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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / February 2008Survey:how you aquired your cats
How did your cats come to live with you? I will leave this post blank so you can fill in the number or the names of your cats next to the place or way. I will keep track of the responses and post the results in about a week. It will be interesting to see the results. Shelter/rescue group: Pet store: Showed up at your door: You rescued/ trapped them: From friend or relative : Breeder : Your cat had kittens and you kept them: Other:  Signatureread Sam's blog at http://kittens-3.blogspot.com/ > How did your cats come to live with you? > > I will leave this post blank so you can fill in the number or the names of > your cats next to the place or way. I will keep track of the responses and > post the results in about a week. It will be interesting to see the > results. > Replying to my own post with the information. > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > Other: > How did your cats come to live with you? > Showed up at your door: 2 > From friend or relative : 5 SignatureMatSav It's been nice reading how everyone aquired their cats. Ann Signatureread Sam's blog at http://kittens-3.blogspot.com/ >> How did your cats come to live with you? > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > 5 > >> How did your cats come to live with you? Shelter = 1 Found 3 week old kittens on pile of trash, raised = 2 Military-base feral, hated by idiots in accom & about to be killed, smuggled off base to my boyfriend's place on hastily written leave pass = 1 Total = 4 --Fil > Shelter/rescue group: 2 > Pet store: 1 > Showed up at your door: 1 > You rescued: 1 > From friend or relative : 1 > Other: ad in paper: 1 Bobble > How did your cats come to live with you? > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Showed up at your door: My son was burning brush behind our house and had thrown some gas to start the fire. He then sat down in a chair and suddenly this little furry thing ran up his leg. He has an artificial leg so it was quite a clind for a three week old kitten. Even though none of us liked cats, by the time we bottle fed Mz Piglet, we were hers. > You rescued/ trapped them: Guess you could say we rescued O T. Mahoney. The people that had him were both mentallly retarded. When they said their cat had kittens, I decided to helop find homes. Why I say we rescued is that when we went to get O T he was hungry, covered with fleas and just plain aweful looking. Now he is my baby. > From friend or relative : Lee, from here, had a friend fron another newsgroup who had a kitten she needed to rehome. Problem was Julie lived in Texas and we in Illinois. Lee and her DH drove me to Oklahoma where we picked up Whispering Willow Walker. Breeder : > Your cat had kittens and you kept them: > > Other: I have at least four, sometimes six who come to my garage when there is bad weather. I let them in, feed them and provide a warmer place to sleep. The next day they leaves without so much as a thank you! Sorry too long winded answers can redo. >> How did your cats come to live with you? >> [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] > bad weather. I let them in, feed them and provide a warmer place to > sleep. The next day they leaves without so much as a thank you! > How did your cats come to live with you? > I will leave this post blank so you can fill in the number or the names of > your cats next to the place or way. I will keep track of the responses and > post the results in about a week. It will be interesting to see the > results. > Shelter/rescue group: 3 Smudge (shelter adoption) Roxy (shelter adoption) Licky (rescue group - originally a foster, decided to keep him) > Pet store: 0 > Showed up at your door: 0 [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Your cat had kittens and you kept them: 0 > Other: 0 Joyce SignatureTo send email to this address, remove the triple-X from my user name. > How did your cats come to live with you? Shelter/rescue group: Fez and Rufous Showed up at your door: Xoxo Breeder : Maya, Luna, Basho and Issa. Victor > Shelter/rescue group: Cleopatra, Amelia Friskie (RB) > Showed up at your door: Tigger (RB) > You rescued/ trapped them: Samuel Redcat (trapped after he was dumped in parking lot where I worked Tabitha (from family who was moving and "couldn't take their cats" - GRRRR!!!) Ranger (from family who's cat had "too many kittens" - again GRRRRRR!!!!) > From friend or relative : Harri Roadcat - from an excellent cat-loving family in IL > How did your cats come to live with you? > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > and post the results in about a week. It will be interesting to see > the results. Showed up at door: T.C. (top Cat but female so used intitials) all white with pink trim 1972 - 1980 Shelter/rescue group: Topper (named after T.C. sort of) black and white 1980 - 1991 Zak all black with white "broach" 1991 - 2007 Frank and Lyle STRIPES! 