Thanks for the warm welcome!

Geez when Queen S says she's gonna introduce you - she wastes no time! I'm an old hat (and an old broad!) to the yahoo groups and while I have been a pet talk member for a couple of years I never have gotten active. Sooooo, my first few posts are going to be pretty plain jane until I figure out all the bells and whistles and fancy siggys you all are using.

I'll start out by saying that I rescued my first tabbyat age six. I named her Button Eyes cuz her eyes looked like big buttons (cut me some slack I was SIX! ) My mother had five kids and was always bringing home an abandoned cat, kitten, puppy or dog. We kids were allowed to have any small pet we wanted as long as we took responsibility for the care and feeding and loving of the baby. She taught us how to care for everything from birds, to white mice, to guinea pigs, to rabbits, to hamsters to fish. She taught us respect and how to love them. And she taught us that it was okay to grieve for them when it was their time to cross. Over the years our house was always filled with many different species all living together.

So I guess I come by this rescue thing naturally. I love all creatures but my passion is cats and there has only been one time and that was only for a few weeks where I haven't shared my life with a cat. But several weeks into college I found my first kitten who secretly shared my dorm room. After college my kitten and I "got our own place" and soon we became a multicat household when we went to a local shelter and picked out a friend for Misty.

Moving to Alabama in the 70's, we soon discovered feral colonies and began TNR and placement of kittens. My special needs "specialty" started upon rescue of our first family of feline leukemia babies who I was promptly told to pts by my vet and which of course fell on deaf ears. Now while we still have a special place in our heart for the leuk babies and always have several sharing our home, we now have a house full of CH babies, those with missing eyes, blind babies, deaf babies and those with missing limbs and other birth defects.

Not sure if there is a message length limit, but I am sure that I am fast approaching it so will close this now and begin introducing our family as we go along. Thanks again for the warm welcome. I look forward to meeting everyone. I know I have made some great friends on the various cat yahoo groups I belong to and may even know a few of you from them.

Headbonks! (I have attached - I hope! - a picture of MaxMan who would kill me if he wasn't first pic posted. He is our severe CH baby and our world revolves around his "bark" and call.

SpiritCat (mari) and the Mooseheart Mumpkees of southeastern Texas where it is already too dang hot!