Hepper™ is named for Hepper, a spunky ratter cat who came to live with us from NYC. The story goes that Hepper appeared one day and was put to work as the official rat-cat in a shoe store in SoHo. Soon her sense of curiosity (she's a cat, after all) led her to explore all of the floors, walls and crawl spaces in the building, and eventually she ended up squeezing out of the ceiling on the fourth floor. She was quickly "rescued" into a tiny flat, named Pumpkin and spoiled on canned food. Proving to need more room to roam, she moved in with us and was soon nicknamed Hepper (short for Hepburn, as in Audrey, as in elegant, beautiful and oh-so stylish...read more