2008 - ???? Andy SignatureCharleen Aggie Marble, Victor Velcro The Spirit of Mr. Pumpkin St. Cloud, Florida USA > How did your cats come to live with you? > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >cats." Aggie is a silver and black tabby. I feel as though she was a >rescue. > Pet store: > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > From friend or relative : A friend's cat had, hold on to your hat, nine, 9, orange tabby kitties. There were in a large box squealing, mewling, tumbling, squishing each other, each wanted to be top cat. I could have just watched them all day long. They had to go to homes earlier than usual as a dog crashed through the screen door of the porch where the kitties and mama were and mama was killed defending her babies. Ms. Orange Marmalade and Mr. Pumpkin came home with us. > Breeder : > > Your cat had kittens and you kept them: > Other: TV and OEJ were the remaining kitten's from Violette's second litter. Tiger was thrown away by someone and came to us for food. Trudi, came to us as a half starved kitten, DH says I made her up from wishing her, later by about six years we also found she had been abused by being shot with Beebe's. Stormmee was found under our bushes, as a tiny kitten of nine ounces, she was about 3 weeks old, so as best we can figure she was born on the day Violette was helped to the bridge, it was a November night where people died in tornados in Indiana. Chester, came to us from a shelter, he had been rescued by the shelter on his last day at the pound, he is the only cat I ever picked out... or rather I got from a shelter, he picked me, by letting me know he was exactly what we needed in a bud for Stormmee, so she wouldn't die at the paws of the other four cats who find her kittnish antics completely disturbing. Lee > How did your cats come to live with you? > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > Other: > How did your cats come to live with you? > > I will leave this post blank so you can fill in the number or the names of > your cats next to the place or way. I will keep track of the responses and > post the results in about a week. It will be interesting to see the > results. I have 4... > Shelter/rescue group: 1 - Oscar > Pet store: 1 - Pooh Bear (My ex-husband bought her along w/Tigger (RB). > Showed up at your door: > > You rescued/ trapped them: 1 - Felix > From friend or relative : > > Breeder : 1 - Maui > Your cat had kittens and you kept them: > > Other: Signature·.·´¨ ¨)) -:¦:- ¸.·´ .·´¨¨)) Laurie ((¸¸.·´ ..·´ -:¦:- ((¸¸ ·.· *~*LiveLoveLaugh*~* All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. ~Abraham Lincoln > How did your cats come to live with you? > > I will leave this post blank so you can fill in the number or the names of > your cats next to the place or way. I will keep track of the responses and > post the results in about a week. It will be interesting to see the > results. Shmoggleberry (RB) was a "walk in", ie turned up on doorstep Suki & Pickle I got from Freecycle Yowie : How did your cats come to live with you? : Shelter/rescue group: 0 : Pet store: 0 [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] : Your cat had kittens and you kept them: 4 - Zeke, Mingus, Ollie, Courtney : Other: 0 ==== j a c k at c a m p i n . m e . u k === <http://www.campin.me.uk> ==== Jack Campin, 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland == mob 07800 739 557 CD-ROMs and free stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, and Mac logic fonts > : How did your cats come to live with you? > : Shelter/rescue group: 0 > : Pet store: 0 [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > : Your cat had kittens and you kept them: 4 - Zeke, Mingus, Ollie, Courtney > : Other: 0 You have 13 cats? (Not counting Muriel for obvious reasons.) Wow! Joyce >>: How did your cats come to live with you? >>: Shelter/rescue group: 0 [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >>: Other: 0 > You have 13 cats? (Not counting Muriel for obvious reasons.) Wow! No, I was counting all the ones we've had over the last 16 years. Six now: Ishtar, Chloe, Splodge, Marblecake, Ollie and Courtney. Mingus, Zeke, Ishmael and Muriel died; Gunther got another home; Velcro, Velocette and Busby vanished. The ones that got lost went while we were living in a top-floor city-centre tenement flat and the cats couldn't go out - whereas we have not lost a single cat while living for the same length of time with the same number of cats in a terrace house in a village where they can come and go as they please. I'm not very impressed with the argument that trying to keep cats indoors does anything to protect them. If they learn to go outside they can learn to find their way back; if they're kept indoors and never learn the geography of their surroundings, any excursion to the outdoors is likely to be one-way. And accidents will happen. ==== j a c k at c a m p i n . m e . u k === <http://www.campin.me.uk> ==== Jack Campin, 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland == mob 07800 739 557 CD-ROMs and free stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, and Mac logic fonts > How did your cats come to live with you? > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > Other: These are pretty bare bones locations. Huey was rescued at Simmons Army Air Base by the men and women in Rob's unit. Tanada was rescued from an ex-friend, Merlin was supposed to go into the shelter cages, but never made it. Someone dumped Miss Calico Girl, Pine Cone, Huey, and Sonya. I haven't included all the cats that have come to our door and we found homes for, or the ones that people brought over for help as I'm the neighborhood crazy cat lady. I'd be interested in stories about how people got their owners Pam S. >> How did your cats come to live with you? >> [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >> >> You rescued/ trapped them: Pine Cone, though he also showed up at our van to be rescued Pshaw! You didn't rescue Pine Cone. That cat walked by your van and claimed you. You were suckers and didn't stand a chance. laughing, Bridget >> From friend or relative :Tanada, Huey, Miss Calico Girl >> [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Pam S. > How did your cats come to live with you? > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > Your cat had kittens and you kept them: 1 Francesca was adopted from the shelter in May 2004. I fell in love with a pretty face, not knowing I'd chosen the kitty with the "surprise inside." Only one of her kittens lived, though, Nina and I fell far too deeply in love with her to ever give her up. Both are now spayed! > Other: Melissa > How did your cats come to live with you? > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Other: Ozy and Millie - I asked someone I thought I knew, but didn't, if he had any extra cats: he was about to cull his farm cat clowder. Fleagor - showed up at my boss' house (dog people) and was pushed onto me. Avery and Mudpie (brothers), and the Walsungs (Curly (Siegmund), Chubby (Sieglinde) and Brunhilde (siblings) - surplus kittens advertised on a local web classified site. Tigger and Snowball - same ads, but people were moving. CJ - same ads, but family's daughter was alergic. Dandy and Maryweather (siblings) - same ads, but they were dumped at the edge of town and the finders couldn't keep them. SignatureT.E.D. (tdavis@mst.edu) MST (Missouri University of Science and Technology) used to be UMR (University of Missouri - Rolla). > How did your cats come to live with you? > [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] >and to all the others that are no longer here but waiting for me at the >rainbow bridge I love you all. >> How did your cats come to live with you? >> [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] >> >> Other: Answered ad in paper: 1 past Had been dropped off at vet: 1 past Joy Cool idea! My responses are below. -Caroline S. > How did your cats come to live with you? > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Shelter/rescue group: 3 > Showed up at your door: 1 (Childhood pet, now RB) > You rescued/ trapped them/From friend or relative : 1 (SIL caught stray living on uni campus, then dragged him to us in a cardboard box. He lived with us for a few years, now lives with inlaws.) > How did your cats come to live with you? > Shelter/rescue group: 1 caliban's mother was a stray cat rescued from the streets of tallinn, estonia. he was born at an estonian fosterer's, and then a finnish fosterer fetched him over to helsinki. i contacted her soon after that, and asked if she might have any tabby kittens. she sent me this picture of 'leo' as he was called then, and how could i resist. http://pets.webshots.com/photo/1382780854058511339QYpDzj > From friend or relative - Breeder : 1 the breeder was my niece. she let her russian blue, kira, have two litters before she was fixed. the second litter had to be placed as pets, not breeding cats, and though i had my doubts about how nikki would treat her, i took mir - then called cashmere or mere for short. as it turned out, and after a lot of initial hissing, nikki accepted the newcomer quite quickly and had even started playing with mir, but then she died quickly and unexpectedly. SignatureMarina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. How did your cats come to live with you? I will leave this post blank so you can fill in the number or the names of your cats next to the place or way. I will keep track of the responses and post the results in about a week. It will be interesting to see the results. Shelter/rescue group: Pet store: Showed up at your door: You rescued/ trapped them: Black Cat/Not Yet Named From friend or relative : Butterball was about 10 - 12 weeks old and my friend had just had a baby and felt the kitten was not in the best interests of her child and she gave him to me. Max was with another friend of mine. She had gotten him from the Animal Shelter. He is about four - five years old and we love him so much. He is an awsome cat! Breeder : Your cat had kittens and you kept them: Other: >> How did your cats come to live with you? > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > http://pets.webshots.com/photo/1382780854058511339QYpDzj Eeeeeeeek! That pic of little Caliban is a classic! I remember when you showed it to us, we all shouted at you, "Go get him, GO GET HIM!" > "Marina" <frankiennikki@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message >> >> http://pets.webshots.com/photo/1382780854058511339QYpDzj > > Eeeeeeeek! That pic of little Caliban is a classic! I remember when you > showed it to us, we all shouted at you, "Go get him, GO GET HIM!" and i did. *smile* i was just telling him today that he's such a little cutie - he was snuggled on my arm and gazing adoringly into my eyes - that i will never be able to stop baby-talking to him, though he's a big boy already. he'll be 3 in april, can you imagine. SignatureMarina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. > and i did. *smile* i was just telling him today that he's such a little > cutie - he was snuggled on my arm and gazing adoringly into my eyes - > that i will never be able to stop baby-talking to him, though he's a big > boy already. he'll be 3 in april, can you imagine. I know how you feel - Licky will be *five* in May! Five?? I was just fostering him the other day! :) Joyce SignatureTo send email to this address, remove the triple-X from my user name. >> "Marina" <frankiennikki@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message >>> [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > i will never be able to stop baby-talking to him, though he's a big boy > already. he'll be 3 in april, can you imagine. Well, yeah, since Dante is 2 and a half. And you'll never stop talking baby talk to him-- I do it to Stinky all the time. >>> "Marina" <frankiennikki@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message >>>> [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > Well, yeah, since Dante is 2 and a half. And you'll never stop talking > baby talk to him-- I do it to Stinky all the time. Molly will always be 'baby girl' and Jake will always be 'baby boy'. They are both such loves in their own way. Jo > >>> "Marina" <frankienni...