each colour and, of course, in a perfect world I would have a boy and a girl in each of the main colours, ie sable, silvermitt, black-eyed white and albino. However even I know that I must be sensible

So now I have 3 white ones and 3 brown ones!

Introducing Kimiko – ta dah!!!! … drum roll …

She’s 10 weeks old and the oldies have been absolutely wonderful in welcoming her into the family. No stink bombs, no squeals to establish the pecking order, just a lovely acceptance of a newcomer

Cathy brought her over on Friday morning and Jo came along too, mainly to see Spook again, I reckon

When the ladies came into the sitting room, Seamus and Angus appeared and started sniffing at the cat carrier. I went and brought Spook and Mojo out from the chest of drawers and when Cathy opened the cage door and Kimiko appeared, my awesome foursome were curious but, thank goodness, not in any way aggressive towards her.

I picked her up yesterday morning from Cathy’s house and she lay happily in my arms while Philip drove us home. No fidgeting, no squirming, just quietly lying there. I was thrilled

Got her home and put her with the others. They all freaked and ran away!! Such wusses! Kahlua looked especially nervous about having her around and she decided she wasn’t going to sleep in the chest of drawers but would go to the sitting room and get under the covers of Zac’s bed there. How odd.