How Well Do We Know Eachother?

[ChloeLove]

This is a good idea! I feel so sad that I never got to know Jess.

Well, my name is Amanda, sometimes called Mandy and sometimes called Caytie (my middle name is Catherine) and I will be thirteen in 21 days. I am owned by two WONDERFUL guinea pigs named Dexter and Scooter, a teeny-tiny turtle named Maxwell, two adorable cats named Clara and Dozer, and a tiny Bichon Frise dog named Chloe Colette. I love my friends and I love children, so the thing I want to be more than anything when I get (much) older is a mom! And an obstetrician.
I 'work' for free as a camp counselor for 5 and 6 year olds. I love the outdoors and I really love swimming and dancing.

By the way, Little Scribbles is adorable! I can't wait to have my own! (in the future, lol)

[sheltielover]

Originally posted by ChloeLove


By the way, Little Scribbles is adorable! I can't wait to have my own! (in the future, lol)

Thanks, Amanda!! Yes, you have a LONG way to go until you have your own.....

[Foam]

Wow, you are all so interesting! I'm glad I'm getting to know some of you!

[momoffuzzyfaces]

Originally posted by slick
Hello, my name is Vickie and I'm addicted to Pet Talk!!

Oh, oh, wrong meeting

I'm probably old enough to be a grandmother to you all. I turn 51 next month and I live alone with two cats, Speckles (16) and Max (10). My main goal in life is to help people and animals. Material possessions mean nothing to me.

Sorry, Slick, you can't be my grandmother because I'm 52.

My name is Connie and I have 3 cats: Leonardo who will be 13 next month, Luke who is 10, and Chester who is 3. I also have a stray named Grandma who is an outside cat. She doesn't care for other cats so I can't bring her in to join the mob. I've loved animals my entire life and always had dogs, cats, a bunny or two, hamsters and an assortment of other critters until my health got so I can't take care of them. When my dog went to the RB, I just stuck with cats because they are lower in maintenance. I'm disabled with arthritis and spend lots of time on PT. I love seeing everyone else's animals. The people at PT have become like family to me. I love all of you.

[Sevens]

Hi, my name is Stephanie. I am 26 years old. I live in Richmond, VA in an old section of town called "The Fan". I've been married since March to Brian (who joined PetTalk this past weekend, user name Venger), although we've been together since March 1999. I've been coming to PetTalk since summer of last year, but only in Nov/Dec did I join. heheh...Kim talks about meeting people on the Internet. That's how I met Brian!

I work in the medical credentialing field. If you'd like to learn more about it, go to www.namss.org. I've been doing this type of work since I was 16. I just became certified by NAMSS in Nov. 2002.

I've got two dogs, Bailey and James. Bailey is a pit/lab mix and James is chow/sheperd mix. We adopted Bailey in February of this year and we adopted James last Sunday!

When I am not working, I like spending time with my husband, reading, writing, playing with the doggies, and going to local events aroud town. Also, when I get the time, I love taking my husband and the doggies to Virginia Beach, where most of my family live.

By the way sheltielover, the baby is so cute! Congrats! hehe...my aunt just found out the day before yesterday that she is not just pregnant...she's gonna have twins! it will be the second set of twins born in my family within the past year! The way I look at it, it's great that there will be so many babies in our family now, nobody will bother me about when will my husband and I start having kids.

[primabella]

My name is Liana and I am 15, going onto 16, years old. I live in Quebec, Canada with my parents, two sisters, brother, 2 birds and dog. I like to spend my time online, with friends, drawing, or anything involves animals. I like watching any comedy shows or movies and love to make my own friends and family laugh. I love music and singing songs or making them up off the top of my head (even when they don't make sense).

I try not to be greedy and appreciate everything I have. What happened to Jess helped me understand how short our lives can be and I hope I can start making each one of my days better by doing something more valuable then sitting down on the computer all day or staying cooped up in my house. I originally wanted to be a vet but now am trying for advertising and will be going to college soon.

