My Cat Family

After spending $60 in Fancy Feast today, I decided to post about my cat family. I'm madly in love with all of them and there is nothing I wouldn't do for any of them (well, I wouldn't donate a kidney...) but they surely do cause me to spend an inordinate about of time sucking up hair!

Here they are in order of age:

Nate, my oldest, is 12. He's a gorgeous black and white man with the most gentile attitude of any cat I've known. Nothing stresses him out! He is not a lap cat but he does like to be near you all the time and sometimes touching which just makes me smile:) He is a big manly cat but extremely rarely does he show that side of him. He's just one giant pussycat and I love him to death.

Ruby - she's my orange girl. Very feral except at mealtime and then she thinks my husband and I are complete idiots as she's all over us, rubbing and meowing in that sweet little voice. Ruby is a full figured woman and loves loves loves her food! She is 8 and I'm sad to say, will never enjoy being petted as she was 5 months old when I took her in from the streets. She is a happy girl though so if she doesn't want to have human contact, that's fine with me. I love her just the same.

Lurch - oh where to start about dear Lurchie. He got his name because all he really does is make primal grunts. Lurchie really was born as the product of incest I'll bet. He came off the streets and I got him to give dear Ruby some company. Lurch is a solid black boy who had had a chronic illness (IBD) his whole life. He may not live as long as a "normal" cat but he is so special to me and I'm so glad he's part of our cat family! PS Lurchie is 8 just like Ruby.

Jazzer Dingleberry - oh Jazzer - what can I say? The Jazzman is 6 and he is one total panther full of piss and vinegar! Jazzer came to us as a foster kitten. He was feral but had tamed up well (so we thought!). He got adopted, stayed a week (the other cat in the house hated him and it stressed his new parents out terribly) so we took him back to foster him again. You know how that went. Yep. Still here. Jazzer was fine until we kept adding to our feline family. Seems he is the jealous type. He picks a cat to terrorize and will stop at nothing until they are beaten down and petrified! We have literally tried everything on the market (Feliway, Rescue Remedy, plus prescription drugs) and the thing that works the best for him is Prozac. Unfortunately, he is super hard to medicate so we don't always get it in him. THOSE days - I just warn my cats that there is an extremely pissed off black panther patrolling the house and to steer clear! Jazzer upsets my whole family but you know, what do I do? I wouldn't give him up if he were a human child and had an attitude. We just try to steer the other cats clear of his path on his unmedicated days and hope for the best.

Reesie - Poor little girl, she's my tortie and has the tortie attitude to go with it! She was brought to our adoption stand in a box as a stray kitten. The people who found her thought she was a male and named her "Reese". I brought her home to foster and when my husband opened up the box, he gasped. REALLY. Reesie is just - well, how can a mother say this - she is butt ugly:) My husband calls her BUG for butt ugly girl. She doesn't have the best disposition (yes, I think I have mostly dysfunctional cats) but she's ours and we love her just the same (even though her momma was probably a possum.). She is 5.

Emma - oh gosh - a true calico! Can you believe I have both a tortie and a calico living in the same house - talk about perpetual PMS!!! Miss Emma was a stray, she was found living in a recycle bin. She was brought in to a foster home as an adult. I found out why she was probably abandoned shortly after I made her mine. She is a pee'er. Yep. Totally an emotional pisser. Never does it unless she is mad or upset (due to lack of 24/7 attention by ME!). So - I've invested in lots of carpet cleaner, plastic covers for the beds, etc. and Emma is here to stay with her calico attitude and all. Oh and she HATES other cats. She's also 5.

Frankie - the "Frankster" is the one most often the subject of Jazzer's attacks. Frankie wasn't the sweetest cat ever to begin with (another black feral kitten foster) but he is probably even more timid than he would normally have been. He's sweet when he can grow some gonads but he sort of hangs in the background and has one or two "buds" he hangs with. Frankie is a gorgeous 4 year old black man!

Dannielynn - aka Dani. Miss Dannielynn came to us as a foster in the midst of the Anna Nicole story so we named her after her daughter. Dannielynn is SUPER sweet (we deserve her!!) and is so very happy. She loves everyone, especially the men of the house, and she can always find someone to bathe her! She is a positively gorgeous brown tabby with the roundest face you've ever seen. She is about 2 years old and we are madly in love with her and the love she brings to this otherwise strange cat family!