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > - Show quoted text - Oh lord, the things I say to Nina! =o) Her nicknames include Little Girl Sweetie Bird (she has a birdy-chirp mew) Baby Bird Love Muffin And others that are just too embarrassing to write on a public forum, but she's just a little love sponge. Francesca's nicknames include Pretty Girl Piccola Bella Cesca (If I'm feeling remotely dignified.) Spotty Tum Melissa > How did your cats come to live with you? > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Shelter/rescue group: 1 Lily > Pet store: 1 Jazz (RB) > Showed up at your door: > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Other: > How did your cats come to live with you? > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Shelter/rescue group: Cinder > Pet store: Josh > Showed up at your door: Moxie Mac > You rescued/ trapped them: Rosie > From friend or relative : Blondie > Breeder : > > Your cat had kittens and you kept them: > > Other: >How did your cats come to live with you? > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > >Shelter/rescue group: Two sisters, Scouty and Silver, six months old at time of adoption from the shelter. >Showed up at your door: One... about 3-4 months old when she suckered me into taking her in... she was obviously far too young to be out on her own, and nobody was looking for her. So she was mine, much to Scouty and Silver's disgust! > How did your cats come to live with you? > Shelter/rescue group: 3 Wonky (Cats Protection) was rescued from an indoor feral colony, many of which had FeLV (he escaped) and he had severe haematomas in his ears due to ear mites, which deformed his ears as he shook his head so much and made him deaf. Merlin (Cats Protection) was a 6-week old grey fluffball whose mum (pedigree Chinchilla) was dumped on the group with 7 unweaned tiny kittens and mammary tumours meaning she couldn't feed them. The breeder didn't want her anymore as she had escaped and found the local tomcat once too often. Bracken (Cats Protection) was 7 weeks old and came to the group with his 2 littermates and his mum. He is a male tortoiseshell and this is so unusual that we decided to home him within the group to prevent unscrupulous adopters selling him on, trying to breed him (he is sterile due to his genetics) etc. As I was obviously lacking in cats they offered him to me :-) > Pet store: 1 Willow. In my first home 12 years ago I already had Cocoa who is not a cuddly cat, and really wanted another cat I could actually be friends with. This was before my involvement with Cats Protection. I approached them wanting to adopt but they turned me down as my road was too busy. So I went to a pet shop and got Willow as a small stripy kitten. Cats Protection were correct - she was hit by a car resulting in a broken leg when she was 6 months old. Fortunately she recovered and she is still with me today, and I know more about looking after cats than I did back then. > From friend or relative : 1 Cocoa. In 1995 some friends said they were moving due to work and couldn't take her with them, and would I like her? What they didn't say until too late is that she was the grumpiest and most tetchy cat on the face of the earth. And it turned out they had 5 other cats which ALL moved with them! Anyway Cocoa (renamed from 'Compost') is fear-defensive but nothing more, and we have learned to get on fine. She has mellowed with age (now 15) but still demands respect and has a short fuse if it is not received! She has a LOT of purrsonality. Pics are here: http://www.zoobotanica.com/cats.html Deb. Signaturehttp://www.scientific-art.com "He looked a fierce and quarrelsome cat, but claw he never would; He only bit the ones he loved, because they tasted good." S. Greenfield >How did your cats come to live with you? > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > >Shelter/rescue group: When Lucky went to the RB, I called Pet Haven, a large local no kill shelter and rescue organization. I was looking for a young adult cat that was still in a home; perhaps being fostered. I wanted a cat with a 'known' personality. Kenzie was about 3 years old, and her humans were desperately seeking a good home for her. Their 7 year old son had developed severe asthma, and they had been looking, with no success, for several months. They wouldn't give her to the no kill shelter, insisting they wanted to know where she went. But they gave them their phone number. And when I called them, they gave Kenzie's humans my phone number. They gave her to me. One of my very, very lucky days, certainly. >Pet store: > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > >From friend or relative : I was given my beloved RB kitty Lucky by a friend at work. I had not had a cat before this. She was the most wonderful cat you could ever possibly imagine. >Breeder : > >Your cat had kittens and you kept them: > >Other: After I had Lucky for a year or so, I developed a severe case of kitten fever. I saw an ad in the local newspaper for 'white kittens'. I 'bought' Blizzard for $15. To my everlasting regret, I didn't take her litter mate, an odd-eyed white kitten. She was very pretty, with one blue, and one green eye. I have made many mistakes with my life; this one of many big ones. Blizzard went to the Bridge in 2001. