Newbie Request: Help Me Get To Know You?

Hi Pat, my name is Willie. I am married to Jimmy, and we have been married for 39 years, will be 40 years this June. I have two cats name Oscar, and Grover. Grover is a female I raised from the age of two weeks. She is very spoiled because of it. I also have a Yorkie name Sarah, and a Cockatiel name Charlie Sweet. I have one son, and two daughters, and six Grandchildren.

I live in Middle TN, in a little town name Collinwood.

I am very happy to meet you, hope you like it here, it is full of very nice people.

Willie:)

Hi Maggie, we've 'conversed' a bit in other threads. It's great to be here and meet you.

Hi Genny! You've got a big furfamily! Nice to meet you! Our Collie, Ladd, was the first dog I ever really had. My husband took him in from a family who had to give him up about a year before we got married. He was a wonderful, loyal dog. I still miss him even though he's been gone since 1987. The first day my husband then fiance left Ladd at home to go to work then returned home, Ladd was protecting the house and didn't want to let him back in. Chip then had to reach in to grab a loaf of bread and give Ladd a piece of bread to calm him down...the bread was the only thing around he could grab to give a treat as a bribe so Ladd would let him back in the house!

Hi Willie! Thanks for replying!

Hello Bri, nice to meet you!

Hi Elyse, thanks for replying to my threads and commenting on the photos in my album! Nice to 'formally' meet you.

Hi Rachel, nice to meet you, too! We've had beagles in the past, as well as a terrier, a Jack Russell to be exact.

I'm Gwen and I live in Munford TN. Been "shacked up" with BJ for 10 years now. Neither of us wants to get married, so it works. I have 2 cats I adopted Valentine's Day 2009, after losing my bestest kitty buddy, Montego. I now have Toby a 2-ish snowshoe and Havoc who is about 20 months and a Siamese mix. Their pics are in my siggy. Honestly I'm more of a dog person but I realize I don't have the time and space to properly care for one, so I'm back to doing the cat thing for several years now and loving it (had several cats growing up). In the past I have also shared my home with fish and birds. I've been tending to lab mice for almost 8 years now and worked at a vet clinic for 6 years before that.

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Alyssa, I am down in the southern half of the state a little below the town of Woodbury which you may have heard of. I'm not far from Deptford, which is another town that may be more familiar than my little town.;)
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I don't know the area well, but you're a little over an hour from me. I know where that town is from past visits to Camden and stuff, I don't think you're that far from there.

Welcome!

My name is Jill, and I live in Colorado. I am married and have an almost-one-year old daughter named Lyra. We have 3 dogs (2 pembroke welsh corgis and a greyhound mix) and 3 cats. Right now I am home with my daughter, but I'm a teacher and hoping to find a teaching position for next school year!

Howdy There!

My name is Kristina although most people end up calling me Fyrewolf or Fyre...or DJ...any one is fine by me! I live in Oregon although I am originally from Nevada. I have three cats: Remus, Spook and Hoodini. Remus and Spook are about 6 years old and Hoodini is right around 3. Remus and Spook were aprox 6 months old when I got them (Remus in June of 04 and Spook in november of that year) and Hoodini was about 3 months old when I adopted him from my parents back yard (In the summer of 07). I have a wonderful year and a half yr old son, Nicholas and Ive been married to my husband John for 6 years on Feb 28th. I am a DJ (or I try to be, hence my screen name lol) and I drive a car known as the little blue pill (I talk about the thing a LOT...its almost a pet lol)

Nice to meet you!!

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Hi Maya & Inka's Mommy! I'll be 53 in September. My mind still feels about 30 but my body sometimes feels like 100!:eek:

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LOL!! I have to "ditto" that.........!

Welcome!!!

My name is Gayle, I am 44 years old. I'm currently going thru an awful divorce after 8 years of a horrible marriage. Glad to be out.

I lost my heart doggie in October, just 4 days after I left him. She was the sweetest baby ever. Her name was Sasha, she was a border collie cross and 15 years old.

I now live with my 2 year old kitties. Diego, my boy cat, is having some adjustment issues with our new life. Cali, my girl cat and Diego's sister, is my heart kitty.

