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[krazyaboutkatz]

Hi Lily and welcome to PT!!! I'm so sorry to hear about your loss. I've lost 3 cats and it never gets any easier. PT is the best pet forum on the internet and most of people here are very friendly and wonderful people. All of my cats are rescues and I currently have Storm who is 15 1/2 years old, Sky who is 9 years old, Pearl who is 6 years old, Ziggy Stardust who is 5 years old, and twin brothers Alani & Blaze who are 1 year old.

When I lost my orange & white boy Sunny, it left a huge hole in my heart. I realized that I needed to adopt another male orangie but I knew he could never replace my RB Sunny. Well one turned into two and Alani & Blaze have really helped me to get over the loss of both Starr and Sunny. I hope that your landlord will let you have another cat to love and help heal your heart from your current loss. I hope you'll continue to post and enjoy your time here.

[tokolosh]

Hi Lily and welcome to PT!!!

Storm actually looks a lot like Limpet. I don't know much about breeds but there seem to be several types with that silvery graphite/hematite colour to them. I find any grey/silver cat automatically gets fifty free points from me, since Limpet. You're probably the same about orange and white after Sunny.

And I know what you mean about the orange/white temperament. Maybe its just hearsay or one of those myths that come to seem true because you always notice when something seems to fit it. But every orange cat I've ever heard of from their owners seemed to be that kind of easy-going laid back goofball. I call it the Garfield factor. Limpet was the opposite. She could be really funny because she was so earnest and intent and serious about everything she sometimes missed the point entirely. But I've always loved hearing about cats from the other end of the personality spectrum. I had a colleague once who had an orange tabby, and I used to practically turn her upside down and shake her to get BOSO stories out of her I could take home to my kid. She told me (in an apologetic whisper) that his name stood for Big Orange Stoopid One, but of course they never told him that. They let him think it was Japanese. And he liked it that his name was in CAPITAL LETTERS too

@Malibu's Mom - thanks for the suggestion about Memorials. I don't think I want to write one just yet - it's too formally 'over' to my mind when I do that. I'm probably gonna talk about her a lot anyway, just in a more 'regular' way. In real life I'm getting that effect from people that happens sometimes - they're so achingly sympathetic they completely avoid all subjects related to cats, so it's like she's just completely vanished.

[mrspunkysmom]

I thought I had posted earlier. I am sorry to hear about your loss.

You've mentioned kitty types. My Sam is a goofball, but he's not laid back. Jane is a Russian Blue and she is so serious. She does love to play, but always has that serious look on her face.

[Catty1]

I'm in Canada too, in the Western area. I am owned by three kitties - Oscar, Cole and Zoe, the latter a 10-year old girl who is a total wild kitten! I fostered her for the Humane Society last November, and she just moved herself in. Paying the money to adopt her was a mere formality!

Oscar


Cole


Zoe aka Wriggley Piglet!


I am truly sorry for your loss of Limpet. How did you come to choose her name? I found a photo of some limpets and they are striking:


Welcome!

[tokolosh]

I am truly sorry for your loss of Limpet. How did you come to choose her name? I found a photo of some limpets and they are striking

Lord, I don't know. My son has loved all cats and wanted one of his own from when he could first express himself. He had to wait 8 years until I finally felt we were stable enough to be fair to a cat. Somewhere in the middle of that time it came to our minds that when we finally did get a cat we'd call it Kipper. Don't know the reason for that one either, but it was another of my inexplicable left-brain ideas and we made a formal family pact about it. I guess I was thinking of someone like your Oscar there We had a grey tabby through my childhood who made me almost assume any other cat to enter our lives would be tabby too.

Anyway, move ahead several years and finally we're on our way home with this little grey wisp in its box on his lap and he's completely speechless with joy. I tend to keep promises, so I just found myself feeling uneasy and guilty as we got closer to home, and finally I came out with the confession I just somehow didn't feel like Kipper was the right name for her. All in the car agreed, and I said 'How about Limpet?' from left-field again, and it was done. She had the name before we even opened her box in the living room.

People tend to assume she got it because she must be clingy but it came to us before we'd even spent a whole hour with her. If I try to trace my logic at all, I think about the limpets I used to see on rocks in a whole other country. They were actually nothing like that picture so there must be many kinds. The kind in my mind were very small and neat and grey-blue in a grainy sort of colour texture. It was the smallness and neatness of them that did it. She WAS small, and just about the prettiest cat you ever saw.