New Kitty -Senator (Pinnochio) Chomskey

This is our new kitten. His name is the result of a compromise. James wanted to name him Senator Amadela (sorry about the wrong spelling) after the Star Wars character, but our kitty is a boy so we decided to only keep the senator part. James wanted to make it Senator Pinnochio, but that seemed like a lot of name for such a small animal. Terrence and I were in favor of the name Chomskey. In fact, Terrence emailed the professor and author Noam Chomskey to see if we could name our new cat after him. I figured he would never see our message, let alone write back but he did. We do in fact have his blessing to name our cat Chomskey.

He loves Jamie, follows him around the house and sleeps next to him. We figured a feisty kitten would be good entertainment for the rest of winter. We have to wait to take him to the vetbecause there isn't one in Bethel. A vet flies out from Anchorage every few months. In fact if an animal needs immediate medical attention you have to put them on a plane send them to Anchorage and the vet picks them up at the airport. Then the animal gets whatever operation or procedure it needs, recovers and gets back on a plane to come home- no need for the human to travel. Our friends Huskie got knee surgery this way last summer. Even pet ownership is different in the bush!