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Life without cats would be only marginally worth living." -TC, and the unmercifully, relentlessly, sweet calico kitty, Kenzie. Every day is a treasure with Kenzie; I try to treat them that way. There will only be so many, and then there will never, ever, be any more. How you behave towards cats here below determines your status in Heaven. - Robert Heinlein >How did your cats come to live with you? Speedy Joe, Fugazi and Isis- friend's who didn't spay their cats Redunzel and Sarrasine-born to a semi feral that a work colleague was feeding Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs > How did your cats come to live with you? > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > From friend or relative : Snoopy came from a former neighbour who moved 15 years ago, I'm looking after her until the ex-neighbour finds a new place. ;-) Bagheera came from a cattery where he was born, his former owner had a sick mother who she was looking after. She had put all her cats includuding Baggy's pregnant mother in the cattery, after 6 months she decided she had to move to be with her mother and couldn't take all the cats. She decided to rehome the kittens, Jackie the cattery owner rang me and asked if I could take one. I took Baggy and his brother Milo, sadley I lost Milo 5 months later. > Breeder : > > Your cat had kittens and you kept them: > > Other: SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera) Cats leave pawprints on your heart http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk > How did your cats come to live with you? > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Shelter/rescue group: 1 (Dez 2007) Our latest companion: Mark, born May 2007. > Pet store: > > Showed up at your door: 1 (Feb 1999) Our beloved, late Blacky, born probably in 1997 or earlier. He died in Oct 2007 of reneal failure > You rescued/ trapped them: > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Other: 1 (July 1998) From the place we had our first flat in the Chemnitz area, a farm: Our first cat in our new house: Zwinkie. He died May 2002 of reneal failure. 2 (July 2002) From family, which cat had a litter (recommended by TED). Flori. Missing since October 2002. Most probably run over by a car, but not proven. Merlin (July 2002, brother of Flori). He is still with us. Currently there are two cats living with us: Merlin and Mark Kind regards, Micha SignatureSquare Dance is friendship put to music Andrea and Michael with tomcats Merlin and Mark Pics from late and current masters see: http://fotoalbum.web.de/gast/zwinkiekater/Katzen-Cats > How did your cats come to live with you? > > From friend or relative or other All three of the cats I had in recent years were essentially 'free to good home'. Mandy had been born to a cat who didn't get neutered quite soon enough and the family advertised for homes for all the kittens but one - she and Mama were due at the vet, the family having learned how hard it can be to find homes for kittens. Mandy was the last one left. Betsy had been abandoned when her original owners moved out of the province making no arrangements for her, and a friend who lived on the same street told me about her and encouraged me to adopt her. And the sole current cat, Sam, was roaming around a neighbourhood making a general nuisance of himself when one of the residents sent a notice around my workplace looking for a home for him. This was after I'd had to have Mandy put down and I guess I was ready for another cat. Cheryl Shelter/rescue group: 3 Ty, Lucy, Indie Showed up at your door: 2 Ellie, Smokey Other: Newspaper free ad: 2 Cinder(RB), Sophie(RB) > How did your cats come to live with you? > > I will leave this post blank so you can fill in the number or the names of > your cats next to the place or way. I will keep track of the responses and > post the results in about a week. It will be interesting to see the > results. Stinky: Rescued- found on subway tracks in upper Manhattan. Dante- Adopted from shelter. > Stinky: Rescued- found on subway tracks in upper Manhattan. By you?? I don't know Stink's rescue story. Joyce SignatureTo send email to this address, remove the triple-X from my user name. > > Stinky: Rescued- found on subway tracks in upper Manhattan. > > By you?? I don't know Stink's rescue story. Here's Stinky's story as I posted it on one anniversary: http://groups.google.com/group/rec.pets.cats.anecdotes/browse_thread/thread/adf7 61a199092367/4d06ec816de01578?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=stinky+subway#4d06ec816de01578 Beautiful, loveing story. Everyone and every cat came out ahead in that rescue. SignatureCharleen Aggie Marble, Victor Velcro The Spirit of Mr. Pumpkin St. Cloud, Florida USA >> > Stinky: Rescued- found on subway tracks in upper Manhattan. >> >> By you?? I don't know Stink's rescue story. > > Here's Stinky's story as I posted it on one anniversary: > http://groups.google.com/group/rec.pets.cats.anecdotes/browse_thread/thread/adf7 61a199092367/4d06ec816de01578?