I diden't know there were sites called Dogster and Catser. What kind of kitties do you have?

Debra

Debra,

I have the good old American housecat and lots of 'em.
I had 11 when last spring a momma kitty moved into my backyard and proceeded to have 2 litters before I could catch her and get her fixed.Now there are 18. They are all fixed and very spoiled!
This is a pic of my firstborn, Zeeke.

Do you have Puppies and/or kitties?

Kim

Aw, what a pretty cat Zeke is!

I have two dogs who are the loves of my life. Don't tell my husband. Just kidding...he already knows. ;) LOL!

Here's Simon helping me dig a bed this spring. What a great helper. :D Husband didn't like the idea of me teaching Simon to "dig" on command, so I dropped the training after this photo. :P

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And here's Angus (and me) after competing in a Rally Obedience trial. Please note the first place ribbon!!! :D

They have each earned all Rally titles and their Novice obedience titles. Now we are working on Open (the next level), but it is much harder so it will be a long while (maybe never?) before they get those! They are both four years old and were rescued/adopted from the Humane Association. I am so proud of them in case you hadn't picked up on that! LOL

I didn't know about Dogster or Catster either. I have 1 dog & 3 cats at this time. I'd probably have a lot more, but DH has conniptions every time he sees a new pet :)
Roady (short for Roadkill because he was in the middle of a busy intersection when I stopped my car & grabbed him by the tail)

Holly & Abbott (we recently lost our 14 year old Chow Abbott)

I love companion pictures. So sorry to hear about your Chow. 14 years is a long time and I know you miss Abbott. I like dogs, but I love cats. That is except for MY only dog who passed over in 1999, a black mixed breed that looked like a Lab. Her ashes are still with me as I can't bear to part with them yet. I have 4 rescue cats now. 4 is such a nice round number for me (and our towns legal limit). I cannot imagine how anyone didn't want these babies. I know everyone else's cats are nice but mine are perfect!-LOL

There isn't enough room on this forum for pics of all my animals. I feel like I am a pet rescue.

Sorry to hear about Abbott. I had to have my 15 year old mix put down in Feb. I swear I still hear her walking across the hardwood floors at night.

Maryl I wondered where all the perfect animals went cause I got all the messed up ones. LOL

Here is a list of our current family members.

Tard is a solid black cat. With attitude. We weren't sure what was wrong with him at first. We just thought he was retarded. Come to find out he is far sighted. He can't see anything until it is about 20 feet away from him. Noises scare him.

Stinky ragadoll persian cat. He got his name cause when he was little he had to be bathed everytime he went potty. When he was born his momma didn't have enough milk to feed him. He was the only kitten to survive the litter. But has very limited use of his back legs. He didn't even try to walk until I took him in. I believe he has cerebal palsy. I just can't afford the tests to have him diagnosed. He loves going out and laying under the daylilies.

Chocolate Sue is a black persian cat that can't meow cause she had sever canker sores in her mouth and throat. She almost starved to death before I took her in and got her to the vet.

Tiggy is a marble marked tiger cat. His family moved and couldn't take him. So I took him in. He's normal. lol

Also have 4 kittens that a feral momma cat dropped at my door then took off.

I have 4 Yorkies. Macy Mae,Pixie Sue, Benny Boo, and Simon

Cisco a Black Lab that was adopted from a prison training program. Very well behaved dog.

Addie Mae - Chocolate Lab Beagle Mix rescued as a baby.

And 28 Chickens.

I believe that is it for today. The list may grow tomorrow. LOL

Andrea

I love the posts about our animals.

I also have too many to post pics of all of them. We have Lola, a German Shepherd (and my best baby), and seven cats: Bosco (a stray we took in), Stella Purdy, Ethel Waffles (a Siamese mix with a broken leg we adopted), Squid (a very fat girl), and these three:

Cheese was from a feral cat's litter. He still acts like he's half-wild, but he's my favorite:

Luca Brasi was a tiny kitten when he wandered up our driveway a couple years ago. He looks part Maine coon:

And this is Mo Green, our one-eyed rescue. She loves to have her eye socket rubbed.

I'd love to see more!

Chris

Had never heard of the websites, thanks for that. Love seeing the pics. Had a Maltese as the kids were growing up but he passed away after 17 years!!! Loved him. Now I have become a 'cat lady'. Have always rescued cats, taking them to the shelter to have them fixed and placed for adoption. I also fostered a couple of kitties this past winter. I have of course Bowie who is very affectionate, his mother was dropped off here with five babies. All were taken care of and two adopted out. Kept Bowie, but no one wanted his mother, she is very shy, I suspect she was treated badly. I also have the sister Chloe, who is also shy, but a sweet cat. Here is a pic of the three together. Bowie, Mommie Kittie, and Chloe. They are a very closeknit family!! Bowie follows me everywhere when I am outside, which is of course all day long !! They stay outside and I have a shelter for them when the weather is cold.

Then I have Sweetums, who is my spoiled inside baby, never was going to have an 'inside' cat, my daughter found her abandoned at a park several years ago when she ( my daughter) was taking pictures, just before winter, she was starving, and we couldn't leave her. There were two kittens, and my daughter's boyfriend's mother took the other one. So Sweetums stayed in the house to recover from the surgery (spaying) and then I didn't know how the others would react to her and she is long haired. So needless to say she stayed in and I love having her in the house. She is very quiet and very well behaved. She has bonded completely to only me, hides when anyone comes over.
This is her living the good life.

Then lastly and once again never thought I would have a cat inside. This is scaggs. I named him scraggly, cause he was such a mess and no one knew what his name had been.

