The Cat
I've been a cat mom since I was seven years old, and for most of my life, those cats were black.
When I was getting ready to start culinary school, someone suggested I start a blog so friends and family could keep up with my adventures. I was trying to figure out what to call it when I looked at a photo of my two black cats, Logan and Duncan.
Baker & A Black Cat was born.
I lost Logan not long afterward. About six weeks later, while walking the El Dorado Trail near Jacquier Road, I was found—and very clearly rescued—by a little orange cat named Gambit.
Gambit was my first orange cat.
I had no idea what I was getting into.
There's a saying that orange cats sleep eighteen hours a day and spend the other six raining the most adorable and exasperating hellfire and destruction down upon your household.
It's true.
Get two, if you can.
Gambit spent the next fourteen years proving the point. After I lost him in 2025, I thought it might be a while before another cat found his way into my life.
<Narrator voice> It was not a while. The Cat Distribution System™️ had other plans.
Sir Genji the Nameless
Chief Chaos Officer & Director of Unscheduled Operations
Genji joined the household in September 2026 via Fat Kitty City, after a brief identity crisis involving several names, none of which seemed to fit the distinguished gentleman he appeared to be. He has since accumulated considerably more title than dignity.
Born February 20, 2026, Genji is an orange domestic shorthair specializing in high-speed hallway operations, office-chair occupation, food-mat rearrangement, litter-box timing, and appearing impossibly adorable immediately after committing a misdemeanor.
His professional responsibilities include supervising administrative work, interrupting administrative work, sleeping through administrative work, inspecting the catio, and jingling ominously from another room.
He has already demonstrated the traditional orange-cat commitment to hellfire and destruction and is considered exceptionally promising in his field.
Yes, I know he's orange.
The black cat was never a color requirement. It was a love letter to all the cats who were there, even before this all began.
The name stayed when Gambit arrived, and it's staying for Genji, too.