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=stinky+subway#4d06ec816de01578 > Beautiful, loveing story. Everyone and every cat came out ahead in that > rescue. Stinky is my great good deed, AND he was a million times a reward -- if that makes any sense. >How did your cats come to live with you? > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > >Other: My first two, ginger and Fritzie, came from a nearby pet shop, given as gifts. Ginger ran off or may have been cat-napped three days before he wa to have been neutered; Fritzie lived with me almost 19 years. > How did your cats come to live with you? > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Shelter/rescue group: Smokey came from the Humane Society > Pet store: > > Showed up at your door: Cleo > You rescued/ trapped them: Cali showed up at a friends and was taken to the local rescue. Once she passed her due date, the friend was to take her back, but she was a biter and we took her. Truth be told is that the friend knew we loved her bitey self and let us keep her. :-) > From friend or relative : > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Other: > How did your cats come to live with you? > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Shelter/rescue group: > I got 2 of my cats from the no kill rescue group. One was 12 weeks when I got him, the other was about 8 months old. The older one had been there since she was a young kitten as no one wanted her. Boy did they miss out. She has been the greatest cat. > From friend or relative : I used to work in the vet school, so I knew a number of vets at the time. One of them suckered me into my first cat(RB) - he was a special needs kitty - not quite right in the head from the day I got him. My second cat was Tony, also given to me by a vet friend. She found him in the middle of a four-way stop on the way to the airport. Once she realized he flat, she stopped and picked him up. He was too bouncy and energetic for her older animals, so she begged me to take him. He is still energetic and full of it 13.5 years later. But he has been with me through a lot of stuff and I wouldn't trade him for anything. > My > second cat was Tony, also given to me by a vet friend. She found him in > the middle of a four-way stop on the way to the airport. Once she > realized he flat, she stopped and picked him up. OK, I can usually figure out what was meant when I come across a typo, but this one has me stumped. "Once she realized he flat"? I just can't imagine what that was supposed to be! :) > He was too bouncy and > energetic for her older animals, so she begged me to take him. He is > still energetic and full of it 13.5 years later. But he has been with me > through a lot of stuff and I wouldn't trade him for anything. He's a very impressive and wonderful (and gorgeous, of course) kitty! Joyce SignatureTo send email to this address, remove the triple-X from my user name. > > My > > second cat was Tony, also given to me by a vet friend. She found him in [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > but this one has me stumped. "Once she realized he flat"? I just can't > imagine what that was supposed to be! :) Whoops, that is supposed to read that he wasn't flat (as in run over) because he was hugging the road and has always had this ability to do a flat cat routine. He moved just as she drove by prompting her to stop immediately in the middle of the intersection and run to pick him up. > > He was too bouncy and > > energetic for her older animals, so she begged me to take him. He is [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Joyce 1 from a friend whos cat had kittens and after mom was killed I took the runt of the litter aged 3 weeks as he was failing. (HRFL Tiger) Robbie was deliberately adopted from a rescue group to keep HRFL company. (They hate each other) 5 were rescues/fosters who never left. (Sir William (RB), Sam (MIA), Pandora, Cleo and Miss Lily Whiskers) 2 direct rescues - Thomasina my grans cat and Daisy (RB). 1 from a pet shop - Polly (RB) - she was covered in fleas, 5 weeks old and screaming "get me out of HERE!!" - so I did. :o) Helen M >Shelter/rescue group: 2 - Will and Heidi >Other: newspaper ad 2 - Flicka and Zubie, both (RB); could also be counted under "rescue", since we had to take them at only six weeks of age just to get them out of that situation. They were flea-ridden, wormy and anemic. SignatureWayne M. >How did your cats come to live with you? >Shelter/rescue group: One cat - "Cat Five" (her name is Five - she's our only cat, not the fifth), DSH female tabby black/brown w/ green eyes. Adopted her from the local animal control shelter (NOT a "no-kill"). Picked her up as a 3 year old as the shelter was filling up with kittens. The shelter manager couldn't even get his friends to adopt the shy girl and she was about at the end of the holding period. She was surrendered as "Jasmine" with two other cats by the family of her previous slave, a senior with Alzheimer's that was going into a nursing home and couldn't care for herself, much less her three cats. We took her home on March 24, 2008, which we celebrate as Five's purrday. From that day on she became Cat Five, the network kitty :D Signatureannoyed@net.spammers Craig, Kathi & "Cat Five" the tabby girl "One way that you can tell that 'Mythbusters' has been in the area is to look for shrapnel in the trees." - Jamie Hyneman I'm so glad that you told the story of Five. I saved your addy a while ago meaning to email you and ask you about her. She sounds like a delightful member of the family. How did you chose Five for a name? SignatureCharleen Aggie Marble, Victor Velcro The Spirit of Mr. Pumpkin St. Cloud, Florida USA > >>How did your cats come to live with you? [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > her three cats. We took her home on March 24, 2008, which we celebrate as > Five's purrday. From that day on she became Cat Five, the network kitty :D > I'm so