Who picked whom?

Cats - Bo was a Christmas gift from my sister.

Abby was rescued from a guy who didn't want her anymore, and had put her outside (she was in heat).

Hanna definitely found me. I have told the story here before, I was biking and she approached me when I was taking a rest. She was skinny and very sick.

Dogs - Bandit came from my vet, he and his siblings were found outdoors, abandoned in a State Park on a very cold Feb. day. The people who found him brought him to my vet's, I adopted him 2 months later.

Rocky and Gandy came with my SO, they were his dogs.

Pepper, my horse, I bought. I hadn't had a horse for four years, and it was time for me to get another. I've had her the longest, 18 years.

I voted that 1/2 found me and 1/2 I searched for.

I went to the Humane Society to hopefully adopt a cat. Since I didn't see any cats that appealed to me inside the main building, I went out to another building where the strays are kept. I was looking at a large black cat and I held him. The lady and I were going back inside to look up more info on him when I saw a grey paw reach out to me. It was my soon to be Storm. I decided to hold him before we went back inside. It was love at first sight. He had picked me to be his new mom.:)

Storm needed a buddy so I decided to adopt another cat. I adopted an orange male cat but things didn't work out so I had to return him. I ended up adopting my RB Pepper from a rescue organization at Petco. I picked him because he was the friendliest and he purred the loudest too. I guess we kind of picked each other.:)

I really wanted a young male orange cat and I thought I wanted a young kitten but it wasn't quite kitten season yet. I left my name and number at several rescue organizations. A lady called me and told me that they had a 6 month old orange male and then she asked me if I really wanted to go through the kitten stage again. I agreed that I really didn't want to and said I'd go look at the orangie. It was love at first sight. Sunny was shaking and seemed very scared of me so I guess I picked him. He tuned out to be 8 months old instead of 6 but that was fine with me.:)

After my Pepper passed away, I knew I was going to be adopting another male cat. I also wanted a short haired young male cat and again thought about adopting a kitten. I was shopping at Pet Club and I saw a flyer with info about a rescue organization. I found their website and fell in love with Cirrus's picture. I went to see him a couple days later and even though he wasn't very friendly towards me I knew that he had the potential of being a loving cat since he had bonded with the lady who visited him every day. He was also much larger than I had expected. I adopted him the same day. So I again picked him.:)

I was at a Cat Show and the Humane Society was there. I quickly looked at all of the cats and was relieved that there weren't any kittens to tempt me. Later on they introduced all of the cats and told us their stories. When they brought out Sky, I thought he was a very interesting looking cat. He was shaved at the time because his long fur had matted. A man was very interested in him so I was happy and I thought he found a good forever home. Later that day, I found out that he was still there. I picked him up and looked into his light blue eyes and fell in love with him and also with his personality. I guess we both found each other that day.:)

I'm just very happy that I was able to find all of my wonderful loving furkids.:D

I was the winner in the "Nikki looking for an owner contest" I was realy depressed just after I had to put my poor Thai to sleep. I decided to to look for another kitty. I went into Petco and Cat Sense had some cats for adoption. I looked and they said "would you like to hold Nikki?" I said yes. I intended to be there for 5 minutes, but wound up holding her for an hour and a half!! They kept telling me that she was so shy around everyone, but as soon as started to hold her, the bonding started. Now I Volunteer with Cat Sense.

We, my live-in boyfriend and I decided to adopt a couple of kittens. I've always loved dogs and he's always loved cats. Now I consider myself an animal lover, so I agreed cats were better suited for apartment living. We decided two would be best so they would not be lonely when we were gone. We went to the local no kill shelter, Operation Kindness, and I immediately fell in love with Oreo. We had our hearts set on a boy and a girl, but sadly someone had adopted Ori's sister earlier (he was very sad about it). All the other kitties we would pick out of their cage hissed at him, so I would put them back. Then they came in with a newly bathed, wet Wilber and he was the only one who did not hiss at Oreo, and of course he was extra cute so we picked him too. So long for the idea of one boy and one girl.

That night, Oreo was the hissy one, and I was somewhat worried. They also fought all night and I cried cause I thought they didn't like each other, understand I had NEVER owned a cat before, lol, and didn't realize what to expect. The first few days were a little rocky, but within two weeks, I no longer had most of my heart as these two stole it away. I've never looked back and I've never made a better decision than to adopt these guys. They truly, truly have made my life a thousand percent better and hopefully I've improved theirs :).

I voted for the 1/2 and 1/2.

My family started with Tigger and her RB brother Tony. When I got married I wanted to have at least one cat in my house so when I heard that a lady at the bank I did business with had 2 tigers I asked if I could get the 2 of them. So the family officially started with Tigger and Tony (yes Tigger was named after Winnie the Pooh and Tony was after Tony the Tiger from Fosted Flakes).

The rest of the family found me. Smokey was thrown away in a garbage can and my friend rescued him and I adopted him from her. Tucker was abandoned around my area in the winter of 96. Mystic showed up on my back doorstep on a winter day in 2000 and Abner....well, he decided to make friends with a neighbors dog and he followed the dog to my house one day and never left.

My other RB babies, Cleo and Tobias found me as well.

I still haven't been able to actively look for any of my animals. They all found me :)