This page is dedicated to that grey little feline named after the Ingrid Bergman character from Casablanca.  But mommy has angelofied the screen name Ilsa to the feline name Elsa.

 I adopted Elsa from a friend in the Charlottesville-Arbemarle Rescue Squad summer of 2000 when I was working in Charlottesville.













                            
  later that summer..[2002]..don't we look alike?!







                  then summer was over and I couldn't have Elsa in the dorms, so she's been staying with her grandparents, aka, my parents.

Aren't we a pretty little lady?!



Rosie the visiting dog that took over Elsa's room and got a feline claw in her face when she tried to sniff Elsa, and then prompt scared Elsa to death with her barks.



this was elsa after I came back from China in August of 2002
Elsa during Thanksgiving of 2002.  Now we really look alike:)
Elsa meeting Victoria during Christmas of 2002.

Elsa underwent a feline hysterectomy under general anesthesia June 2003, she was three years old.  After the surgery, she recovered beautifully, began eating more and gaining weight.  The follow pictures were taken from Iain's and my homecoming the weekend of September 12, 2003.
Elsa was strapped to a little garden wagon, she felt quite silly about the whole situation.
Here's Iain toying with Elsa to get her to pull the wagon.

So Iain and I went to Wal-mart and got Elsa a hot pink harness and a black leash

Elsa loves the sunny spot by the backdoor

a face off
then Elsa met Victoria and all the puppies



Elsa then had to tolerate sharing her favortite spot on the back of the recliner with all the stuffed canines.

hello beautiful!
Iain was pressing down Elsa' ears...

elsa after her bath....





the second half of this page is dedicated to all other furry animals and quadrapeds that make us humans happy.

these are Iain's friend Brandon Powell's four-legged creatures...


This is Tigger, or Tigerlily, she's my classmate Ivan's cat.  
Ivan got Tigger during first semester of med school when she was a kitten.




This is Tio, he's my classmate Martha Koch's cat.  He likes to chew on people, including my fingers.



Dakoda and Zuki, the beautiful wolf dogs of my classmate J.R. Pickett and his wife Becky.


Mum's Khandi and Lin, the faithful pekes, and the little boy Yorkie.
 





the animals of my second cousin Xu Lin in Shen Zheng.  My cousin is the human in the 6th picture with the really cute dog.













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