I may be a bit mean on the board sometimes, and I'm sorry. PT is a great place and I'm so happy I followed the link that a girl posted on another board. This place is like another family to me, not a board where a bunch of people just post messages for no reason and don't care for eachother. Thank you Karen and Paul for the board and thank you PT members for making it what it is.
I'm getting a bit sentimental here...I'm sorry. When I get older, I hope to maybe work at a shelter and take in animals that need a home. And most importantly, I hope to have children and get them to join the PT family!

[slick]

Nice to meet someone my own age Connie!! I didn't think there were any other baby-boomers here. Sorry to hear of your medical problems. I hope you have plenty of local support.

[Karen]

I edited Foam's post to take out her last name and city. It's not smart if you are a child to post both in a public place. We like to think of Pet Talk as our own community, but it IS public, and anyone can read these posts.

In case anyone is wondering, yes, she did get parental permission to me to be here, that is why she is allowed even though she is not yet 13.

Now -

My name is Karen, I live outside of Boston Massachusetts. I'm a grown-up, am now 39 years old, so Slick, you can't be my grandma anyway, either. I am a graphic artist and work as an Art Director for a magazine, as well as building websites with Paul, who is the co-founder of PetoftheDay.com and the whole family of sites, the Administrator of Pet Talk and before all that even, he is my husband! Right now we have one pet, Miss Hoppy, the cutest little brown bunny you ever did see! She would like cooler weather, please.

[binka_nugget]

What a wonderful idea.

My name's Ashley and I'm 15. I'll be 16 in november. I live in Vancouver, BC and currently live with my mom, dad, grandma, younger brother (12) and sister (6)..that makes me the oldest. I'll be going into grade 11 in september along with math 10 lmao. I failed math...I guess it's not my strong point. After highschool, I plan on taking a course at the "animal behavior college" out in bc. I originally wanted to be a vet but I couldn't stand the thought of putting down animals so I decided I wanted to train dogs because it's what I enjoy most.

As for hobbies...when I'm not on the computer (very rare), I'm either pigging out, watching tv or both. I try to draw occasionally but nothing ever comes out quite the way I expect it so I'm still practicing.

Before Kai, the only pets I had were fishes. I had about 5 at one time and they all died the same day. I was at my cousin's for a sleepover at the time so I didn't know what went wrong. About 5 years after the fish incident, I got Kai. I've wanted one since I was about 2 or so but my mom never allowed me to get one. In those 12 years, I researched ALOT. I knew more about dogs than some of my friends who actually had a dog. After years and years of begging, I talked my mom into it. Actually...she never really said yes...lol. At first, I wanted to volunteer at the shelter and walk the dogs. After asking about volunteering, I ran off to see the dogs. My mom naturally followed...and we looked at the dogs. After that, we started going to other shelters to look at the dogs. We only went to the shelters to look...we were never serious about adopting...at least..my mom wasn't. One day, we found Lupe a BcX. We were going to adopt him a few days later because we had to tell my dad first...he got adopted before we could get back...then after that, my mom was serious about getting a dog. Weird how it works...

Anywho enough blabbering about me...

[GoldenRetrLuver]

Good Idea...

Hi, my name is Julianne, but everyone calls me Julie. I am 13 years old going on 14. I live in Los Angeles, California with my mom, dad, sister, 2 dogs, 2 cats, a hamster, and 6 desert tortoises. I love chatting online, checking message boards (obviously ) , spending time with my family and friends, anything to do with animals and playing and caring for my pets. I want to be a veterinarian when I grow up, but if not, I would love to train dogs to work as Guide Dogs or Assistant dogs.

My golden retriever, Daisy is the joy of my life. Shes my baby. She is the one who brightens my day whether its begging for a belly rub or playing fetch. If it wasn't for her who knows the kind of person I would be instead of what I am now. Shes my best friend. I hope for many more fun filled years with her.