I think you'll enjoy Pet Talk. It's a great bunch here. I know I'd be lost without them.

Welcome.
I'm Amy, 32 yrs old, single and Mom to four cats. They are Bailey (tabby-12 years old) Cricket (Black and White-6), Owen (orange and white -3) and Willow (orange -1). I joined Pt about 2 years ago. I love it here. I don't always respond to posts but I read alot of them. Got to meet Karen (Moderator) last year when my job sent me to Boston for two weeks. Have also gotten to know others thru PT and facebook. I work in the telecom industry.

Hello Pat,And Welcome to Pt,You sure will enjoy yourself.Very helpful with any answers you may need answerd,Or Just to see everyone's animals.Lots of Great people around Here.

You can see by my name,Very Original lol.Never thought about it until i seen everyone elses Nicknames.

My Name is Lori-Anne

I have quiet the crew around here.
I have 3 dogs:Lacy is my 6 year old Red Tri Australian Shepherd,Maggy 6 year old Border Collie.And last is my Molly she just turned 5 and she is a Newfoundland.
I have 5 cats.Cally is a 7 year old Manx,Alex is also 7 she is a calico,Chelsea is a long hair calico,We just adopted 2 other cats,Jinxy is 6 months old now and also a calico,And last but not least Trinity she is a 3 1/2 year old Seal Point Himalyan.
I have a little lionhead/fuzzy lop Bunny,Bailee she will be 3 in March.

A little about me:

I have been a Nurse Nearly 15 years.
I have 2 children one(boy) 22 and the other (girl)17.
There names are Terrance and Rebecca.

Me and my Husband have been together for 23 years Married 13 years now.

We Live in Canada.a little town in Williamsburg Ontario

I look forward to seeing you on the boards!

Hi Pat,
I'm John from Australia. Everyone here knows me as Wom.
61, retired, recently married. Three daughters, 2 border collies, 1 King Charles Cavalier Spaniel, 2 budgerigars, fish (I can't count them beause they swim too fast). Ex-builder and consultant. Pass my time now doing volunteer welfare work for aged and sick war veterans and war widows.....collect art...collect militaria.....spend time on Pet Talk making a nuisance of myself.
Oh .....and I also cook a lot.
Hope you enjoy your time with us.......:)
Wom

Alyssa, you are right, I am not far from Camden.

I hope you don't mind me posting once to make multiple replies:)

Hello and thank you for your introductions Gwen, Amy, Lori, Jill, Kristina, Gayle and John!

It is so neat meeting more animal loving folks and it's always cool meeting folks from far-off lands like Australia!

Lori, I had rabbits for a while...all taken in from folks who couldn't keep them anymore. Two we took in came to us pregnant!

Thanks to all of you for your welcomes, I look forward to getting to know you all better!

Hello Pat, welcome to PT. :)

My name is Zara, I'm 18 years young and from northern England. I have a very sweet little rattie named Flossie. I'm a college student applying to read veterinary medicine this year at university, so it's a pretty stressful time of year for me!

My hobbies include dressage, vegetarian cooking and travelling - off to Uganda in the summer so that should be a real experience!

I'm not always around as much as I was due to schoolwork commitments, but I hope to see more of your posts. :)

Hi Pat,

I'm Renate and live in MD on the eastern shore right outside Ocean City. My husband Jeff and I moved here about 8 years ago after we bought a "vacation house"! We love the shore and I had the ability to transfer with my company, but after 2 years I got laid off.:confused::confused:

Anyway, Jeff and I have been married almost 29 years (second marriage for both).

We have 2 cats, Archy & Binky:love::love:, whom we adopted from a rescue almost 10 years ago. At that time the last of our 4 elder cats was ill and we couldn't bear the thought of not having a kitty in the house. Plus, the young boys kind of perked up the older one for a while. Our boys live the spoiled, pampered life that most PT pets have!:D

We also have 2 cockatiels, 2 parrotlets, a parakeet and Percy, my Betta.

