Pepper
Esk Pteppic Iggy Mustrum Aliss Molly Zool Pepper Shrimp Drumknott Lilith Liessa
it transpires that Pepper was very well named - she's a complete tomboy, and at the age of four (as I write this) is still a kitten. And probably the most charming kitten you could ever fear to meet. She could do cute in the Olympics. She has a piercing voice (and claws, come to that), and was for a long time called Mew, and is now mostly called Moo, not least because she's a little cow.
she likes to sleep on Pete's legs, and stays there all night no matter how much he moves about, so we call her the Klingon. She also does vexed as a career; try to imagine, if you can, a charming, stripy, feline fishwife - one hand on her hip, and the other wagging a finger at you, all the while nattering in a shrewish manner. That's Moo.
another of her charming traits is to sit on the shelf by the front door, and moo to be let out. And when you let her out and shut the door, you can generally start a countdown from 10 to when she'll moo to be let back in again.
but she's so pretty, and so charming, that we forgive her all this. Because, after all, she is a cat ...
Pepper's first names were Pippin Galadriel Moonchild. She had been given them in a naming ceremony in a muddy valley field that contained three sick sheep and a number of leaky polythene teepees. There are only two ways a child can go with a name like Pippin Galadriel Moonchild, and Pepper had chosen the other one ...