OK - I haven't posted on here in a while, but I was just checking back in and had to post a reply here. I have been in and out of town during the last few weeks for a class I am taking for work - so, I was without my dear hubby and 6 cats the week of July 16-20, as well as this week (I get to go home tomorrow!), and will be out of town again the week of Aug 13-17, but luckily that will be the last time for a while. Anyway, as you all can imagine, I am missing my cats terribly (and my husband, too, I suppose - LOL). Here's what I love about each of my cats:
Bailey: He was the first one - we raised him from the time he was a 1.5-lb, sickly 4-6-week-old stray that we took in. He had lots of stomach issues and ended up being a very expensive "free" kitten. We wouldn't change it for the world. He is now nearly 5 years old (9/17/02 is the estimated birthdate), 19 lbs, lean and strong. He rules our house, and is very handsome. He plays when he feels like it, has his own places to sleep, and just loves to surprise us every now and then by curling up with us in bed or on our laps, which is unusual because he is the most independent of all of our cats. He has a very talkative nature, especially when he wants us to come pet him as he drinks from the bathroom sink.
Leila: She was the next we adopted, when she was about 6 months old, in May 2003. She is a very beautiful, petite tigress of a cat. She would be one to bring us plenty of small dead animals as trophies if we let her go outside. Although she is rather vicious when she is approached for claw-trimming or taken to the vet or provoked by any of the other cats, she can be quite loving when in the mood, curling up and letting us pet her until she grows tired of it. She is a wild one, and we know her limits - we let her come to us. She loves to sit in our 4-season-room looking out at nature and is quite good at chasing toys, especially tiny, furry mice.
Leo (RB as of 8/12/06): He was the next that we adopted (in April 2004) - we had way too short of a time with him. Although we don't know exactly how old he was, he was too young to die like he did last year (kidney failure, most likely caused by something he ingested/was exposed to during his time as a stray) - he must've just lived a really rough life before being rescued, nursed to health by the rescue group (bad case of ear mites deformed his ears so that they looked crinkly, which added to his charm, and he had a bad respiratory infection at that time as well), and adopted by us. We loved him from the moment we saw him - he came to meet us at the PetSmart Luv-A-Pet Center - he was the only cat allowed out of the cages in there to walk around while the volunteer was working in there. He sat on my lap at first meeting and had the most unique voice saying "Hello" to us. His meow sounds even sounded song-like, so much so that I was able to make up a special whistle for him (and later sounded it out on my flute and on the piano - Leo's song still makes us tear up). He was a big guy, around 17-20 lbs while he was with us, loved to snuggle right up next to us in bed (next to our faces), loved to meet new people and hung out, no matter if he new who came to visit us or not, and he could be quite playful when in the mood. He really loved all of the other cats, especially Bailey and Claudia, and even Leila, though she didn't seem to tolerate his advances like the others.He was a gem and is sorely missed.
Claudia: She is a sweetie - we adopted her June 25, 2004, after first meeting her just a few days ahead of that - we saw her go into the Luv-A-Pet Center for the first time to be available to adopt after being fostered. She started purring as soon as we saw her - she has the most wonderful purr. We adopted her only a few days later, before the next weekend, b/c we knew she'd go quickly. She is just over 4 years old now, and is the most beautiful, fluffly, short-legged little Snowshoe mix. She's as sweet as can be, and has a purr like no other - she even clicks when she gets really revved up - everyone gets a good smile/laugh out of that happy sound she makes. She loves to be with us, and follows us around. She sits on our laps and cuddles up with us at night. She's very playful when she wants to be, and she seems to enjoy the company of the other cats when she's in the mood to chase/play. She's a delight, and she is kind of "my" cat, as she really does seem to gravitate to me more than any of the others.
Vincent: He is going to be 2-years-old in Sept (he was born around the 7th) and we adopted him last September, several weeks after losing our dear Leo. He had a rough go of it the first time he found what he thought was his furrever home, b/c the dog living in that house attacked him when he stole some dog food and broke his front right leg very severely. The rescue group took him back and put him through surgery through specialists to repair his leg. You wouldn't know that had happened to him by the way he acts now. He never ceases to want to play, and can jump higher than most cats I have seen (though Leila rivals his height in jumping). He likes to actually fetch little, soft tinsel balls and bring them back to us, like a dog/puppy might. He does have this crazy whine that he employs when he wants us to give him water from the bathroom sink, but he also has this happy grunt and steady purr when we pet him and brush him (which he actually seems to enjoy, unlike most of the others). He's fun, though he irritates his sisters a lot sometimes! Most of the time, he sticks to playing/rough-housing with his brothers, which is quite amusing.
Mikey: We adopted this little one along with Vincent so that he'd have a buddy in the house, coming in against the 3 older ones. Mikey is a tiny little orangeman who is very playful, sometimes almost death-defying! He likes to run as fast as he can and jump onto our balcony in our 1.5-story house, so that it looks like he could fall from the balcony to the great room - it worries us to no end. He was supposedly 1-year-old around April 25th, but he is still only around the same size as our two girls, weighing in at only 8 lbs 8 oz.
Bryan: He is the furriest of all of our furbabies, and came along in October last year, shortly after Vincent & Mikey. He was up for adoption at the same time as Vincent & Mikey, but we didn't take him initially, hoping he and his natural-born beautiful brother would be adopted together. Alas, they weren't, and he was there, and we loved him dearly and wanted to give him a wonderful home. He is the sweetest thing, though a little shy. The 5-cat household we had was not very harmonious at the time, but as soon as he came home with us, it's almost as if things instantly calmed down. Everyone seemed OK with everyone else, rather than being thrown into more turmoil. He loves to curl up and nap just about anywhere and has much of the personality traits we loved about our dear Leo - he loves belly rubs (on his own terms) and lives for us to go down to our basement - that's his favorite place to hang out. He meows and talks just about as much as Bailey, and sometimes cries out because he wants us to come love on him. He can be very playful and really enjoys playing with all of the kitties, especially his brothers. Sometimes he wakes us up by licking our hands and faces, and sometimes he curls up with us in bed, though he's pretty independent like Bailey. He is almost 1.5 years old now and we just love him to death!
All of our cats are great....hope I haven't rambled too much!
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