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Jessica's mom called the cat Nokota, a made-up name for "no tail" in Italian. But Jessica disapproved, fearing this was antagonistic. In fact, the cat is manx, and never had a tail. "Nikita" seemed liked the easy solution: she recognizes the name, and Jessica isn't upset with it. Manx Nikita is the full name, to keep her within the pet alphabet following Lydia. But what's the literary source? La Femme Nikita? Nikita Khrushchev? Some character out of Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky? We did look up the origin of the name, and it stems from Greek Aniketos for "unconquerable." I took comfort in that during her surgery difficulties.
So here's a Contest:
What's
a good literary source for Nikita's name? Send in your
contributions,
and the chosen winner will receive a cat book, courtesy of Loganberry
Books.
E-mail
me your entries!
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