I'm working p/t (yay!) and yearn to be retired; I noticed that I am older than everyone here, but I'm not giving away my age! (too vain):rolleyes:

I love this place! It's my first stop whenever I login to my computer; I have to see what's going on, the pets of the day, and what everyone is up to.

I've laughed, cried, and made lots of great friends here. If you need help, it's here; if you have a question, there's an answer. You'll love it!

Welcome!

Renate

Greetings Pat: Welcome to Pet Talk.
I'm Vickie but I prefer to be called Slick. I acquired that nickname about 20 years ago from a coworker who is now deceased from cancer. :(

I'd like to think that I'm one of the "mature" members here - born in 1952. I live near Vancouver, BC and was born and raised here. I'm proud to say that I am a lung cancer survivor - many, many PTers helped me through my recovery from surgery. :)

I'm an IT professional and work for non-profit. I retire in about 7 1/2 years and I'm counting the days - can hardly wait. Since I do work full time I don't have as much time to spend on PT as I would like, but I still sneak in a little time during my lunch hour (ssshhhh, don't tell my boss from hell).:eek:

Right now sadly I have no pets, having just lost my dear Max on January 15. I will, however, be opening up my heart again to an adult or senior kitty who needs as much love as I do.

I joined PT in 2002 which seems like decades ago. PT has brought me so much love and support that I could never repay. For the first time in my life I can finally say that I have best friends and the people of Pet Talkville are the only hoomans who "get me." If that's not Law of Abundance, I don't know what is.:)

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Lori, I had rabbits for a while...all taken in from folks who couldn't keep them anymore. Two we took in came to us pregnant!

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My Daughter had wanted one for awhile,There is a lady a few towns over that breeds them and Rebecca seen Bailee and that was it she "HAD" to have her.

Rabbits are great,Our Bailee is one of a kind,I have never seen a rabbit like Bailee before very sweet girl,comical too!

Hi Pat, We have talked about ice skating already. I am an older girl been married to the same guy for 41 years. I am a part time guide at the Laura Ingalls Wilder musem in Burr Oak, Iowa. Yes, Laura Ingalls lived in Burr Oak, Iowa for one year & her sister Grace was born there in the spring of 1877. Enough about me lets get to my animal family. There is Baxter Black our Australian Cattle dog, Missy Australian Shepherd, & Max (grandpuppy) Black Lab., two parakeets Pesky & Pal, 10 barns cats & Lily the indoor/outdoor cat,& Dakota the horse. We have two grown sons, a daughter in law & a 3 year old grandson with red hair who loves the dogs,cats,& birds.

Hi Pat-

I’m Melissa from Centre Co., PA, USA

Married for 2 ½ years now.

Our cats are:

Claudia – 7 year old calico. I adopted her from the PSPCA shortly after I adopted Anika in 2002 who was PTS in Oct. 2008.

Claudia is my sleeping buddy. She loves to sleep on my pillow and her purr just makes everything so much better. She doesn’t like her belly touched but she is such a sweetie and so pretty.

Ashley – 5 years old torte. I adopted her from a local lady whose cat had a litter of kittens. If I knew about Pet Talk at the time I probably would have adopted from someone on here or a shelter.

Ashley has been getting grump with her age; well she was always like that. She has the torte attitude but loves to go for car rides. I took her for car rides when she was younger and trained her to sit on my lap like a dog and she loves it. I now have a harness on her when I take her out just to be safe and of course there is a leash as well. This is the only time that you are able to pick her up and hold her but she loves it.

Sebastian – 7 years old, gray long hair. Sebastian was found outside my sister’s apartment, she was feeding a few local strays and we were trying to trap this one cat and Sebastian ended up in the trap and he had a wound on his head so I took him to a local no-kill shelter and fostered him for them and I would take him to their shelters on the weekends and he would spend Saturday and Sunday in a cage hoping to be adopted and he was adopted once but brought back and then I decided that it was too much for him to keep going back and forth and I decided that last weekend I took him there if he didn’t get anyone that was interested in him I’d adopt him myself.

