Grimmtooth's Troops

The Topic: "Have you ever named a pet after a WoW NPC?"  Oddly, this topic also came up last night while running randoms with some friends.  I could swear I had posted about it here, but apparently it was only Twitter.  Let’s fix that.

The answer, as you probably guessed, is "yes."  This past January, we rescued a tiny Tonkinese kitten from our apartment’s parking lot. She was slow. She was listless. Her little belly was swollen.  We took her in, and within a couple of days the was scaling anything scalable to be with her new peoples.  She was fierce. None of the other cats were safe from her epic pounces. And she’d steal my pillow from me as I slept.

We named her Jaina (that’s her to the left).

A couple of weeks later, we took her to the doc, and the prognosis was grim. FIP is not a treatable disease. Fortunately, it’s only usually communicable to very young and very old kitties, so our other four cats were probably not at risk. We were told, it was a matter or weeks. We took her home, and decided that her last weeks on Earth would be good ones, until she showed signs of slowing down we’d love her.

So, here we are in August. She’s grown into a lovely young lady; still as spritely and fierce as ever. She has a favorite toy, which she will drop at your feet and then pat you on the elbow as if to say, "Please play with me." She’s possibly the smartest cat I’ve ever seen. She pretty much runs things around here as far as the other cats are concerned.

We’re keenly hoping that prognosis was wrong; FIP is a hard thing to diagnose, and the symptoms that she had may have been due to malnourishment than anything else.

So, yes, WoW Insider, we have, but since I had to show her off a little, I answered here.

Maybe, like myself, you’re a fan of the BBC series Top Gear¹, and, out of affection for that show, watched the spin-off, Richard Hammond’s Crash Course.  In which case, you’ve seen this.

The other day, on my secret Gnome Warlock, I encountered this.

"I think you can see where this is going."

1. And, forgive me, but if you’re not a fan, you’re totally not going to get the punch line. [↩]