  This title could be confusing, but not for the reason you thought of. Sparkly Joe is the name Aidan gave to the little gecko family living on our porch.
I say family because no matter which gecko you see, Aidan says that's Sparkly Joe. But the pretty little black kitty has now been named Sparkly Joe, too. And, even more amazing, she's has two young kittens (she must be a teenage mom) that she's moved under our house. One of the kittens is a bully and the other is accordingly scrawny. There must have been more but now only two survive. I'm afraid the other kittens met the same fate I fear our Zia met, that is, the wrath of the neighborhood's huge, horrible, mean tomcat. Already, since Sparkly Joe moved here, he's begun to show up and I've done my best to scare him away but I can't always be there.
I'm afraid he'll kill the two remaining kittens, and then surely Sparkly Joe as well. 
