Introducing Milly, our only girl, and second oldest cat (although at the time of writing this, she's only 15 months old).

Milly came from my local RSPCA re-homing centre and she was a young girl of about 9 weeks when she came to live with us. She is medium sized (about 3.5kg) and a very loving girl. But, as you can see from the pic above, she does like to climb trees. As we have a large tree at the end of our garden, this provides her with a great vantage point for watching birds!

Her favourite things are: birds, mice, sleeping, climbing trees, sitting on fencepost and watching horses (she is fascinated with horses), going to say hello to neighbours, showing our neighbour's cat how to run up a tree. This last bit is a little naughty as next door's cat is a little rotund (although a lovely boy) and he can not run up the tree like Milly does.

She has the patience of a hunting cat and catches her prey with great efficiency. She particularly likes to bring them into us, announcing her triumph with a little chirrup as she comes through the catflap. Our front door mat has become the unofficial "sacrificial mat" for Milly to leave her presents. And she sometimes even kills them!

Many times we have been running around the hallway and front room trying to catch a mouse that has escaped her clutches, but most times she beats us to it. For such an innocent looking girl, she really is a ruthless torturer and killer of small things.

Milly is neutered (as are all of our cats) and can vary from being the cuddliest kitty ever to being quite aloof and looking at us as if we're just there to provide her with what she desires, and humans are soooooooooooo stupid. But she also sits on the living room window and asks to come in - but with the windows shut it is just an open mouthed look. We tap on window as she looks at us like daggers - let me in your stoopid humans. I am far too important to have to go round and come in the catflap.

Of course, she never understands why we don't just slap the bird/mouse/vole or whatever between 2 bits of bread and eat it - which is of course why she bought it in for us in the first place.

She loves to sleep on the radiator bed (any time of year) or in the summer somewhere shady, usually under shrubs or plants or she will hide and wait for the next unsuspecting cat to walk past. But lately with the warmer weather, we often see her at the very far end of the fields out the back. Usually we only find out where she is by the noise of the birds having a go at ther!

And as for those "may bugs" - she loves bringing them in, but I hate them.