What a lovely idea for a thread. Every word you said is true. PT is a wonderful community.

It would never have occured to me to join a chat forum for its own sake (well you hear such scarey stories about people who meet on the internet ). I always used to check Cat of the Day, but never looked at PT until my mum's cat was featured. We were just so excited by all the lovely messages he got from all over the place and I started to think about joining then, so that I could share pictures of my own cats. At no time did I think that it would become so important to me, or that I would come to care so much for the pets and people here. Now, there are just so many people here I would love to meet!

My only regret is that it is such a busy board, that it is totally impossible for me to read all the threads, so there must be loads of people that I don't know as well as I could. Then again, that could be a good thing. Just think of all those people I still might come to know!