I second that!
I've always been interested in Maine Coon cats since we first got Tiger. He showed up on our street as a stray with another Maine Coon, and our neighbors took them in and named them (Tiger and Simba). I played with them so much that they kept coming to our house, and I eventually got to keep them...haha It was actually very fortunate for us, because we still have Tiger, and he's probably the family's most cherished pet aside from our dog Cinnamon we had for so long. Why do you think Sterling was so attracted to your husband? Was he the first one she was introduced to, or did she just latch on to him by chance?

What a great way of putting it!
Exactly! Tiger twins, they must be.

Sterling was abandoned by her mom. We kept expecting her to get socialized, but she never did. The vet told me that, quite often, denied a mother's love in those first weeks after birth, a cat will never learn to become fully domesticated, even though she was only a five or six weeks old when we got her. I referred to her thereafter as Sterling the Sociopath.

I think she recognized him as the Alpha Male, and gave him all her respect and love. She not only wanted to be left alone, but perceived me as "the competition" and often hunted me. She would lurk on the stairs, and when she saw me coming up stairs, would latch on to my bare ankle and sink her teeth in. I was also quite allergic to her, so she would rub herself all over me until I started sneezing.

She also would bite and hiss at anyone who came to the house and tried to pet her, even people like my brother who had been coming over for years. There were people she was smart enough not to mess with, like my mom and my nanny. She also knew enough never to attack the kids when they were little. And she too never attacked Shirley!!!

Here is a pic of my Son with my Sister-in-laws sugar glider. His name is Teddy.

I have never heard of a sugar glider. It looks like a mouse! Then again, I'm not knowledgeable about these things. Where in the world do you find sugar gliders?




TIS

Where's the De Niro "I'm Watching You" icon??

Umm... never heard of it, either. Is that a pet or dinner?

That's the wonder of them... they could be BOTH! They all start off as pets but when found under the pickup's tires, they become dinner.

Sugar Glider

Depends on the pet.

Sadly we have no pets at the moment although at one time I managed to have 8 Cats!!

My daughter is crazy about dogs but pets are no longer allowed in our building and also nobody's home for at least 10 hours a day...totally unfair to a canine.

Someday when the time is right we'll visit the local shelter and have a lucky doggie pick us out to be his/her owners!

Apple

I have an almost 10 year old yorkshire terrier named Bamse. He is a sweet dog, very friendly and loving. He barks and barks at strangers, but would never in his life bite someone. The weird thing is while he's never been neutered, not once have I seen him hump anything his life! Sometimes I sit and wonder what it must be like for a dog to be so old and never experience the joys of sex. Then I remember how nice it is that he doesn't hump people or my pillows. He does like to give himself a nice licking, though. Maybe that's why he doesn't need to hump. A dog's life, indeed!

This keeps me up at nights as well.

The pic sucks but here I am just getting back from taking Sampson for a ride on my 4 wheeler in KY this weekend.

To show you how much I know about such things, I thought a four wheeler was a truck. That looks more like a tractor/lawn mower. You can drive it on regular streets? I think my nephews go four wheeling. I pictured more of a truck. Again, what the hell do I know.

Give me my small little compact car and I'm happy.


TIS

Actualy it's against the law in KY to drive them on the main roads. But I took him up and down the holler where the Col's Grandmother's house is.

I can literally hear the banjo music, Miggie .

I would love to take you guys 4 wheeling in KY. It's alot of fun.

I don't know if them City Slickers could handle it.

BB my mom would go nuts for those 2 cats she just loves black cats. She currently has 2 of her own.

I have 2 cats myself one is named Garfield the younger one is named Nermal(both names come from the Garfield comic strip. Garfield is orange/yellow Nermal is multi colored. Garfield will lay on my chest while I'm watching tv in the living room. But if I'm watching tv in bed that's nermals territory. Plus Nermal is extremely anti-social with other people that is if it's just me she's constantly around me even when I'm in the bathroom.

My folks call Garfeild a miniature lion, cause when he lays down if you get a good angle he looks just like a male lion.