Name: Elise
Species: Human
Gender: Female
Height:  5’5
Eye Color: Green
Hair Color: Brown
Weight:   You don’t ask a lady’s weight.
Age: 24

Background:  Graduated with masters from Ohio State University with a degree in piano performance and education. She’s getting ready to start her doctorate at Rochester School of Music.

She is abused terribly by her four cats, and she wishes she had decided to become a history professor instead.  She hates dealing with all the bratty kids she has to teach. 

Elise is also a costume designer wannabe and she tries her costumes out on her devious cats.  She is a movie addict (but only kid movies!)  and loves to torment her cats with movie quotes, though her cats return the favor by singing show tunes at two A.M.

Family:  mother is a modern artist who disapproves of her daughter’s evil cats.  She was the one who wanted her daughter to get a major in music.    Father is a civil engineer who will not appear in this strip except for occasional phone calls. She also has a sister who is 5 years older than Elise.

Name: Captain Flint
Species: Cat
Gender: Male
Length: 1 ½ ft long (not including tail)
Eye Color:  Yellow
Coat Color: orange tabby
Weight:  18 lbs
Age: 8

History:  Flint was adopted by Elise when she was 19 while she was visiting her cousin’s riding barn.  He was one of the many kittens who lived there and he didn’t get along with the others.  He used to be such a cute thing now he’s the scourge of the kitchen.

Name:  Captain Ferdinand Columbus
Species: Cat
Gender: Female
Length: 1 ft (not including tail)
Eye Color: Mint Green
Coat Color: Tortoise shell
Weight: 4lbs
Age: 2

History:   She barged in during a blizzard a year ago and started eating the other cats’ food. She’s stayed ever since, causing trouble wherever she steps and Elise still claims she’s not her cat.

Name:  First Mate Arrow
Species: Cat
Gender: Male
Length:  1 ¼ ft  (not including tail)
Eye Color: Green
Coat Color:  Grey
Weight:  12 lbs
Age: 3

History:  Arrow was adopted from a shelter while Elise volunteered there for a short time when she started college.  He’s the most docile of the cats and does whatever Ferdinand says.

Name: Wesley (Cabin Boy!)
Species: Cat
Gender: Male
Length: ½ ft (not including tail)
Eye Color: Brown
Coat Color: Brown and white
Weight: 2 ½ lbs
Age : 3 months

History:  Arrow brought him home one day when Elise was teaching a piano lesson and she couldn’t resist his cuteness.  Ferdi and Wesley are partners in crime, though Ferdi likes to pretend Wesley is beneath her social status while people are around so as not to arouse suspicion.

Name: Napoleon (Chowderhead)
Species: Miniature Comodo Dragon
Gender: Male
Length: 4 1/2 feet
Eye Color: Black
Coat Color: light and dark green
Weight: 100 lbs
Age : 12 years

History: N/A

Name: Snoops
Species: Cat
Gender: Male
Length: 2 feet (not including tail)
Eye Color: Blue
Coat Color: Black
Weight: 14 lbs
Age : 5 years

History: N/A

Name: Comn
Species: Cat
Gender: Male
Length: 1 1/2 feet (not including tail)
Eye Color: Brown
Coat Color: Lime green with fuschia spots
Weight: 7 lbs
Age : 3 years

History: N/A

Name: Leia
Species: ...Thing
Gender: Female
Length: 2 feet, not including tail
Eye Color: Yellow
Coat Color: Mouse brown
Weight: 5 lbs
Age : 1 year

History: N/A