Newbie Request: Help Me Get To Know You?

[Momto4FemaleFelines]

Hi Grace!

Hi Tracey!

Hi Carole!

Hi Shanna!

Hi Alyssa!

Hi Karen!

Thank you all for replying!

Karen, I should have looked for a topic with introductions or 'meet our members' type topic. This has been fun, though! Sometimes the less info I have the better I remember...I have some reading/comprehension issues and am starting to get a few of those senior moments now and again. If I have to read too much, I start losing track and have to keep going back to the beginning to start all over. I like my instruction manual to have lots of pictures and few words or chances are, like my camera manual, I barely look at it!

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.

[Freedom]

Hi there, Pat!

I agree with Laura, this has been a great thread for me as well as for you!

I'm Sandie. I live in Rhode Island, and have been on PT a bit over 3 years. I joined here owning 5 cats. I now have the crew of 14 you see in my siggy, lol. We have an old thread somewhere, that PT can do that to ya, grow your family! All my pets are rescues.

My Dad lives with me, he moved in 8 years back. He has dementia which has worsened recently. He is move "trouble" than the crew of 14 put together!

I did cat rescue (thanks to prompting from folks on here). For about 8 months I was actively trapping in a TNRM program. I kept all the kittens, which I was SUPPOSED to socialize and put up for adoption. The cats are listed in the order they arrived here. Ebony was my first foster, that lasted all of 29.5 minutes a record for the group, he hee. Tommy and Tuppence are brother & sister, and they are cousins to Bobby (the moms were sisters). Chaplin and Mandy are also cousins, from a different colony.

Sparkle is 13, and Mandy is 3, so I have quite the age range in between. The ones not from the TNRM program are either shelter kitties or foundlings.

Not being able to foster cats (I failed Fostering 101 every time!), I switched over to dogs. Thanks to the wonderful folks on the Dog side of PT, they suggested I look in to the bichon, and one person put me in touch with Small Paws Rescue. The dogs are also listed in the order they arrived here! I keep failing Fostering 101 in the dog realm too, so I just plain do NOT foster any longer! Unlike the cats, the dogs did not arrive here oldest to youngest. Sugar is 12, Lacey is 7, Marlin is 11 and Tasha is 4. Tasha is a puppy mill rescue. Working with her has been quite rewarding.

[Maya & Inka's mommy]

What a great idea, Pat!!


First of all: WELCOME TO PET TALK !!!!

I'm LUT, and my PT-name is Maya & Inka's mommy. Maya & Inka are 2 of my babies. Zazou & Snoopy joined our family later on. Maya is my calico girl. She is the sweetest and calmest cat you can imagine! Then there is my sweet Inka, my precious CH-cat; she has the softest fur on earth! Zazou is my gorgeous tuxie. She has the true tuxie-spirit! Zazou loves to be admired, scratched, petted, but hates to be picked up! She prefers to jump on my lap only if that's her OWN decision... Last but not least there is my baby Snoopy! She is my 3 legged girl, who can run and jump faster and higher than any other one of my girls ; She has a short underdevelopped 4th leg, which she does NOT use to walk, but to spank her sisters or to play hockey with her toys

I am from Belgium; I live near Ghent, which is in the flemish part of the country.
I am married to Bernard. Last summer we celebrated our 30th anniversary!

I'm a housewife since 22 years now; Before that time, I was teaching in primary schools.

My hobbies are: posting on PT and another Flemish board, making 3D-cards, sending and receiving postcards from all over the world ( www.postcrossing.com ) reading, and traveling.

Oh yes, very important: I am rather an "oldie" with my 53 years old

Again: what a great idea to introduce yourself to this forum!!!

[Momto4FemaleFelines]

Hi Johanna, thank you for introducing yourself! 7 years is a long time, but when you find a great place, you stay, so I'm guessing you're a good advertisement that PT is a good place!

Hi Sandie! I actually post on another cat forum and one member there is questioning if #17 has just shown up in his back yard! I'd have more if I could. I just replied to your nice post about the photos I posted. My husbands Grandmother has periods of dimentia so we know a little about how that can be, she'll be 99 in July. She has a 24 hour live-in care taker but we do her grocery shopping for her. I almost failed Fostering, too. We did keep Tiger Lily and Piper, though ultimately had to rehome Tiger Lily. I wanted to keep her boy kittens but knew I couldn't, but it was still hard to let them go.

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

[davidpizzica]

Hi, Pat! I bet you were wondering if there were any guys on this forum. We're in a minority, but we're there. LOL! My user name is my real name. I've been on here since 2004. I recently moved to an assisted living facility near Pittsburgh. I grew up in a suburb of Pittsburgh where I recently retired as a groundskeeper on a golf course. I've had a sucession of cats as pets, the most recent being miss Marigold, a beautiful female tortie. (unfortunatelely, the facility has a rule against residents keeping cats as pets, YUCK!), however she was adopted by a very nice older lady and has a great home. I was also involved in cat rescue and adoption with the Cat Sense organization. Well, Pat I 'm officially welcoming you to Pet Talk!

