Alice has her first chore: feeding the cat. Actually, it's now my chore (it always has been). It's just that now when I need to feed the cat I call Alice over, open the cabinet door (it's child-proofed) where the cat food it, and get her to do it. She's pretty eager at the moment. When she's had some practice we'll move the cat food to somewhere that she can get to on her own and really make it her responsibility. On a related note, I've got a lead on a "puppy" (it's two years old). We'll see if it works or not in a few weeks.

She should be almost normal, but we have to somehow limit her activity for the next two weeks and make sure she doesn't lick at the incision too much. 

How do you limit activity in a cat?  So far the only idea we have is to move the litter box and food to the empty bedroom, and lock here in there overnight for a little while.

I just dropped Pepper off at the Humane Society to get spayed.