Tri-County Librarian Claire Stout (holding Whisper) with name winner
Haile Buttram (holding the “Dewey” book she won), along with
Tri-County Library board members and volunteers, along with
Friends of the Animals volunteers and cat-loving children.

The new library cat at Tri-County Library in Mabank has a name: it's officially Whisper (shhhh!).

The gray and white kitten, adopted from the Humane Society of Cedar Creek Lake in Tool (903-432-3422) and spayed and vaccinated by Friends of the Animals Low-Cost Spay/Neuter Clinic at Cedar Creek Lake (903-887-PETS), has settled in among the rows of cat books and comfy chairs that abound at the library.  

Haile Buttram, 8, a student at Central Elementary School in Mabank, submitted the winning name. Haile, daughter of Sonya Stephens-Buttram, has 5 cats, 3 dogs, 3 horses, 1 peacock, 6 white doves, 2 pigs, 2 fish and chickens. This kid knows animals! 

Everyone is invited to come by to meet this friendly, cuddly kitten.  

As it turns out, there is a national association of library cats, called the Library Cat Society. Probably the most famous library cat is Dewey ReadMoreBooks, a kitten that ended up at a library in Iowa, was featured on CBS Sunday Morning and is the subject of a book - which is available at the Tri-County Library. And Tri-County Library is registering Whisper into the Library Cat Society.