glad that you told the story of Five. I saved your addy a while ago > meaning to email you and ask you about her. She sounds like a delightful > member of the family. How did you chose Five for a name? LOL, I can understand why that interests you. In fact, how did you choose Four as a name? If you've already told the story, sorry, I don't remember! Joyce > > I'm so glad that you told the story of Five. I saved your addy a while ago > > meaning to email you and ask you about her. She sounds like a delightful [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > >Joyce "Five" was an inspiration from the geek cartoon "User Friendly" in the strip at http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20000222. But Five's first appearance in the strip was a few days earlier as a Valentine's day gift in the strip http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20000218. Signatureannoyed@net.spammers Craig, Kathi & "Cat Five" the tabby girl "One way that you can tell that 'Mythbusters' has been in the area is to look for shrapnel in the trees." - Jamie Hyneman SignatureCharleen Aggie Marble, Victor Velcro The Spirit of Mr. Pumpkin St. Cloud, Florida USA > > > I'm so glad that you told the story of Five. I saved your addy a while [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Joyce Ours is a cat friendly neighborhood, most of the families here have cats and there are regular visitor cats that we name; Thug and Intruder are two. After this cat was injured he was scorned by the neighborhood and treated badly as he was not wanted near the pets. We had three cats at the time; dear Mr. Pumpkin (RB), Aggie Marble and Victor Velcreo. When I started feeding this emaciated, troubled fellow, DH David would say "The fourth cat is here." When we took this dear cat in it just seemed the thing to do to name him Four. >> how did you choose Four as a name? If you've already told the >> story, sorry, I don't remember! > Ours is a cat friendly neighborhood, most of the families here have cats and > there are regular visitor cats that we name; Thug and Intruder are two. > After this cat was injured he was scorned by the neighborhood and treated > badly as he was not wanted near the pets. That is atrocious. As if it's not bad enough for him to have this nasty injury, but to be treated badly *because* of it? What's wrong with those people? > We had three cats at the time; > dear Mr. Pumpkin (RB), Aggie Marble and Victor Velcreo. When I started > feeding this emaciated, troubled fellow, DH David would say "The fourth cat > is here." When we took this dear cat in it just seemed the thing to do to > name him Four. You'll never be at a loss for names with that scheme. :) Joyce SignatureTo send email to this address, remove the triple-X from my user name. SignatureCharleen Aggie Marble, Victor Velcro The Spirit of Mr. Pumpkin St. Cloud, Florida USA > > >> how did you choose Four as a name? If you've already told the [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > injury, but to be treated badly *because* of it? What's wrong with those > people? There was a rational to the behavior; not a good one though. Four's injury was very large, you may have seen the picture, originally it was longer and wider. At one point and for months it was infected terribly, his head and shoulder and part of his neck were swollen with the infection. He was a ghastly sight, diseased, emaciated and wanting food. The vets cautioned their clients to keep that cat away from the pets for fear of the pets getting any kind of disease that Four might be carrying. He was, and still is an unknown factor. We now know he is positive so in one respect the advice was good. In another I think, again, that Four may have been a pet and received a three year shot so has been protected from other things he might have picked up but didn't. We tried for a long time to trap him but he wouldn't be trapped. Very, very wary cat. It was a total of three years between his injury and getting him onto the porch. > > We had three cats at the time; > > dear Mr. Pumpkin (RB), Aggie Marble and Victor Velcreo. When I started [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Joyce > Shelter/rescue group: > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Other: > How did your cats come to live with you? > > I will leave this post blank so you can fill in the number or the names of > your cats next to the place or way. I will keep track of the responses and I am going to give the stories of all our current cats, one store cat and my one RB cat. I don't really know about Micki's RB cats, although she has only mentioned one. > post the results in about a week. It will be interesting to see the > results. > > Shelter/rescue group: None > Pet store None > Showed up at your door: None > You rescued/ trapped them: Many years ago, when I had my RB d*g Snowball, there was a mother cat and two feral kittens right outside our house at Edgewood and Winthrop. Snowball helped us "herd" them up against the house and we captured Edgewood, Winthrop and Ms. Mom. After some veterinary attention, Edgewood and Ms. Mom went out of my life to what I have good reason to believe were forever homes. Winthrop became the store cat at Book World, where I worked at the time. He seemed to enjoy his job and stayed until the store went under, when he moved to Boston with one of the guys. He was fine when I last heard about him. > From friend or relative : A bartender friend had an ex-boyfriend who had two kittens and wanted to keep the mom and one, either one, kitten. She and I went over to his place, with his permission, and