[Scooter's Mom]

Hi Pat! (My mom was a Pat, too.)

I am Crystal. I am almost 38 (June) and have been married to Preston since December 1999. He is my 2nd husband - my first hubbies wife, Kat, posts here sometimes under the username Katjaye. She's my best friend.

I live in Phoenix, Arizona but am from Houston, Texas. I moved here 11 years ago this month.

I am mom to:
Charlie - a male b/w kitty who is the talkiest kitty I've ever met. He's around 7 1/2, and when we adopted him 5 years ago (Dec. 10), he had lived in the shelter a good long time. They rescued him from the desert where he had lived for awhile previously.

Jingle Belle - a very girly calico who came to live with us Dec 22, 2007. She will be 3 in March. (The vet said she was around 9 months when we found her so we're guessing March for her bday.) She is super affectionate and very bossy!

Jadie - an 8 year old female Shih Tzu. I adopted her from a man I used to work with who didn't really have time for her anymore... I've had her since Dec 29, 2003. She is also very bossy! lol... must be a girl thing. But she's also so loving and fun - she has never met anyone she didn't like.

Oreo - a 6 year old male Shih tzu. My husbands co-worker was giving Oreo away in May 2007 and we took him in. He had been mistreated and was living outside for a long time in the Arizona heat... he's been abused (kicked, thrown, not fed!) and is very shy but loves my husband immensely.

And last but not least, I am going to include my Scooter Bug. He went to the rainbow bridge yesterday... he was my 14 1/2 year old tabby kitty that you see in my signature. He was my best friend and my favorite kitty ever... and I will miss him until the day I join him. We had him cremated and my husband and all my family knows that when I die, Scooter Bug and I are being buried together. He is my kitty. My sweetest boy.

thanks for the thread idea.
Crystal

[Pinot's Mom]

Hi Pat & welcome to the PT crew! I'm going to join with others and say "what a wonderful idea for a thread"!!

I'm Maggie, my husband is Coop (real name Bob, we've been married since 1982) and the queen of our household is Miss Pinot Noir. She is in my avatar and I have an album in my profile. She's about two and a half; we adopted her from a shelter in March of 2008 when she was about 10 months old. Pinot was Cat of the Day on May 5, 2009. I grew up with dogs (Irish Setters) and have had cats (one at a time) all my adult life. I have met wonderful people on PT and have gained some wonderful insight and information. Again, WELCOME!!

[Momto4FemaleFelines]

Hi David! It's nice to have men aboard a cat lovers site! As the mug I got my husband says "Real Men DO Love Cats"! I'm sorry you had to re-home your Marigold. My MIL lives in a "3 level" senior place, unassisted, assisted and total healthcare sections. She's still unasssisted and COULD have up to 2 cats but she won't be bothered even though she loves cats. Nice to meet you and thank you for the welcome!

Hi Shannon from Dallas! Springer Spaniels are pretty dogs! Nice to meet you!

Hi Crystal, I'm so sorry to hear of your beloved Scooter Bug's passing. We had our Jack Russell cremated and her ashes are to go with whoever goes first. Thanks for replying, nice to meet you.

[Genny]

Hi Pat, I'm Genny. I'm 21 and I live in Alabama. We have 8 dogs Sadie a great pyrenees, Max a german shepherd, Angel a maltese/pomeranian mix, Adrian a shihtzu/chinese crested mix, Mose a lab/retriever mix, Phoebe a pomeranian, Gretta a poodle and Abby a lab? mix. Then we have 5 cats Storm, Sebastian, Sophie, Tigger and Hazel and 6 birds...

I saw your signature. Your collie dog Ladd was beautiful. I use to have a collie. I got her when I was 7 and she died when I was 17. She was the best...I've loved collies ever since ;]

[Maya & Inka's mommy]

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

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

[Queen of Poop]

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.

[3Catcondo]

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.

[boomersooner]

Hi, Pat and welcome aboard!!
My name is Shannon, and I live in a suburb of Dallas. I'm in my 25th year as the librarian at an elementary school (actually the one I attended!). I'm married to Mike, and I have two kids....Marc and Molly.

I joined Pet Talk about 2 1/2 years ago. At that time I had a wonderful Dalmatian named Cassie. She crossed the bridge 10 months ago at almost 15 years of age. We miss her a lot!

Presently, we have a black and white Springer Spaniel boy named Boomer. He'll be two in February. Last month, we added a liver and white Springer girl named Sooner. She's 2 1/2 months old. We are avid fans of the University of Oklahoma Sooners....so that is why we named them Boomer and Sooner.

Welcome, again!!

[Alysser]

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.