Have you always been a Cat Lover?

I have always have had a cat or 2 or 15 since I was a very tiny girl. At one time when I was little, we had 2 mama cats (mother and daughter) who had 15 kittens between them. Both mamas gave birth the same night. They pooled the kittens and we didn't know which kitten belonged to which mama. They fed each others babies. LOL Pity the poor dog that came into OUR yard. There was one dog that actually was trying to climb a tree to get both mama's off his back. All claws and teeth! Teach them to come around their babies!

One cat I got when I was in 2nd grade was Tarzan, a grey striped tiger. He died when I was 22. He was big and fat and couldn't get away from a neighbor's dog that attacked him in our yard. Poor boy. He had survived UTI just to be killed by a stupid dog.

Since I have been married, we have always had at least 1 cat. My hubby is a cat lover too.

I grew up on a farm with dogs, but there were a couple of cats. They weren't very social however, and were pretty much in charge of patrolling the barns.

Almost 17 years ago, a couple I know found a young gray female cat underneath a shed in their back yard, with, lo and behold, a litter of kittens. (They had mom spayed a short time later and named her "Blue", and she lived with them for the rest of her life, passing away just 2 years ago) They were able to find homes for all the kittens, including the Topsy half of the twins, Topsy and Turvy. So, with only Turvy left, they started in on me.."Oh your house is so empty and you like live by yourself, you NEED this kitten". To be honest, I gave in to quit hearing it, and was even a bit put out by the idea of going to the vet for shots and surgery, and having to buy litter and pans and food and bowls and yada yada yada......

Just a short while before bedtime that first night she was at home, baby Turvy noticed a spot on the wall, almost 2 feet from the floor, and she went after it. Watching that little bundle of fuzz with feet bouncing and leaping and doing backflips and pawing at the wall had me laughing so hard that I almost could'nt breathe....we've been buds ever since, and she is still very much with us....grand matron to the rest of the tribe that followed.

I've always been a cat lover, my husband hasn't...but I turned him into one.

I've had cats for as long as I can remember. But I honestly can say, I love all animals. I just prefer cats!

I always was, and from the time I was 2-3 begged for a kitten, not that I remember but my family loves to tell me, when I was 3 my dad brought me home a puppy for Christmas and I locked myself in my room and refused to play with my new toys because I didn't want the puppy I wanted a kitten.

Then when I was about 11, my neighbour died leaving behind her Russian Blue and I begged and begged to keep him, her son gave me a key while he 'decided what to do about the fleabag' and I went over to her house every day and fed him, brushed him etc but they still wouldn't let me keep him.

So when I moved here and my BF already had 3 cats it was an added bonus

I was always a cat person because we got our first cat when I was 7 years old. I too have heard about people who were dog-only but then a cat (or 2 or 3 tee hee) captured their heart and they published books about it.

Willie Morris - My Cat Spit McGee - click here .....(Morris is the same author of "My Dog Skip")

Philip Gonzalez - The Dog Who Rescues Cats - click here and here .....(Interestingly, Gonzalez was not a pet-person (dog OR cat!) well into adulthood but when he did eventually allow a dog into his life, well,the rest is history)

I've loved cats since I can remember. Before, even. There's a picture of me when I was about a year old, playing with our cat Mulligan. I'm not sure what happened to Mulligan. We got another cat, named Allegro, who was the sweetest most darling cat in the world, but she had a problem that made it so she was constantly in heat. Because of that, when we moved away later into a house where we couldn't have cats (no we didn't have a choice, we ended up homeless for a few weeks), no one would adopt her so she had to be PTS . She was the last cat my family had, because my dad left, and my mom doesn't like cats, so we got a dog. I love that dog, I really do, but I really love cats more, so as soon as I got a pet-friendly apartment I got a cat.

The really funny part? My mom claimed we couldn't get cats growing up because my brother and sister are "allergic to cats". Well, as soon as my sister, and later my brother, got their own places... they got cats.

Yet another person born into a house with cats.

Actually, a kitten and a puppy were in residence when I was born. The first thing Mom did after bringing me home was to sit down and introduce me to them by picking them up one by one and letting them sniff me. After that they would be found sitting under my bassinet when all the family and neighbors came to see the new baby! Who knows what would have happened if someone tried to hurt me!

I was about 4 or 5 when Tom Tinker came (courtesy of my paternal grandmother who found him in the alley behind her house). He is the first cat I can clearly remember.

Dad never really had pets and mom grew up with dogs and cats on a farm. When Dad proposed, he had already been warned by Mom that he would not only get a wife, but a daughter (my sister) and a cat! Apparently he didn't mind.

I've always been a huge animal lover!! Unfortunately my mom wasn't. When i was about 6 she agreed to give it a try, but changed her mind after about a year. So once I finally got a place of my own I was dying to get one, but kept putting it off since my job wasn't secure. Then one day driving to visit my sister, a little 4 week old kitten in a ditch made the decision for me...and along came Lucky. I can't imagine my house without them anymore!! ANd maybe a few more in the future!

i have always been a cat lover, the daft part is my grandparents and mum have always had cats, yet can't see why I would want more than one!!! And as for fostering, it isn't mentioned. We had to get rid of our cat when we moved in with my stepdad though, as he hates cats and he also lives on a main road that a lot of cats have lost their lives to, and she had no road sense, it is hte only time I have ever really lived without a cat, as my first housemate had 2. The other daft part is that I Wasn't going to get cats when I was first living on my own, as I didn't think I wanted to be tied down, one turned up (like they do) and that was the start of many!!

Yeah I've always been a cat lover, but I am more a horse and dog person. but i love cats aswell. I've had cats since I was small.

at the age of 9, we stopped having cats until a year ago (at the age of 13) because when we moved they didn't allow cats, so we kept the 2 we had (Sukey and Charlie - and another called Smudge but he died) with my auntie and they're still around today, i just never see them anymore

but last year we found out about a cute fluffy kitten, who had no name. she was living at the Sandringham Stud (queens property) with a person we knew. so we bought her and named her Fudge. and now she's had kittens, we're keeping at least 1 of them and maybe more!!

Cats to me were just cats. I didn't dislike them, But never go too exited. I found other peoples cat to be intersting and the Mrs. allways wanted one. So we tried a cat and now I lovem. Who knew?