Show us your pets!

[Catrin]

Posse - great pictures, thanks for sharing them I am imagining what it must be like to try and get some sleep with your feline acrobat

[nancielle]

Lisa,

So sorry to learn of your loss of Pearl. You did so much for her to keep her as healthy as possible. I'm sure she's scampering happily across Rainbow Bridge to play with Herald and Patches.

These posts are always so sad. I feel for all who've lost a furry member of their family.

Possegal,

Love the pics of Finbar (and his alternate names!)

[marni]

we used to have a devon rex (huge ears, whippy long rat like tail) who used to climb up on our canopy holder after we were asleep. When he got tired of not being noticed, he would give one warning chirp squeak and then launch himself onto the middle of the bed usually managing to hit one or both of us. When we got rid of the bed, he took to launching himself from the top of a wardrobe about 6 feet away.

[PinkBike]

christmas cats--they look so innocent, but . . . I really didnt know what to do about their first christmas tree, so i wrapped chicken wire around the tree--they climbed the chicken wire to get INTO the tree. love 'em

[Catrin]

So sweet

Here is a video that shows how kittens can also be decorations! The sound track is more than a little repetitive, but the video is sweet

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Lisa,
So sorry to learn of your loss of Pearl. You did so much for her to keep her as healthy as possible. I'm sure she's scampering happily across Rainbow Bridge to play with Herald and Patches.
These posts are always so sad. I feel for all who've lost a furry member of their family.

Thank you. It seems like quite a few of us have lost beloved fur family members recently.

After this weekend and all the holiday hubbub is over, I'm going to make a visit to our two local shelters to see if there is a particular special kitty that seems meant for us. We don't want Suki to be an 'only child kitty' for too long. And I know Pearl would want us to, it just seems like a positive thing to do any way you look at it. We like having two kitties in the house.

I always feel so guilty though, going to the shelters... all the little pairs of hopeful eyes looking at me- it's so heartwrenching and so hard to walk away from so many of them, knowing you are only going to choose one. i try to erase my guilt by 'sponsoring' a couple of other kitties to help them get adopted too, but I always still remember the little hopeful eyes... Wish there were loving homes for all of them.

[bmccasland]

I always feel so guilty though, going to the shelters... all the little pairs of hopeful eyes looking at me- it's so heartwrenching and so hard to walk away from so many of them, knowing you are only going to choose one. i try to erase my guilt by 'sponsoring' a couple of other kitties to help them get adopted too, but I always still remember the little hopeful eyes... Wish there were loving homes for all of them.

I know the feeling - I went to a shelter twice a week for 3 months looking for my lost kitty. And since I was looking for a lost cat, I had access to ALL the kitties, not just the ones that were cleared for adoption. I finally had to stop going, was so sad.

Good luck finding new fur friends!

[spindizzy]

I love/hate this thread!! I smile and laugh at the antics/trouble our furry friends get into. Then I cry with the losses...My thoughts are with you Lisa, Beth and Sundial.

[bambu101]

So sorry to hear of Pearl's passing. She was absolutely beautiful.

It is great that you are adopting a shelter kitty, and giving them a wonderful new home!

[skhill]

Finally getting around to learning how to post pictures....

Anyway, here's Moses, Mica, and Joe, demonstrating the right thing to do on a cold, wintry morning-- just go back to bed!

[nancielle]

I always feel so guilty though, going to the shelters... all the little pairs of hopeful eyes looking at me- it's so heartwrenching and so hard to walk away from so many of them, knowing you are only going to choose one. i try to erase my guilt by 'sponsoring' a couple of other kitties to help them get adopted too, but I always still remember the little hopeful eyes... Wish there were loving homes for all of them.

I know the feeling as well. Even seeing the commercials on television for the Humane Society of the US & the ASPCA with those pleading eyes get to me. My landlord has been more than generous in allowing me to first adopt Chloe then to take in the two abandoned cats. I know I'm at my limit for pet ownership but when I see those eyes I can't help but think "I'll bring you home." I, too, wish there were homes for all of them.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I've been going to look at shelter kitties for the past two days.
Lots of lovely sweet ones, definitely hard to choose but I'm getting to know many of them and am narrowing it down.
On Thursday I think my husband will be coming with me and adding his input so we can perhaps make the final decision. He likes me to do the preliminary scoping out. I've met about 80 kitties all wanting homes!

My shelter visits seemed less sad than when i went through this last time (1 1/2 yrs ago), because I've seen 3 cats actually get adopted just while I was 'chillin' with the cats over the past two days- it really does your heart good to see kitties become lucky Chosen Ones for new homes. I'm also making donations to both places so that all the kitties (and doggies too) get a little help from my visits one way or another.

One kitty in particular seemed promising for me today. And I hadn't even noticed her yesterday- She passed what my husband and i call the 'Upside Down Baby test'- picked her up, put her on her back in my arms like a baby, and rubbed her tummy. No problem! Just a huge purr and paws stretched out pumping the air happily in response... lol! She's also a classic tabby, which my husband is always partial to. With him, it's personality but extra brownie points for brown tabbies. For me it's pretty much all about the purr-cuddle factor.

But going back to the other place one more time on Thursday just to give all the kitties their fair consideration.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Happy to report my husband and i brought our new kitty home from the animal shelter today to become one of the family.
We have not named her yet, but she is making herself right at home and our other kitty Suki is being amazingly tolerant and polite.
New Kitty is 8 months old and VERY affectionate (which is what we were after).
She's a real 'biscuit maker'- meaning she kneads her paws ecstatically with a loud purr whenever she is even the least bit pleased. She reminds me of a little ocelot or puma with her golden sandy spotted tabby look.
It's so nice to be part of the happy adoption process at the shelter- smiles all around, knowing a new desperate kitty will now have a spot available at the shelter because we took one home with us. Pearl would have liked that.

Our new fur baby (in the last photo you can see her pumping her paws with happiness in her new home):

[GLC1968]

Aw, Lisa - she looks like such a sweetie! Congratulations!

You failed to tell us "new kitty's" name though.

[7rider]

Awwww. Lucky kitty! Yay!