This is Apollo. He was Johanne's cat from before we got married. He was literally born on a silver platter, which was in a cupboard in the screened in porch behind a friends house. He never forgot his lofty place.

We received a call from Stephen when we sent out to the movies that the picnic table has a bunch of cats on it. Odin's young mother brought them over to our house looking for help. We brought them to the Humane Society but they wouldn't take them unless we agreed to take one of the kittens. This is how we ended up with Odin.

Kiccu (pronounced Kee-chew) was a barn cat from a horse riding place in Michigan's thumb. Johanne and the kids decided to bring the cat home and hid him at Jo's father John's place until they could talk me into taking him in. Kiccu was thought by John to mean "kitty-kitty" in Italian, but maybe not.

We got Athena when we moved into our first apartment so Apollo would have a buddy to play with when we were out of the house. Apollo sat under the table and growled for 8 straight hours. I guess he didn't really want this friend in his domain.