Hey Pam! and anyone w/ ginger kitty experience......

[Gina]

Hey people! did you see the cat of the day photo? Peanuts and Pumkin! Ah! the cutiest ginger puddings I ever did see !

[Gina]

Hey Spencer! way to go! a new purdytat! Wow!...but...eh?...by "foster" do you mean you got to give her back?

[4 feline house]

To add to Spencer's info-
Some of the groups that have shelters also have foster programs, to decrease the number of animals that have to be euthanized. For instance, the North Texas Humane Society has a very large shelter, but still does not have enough room for all the healthy, otherwise adoptable pets. Nt only are they a non-profit animal welfare organization, they also contract with alot of the smaller Fort Worth suburbs to provide municipal animal control services, and they are also the official cruelty investigating authority for the western part of the Dallas-Fort Worth area, so even with their large facility they are short on space. (Yes, Spencer and I are neighbors!) So they accept volunteers to foster animals. NTHS will screen the potential adopters, who will adopt the animal while it's still in foster care, or take back the animal when it is ready to be adopted, for instance, a litter of babies that were weaned in foster care. There is no need to take them to the adopt-a-pets in these situations, because their adoptions are handled through the shelter. The adopters visit your home with a shelter employee/volunteer, or you can take the animal up to the shelter for a potential adopter. That way you don't have to worry about strangers coming to your house. Most of the shelters that have foster programs will handle medical care, but food is up to the foster parent.

It's a very worthwhile and noble thing to do if you have the space and time, and no pet restrictions in your lease. Let's all hear it for Spencer, and anyone else out there who fosters!

[Linelle]

Cosmo is our first orange cat. I had been told they are something else, and it's true! He's incredibly sweet and has a very expressive face for a cat. He's always been a biter when he plays, or to say, that's enough. He's also been Cat of the Day!
http://catoftheday.com/archive/2000/April/17.html

[Catcrazed]

Our ginger (Orange) Tabby never shut's up! She must be part Siamese as I've heard they are very talky indeed.

[Catcrazed]

And she is Definitely a she! Few! She gives new meaning to the phrase catty. She is suuuuch a gossip!

[nsweezie]

Orange is my absolute favorite color for cats. My Scooter is orange and white, and he is a real talker. He meows all the time, when he wants something, or just to let me know where he is.
Scooter had 2 brothers and a sister in his litter. One brother was orange like him, one brother was black, and Scooter's sister was orange too.
I have one question- does anyone else's orange cat have freckles? Scooter has several on his nose, and around his mouth. My vet said that freckles are actually quite common in orange cats.

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[4 feline house]

Yes! In fact, my vet said it was a virus that usually showed up by the time they were adults, but it does not make them sick or anyhting, so you don't have to worry about it.

[Pam]

Yes, Trevor has those freckles. The vet also told me it was common in orange kitties.

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[Gina]

This is goin' a while! Wow!

"Cosmo":- What a fantastic Ginger specimen! He's georgeous! Hhhmmmm!

Rufus has freckles either side of his nostrils, which make him look as though he's been digging in the dirt! He actually does dig sometimes....weirdo cat! !

Also, he's not the baby anymore, Merlin is and he's black, with the palest green eyes I've ever seen in cat!

[Buddy2101]

Hey my ornge kitty Hoss never meows only when he feels he is bing miss treated (being picked up touched looked at) but our other ornge kitty Buddy never will shut up he loves to voice his opionino! But for that we are great full because oen day we were out fora walk and he got scared slid out of his leash and took off. We formed a search party. We were walking and we were yellign kitty kitty buddy !! (the neigbors thought we were crazy) But here we are yellign so we sarted t ohead home when we ehard a meow! We all yelled Buddy and startd to call him! He was hideing under a shed! So eb thankfull fro your kittys voice!


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Nikki and Buddy

The Egyptians thought cats were Queens, cats will never let us forget it

[Pam]

Spencer...I have that picture framed on my wall!! It is precious! It is from the David McEnery collection "Classic Cats" if anyone is interested. Each year I buy his calendar! Love those photos!


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[Pam]

Andy is on my PC background. It's a close-up that I took of him that I just love. I love seeing his little face pop onto my screen when I turn my computer on each day.

[Gina]

Wow! Spencer!

I am actually wearing a t-shirt w/ this hammock kitty on the front, right now!! The signature is "Harrison!"

[AvaJoy]

I am finally getting around to sharing a picture (hope it comes up!) of my young ginger tabby, Meeshe. I at first thought he was to be a blonde tabby, but his coat is darkening. He was wandering about in town on Xmas Eve morning, and with a zillion errands to run I STILL couldn't stop thinking about how friendly his approach seemed; he immediately rubbed up against me as I knelt down to pet him, then tried to jump onto my lap. So on Xmas day I took my cat carrier and went back into town looking for him - no luck. In the evening I went again looking, and was successful.

Before I could take him to the vet, he stayed out on the porch (I have an elderly female cat inside) and I spotted him up on the roof several times! Quite communicative; he would jump up and hang by his front claws on the door so he could look in the door window and meow, as if to plead: "Why can't I come inside with you??". He is quite a character, and has the sweetest disposition. He has one dark whisker which looks strange because it doesn't match his coloring. I keep waiting to see when it will shed so I can save it. (I save the claws and whiskers that my Lily cat sheds, if I happen to find them. How eccentric is that??). The tip of his tail is white, not ginger. Seems to me the tips of most orange or ginger cats tails are dark, yes?

Sadly, he is FeLV+ and when the vet's office called to inform me they wanted to know if I still wished to go ahead and neuter him, or . . . Well, my response was: "Of course proceed with neuter" as he deserves to enjoy whatever life has to offer. It may not be a long one, but I will do whatever it takes to make it a comfortable one. He is thus far asymtomatic and enjoying himself immensely!




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Regards ~ AvaJoy
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