I am so outnumbered...

Cute story, Aldistar. Perhaps you could show us some pictures of
your little zoo and the newest addition.

People who love animals are always special

Bravo, Aldistar. I does my heart good to know that you saved a stray. Does my heart good to know that there are people like you.

Don't worry that you're outnumbered. They're all on your side.

Gus.....? Guss....!?!?

Aldistar (and Jane), excuse the diversion. Gus posted a silly thread in response to this one about his lost cat, last seen at a starbucks.

Ah, I finally saw gustav's thread about the cat - now I understand, littlek.

Awwwwww!!!! :-D

I'm the same way with animals, but I don't tend to run across strays like you do and you remind me so much of my life long best friend who passed away a few years back. She attracked strays of all nature and she was awesome. She had squirrels, all kinds of birds she nursed back to health, ferrets, several dog, cats, etc....

Bless you for your kindness to our furry friends :-D

Aww..thanks everybody. I do love them all. I wish I had enough money to buy a farm so I could get more. I just can't stand to see an animal that needs someone to love it. In the mall that I work at they opened an ASPCA store and have the entire front window area converted into a pet parade with all kind of cats for adoption. I can't walk past there anymore, I get to tempted.

Pictures are on the way...soon as I can get them all to sit still for more than 2 seconds.

I really had forgotten how much energy a kitten has. My youngest (besides Gypsie) is 4, so it has been a while since I had to kitten proof the house.

I will have to go find Gus' thread, I have to see that.

I understand about the "free meal ticket" written across the forehead. I have a sign like that too. We had two dogs (Milo and Lizzie), two cats (Bob and Sabu), 4 fish (splat, frankenstein, spot and ??), 2 squirrels (chip and chatter) and a baby duck (Splash). The squirrels and the duck were thankfully rehabilitated to the wild, 2 fish died. I had to find homes for the dogs. We were down to 2 cats and 2 fish. Easy enough until the 2 rabbits showed up. Now we also have Zane and Spooky. But the summer has only begun!!

OK here are some pictures. Forgive the quality, this was in done in a made dash around the house this morning with a camera that I am not very familiar with.

This is our newest, Gypsie:



She is cute and cuddly. One morning hubby heard crashing noises coming from our bathroom and ran in to find this...





how she managed to get up there and keep her balance I will never know. The shower width is only about an inch, maybe.

This is Whisper my oldest and the one who is slightly "touched"





This is Nugget, the Queen of the house



and this is Tabbie, my cowardly lion. He weighs close to 20 lbs. but is a complete fraidy cat. That would be Gypsie about to attack his tail, her new favorite past time..



Next is Bodhidharma (Bodhi for short) our rather new puppy dog. Near as we can figure he is a mix between golden lab and Akita.





Then there is Oscar, our Sun Conure. As you can see he really loves his banana chips...





and he is a ham for the camera.

Here are my parakeets. Aiko is the yellow one and Cirrus is blue.





And last but not least we have our fish Diddles and Diddles



I realized that in all of this I forgot about my husband's snake.

She is a New Mexican Rosie Boa and I unfortunately don't have any pics of her. Yet.

Yay, thanks for the show! What beauties. I'm particularly fond of Bodhi... lovely face. How do they all get along? Cats with the birds? And the snake?

Wow, great pics... you apologize for the quality but several of them are really good (especially grinning Whisper and Queen Nugget). So much personality in that crew.

Oh how neat is that! All your cats have this unusual pretty color scheme,
especially the new kitty and Tabbie.

Yes, how do they all get along, especially with a snake around?

They all get along frighteningly well. I keep waiting for the day I walk in my front door and see they have all killed each other off, but so far nothing really bad. Don't get me wrong, they have their moments.

Whisper will have an off day and Tabbie will get to close and he will hiss and growl, this immediately brings Nugget running and she really lays into him hard, then as Tabbie tries to run away they all three get going and the next thing I know I have a multi colored furball of rage tousling around on the floor and have to break them all up. Whisper then has to be secluded and calmed down by me or he tends to go off on a fit. Hasn't happened yet with Gypsie around, at least not bad enough to where I couldn't get Whisper calmed down quickly enough to avoid the fight of the century.

Bodhi gets along with all of the cats, thankfully. He was really the unknown when we brought him home. He ignores them they ignore him. Sniffing and touching of noses is a regular occurence. Gypsie tried to rub on him once and he ran away. She did get growled at when she tried to share his food bowl, but we expected that.

Oscar is another story all together. He gets along well enough with all the cats (haven't let him out around Gypsie yet, so that is still uncertain). He even tries to mate with Nugget, much to her annoyance. He and Nugget play chase through the house and seem to have a lot of fun together. Tabbie likes to follow him as he flies around, but I have a feeling he has more nefarious reasons. I am not worried about him catching Oscar as he would freak out and run away if he actually managed to do it. Whisper just ignores him.

Bodhi on the other hand wants desperately to eat Oscar. Or I assume, anyway. Bodhi goes on 'point' anytime he is in the same room with Oscar. We introduced them close up with me holding Oscar and hubby holding Bodhi. Oscar didn't care but Bodhi was quivering and whining and licking his chops in that "Oh, boy! A snack!!" kind of way. Needless to say Bodhi has to go outside before we let Oscar out to fly around.

None of the animals seem phased by the snake, Lysistrata (Lyssi for short). Her and Nugget have staring contests and generally sit and "converse" with no problems. I would hazard to guess by their behavior that they may even be friends. Lyssi is a desert burrowing snake and she mainly stays in her tank in hubby's office upstairs as it is the warmest room. Hubby takes her out when we are alone in the room. The cats have been nose to nose with her but never for long. Oscar has never really met her as that would probably go badly. Bodhi has seen her and been in the same room, but only when she is put away.

Lysistrata!

Awwww!!!! I love your animal family :-D

Yes, Lysistrata...not many people catch that. Hubby bought and named her long before I was in the picture.

For any of you wondering Lysistrata is the title and name of the main character in a Greek comedy by Aristophanes. It takes place during the Polypinesian wars and all the women complain that their men are never home and that the war is silly. In retaliation they all lock themselves up in the temple when their men come home on leave. The men break in the temple but the women refuse to have sex with them until they stop the war. This brings all the men to their knees and peace treaties are signed and everybody is happy.

I have truncated it all severely and really recommend it to be read. It is a rather short story but very entertaining.

By the way here is our Lysi





Oh! and this is Buford our dust bunny. Not sure how old he is and his size tends to vary. We mostly let him roam free about the house.He seems to get along with the other animals just fine, although Bodhi seems to be allergic...

That's too funny!

Hey, Aldistar - how long have your cats all lived together? In about a week, I'm about to go from a two cat family to a four...