What brought you to TCS?

What a trip! This was my very first post.... http://www.thecatsite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=181178
Nine thousand something posts later...... still here, learning everyday!

I found TCS when I was going through a very rough time and wanted to share my friendship with an amazing kitty, Sweety, who passed away shortly there after. It was all the support and kind words I received from everyone here that made me realize the new family I had found.

So Carolina - what did you do about the vacation?

My first post was a real doosey! (As are the next few months of posts. ).

Originally Posted by Kailie

A love of kitties for sure.

I wanted to find a place with people who could relare to me and vice versa, and not automatically think I was nuts for the amount of cats I have.

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And you only had 8 then!

I forst joined TSC because I couldn't find any info on the internet about what was wrong with Genever- she dug and dug and dug in the litterbox, scratched the sides and ceiling of the cover, dug some more... for, oh, 10 minutes at the minimum every time she went. I never had a cat who scratched adn dug that long. All I could find related to litterbox issues had to do with cats going outside the box, so I had to join to be able to ask my question here. And I found out from your replies that G-cat isn't so abnormal, that lots of cats dig to China, they're all different in their habits. And from there I stayed.

Thanks for a good (almost) 2 years!!

Originally Posted by LDG

So Carolina - what did you do about the vacation?

My first post was a real doosey!

(As are the next few months of posts.

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I went and she stayed My friend really wanted me to take her along, but I am a good advice taker when it comes to the kitties - I followed TCS member's advice... She did really well though, no harm done. I do wish I had a cat I could travel with... I feel pretty lonely on my trips, and it would be cool - who knows one day I will get one and will train since kittenhood to go in the car and plane with me? Gracie is a GREAT rider and I think she would travel well, but she is so old, I am afraid of things going wrong on the road. The other ones all freak out big time!

My girl was little and sick and I needed help!

Thank god she is now 6 years old an healthier than ever!

Originally Posted by Carolina

I went and she stayed

My friend really wanted me to take her along, but I am a good advice taker when it comes to the kitties - I followed TCS member's advice... She did really well though, no harm done. I do wish I had a cat I could travel with... I feel pretty lonely on my trips, and it would be cool - who knows one day I will get one and will train since kittenhood to go in the car and plane with me? Gracie is a GREAT rider and I think she would travel well, but she is so old, I am afraid of things going wrong on the road. The other ones all freak out big time!

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It really does depend upon the temperament of the cat, and there are traveling kitties! There's the couple walking from Florida to South America with their cat; there's someone who rescued a kitty while camping, and she goes on all their hiking and camping trips now. There's kitties that love going for bike rides (motorbike and/or bicycle) - there's the kitty in NY that "rides" around on her daddy's head!

Rob's 15 year old cat Tigger had hyperthyroidism and I was looking into I-131 treatment. Unfortuntaly, she passed away the day after the treatment was administered due to fluid in her lungs that went unnoticed

Been around ever since though, as we adopted 2 kittens a few weeks after that, and now we have 4 furbabies (3 with us, 1 stayed with the in-laws behind us).

Moochie had the runs so I was searching the internet. They were about 11 weeks old or so at the time and had only been with us maybe a week.

Actually it was really funny when it happened....DH didn't know and he picked up little tiny Mooch and her back paw left a big brown streak down the front of his white t-shirt! LOL! She got her first bath right after that while DH changed!

I joined TCS because I love being around people who love cats just like me.

I'd joined a parenting forum a few years back and I found it very bitchy and not that friendly so I left it, I was really bored and my dh had joined a few forums to things which interest him, so he said why don't you join a forum of things that you love and interest you, well the kids are growing up now so no point in finding another mum and baby forum so I thought what's my next best love? Cats of course, so I just put in cat forum and TCS was the first to appear so I joined and I am so glad I did, I love it here. x

It was just my love of cats really?, and knowing people would be the same as me about them. Plus, wanting to share Rosie with everyone because i just had her when i joined

Um I was a bored 13 year old who was absolutely addicted to the internet and absolutely besotted with cats. Now almost 8 years later - I'm 21. And I'm officially the first kid-teenager-adult that TCS has raised.

Originally Posted by LDG

And you only had 8 then!

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I know, it's all because of this forum I tell ya!

I could not get Petunia to accept pepper. Turns out, I did the intros all wrong! I kind of hung around after that and even though i don't post often, i am usually on every day or every few days

I'm with Hissy.... I don't really remember! It will be 8 years in July, and my memory fails me! All I know is that I found a "home" with like minded, cat loving folks, lol~

Originally Posted by WellingtonCats

Um I was a bored 13 year old who was absolutely addicted to the internet and absolutely besotted with cats. Now almost 8 years later - I'm 21. And I'm officially the first kid-teenager-adult that TCS has raised.

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And you've grown into such a nice young lady.

Originally Posted by WellingtonCats

Um I was a bored 13 year old who was absolutely addicted to the internet and absolutely besotted with cats. Now almost 8 years later - I'm 21. And I'm officially the first kid-teenager-adult that TCS has raised.

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And we are so proud... *sniff*

My first post was lost in the Great Crash of 2004.