Welcome EssTer, you are new but have accomplished a great thing already! You got Karen (the Mayor of PetTalk) to post a recent picure of Miss Hoppy Many of us "regulars" have been trying to get her to do that for ages I live in the state of Maryland, just outside Washington DC and have 7 dogs - several are Australian Shepherd mix, and some Border Collie mix, and 5 cats. I am a widow and my grown son, his wife and their two teenage boys live with me (some of the dogs & cats are actually theirs). I have met several of the people here at PetTalk at some meetings where several of us get together and everyone I've met has been wonderful - men, women, children and best of all ANIMALS. Welcome.

Laurie