Newbie Request: Help Me Get To Know You?

[Momto4FemaleFelines]

Hi Debbie, thank you for the welcome.

It can sometimes take so long to become familiar with the folks you post to and read from/about on forums, I like introductories to help out! I'm one that has trouble remembering people if I don't post back & forth with them on a regular basis!

[Momto4FemaleFelines]

Hi Ellie, nice to meet you!

Hmmm, blizzard of 2003, I don't remember that one for some reason. I remember the one in '96, though.

I am about 20 minutes from the Delaware Memorial Bridge, North up 295.

[luvofallhorses]

Welcome Pat! I am Krista - I am 24 years old and reside in NW Montana. I am an animal shelter kennel attendant. I LOVE my job. My family and I have 3 wonderful dogs and 3 wonderful cats.

Buster is a 6 year old coonhound, Rudy is almost 2 and a terrier cross, Dixie is a 3 and a half months old and a schnauzer/terrier cross. Miagi is a 7 year old tabby cross (he was cotd in December), Tiger is my 'soul' kitty he is about 9 years old and a tabby/bengal cross. We will have him for 5 years next month and last but not least Angel is a DSH/russian blue cross she is about 10 months now.

[Grace]

Hi Pat and Welcome.

I’m Gretchen, married to Douglas – 31 years come Wednesday.

Retired nurse, living in Michigan, originally from Rhode Island. I’ve been volunteering in a local elementary school library for 10 years. One son who is married and living in Virginia – with his wonderful wife and my two fantastic grandsons.

6 cats:
Duffy, 12, orange and white, without a mean bone in his body.

Reese, 9, long white hair, found in a parking lot. She rules the roost with an iron paw.

Abby, 8, found her on Petfinder. Sweetest one we have, with long, dancer’s legs. I sometimes call her Cyd Charisse.

Grady, 7. Once lived up the street, but was ignored, so he moved in with us. We think he’s a SMIB (southern Michigan inbred) –his daddy was most likely his older brother. Soft gray fur – a real love.

Red, age unknown – most likely in the 11 – 13 range. Big, orange with one green eye – the other eye had been surgically removed before we found him wandering in the woods and fields around our house. He’s been with us for 6 years now – and still has issues. He and Duffy are best buds.

Charlie, 6. Black and white. Another stray from the neighborhood – maybe from the same house as Grady? He has a bit of Dennis the Menace and Eddie Haskell thrown in for good measure.

My passions, besides cats, are reading, the Red Wings, the Red Sox, and March Madness.

And FYI - Ellie, from Delaware, and I are from the same hometown in RI - went to some of the same schools - a few years apart - I'm older