I have a confession to make. I've never hit Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky" button before. Today was the big day. I heard the word "kiisu" while watching the series premiere of Covert Affairs last Tuesday on USA Network. The people in the show said it was Estonian for kitten , but in the context it was used as an endearing term. For this search I figured I'd try kiisu, but the lucky button wasn't very helpful to my mono-linguality (if there is such a word). The site it gave me was in Estonian (duh!). A regular search took me to a website with the name Kiisu. I immediately found that interesting, because seriously, what does Estonia have to do with Canada? And also, what do eagles have to do with kittens? After truncating the address, I realized eagle.ca was more of a webpage hosting website, and the page I'd been led to was actually a personal site, since right after the / there was a ~ and the name roda (which stands for Rod Anderson).
There is definitely an about page (there is a link that says "about") and the whole website is about pets and their caretakers. This page was last updated in 2005, I think because they actually got there own domain name. Truncation led me to a page that simply said "We've moved!" with a link to the new website.
Rod Anderson and Merike Lugus wrote the page, and I was led to it because they care for a cat named Kiisu (there is even an explanation for the name, saying it's an Estonian word, etc.). There is a page full of links but they're unrelated to the cat, and unrelated to each other.
Traffic to the site is pretty much non-existent, according to alexa.com, I assume because they've moved and also because it's a personal page. There are no related links. I wouldn't use this link because although it was made to inform others, it's not credible. But it was kinda cool looking at some random cat named Kiisu Miisu!
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