Kitty Pics part I....pic and text heavy!

[Tanya]

Ok this is the start of a brief bombardment of kitty pics.....just tell me to stop when you've had enough :Z I will start with my 3 dear departed girls, sorry a bit of a long post but I want to tell their story as well......

Pat and Lucy

I got Pat and her daughter Lucy when I was working at an wildlife rescue park in Anglesey during my uni hols. The RSPCA turned up one day with an owl, but also had a rural 'wild' cat and her kittens in the back that had been captured. They were going to rehome the kittens but the mum was going to be pts as they said she was too wild to ever be homed. The owner of the park said I'll take them all, and I ended up giving a home to 'wild' mum and one of the kittens.

This was Pat....it took a couple of years before she would come and sit on your lap, but she eventually turned into the most affectionate, soppy cat ever. Her daughter Lucy was a real character from the word go and we got her young enough that she became tame very quickly.

Pat and Lucy lived with me in several student houses, and always adapted to a new home very quickly. Eventually student homes turned into just me, Emma and Pat and Lucy. They came and lived in Oslo with us for a couple of years, and luckily the pet passport came into operation whilst we were out there so they didn't have to go into quarantine on the way home (no quarantine on the way out as it was from a rabies free country). They were the first 2 cats through the channel tunnel from Norway!

Then in 2004 Lucy became ill with Leukemia and very quickly went downhill...she was pts at home after a week :062:

A month later almost to the day I had a call from the vets saying they had Pat and she had died after being run over....I wouldn't believe it as I had seen her in the house an hour before.....we were so devastated after Lucy that this was almost unbearable, and didn't make sense as she had never ventured close to roads in the 12 yrs we had them....it was almost as if she couldn't be around without Lucy....

We still cry over them, but usually happy tears, as they were such a funny, affectionate pair of cats....:078:

Pat

http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z49/screamingswifts/Patonrug.jpg


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Pat and Lucy

http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z49/screamingswifts/PatandLucyasleep.jpg

Lucy

http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z49/screamingswifts/Lucyasleep.jpg

Dixie

After a while it became far too quiet with just Baghee (we had got him from the rspca after coming back from Oslo) and as Emma had always wanted a Siamese we looked for one, also knowing it would be the complete opposite of Pat and Lucy, so there could be no comparisons.

We found Indy and also a 3/4 oriental kitten to have as a companion. This was Dixie, the most beautiful cat I have ever seen, with stunning classic tabby patterns. Indy and her got on well and were a pair of trouble makers. Baghee adored her too, as he has a real 'thing' for tabbies :078:
Unfortunately, virtually a year to the day that we lost Lucy, Dixie also went down with Lukemia...she had all her jabs, and hadn't gone outside for the first few months but had a huge tumor in her chest...the vet said it was most likely caught from her mother and had been developing since birth....so we had to say goodbye to Dixie as well :062:

She was with us only 9 months, but will always stay in my memory.....

http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z49/screamingswifts/Dixie.jpg

Dixie and Indy

http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z49/screamingswifts/DixieandIndyasleep.jpg

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Dixie and Baghee

http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z49/screamingswifts/DixieandBaghee-1.jpg

http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z49/screamingswifts/Dixie2.jpg

[Meerkat]

:078: lovely pics :077:

[Beth]

They are beautiful girls:077: please keep going, as your cats are gorgeous and i love hearing the stories of how people got their pets.

[Pink Gundog]

Aww Tanya they are fabulous pictures!! I used to have 2 Tonkinese cats and miss them dreadfully, so if anyone knows of a kitten needing rescued id love another tonkinese or simese

[Meerkat]

Aww Tanya they are fabulous pictures!! I used to have 2 Tonkinese cats and miss them dreadfully, so if anyone knows of a kitten needing rescued id love another tonkinese or simese


I know of a tonkinese mix litter of kittens (yeah the mix part is believed to be the ginger tom) and the owners want ...............





wait for it





















£100 each :032::012::058:

[lisalh]

Great pics Tanya and lovely to read about your cats-you love of them shines through your post (however long they were with you they were v lucky cats)

[Foxy Roxy]

I saw this post at work but waited til I got home to read it all properley, lovely to read about your kitty cats and how they arrived with you. Our Daisy (she died about 5yrs ago :062:) was a feral kitten, she was a funny girly but I had such a special bond with her - like you with Lucy and Pat. Lucy & Pat have such beautiful eyes :077:

Little Dixie was such a cutie, a really cheeky look in his eye. So sorry to hear you lost him to Leukemia. We lost one of ours years ago to it, and although I don't remember it (it was about 20yrs ago, I was about 2yrs old), my Mum still wells up if it ever gets mentionned. :062:

The second pic od Indie and Dixie is so beautiful, a lovely photo to remember Dixie by.

All the photos of your cats are so lovely, they look so happy and content. :078:

Thanks for posting :)

[Pink Gundog]

I know of a tonkinese mix litter of kittens (yeah the mix part is believed to be the ginger tom) and the owners ...............

wait for it
£100 each :032::012::058:

Aye right, they can kiss my backside dont get me started :021: Wouldnt encourage them, robbing b's :012: Infact give me their tel number, could do with a chat haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa :046:

[Theresa]

:053::053::053: Awwww feel the love