Step On No Pets

Taco cat is a palindrome like the title of this blog. Both vaguely refer to our new addition to the family. Ego left Chicago via previous owner, my sister, for Madison. He stayed there Saturday night and Sunday morning. Around noon, Jenevieve and I arrived in Madison to deliver him to his new home in La Crosse.

Here is a picture of his first day in our apartment. Yes, that's my leg and those are Jenevieve's scissors pointing him out for you, in case you couldn't find him in the picture.

Upon his arrival, Ego received a new name. Instead of being just Ego, brother of Id, he is now named Dima Ego Slagoski. To not worry my sister, we kept Ego as his middle name. We also made sure his new name had a long "e" sound with two syllables so he could still recognize his old name. What does Dima mean? Dima is the affectionate name for Dimitri in Russia. It is the masculine form of the Greek goddess Demeter, the earth mother. Dimitri is also the name of a king of Syria from the Bible. But he is not Dimitri, he is Dima.

But if you knew him as Ego, that's still his name too. He assured us that he won't get confused as long as each person is consistent in calling him one of the two names. Then he told me that some people prefer to go by their middle names at times. For example, Mickey Dolenz's full name is George Michael Dolenz.

Dima chose a good day to come from Chicago to La Crosse because the Chicago Tribune just published Wisconsin's Top 10 Places. And La Crosse came second after the Wisconsin Dells. If you'd like to read the article, click here. He got to see both places today.

And just as I was starting to write this blog, our ear-piercing fire alarm screamed throughout the premises. Dima was just getting comfortable when we had to whisk him outside again in his brother's carrier. And then Dima initiated me into his ownership by slashing my chest with his back claws. So now I'm his and have the marks to prove it.

P.S. There was smoke but no fire. We're OK...except for our ears.