Well sure enough 1 hour before I was set to leave to go get him the shelter called and said they had someone who was interested in him. I met the lady but she wasn’t sure she was going to adopt him and I told the shelter I wanted to take him home and keep him forever and so I did.

Sebastian is a lap cat, he loves attention and he’s just a sweetheart.

Hermes – 3 years old, white long hair. Hermes was rescued off the streets in 2006. It took a few months for me to get him but I finally was able to trap him and take him in and my husband told me that time I would need to find a home for him but sure enough his sweet personality came over us and we had to keep him. Hermes is such a sweetie. He doesn’t like going for car rides but he loves our vet’s office. He has such a different personality there than at home when strangers come over.

I remember when my husband worked night shift and if anyone came into the house that he didn’t know he would climb up onto my chest and sit there like he was telling on his dad for bringing someone he didn’t know. He’s his daddy’s baby for sure.

Fiona – 2 year old long hair torte. Fiona came from a local non-profit cat rescue. This time I believe we were looking to adopt but I can’t be certain of that. Well my husband and I went over to this lady’s place and he picked out this little girl and I was smitten about another I believe but he really wanted her so I agreed and she’s just a sweetie now. She doesn’t have that torte attitude. Sometimes she acts a tad bad but otherwise she is just a sweetheart.

Athena – 3 years old grey tiger. Athena I rescued off the streets in early 2008. I was helping a lady in the area who was trying to find a home for a cat who showed up on her steps injured and she did eventually get him a great home. While I was there helping her I noticed several stray cats that didn’t belong to anyone. My husband and I rescued 2 orange and white ones and they found a wonderful home together and shortly after we go them I also got Athena. She made herself at home and so instead of adopting her out we took her in.

Osiris – 1 years old black and white. Osiris was brought into our house because the local PSPCA couldn’t take in anymore cats due to a virus that was going through the shelter and he had no place to go so we said we’d foster him. Yeah right, he ended up staying as well. He is such a good boy. He loves to have his tail pulled when you pet him.

Sophia – 1 years old tiger. Sophia was supposed to be another “we are only going to foster her and not keep her.” Within a few days of having Sophia we decided she should stay with us and sure enough she has. Sophia does have asthma and she only has 1 eye. She was rescued from a local farm and the person that trapped her took her to the vets and her 1 eye needed removed but other than that she is a very healthy girl.

Ozzy – 2-3 years old long hair tiger. Ozzy was found outside my apartment complex. I trapped him, took him to the vets and he was supposed to be a foster for a short time and ended up staying. He still gets shy from time to time but he’s such a sweetie.

Apollo – 7 months old orange and white tiger. Apollo was found outside a lady’s driveway. She couldn’t afford to take him to the vets and his paw was bent so I offered to take him to the vets and foster him and find him a good home. Well after picking him up I knew I couldn’t get rid of him. We still have him and we don’t really have any plans of giving him up just yet.

I work full-time as a secretary for a geologic consulting firm.

I love going for long rides in the car, especially if they take me to a zoo. I do my own cat rescuing from time to time. Sometimes I take on more than I can handle. I like watching movies. I also like meeting new people on Pet Talk. This year I got to meet John, his wife, and his crew.

Ok I just realized maybe I gave too much information about my furbabies.

Melissa

Hi! I'm Kari. I no longer have the time to post as often as I used to ,but I still love Pet Talk and I try to read and keep up with everything as best I can.

I've been married to my my husband, Justin, for 9.5 years. We have an almost 3 year old son, Nathan, and we're expecting our second son, Christopher, in May. We live in Florida with our farm-full of animals, almost all rescues. We have 6 dogs- pit bull/basenji mix, a mini mutt (possibly a jack russell mix?), a pug, a min pin, a pomeranian, and a chihuahua. We also have 7 cats, a horse, 5 snakes, 2 tortoises, 2 chinchillas, 2 rats, 9 birds, and a small fish tank. We're planning on adding a few chickens in a few weeks too. I've been wanting and waiting for a very long time to have chickens and I'm excited we're finally ready for them this year!

Welcome to PT!

