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Greetings, all! Since I have started posting in these forums I thought I should properly introduce myself and, more important, my cat.
Sylvie was born in a feral colony in a parking lot and rescued at 3 months of age by a local TNR group. I adopted her when she was 5 months old. Her foster mom brought her over to meet me, Sylvie allowed me to pet her, and the deal was sealed. I decided that despite her humble origins she needed a glamorous-sounding French name and picked "Sylvie." Sometime later I found an online "French name generator" and typed in my own name, and funnily enough the French name it generated was Sylvie Bouquet, so I now consider that my cat's full name.
She has a gentle, sweet, and humorous disposition and is a delight to have around.
I guess Sylvie would be described as a seal lynxpoint domestic shorthair. She has ice-blue eyes and looked like a little white tiger when she was a baby. Her markings deepened in color as she matured, a process I have attempted to document in her photo album in my gallery here.
I also made an album for my first cat, a purebred (yes, pedigreed; I still have her CFF registration certificate) Snowshoe that I bought from a breeder a few decades ago after first seeing the breed at a TICA show in New York City. She didn't have the classic Snowshoe appearance -- she lacked the inverted white V on the face and had just a few white hairs on her seal-brown nose, and her hair was decidedly not short -- which is probably why she was deemed pet-quality rather than show- or breeder-quality. She was nevertheless a gorgeous cat and a holy terror for much of her long life.
Sylvie was born in a feral colony in a parking lot and rescued at 3 months of age by a local TNR group. I adopted her when she was 5 months old. Her foster mom brought her over to meet me, Sylvie allowed me to pet her, and the deal was sealed. I decided that despite her humble origins she needed a glamorous-sounding French name and picked "Sylvie." Sometime later I found an online "French name generator" and typed in my own name, and funnily enough the French name it generated was Sylvie Bouquet, so I now consider that my cat's full name.
She has a gentle, sweet, and humorous disposition and is a delight to have around.I guess Sylvie would be described as a seal lynxpoint domestic shorthair. She has ice-blue eyes and looked like a little white tiger when she was a baby. Her markings deepened in color as she matured, a process I have attempted to document in her photo album in my gallery here.
I also made an album for my first cat, a purebred (yes, pedigreed; I still have her CFF registration certificate) Snowshoe that I bought from a breeder a few decades ago after first seeing the breed at a TICA show in New York City. She didn't have the classic Snowshoe appearance -- she lacked the inverted white V on the face and had just a few white hairs on her seal-brown nose, and her hair was decidedly not short -- which is probably why she was deemed pet-quality rather than show- or breeder-quality. She was nevertheless a gorgeous cat and a holy terror for much of her long life.
