View high resolution
Introducing my new kitten, Vivie! I just brought her home from the SoHo Haven Animal Shelter tonight. She was born on the streets of Brooklyn back in November and one of the volunteers from the shelter brought her, her brothers and her mama to the shelter. Growing up I had a siamese and a himalayan both of which we got from breeders. Once I bought my apartment I knew I wanted to eventually get a kitty and felt pretty strongly that I wanted to adopt from a shelter. I spotted her about 3 weeks ago and I got the call yesterday that she was old enough to adopt. She seems to already feel right at home, running all over my apartment and playing with all her new toys.
And about the name, I heard it in a George Bernard Shaw play I saw on broadway this summer + it means alive in latin, which fits this kitty perfectly.