My collie Molly is a goof-nut. Shes always there to make me laugh. She has great personality even though she is very timid around new people. Her favorite T.V show is Animal Planet (she actually watches it and barks at the dogs..I told you shes my goofy..hehe..) I can't imagine my life without her, I hope for many more happy years with her.

What happened to Jessica made me realize how fragile life really is. One day your here, the next your not.... I won't ever take life for granted again. I will always cherish every day and live life to the fullest.

[Foam]

Karen, I'm not a baby. I'm sure nobody could find me..Phoenix is a pretty big city. I can take care of myself..

Okay more about Darlin!
Darlin is one hell of a character. One minute she's romping and rough housing with me, squeaking balls and chewing up her toys, and the next she in your lap snuggling with you, and..loudly sleeping. Lmao, she snores..LOUD.
She enjoys digging, and BARKING! She will bark til the Roadrunners come home. She'll bark, bark, bark at nothing..It's the most annoying bark ever, A little yippy noise. Uuugh, can't stand it, but I love her anyways. She's caused quite a few falls in our backyard. She digs so many holes, that people step in them, and my mom actually got her foot stuck in one a while back!

[Karen]

Originally posted by Foam
[B]Karen, I'm not a baby. I'm sure nobody could find me..Phoenix is a pretty big city. I can take care of myself..

I never said you were a baby. I just said it is NOT smart for young person to reveal his or her first and last name AND city/state publicly. This is for your own protection. Thinking you'll be fine, and are invulnerable is part of being twelve. Trust us who have been there, and don't post your last name.

[Foam]

Being a 'young person' doesn't mean I can't protect myself..in PUBLIC.

[wolfsoul]

My name is Jordan and I'm 15. I'll be 16 in October. I live in Kelowna, British Colubia, Canada. I have one 5 year old brother. I'll be going into grade 11 when September rolls around. Next summer I want to try and take a ten week dog grooming course.

My hobbies are my pets (duh), my computer (another duh lol), reading, singing, and biking.

When I'm older I want to have a catahoula leopard dog, a bi-colour german shepherd, lots of ratties, a skunk, a bird, and maybe some other exotic animals. I also want to own an animal shelter and a rattery.

I am having some health problems right now. My doctor thinks I have alopecia. I'm going to go to a dermotologist in August. It is really annoying to have my eyelashes grow and fall out again constantly. I lost about half of my hair on my head, and it looks really stupid, all those baby hairs sticking up.

Before the pets I have now, I had: Bear (black newfoundland dog), Lady (grey and white cat), Spudz (brindle/white american bulldog), Roxy, (gray cat), Stitch (white german shepherd / doberman/ border collie/ lab cross), Cheeko (red siberian husky), Polar (white german shepherd dog), Otis (black and white border collie / collie cross), Ditto (Grey and white tabby cat), Zodiac (mackeral tabby cat), Duke (orange long hair cat), Fink (standard champagne self fancy rat), Samurai (chocolate chesapeake bay retriever / american cocker spaniel cross), Gingy (gold/purple goldfish), Goober (orange gold fish), Mr. Blubber (orange and white oranda (sp?) ) Trixi (orange/ white/ black goldfish), Icarus I (slate gerbil), Havoc (fawn velveteen double rex fancy rat).

[Tina]

My name is Tina and I'm 22 years old. I've been married to my wonderful husband Rob since September 25,1999. We are proud parents to a 3 and 1/2 year old daughter Kaitlynn. And we are excepting our second baby November 2,2003. My husband is a welder and I'm a stay at home mom. And we live in West Virginia.

We are owned by 2 dogs Ginger-Miniature Pinscher mix and Ruff- Collie/Spitz mix. We also have 4 cats Gus,Fuzzy Wuzzy,Ozzie and Tigger, 1 bird Feathers,1 guinea pig- Wiggy Pig and 1 rabbit- Hershey.

My hobbies are collecting anything with horses on it. And I like Ford Mustangs, My Pets, Animals and spending time with my family.