Quote Originally Posted by Barbara View Post
Believe it or not: there is a little Steiff kitty which came with the name Tabby and tabby she is and she sits close to my bed. All my real life kitties started to think she is the same as they are and had to go real close and sniff her before they knew.
Tabby is now over 50 years old and her fur is not as shiny and long as it used to be- but this is the same for me I was never allowed to have a kitten when I was a kid - but there was Tabby

I was also having a lot of Steiff animals and I loved playing with them (much more than with dolls, btw), of course there was also a kitty among them, a grey one with white paws... But my favourite was an elepfant that I had named Sokrates. A couple of years ago, I sold all my Steiff animals; Sokrates was the only one I kept.