April 19th, 2018:

	We had a new addition to our family last night.  We adopted 
another cat!  Tuesday night, we took our daughter to our local PetSmart 
(her favourite place) because she wanted to watch the fish.  It's cheap 
entertainment, so of course we indulged her!

While there, we stopped by the cat section to see the cats.  PetSmart 
partners with the Winnipeg Humane Society and functions as a satellite 
branch for adopting cats.  They had three on "display", but one in 
particular spoke to me: an all-black male named Gus.  I put my hand up to 
the glass, and he just flopped onto his back and "played" with my hand.  
It was love at first sight!  The other two cats, a slim Tuxedo cat named 
Daffodil, and a tiny orange tabby with the unfortunate name "Grandma 
Longneck" were equally cute and curious.  Daffodil had recently been 
spayed, and was pregnant (and delivered) when she was brought to the 
humane society as an HBC[1].  Grandma Longneck had just delivered a litter 
by C-section and was also a recent arrival.

But... we didn't really want a second cat.  Our cat Czarina Romanova (a 
Russian Blue purebred) can be a hellcat when she wants to be, so I was 
pretty leery of bringing a second (much smaller) cat into the empress' 
domain.  It broke my heart to leave them there... as it did my wife.

Neither of us could stop thinking of the cats, so while we were texting 
each other yesterday morning, I caved.  I told her to go pick up Gus.  
Luckily for him, Gus had already been adopted in the interim, so Mrs. IPX 
brought our daughter to see the other two, to play with the remaining two 
cats and see which one would be better suited to the family.  Our daughter 
has ADHD and can be pretty loud and boisterous, so a timid cat would be 
out of the question.

Out of the two, Daffodil was the better choice.  Quiet, affectionate, and 
seemingly unconcerned with our daughter's excitedness, she stuck around to 
play.  Grandma Longneck was timid, shy, and reluctant to engage, thus 
Daffodil won out.

They put a deposit on Daffodil pending approval of adoption from the 
Humane Society.  The Missus received word shortly thereafter that we'd 
been approved, so we made plans to pick up kitty after I got off 
work and we'd had dinner.

Several hours later, we plunked Daffodil's carrier into the living room, 
and Czarina came running over.  She sniffed the carrier, bumped noses with 
Daffodil, growled a bit, but seemed otherwise unconcerned.

We let Daffodil out of her carrier and let her explore her new home.  
Czarina shadowed her the whole time, sizing her up but wasn't overly 
aggressive.

Apart from the odd hissing and growling, the two seemed to tolerate each 
other.  Certainly not the feline deathmatch I'd anticipated!

Guess we'll see how our new kitty reacts to a full day with our 
daughter...

References:
[1] HBC = Hit By Car