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So I found this site from a search for anyone who'd had experience with something I need to try for one of my furbabies and there's almost no shared experiences out there. It led me here though! I figured I'd take a moment to introduce myself, and introduce my kitties if I was going to be around here for a bit.
So I'm Silv! I've been around cats since I was born. Grew up with all of my moms cats and then all of my own. I currently have three wonderful furbabies.
My oldest Honey just showed up one day, shivering and hungry after an ice storm and I couldn't help but feed her. Fast forward a year and a half and she adopted herself to me and came inside. She's got a whole host of issues we're still figuring out because we don't really have a medical history for her beyond 'was outdoors and rough for at least a few years min' and she was either an escaped housecat, or dumped somewhere. Vet shaved her belly to check and found a spay scar but she isn't eartipped and has impeccable indoor manners so she definitely was indoors at some point in her life before she came to us. She has some odd quirks like being afraid to jump on furniture and an absolute fear of carriers that only got better with time and constant reassurance that YES you're allowed it's ok to jump on stuff, and YES we go but we come back after the vet. So I really have my suspicions. But either way she's an amazing and gentle little girl and she came into our lives exactly when I needed her. She's been through a lot and I hope that I'll be able to keep helping her through everything we have to go through still with support and being able to talk to people here. (She needed pretty major teeth surgery and has SCC so it's been a journey, and it's going to keep being a journey but she's worth the work)
Honey is some age that's probably maybe 9 or 10 but we have no idea. The vet's best guess was 'definitely at least 5 most likely since she's full grown but not extremely old. Probably.' Which for an outdoor stray is the best we can guess going by adding the few years she's been indoors with us, and the year and a half after she showed up where she remembered that people weren't all terrifying creatures and decided that she was staying here.
My other ones are two kittens I adopted pretty much the day after my 19 and a half year old baby went. I'd always planned on getting kittens when that day came and I saw a pair that spoke to me and the shelter thought I was a good fit so I hopped over that same day.
They've absolutely helped keep me going and I love them so much. Currently they're going on 2 and a half years old and I'm overly worried about keeping them happy and healthy. They also get into absolutely everything which is probably why most of my waking thoughts are 'oh no what do I have to bother my vet about now'
So Griffon's my snugglebug of a boy. He's the friendly to make up for how much work his sister was. They actually ended up being a package deal because the shelter was so worried that she wouldn't be placed easily they wanted to make sure they at least had a chance to be adopted as a pair. Shion was quite the little semi-feral 6 month old but I went into the adoption 100% willing to accept her even if she never warmed up to people. I'll be forever grateful to the foster who got her just tolerant enough of people that I was able to work with her over the next months.
I couldn't even go slightly near her for the first month and a half I had her without her being absolutely terrified but she's very VERY food motivated so with a lot of patience, taking 2 steps backwards every so often when I tried to take a single step forward, and her being pretty jealous of her brother she warmed up and is now such a lap cat.
Pretty much I had to sit next to her food every single time she ate and get her to tolerate me both being there and touching her head and if I skipped even one single day she'd revert almost all the way back assuming she could just wait me out.
I'm more stubborn than a sweetheart of a kitten apparently.
After a while she decided that running away was actually quite tiring and I wasn't all that scary anyways and I still remember her very first headbutt. Adopting the shy scared kitties can be so rewarding when they blossom and warm up to you. Also getting to know that I gave her a chance to stay with her brother who she was very bonded to makes it even more worth it.
I'll toss in a few pictures of her and her brother and how far she came (and probably ramble about her a lot elsewhere because I end up rambling about her a lot generally) Griffon's black and Shion's white. I didn't get a ton of pictures when she was still super scared but I did get one that shows pretty clearly how she felt about me, and then after months of love and time and effort.
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I figure an intro to me is an intro to them too so sorry for the wall of an intro here!
It's nice to meet all of you.
So I'm Silv! I've been around cats since I was born. Grew up with all of my moms cats and then all of my own. I currently have three wonderful furbabies.
My oldest Honey just showed up one day, shivering and hungry after an ice storm and I couldn't help but feed her. Fast forward a year and a half and she adopted herself to me and came inside. She's got a whole host of issues we're still figuring out because we don't really have a medical history for her beyond 'was outdoors and rough for at least a few years min' and she was either an escaped housecat, or dumped somewhere. Vet shaved her belly to check and found a spay scar but she isn't eartipped and has impeccable indoor manners so she definitely was indoors at some point in her life before she came to us. She has some odd quirks like being afraid to jump on furniture and an absolute fear of carriers that only got better with time and constant reassurance that YES you're allowed it's ok to jump on stuff, and YES we go but we come back after the vet. So I really have my suspicions. But either way she's an amazing and gentle little girl and she came into our lives exactly when I needed her. She's been through a lot and I hope that I'll be able to keep helping her through everything we have to go through still with support and being able to talk to people here. (She needed pretty major teeth surgery and has SCC so it's been a journey, and it's going to keep being a journey but she's worth the work)
Honey is some age that's probably maybe 9 or 10 but we have no idea. The vet's best guess was 'definitely at least 5 most likely since she's full grown but not extremely old. Probably.' Which for an outdoor stray is the best we can guess going by adding the few years she's been indoors with us, and the year and a half after she showed up where she remembered that people weren't all terrifying creatures and decided that she was staying here.
My other ones are two kittens I adopted pretty much the day after my 19 and a half year old baby went. I'd always planned on getting kittens when that day came and I saw a pair that spoke to me and the shelter thought I was a good fit so I hopped over that same day.
They've absolutely helped keep me going and I love them so much. Currently they're going on 2 and a half years old and I'm overly worried about keeping them happy and healthy. They also get into absolutely everything which is probably why most of my waking thoughts are 'oh no what do I have to bother my vet about now'
So Griffon's my snugglebug of a boy. He's the friendly to make up for how much work his sister was. They actually ended up being a package deal because the shelter was so worried that she wouldn't be placed easily they wanted to make sure they at least had a chance to be adopted as a pair. Shion was quite the little semi-feral 6 month old but I went into the adoption 100% willing to accept her even if she never warmed up to people. I'll be forever grateful to the foster who got her just tolerant enough of people that I was able to work with her over the next months.
I couldn't even go slightly near her for the first month and a half I had her without her being absolutely terrified but she's very VERY food motivated so with a lot of patience, taking 2 steps backwards every so often when I tried to take a single step forward, and her being pretty jealous of her brother she warmed up and is now such a lap cat.
Pretty much I had to sit next to her food every single time she ate and get her to tolerate me both being there and touching her head and if I skipped even one single day she'd revert almost all the way back assuming she could just wait me out.
I'm more stubborn than a sweetheart of a kitten apparently.
After a while she decided that running away was actually quite tiring and I wasn't all that scary anyways and I still remember her very first headbutt. Adopting the shy scared kitties can be so rewarding when they blossom and warm up to you. Also getting to know that I gave her a chance to stay with her brother who she was very bonded to makes it even more worth it.
I'll toss in a few pictures of her and her brother and how far she came (and probably ramble about her a lot elsewhere because I end up rambling about her a lot generally) Griffon's black and Shion's white. I didn't get a ton of pictures when she was still super scared but I did get one that shows pretty clearly how she felt about me, and then after months of love and time and effort.
From -
to -
and
I figure an intro to me is an intro to them too so sorry for the wall of an intro here!
It's nice to meet all of you.
. You may want to pay a tribute to her here in 
and we have a special thread here just for them in 
to you and your beautiful fur family. They are so cute I have a soft spot for black cat's and love Shions patch on her head. Just look at my profile pic you'll see why.
Beautiful kitties. 
