What caught my eye with your group... Was the picture of the white kitty. November 16th Sophie-Kins went to the great beyond.. Cat Heaven. She was 18 years old, and was a giant white domestic short hair. Kinda like the picture. And my best friend for sooo long. My first kitty was named Puffy. She was half persian & half siamese.

Currently I have two pomeranians. Both girls.. Oldest is Hyedee, a party pom, and youngest is LuLu. They ARE my kids. I have no human children.

Currently only have one cat, but when I lived with my parents it was him and 6 others! Crazy cat family.

Russell, Angelo, Sunny (have with me), Lola, Tucker, Cecil, and Aiyana.

I have ALWAYS had pets as a child...from fish to rabbits to snakes to birds. i had never had a cat bc my mom didnt like tht. i got my first cat when I was in high school...but not on purpose. The got a second for a short period of time after that. HOWEVER...the love of my life (besides music) came into my life 4yrs ago. She was born on Christmas night. I adopted her from my coworker after sh was only 11 days old and she has been like my own child ever since. She is my one and only child and is spoiled as such!!!

Your cats are all so gorgeous! I have 2 little babies, who arnt so little anymore, Clive and Millie are 2yrs 8months. See my profile picture. I'm glad too hear so many of you have rescue kitties. I volunteer at 2 adoption centres, there are so many lovely little kitties there that need homing!

I have 2 cats. Lily, the one in the pic is now 6 years old. I've had her for 4 years and she's finally becoming a cuddler. Although when she's done with pets or cuddling, she will let you know - she's still a biter/scratcher, but I figure she had a hard life. She's a lot skinnier now but she has the shortest little legs so she can't jump very far....it's too cute.

Our other cat, Molly, is 4 and she's a balinese and absolutely gorgeous. My fiancees mom rescues siamese, and they picked up Molly, and Anthony fell in love with her immediately so she came to live with us. Her original name was Posche Fluffers, which did not work for me.

It took them a few months but they do get along with each other, but now I don't think they could be apart. They wrestle all the time and will give little drive-by kisses or nuzzles. It's adorable.

My fur baby is Hawkeye, seen in my profile pic. He is a Ragdoll, 11 months old, and quite the personality. He wakes e up in the middle of the night for a feeding by tapping in my arm or face with his paw. He has helped me tremendously already, he calms me down from a stressful job.

Two pound kitties, both siamese mixes. We went to the pound for ONE cat....they were having a 2 for 1 sale....sigh! Got them as kittens, now they are 8 (I think!) BTW, my childhood cat lived to be 25 (full blood siamese.) My parents got her when I was 7. She died when I was 32.

I had a fluffy white cat called Duchess who died recently. I adopted her when she was about a year old, from a local shelter. She'd been found pregnant and all her kittens were homed. She had big green eyes and always liked to have the last word, usually "MAH!" I would say she could pronounce exclamation marks. She lived with me until she was 12 years old and I did think I'd have a few more years with her. In April I noticed she wasn't eating much at all. I tried a few things like changing her food but that only worked a little bit. I took her to the vet thinking she probably had some dental pain, but to my shock, the vet found a tumour in her intestine. Initially I was going to have her operated on to remove it, but the blood tests showed she had no protein in her body to fight infection or help her to heal and the vet thought the chances of her surviving the operation were remote and even if she did, it was very likely the tumour would return. I didn't want her to die without me there. She was my baby and didn't like being separated from me. So I held her in my arms and told her how good and beautiful she was, and how much we loved her, and the vet slowly gave her the injection, so that she just fell asleep in my arms. I miss her very much and wish I could have her back, but I didn't want her to suffer. She's buried in our garden and I've planted a ceanothus over her grave. When I pass her little grave on my way out to walk the dog, I say "hello sweetheart" and again when I come home.

We have six kitties, (well really they have us), four dogs all share the same space.

I love all the pics and cat-love in this thread! My son rescued a tiny kitten two years ago. It followed him home in the rain, and we, being a household of suckers, took her in. We thought she was 5-6 weeks, but she was actually 10 weeks - she's just runty! She's still (older) kitten-sized at 2 years old. She's the sweetest, most affectionate, funny little creature ever! She's so attached to us that she has a nightly routine when we all go to bed - first she waits at the foot of my son's bed and waits for him to fall asleep. Then she goes in and stays with my grandma until SHE falls asleep. Then she hangs out with me, the night owl, and when I wake up in the morning, she face-smooshes me good morning. She's so friendly! I've never met a cat that's as loving and sweet and funny. Her name is Ophelia, but we all call her Opie. This is my furry marshmallow (I don't know how to embed photos):

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