Originally posted by Miss Meow

Sometimes it's totally innocent: Catmandu got a lot of replies to his birthday thread in the cat forum but not in this forum. Why? Because he's well known on the cat side and those of us who know him know that he isn't able to spend long at the computer and come to the general side very often. While it might look a bit clannish to the casual observer, I thought it was a sweet gesture to make sure he saw the good wishes on his birthday.
This is exactly why I started that thread on Cat General. Thanks Nicole for reading my mind.

I love cats and dogs (and in a life with less work and more space around the house I would probably have both) but actually it is the cat side where I found my closest online friends. I have no idea how I figured them out in the first year- and I still think it is a miracle that some of them turned out to be purrfect real life friends as well- my age, similar ideas about life- incredible


Now my time is limited- (we had that thread about everyone feeling guilty for not posting enough ) and so I try to follow the stories of people and pets who are closest to my heart.

However it makes me happy to see that there are many groups of friends here and I think in general they are open and overlap. Of course if you post in another forum (I will soon post some pictures of my mom's dog in DG) then you don't have the same status as a regular poster- but I think that's ok. It is the same when you start- you are a new kid on the block.

But daily there are people who become regulars. I enjoyed that the Chritsmas list was not constricted to one forum. Since then I know some more Dog people too.