This just came in my email and made me smile:

Hello May Anne,

Lake, renamed Ona, is climbing on me at this very moment. Sorry not to respond sooner, I’ve been working a lot.

    Ona has been going back and forth with me, to work and then home. She seems very agreeable to everything that pleases her. She has a very strong personality.

    She walked into the house and when the chows came to give her a disinterested sniff, she attacked with great fury, they’ve gone back to chowy behavior of ignoring her completely, which is just what she wanted. She jumped up onto the counter where the cat food is and while allowing Tuck her place at the bowl, staked out her claim and now demands loudly whenever she decides it’s time to be fed. Baked chicken suits her just fine. I think she downed one and a half chickens that first day! She’s mellowed out since then. She and Tuck mostly ignore each other but have no issues. It’s good.

    She has a very, very strong personality. She’s not a princess, she thinks she’s the Empress! Right now, after climbing on me like a jungle gym, she’s square in the middle of a dog bed. The dogs have given up protesting.

    I’d say that you have no worries. She’s no fragile, shrinking violet as I first thought. I expect her to annex California next week if she keeps going on like she is.

    Time for my dinner. Talk soon.

rose (written under the direction/command of Empress Ona)

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