Chris got a kitten. He insists on naming it Shade, which I think sounds like a vampire name, not a cat name. I wish she were named All Ball, like Koko the gorilla's first cat. All Ball was a Manx that Koko picked from a litter of strays, he groomed her and slept with her. When All Ball escaped and got hit by a car, Koko is said to have cried for 2 days. This was one of the first documented events of an animal expressing human emotion. Even more surprising:

 When asked, "Do you want to talk about your kitty?" 

Koko signed, "Cry."
"What happened to your kitty?"
Koko answered, "Sleep cat."
When she saw a picture of a cat who looked very much like All Ball, Koko pointed to the picture and signed, "Cry, sad, frown."