A Proper Introduction

[Catty1]

Hello, Pet Talkers:

(PS - sorry for the large photos - I have spent 10 minutes on Photobucket resizing them OVER and OVER again - no luck! HELP!)

I have been posting here for a little while, but am quite new. I realized recently that I just kind of barged in. I have been a COTD visitor for over a year, and when I really started checking Pet Talk(CAT), I just got really interested and started posting!

It was rather thoughtless of me, just crashing a community, though that wasn't my intention.

So here is a belated and, hopefully, more graceful intro.

I live in Alberta, Canada, and am owned by two wonderful fur babies. Both are rescues through a boarding kennel at which I work. The kennel was designed for cats only - and has cat-size rooms made of arborite and glass, from which no cat can see another(soothing for some!).

Anyway, Oscar was named that by one of the owners because he was "Wild". When he got tame enough, Ted bundled him off to the vet for shots, deworming and to be "neuticled"(his term ). I was working only part time then - and had not had a cat in years - so Ted and his wife gave me Oscar for Christmas!

His first night home, he was a bit scared - but knew enough to wake me at 5 am when his food dish was empty!

The vet figured he was 2 1/2, no more than three - and I figure after spending two winters here as a scared wild baby, he deserves every bit of spoiling he can get!

Cole Porter is my fluffy black boy, a friendly cat who must have been dumped. Ted and Holly's one daughter put posters all over the countryside about the found cat, I called the humane society(we have a great one here) - but no luck. (AWWWWW! ) SO - Cole went to the vet, then came home - and a week later, he and Oscar were doing the thundering-herd-of-elephants-down-the-hall routine.

This was great, as Oscar had a friend...and since Oscar tended to inhale his food from being wild, the running and playing trimmed him up some!

I am a former road musician, now working at the kennel and at a magazine office in the afternoons.

So - HI everyone!

Candace
(Catty1)

[Felix]

Although we have already been introduced.I am glad to be the first one to welcome you to PT.You are going to love it here.I must warn you it is highly addictive I just think your kittys are adorable.Looking forward in seeing many more photos.

Marlaina(Felix)

[jenluckenbach]

An official welcome, then.

Cole looks like my Jasper. (Oscar isn't showing up)

I have 16 cats plus fosters for a local rescue group.

[krazyaboutkatz]

Cole sure is handsome and reminds me of my RB Pepper a little bit.

[Catty1]

Oscar is the huge one below me(wearing tabby stripes, not the green shirt!)

Here he is again!

Photobucket and I are not getting along today...

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[Laura's Babies]

Hi Catty1.. WELCOME to Pet Talk. Since you have been lurking awhile (I did that too), you have seen what a nice place this is and I don't think you are intruding at all.... that is what these boards are here for.. People who share that one common bond of loving our fur kids. Welcoame Aboard! (nice to have you here)

[catmandu]

I have that trouble with Photo Bucket that if you do not downsize the Photo at first,it will never downsize no matter how you try.
I am Cat Mandu with 14 Cats in the Found Cat Hotel,and Various Porch Cats who come over to dine.
Its always nice to see a Fellow Canadian here.

[davidpizzica]

Welcome Candace to Pet Talk! I'm david p and I live in Pittsburgh, Pa. I'm owned by three rescue kitties. Nikki, a 5 y.o. Tuxedo kitty, Daisy, a 2 y.o. tortie, and I'm fostering Marigold, a 4 y.o. tortie. All three are rescues from Cat Sense, a cat rescue organization in Pittsburgh for which I volunteer. I'm sure you'll like it here We're all animal lovers!

[lisalee]

Welcome Candace, Cole and Oscar are real cuties! I look forward to hearing more about them and yourself! I'm Lisa and live with "the love of my life", Sash.

[Laura's Babies]

If you go into your account options at photobucket, there is a place in there where you can set the max picture size.. I have mine set at 64kb and that seems to work a lot better for me and seldome have to resize them again.