Bestemore's Alasse Elensar
of Seven Streams

          
DOB: 8/05/07

 "Alasse Elensar" means "Singing Kitten."   The name fits her perfectly, because even though she is our smallest Norwegian Forest Cat, she is the loudest and most vocal.  She chirps and trills, loudly, in a sing song voice, and nary a meow escapes her lips.  (Update:  Alasse is no longer our smallest cat, she has filled out and grown so much, she is bigger than Nadiya now!  She is still our loudest cat, however.  She has developed a sort of "scream" at mealtimes.)  She's hilarious.

It is easy to describe Alasse using one word...elegant.

Things did not go smoothly for me when I first started out on my Norwegian Forest Cat Journey.  But after a few disappointments, and setbacks, everything just started falling into place perfectly.  I was thrilled with my foundation cats, and really enjoying them.  In the back of my mind, though, I knew at some distant point, maybe several years down the road, I wanted to have a Pure White Norwegian Forest Cat.  I figured I'd probably have to import her from Europe, but was willing to do whatever it took to realize this dream.

Isn't it amazing, to borrow a thought from C.S. Lewis, how when things are going bad, they just seem to go from bad to worse.  But when they start going good, how they just keep getting better and better. 
That's how I feel about the day I found Alasse, my
"Singing Kitten."
 
I stumbled on to an ad for her one day, and even though it was late at night, and rather rude of me, I called the phone number of Bestemor's Cattery, and met the most wonderful people, Ruth and Solon.  They just happened to have her still available, and I told them "sign me up!!"  A few weeks later, she was mine.

She fit right in seamlessly with the other cats.  I tried to introduce her gradually,
but she would have none of it!

 I am daily thrilled with her, and watching her grow and develop is a real joy.  I believe she is going to be an exquisite beauty. Her coat is beautiful beyond description, and her tail is perfection manifested.  Her head forms a perfect triangle, with large, well-placed ears.  She is a feisty, spunky, ball of fire.  She can hold her own with any of the other cats. 

 She is my Computer Aide and Lap Cat, and highly intelligent.  When she first came home, she was fascinated with the computer.  She would bite at the keys on the keyboard.  After watching me type, she began hitting the keys with her paws, and actually typing.  Now she either sits and stares at at the screen, enthralled, or lays on my lap curled in a little ball, purring contentedly.   I'm glad she is so light, I hardly know she's there.  Gandalf, on the other hand, cuts the circulation off of my legs!

I have a board in my bathroom, which holds an assortment of hair bands on pegs.  Alasse thinks this is her own personal toy store.  In the early hours of the morning, she will jump up on the counter, and like a child deciding which piece of candy she would like, she picks out one of the "toys".  Then she'll carry it back to the bed, and toss it up, and catch it, over and over.  She'll bury it under the covers, only to discover it and pounce on it a few seconds later.  She'll wrestle with it and fight with it, and carry it proudly in her mouth like a conquered mouse.  All this on top of my legs.  This works far better than an alarm clock to wake me up in the mornings! We have these bands now all over the house on the furniture and floor.  It used to get on my nerves, and I'd stoop and pick them up and put them away.  Now I hardly even notice them anymore, lol.

I thank God for my dream-come-true, beautiful Alasse Elensar, and I also thank Ruth and Solon, truly dedicated breeders of the Norwegian Forest Cat, of Bestemor Cattery, for the joy of having her in our home.