Very sad story, his owner who had been evicted from his home, just left his cat outside on the porch of the house, after he had been an inside cat for almost two years. There were a couple of businesses in the neighborhood and they would feed him, but not every day. I knew about it and couldn't stand it, so I took him to the vet, he had already been neutered. Other than being hungry, he was in good health. But he was a big mess. He had been living under a dumpster for awhile, (after crying on that porch for weeks,) and with his long fur, it was a disaster, so I took him to the groomers to have him cleaned up. He stayed in my garage then for a few weeks, while I tried to find a home for him, He is very loving, and seemed thrilled to be in a garage. I slowly introduced him to sweetums, and it worked out, so in he came and now i have the both of them inside and they get along great. He is the 'company' cat, cause he likes people, in spite of what he went through.

Boy that was long, sorry. Aren't you glad you started this!!!

Cindy

I love all the cat stories. And the dog stories. We have several rescues ourselves. They find us.
kay

These are such great stories. A lot of you have rescued! I think that's so awesome.

The "company" cat made me laugh. :D Simon is our "company" dog. He's soooo loving and adores all people. Angus is OK as long as you're female. Not so much with males. ;)

I have my cats on Catster. People always laugh when I tell them my cats each have their own web page, lol.

I have 5 cats, 3 being rescues. Two of them live in the garage. The plan was to get them in the house too, but it just hasn't worked out that way yet.

I have one that is diabetic and have gotten him off insulin, just by changing his diet. He has also lost weight. He once weighted 28lbs!!! Now he's 20lbs.

I love cats!
Janet

Bandit

Cocoa - Bandit's brother and my diabetic.

Pretty came with 4 kittens, which we found homes for, but Pretty stayed with us.
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Boots my gardening buddy.

Mittens we think she's related to Boots somehow (not his offspring), since she wandered into our yard and took an immediate liking to him and has stayed here since. She's still a little on the wild side.

Oh well. I wasn't going to show off my "Perfect" kitties, but since there appears to be fierce competition from all of the above I must.
Our newest addition is Yardley. He was a shelter adopted kitten by one of our neighbors who thought he'd be quite the play toy for their full grown dogs. I won't go into this poor cats trials as his story now has a happy ending. He's my baby boy and I adore him and he me.

Next comes Buster Brown (ginger/white) and Pepper (Tortie).
Buster was a street dump that I took in. My husband got Pepper from a shelter after my other beloved Tortie died. She's pretty goosey, but sweet as can be if there's no commotion going on. Here they are supervising the paint job in the living room.

Our oldest Bonita. We pulled her out from under a car in the parking lot of Walmart on a sweltering July 4th in 1999. She's laid back, but firm on who runs the show. Here she is practicing her Karate kicks just in case someone gets out of line:

I had never heard of Dogster or Catster either...how great! I just adore seeing everyone's helpers. I know for sure that gardening just wouldn't be the same without my gang.

I like cats, but am definitely more of a "dog person". We live in the woods, so not only are my dogs my helpers, but they also give me a sense of security when I am in my garden alone or home alone.

I am another person who thinks that it's great that so many people have rescued animals. My only rescue is my "Rott'n'Lab" Bonnie, who was going to be drowned because the pure bred Rottwiler mom had been "knocked up" unexpectedly. Who could possibly consider hurting such a wonderful little ball of fluff?

This is my long-time wolf pack:

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Lexy is 16, and her health is failing fast. I know that I will lose her this year, and it will tear me up as she is the best dog I have ever had. For this reason, I decided this spring to add a new member to my gang...mostly in hopes that Lexy will be able to teach her the rules of the hill this summer. This is my newest member, Phoenix. She is already a wonderful garden helper, although she likes to chomp the flowers as well as admire them...something we are working quite agressively on stopping before daylily season is in full swing!

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Julie

Ha! Ohhh, look at little Phoenix!! I just want to smooch her!

Oh My Gosh, my DH and I were just looking at this thread and he said, "Well at least we aren't the only crazy people in the world." Our animals are the reason I can't afford to buy daylilies, lol. Yours are all beautiful, thank you all for caring. We currently have 20 stray/feral cats, plus the 4 at my Mom's, she lives on my property. We have 4 dogs, 2 of them being my daughter's. All are spayed/neutered. Here is the lastest one, Gypsy, with my Grandbeagle, Basil. Gypsy came running down our road about 2 weeks ago screaming her head off. When she got midway of our property, she stopped sniffed the air and ran straight into our driveway:

Bubba, a feral raised on a bottle from 2 weeks of age, his mom abandoned the whole litter:
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Tiny, rescued from an abandoned house, eyes not even open yet, mom dead in the road, so weak he had to be fed on an eye dropper every two hours:
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Kittle, who showed up the night before Mother's day 4 years ago, very tiny and very tenacious:
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I could go on and on but won't bore you anymore. Oh, Gypsy is bob tailed along with my baby Bobbert who was born here from the neighbors cat, we had her and all 4 boys fixed:

I used to do catster and dogster, but no longer have time to keep up with it.

Sharon

I just love everyones stories and pics. It's wonderful so many of you have rescued pets.

Connietn: I would love to have a dog who could dig on command. My mom always joked about teaching Zeeke to do that. LOL

ngraham: I'm sorry you lost Abbott, pets are family and I know it hurts. Holly is adorable and I love Roady's unique name.

Andrea: I thought I had a full house!!! How do you keep up?

Chris: There is too much cuteness for words in those pics.

Cindy: They say cats are like potao chips. One cat just leads to another :-)

Kay : your right somehow they do find us. Even when we aren't looking.I wouldn't change that ever.

Janet: That is a beautiful bunch of kitties. i'll try to look you up on catster.

Maryl: I think all kitties are purrfect. Some are just better at showing it :-)

Julie: It is hard knowing time is short. I hope you have more time than you think you will. There are some really hadsome doggies there and that Phoenix is cute as a button! I'd like to smooch her too.

Kim