My name is Cori and I am from Texas.. I currently work at a hotel as a night auditor. I'm 24 and anxiously expecting a baby in September.
My fiance has an 8 week old puppy named Skunk, 2 goats (now 3, one just had a baby this morning), a horse and a pig..
I also have a female pit bull named Alize that I have had since the day she was born. She will be 2 in February.
And last but not least, I have a chihuahua named Deebo, but he stays with my mom now because the "farm life" just wasn't for him. He's 4 yrs old and weighs 4 lbs, so I figured it would be best for him to stay with my mom and her little dogs when I moved out.

Hello! I'm Dusty, and I live in FL. I'm 37. My husband and I have been married for 9 years, and we have 3 kids, ages 4, 2 1/2, & 9 months. We currently have 2 cats, Saphirah, our almost 11 year old solid black diva kitty, and Chloe, our almost 10 year old gray and white kitty who is best buddy to all of our kids. I am a stay-home mom who is a school teacher by trade. I will most likely go back to work when all of our kids are in school, but for now, I'm having a great time being mommy. :)

Great thread!

I am Sonia, I am 37, research scientist, and I live near Paris, France. You probably won't see me posting a lot on PT these days, but I am still here, reading threads now and then.
Peppito is my senior kitty, a mackerel tabby of almost 12. And Jasmine is my all black princess kitty, she is 5. You can see them in my avatar.
I have a daughter, Valentine, who is now 2 y and 3 months.

Wow, I didn't get my e-mail notifications of all the replies since my last post in this thread!

To Zara, Renate, slick, Bonny, Melissa, Kari, Cori, Dusty and sonia...Thank you for introducing yourself to me and welcoming me!

Bonny, yes, we've "chatted"...WOW, I'm so excited to hear of your job! I absolutely LOVE Little House on the Prairie which is based on Laura Ingall Wilders stories. I'd love to see the museum sometime if I ever get the chance to do any traveling.

Kari, I can see why you don't have a lot of time to post. We used to raise pigs and also had chickens for our own farm fresh eggs. We even used incubators to hatch chickens, guinea hens, and ducks from eggs!

Looking forward to trying to get to know some of you better! A special thanks for those of you who don't get a lot of time to post to take the time to say hello to me!

My name is Amy, I'm 25 years old, I live in Utah, I'm engaged. I have three siberian huskies- Nebo (red/white, 7 years old), Keva (black/white, 3 years old), and Skya (white, 1 1/2 years old). My fiance also has a dog, Killer (lab/pit mix, 4 years old). I work as a pet groomer full time and also go to school (though I'm not going this semester). I also do pet portrait paintings occasionally.

Hi, Pat!

My name is Candace. I live in Cochrane, Alberta which is about 25 minutes NW of Calgary, Alberta.

I am owned by Oscar Mayer Wild (a former feral who was 'vetted' and given to me one Christmas by my employers at the cat boarding kennel), and Cole Rover Porter, a black fluffy boy who was dumped on the kennel's acreage when he was about 8 - 9 months old.

I worked as a traveling pianist/singer for over 20 years, and recorded one CD. The last ten years have been very challenging in trying to hold on to a 'real' job, but am getting help with some health issues and a life/career coach so I can support myself.

These days I am a computer tech, self-employed. It can be really frustrating at times, but I love the flexibility.

Welcome!:)

Welcome to PT!

I'm Amy, and I live in Toledo Ohio. My husband and I have been married just over 9 years and we have 3 puppers, Sadie, a 9 yr old lab/dal mix, Spot, a 9 yr old dal/lab mix and Cincy, an 8 yr old lab mix. All three are therapy dogs and love going to the library to have kids read to them.

I am a chemist, although I currently work more in sales from a technical aspect. I work for a contract lab, working with medical device companies to determine what type of chemistry tests are needed for them to gain approval from the FDA or other similiar bodies in other countries.

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My name is Candace. I live in Cochrane, Alberta which is about 25 minutes NW of Calgary, Alberta.
I worked as a traveling pianist/singer for over 20 years, and recorded one CD.

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Pat.....if ya got a couple of bucks.....buy the CD !!!! Great stuff.
Wom

Thanks, Wom! :)