captured a small black Kitten. Feather was a short-hair but with a great dense coat. He was graceful and light in his movements, thus his name. He was the mouse population's God of Death for some years on Chapel St. in New Haven. He's gone now and I miss him every day. Some years later, my mom was quite ill. She was in a long, and quite wonderful, period of remission when she told me that I would end up with WooToo when she was gone. When she went, my brother Sid drove her up from Maryland and she has lived here. > > Breeder : Micki and some friends at one time thought they would become wealthy breeders of Himalayan cats. They did become breeders. Maggie May is sixteen years old. She had a number of litters back in the "let's get rich breeding Himmys" days and the kittens DID sell for good prices to good homes. But Micki always worried more about the homes than the prices and did not turn much of, if any, a profit. Seven years ago, Maggie May was fixed. She still loves kittens and everyone else. She helped raise our d*g Bear when he was a pup. All that was before I lived with her mom but MM is a great pal to me now and WooToo's bestest friend. Sunrise is a beautiful red Persian, purchased from the same breeder that produced Maggie May. She was a mother cat a couple of times and her kittens were sensational. Now she is aging, but not old, diva. > Your cat had kittens and you kept them: Almost all of Maggie May's kittens were of the "let's keep him/her" variety but Missy had to be kept because she hated, and hates, human beings. We get enough affection from the other cats and respect Missy's space. She gets along fine with the other cats and with Bear. Winnie, the white knight, was Maggie May's most "let's keep him/her" kitten from her last litter. So Micki kept him. He is a jolly fellow and still loves and respects his mom. Will in New Haven -- "Long may you run. Long may you run. Although these changes have come With your chrome heart shining in the sun Long may you run." Neill Young - "Long May You Run" > How did your cats come to live with you? [...] > Shelter/rescue group: 3 - Shadow, Minnie, and Mischief. All from the local shelter. > Pet store: 1 - Mayhem. There were absolutely no cats available at the shelter, and I didn't really know any better. She's still a good cat. > Showed up at your door: 1 - Itachi. Well, he technically showed up under my kitchen window, but he needed nothing more than a dish of kibble and a few skritches to convince him to go in the carrier. > You rescued/ trapped them: > From friend or relative : > Breeder : > Your cat had kittens and you kept them: 2 - Fevs and Wuz. Sort of. Their mother showed up at our door, my father didn't believe in spaying, neutering, keeping cats indoors, or regular veterinary care and his word was law in the household (bleah), and mama kitty had two litters before disappearing. Fevs and Wuz were the survivors of a neighborhood gauntlet of dogs, cars, other cats, and the psycho down the street with a raccoon trap and poisoned cat food. They're currently neutered, spoiled, indoor-only, have a wonderful vet, and live with my mom because neither of us wanted to put them through moving again without really good cause. And Mayhem scares them. > Other: Growing up in a rural area, I took in several "dumped" kittens (generally against my father's will), including Fevs' probable father. None of them are in my care anymore though, and most are probably RB. :( Maeve >^..^< Signaturehttp://volatiledreams.deep-ice.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/minnow/ > How did your cats come to live with you? > I will leave this post blank so you can fill in the number or the names of > your cats next to the place or way. I will keep track of the responses and > post the results in about a week. It will be interesting to see the > results. <snip> > You rescued them: 1 Soncek <snip> Best wishes, Polonca and Soncek > How did your cats come to live with you? > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > Other: I would love to talk about how I got mine but as soon as I start thinking about Spirit and how we rescud him I break down in tears The fact that you rescued Sprit, Loved Sprit, cared for his needs and mourn him says a lot and we understand the message. >> How did your cats come to live with you? >> [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > I would love to talk about how I got mine but as soon as I start thinking > about Spirit and how we rescud him I break down in tears Now, if I could just spell Spirit right! Geeze this doesn't speak well for how this day is going to go. > The fact that you rescued Sprit, Loved Sprit, cared for his needs and > mourn him says a lot and we understand the message. [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] >> I would love to talk about how I got mine but as soon as I start thinking >> about Spirit and how we rescud him I break down in tears >> Your cat had kittens and you kept them: >> >> Other: >> > I would love to talk about how I got mine but as soon as I start > thinking about Spirit and how we rescud him I break down in tears But you _did_ resue him and gave him a wonderful life so you should take a little solace in that. Here are the results from the survey. There were 39 people that responded. 162 cats total > Shelter/rescue group: 51 > Pet store: 5 > Showed up at your door: 14 > You rescued/ trapped them: 31 > From friend or relative : 33 > Breeder : 11 > Your cat had kittens and you kept them: 11 > Other: 17 strays that come for food: 6 |
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