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Originally Posted by lorisunshine

Hi Tedi,
I too am back up to 3 cats -all of them pure bred alley varieties. One of them is a Main Coon and he is such a character. One day he just moved in when he was about 7 month. He just wouldn't take no for an answer. He absolutely loves children and my daughter used to torment him half to death, but he came back for more. I have a pic of Rossi in the gallery; he is our latest aquisition. He was half starved and really sick, so after paying @ 600 we have the happiest, craziest of cats. Lastly we have a little black girl. She must be part Persian, as she has a really dense black coat. She is a little stupid and really needy, but I love her anyway.
By the way, my avatar is a Margay, which is a central/south American wild cat. I first saw one in Costa Rica and fell in love with them, but I would never make a pet out of such a wild creature. They are becoming rare as well.
Ciao,
Lori

Hi Lori, your kitties sound great. You gotta love them, even if they're dumb and needy! Our male cat is like that but he's like the most happy-go-lucky guy you ever met and its adorable. 3 of ours are related (we think) and all started coming around to our house so we accepted them one by one. Our neighbors didn't neuter their cats so we had a cat explosion in the neighborhood (they also let their dog wander all over until he got picked up by animal control and then they tied him up and left him so he barked for hours but thats another story).

So, 2 females, one a tortie and one a calico, and the male, who's sort of a grey and white tabby but big and lanky. He was feral, living in the woods, and it took me 2 weeks to get near him. Now he's a big love bug though he's afraid of other people. Then we have our old girl who may be as old as 22 (according to the records that came with her though I'm not sure I believe it) who's a beautiful grey tabby with a cranky meow and in inital stages of renal disease.

Talk about vet bills!!! We had a cat who was hyper-thryoid so we put him through the radioactive iodine treatment to the tune of $900, and our dog went through a cloth eating phase (eating personal articles of clothing -- ahem) so he had to have an operation for a blockage ... plus all the other stuff ... trainers, doggie daycare, raw diet (i swear he eats as well as we do) etc. Its amazing what we spend on our animals when people in this world don't get as good food or treatment, but then I think about what some of the animals have been through (I know our dog was abused) and I just feel like I do what I can. We don't have children so we don't have those expenses.

I like the Margay. You saw them in the wild? How beautiful! I agree about not making pets of wild animals ... at this point I think I'm against the idea of zoos, even though I like watching the animals. Someday I would love to go to Africa to see animals in the wild -- though I'm not sure thats the best thing for them either.

I'm in the Vancouver area and we recently went to see the Beluga whales at the aquarium. I feel sorry for them, but man, they were just the most magical animals I have ever seen. I want to go back and just sit there for like an hour to watch them. They seem really smart, really intrigued with people.

Well, nice chatting with you! I need to go start my day now -- having guests tomorrow and my house is a MESS.

Cheers!
Ted