Good Day from sunny and Cool Tallahassee

I am new to this forum but not to forum life in general.  My name is Shoshanna and I am owned by 2 very easy to live with male cats of varying age.

Sammi (I know that is generally a girl's name but we thought he was at first)  is a 2 year old tuxedo marked cat and is a joy to live with.  He was my only cat for almost all than time.  He has digestive issues that the vet told me were probably trauma related.  Even though I got him at a very young age, about 5 weeks, he had a hard life.  I found him at a garage sale in a bird cage without food or water or a litter box.  I could not leave him there and we have been best friends since that day.


Mickey is the new member of our family and has surprisingly fit in very fast.  He and Sammi already play and spat and do what cats do with each other.  I have only had Mickey for a bit less than a week.  He came to me from the Humane Society.  He had been scheduled to be put down in Georgia and the vet noted that he was a really nice cat.  So he saved him and saw that he was put in a good shelter to find a home when he was healthy.  He is a 1 year old brown and black tabby marked male and one of the calmest cats I have seen.  He loves being fed and eats like there is no tomorrow.  I will have to watch that.


I want to thank you for the forum here.  It is very informative and well organized and I am sure that I will love meeting you all.  I am a 64 year old ex soldier lady who has been retired for about 18 years already due to health issues.  The cats supply me with a lot of company and love and I try to return the favor.  My major interests are art, cooking, baking, quilting, and I am a movie lover.  

I look forward to getting to you you all.

Shoshanna

Welcome, @Shoshanna    Your cats are beautiful.

l'm glad you found your way to our forum community, and look forward to seeing more of you and the kitties around the boards.

Hi & welcome to TCS!  What  a couple of nice looking boys you have there! I'm so glad you took Sammi home! 

I have the same name story w/ Angel, thinking he was a she for the first year.  He is such a sweet docile boy though, so the name just fits anyway. 

So good of you to give these sweet kitties a home!  They are beautiful.  Welcome to TCS!  

Thank you all for the welcomes.  I love the cats but most of my experience with animals before Sammi were with military dogs and they were nice animals but not pets.  So I will be here picking up tips and leaving comments if I feel I have something to say.

It is nice of you to welcome me (Us as I think of the cats as members with me) .

Welcome to the site!

Sammy and Micky are so handsome. Sammie is very lucky you found him and gave him a good home. Congratulations on Micky, he sounds like the perfect fit to your home.

Mickey is so very much the perfect fit.  I had been very nervous getting another cat.  Sammi had never had contact with his litter mates as they were all killed by a dog and the only kitten his mother could save was him.  He had shown definite desire to be with others through being harness trained and my friend had two that were also harness trained.  He never got threatened by them and showed a wish to play but they were too busy with wanting to explore.  He needed a playmate but I also knew that it could not be an Alpha cat type.  These two boys fit very well together.  I really lucked out and I am noting that some of the behaviors Sammi did not have he is learning from Mickey.  

Thank you all for the wonderful welcomes.  It is so nice to have folks that do not mind me talking about the cats.  LOL

Welcome to the site, your babies are so cute.