I've been posting on the nutrition forum and lurking around elsewhere, so I guess I should introduce myself. I go by Jenny online, and I am pretty much a crazy cat lady. I have three kitties, Sparrow (calico DLH), Klio (tuxedo DSH) and Daisy (black DLH). I put up some photos in my gallery, I think — if I figured it out right, anyway.
I got Sparrow as a kitten. My parents got "adopted" by a colony of barn cats after the woman who owned their property passed away and it stood empty for a while. They were feeding them, and catch-and-release neutering those they could, but couldn't do much beyond that, so when Sparrow (the runt) got very ill after the mother cat weaned the litter, I took her in, planning to nurse her back to health and then return her to my parents. Obviously that didn't happen! She's a happy 7-year-old now, and relatively healthy, although she has some health issues (mainly IBD and asthma, both of which she's had since she was young and have been very well-controlled thanks to an amazing vet, but she gets UTIs sometimes too). She loves going for walks, eating paper and music (she will come when I whistle her favorite songs).
Klio and Daisy are both shelter cats. Klio is the same age as Sparrow, and I adopted her at 8 months old. She's a huge grumpy grump and has some behavior issues that lead me to suspect she was never properly socialized, if not outright mistreated, but she and Sparrow get along pretty well and after I'd had her for a few years, she started approaching me for cuddles and pets instead of just when she wanted to play or eat. She has some arthritis in her hips and is grumpier than usual because of it, but we're working on getting her comfortable again.
Daisy is a year and a half and I adopted her this October. She is a cuddly sweetheart but very anxious. She and Klio aren't getting along well yet, although they are improving a lot. She and Sparrow get along great. They mostly just hang out together when they're both sleepy because Daisy is still a little too nervous to play with the others yet, but they've begun playing in 3-second bursts on the cat tree and Daisy follows Sparrow's lead on everything now, so I have high hopes that they will entertain each other soon.
Aside from my cats and apparently writing novel-length forum posts about them, my hobbies are writing, hiking and tai chi, and I work in the news media.
I got Sparrow as a kitten. My parents got "adopted" by a colony of barn cats after the woman who owned their property passed away and it stood empty for a while. They were feeding them, and catch-and-release neutering those they could, but couldn't do much beyond that, so when Sparrow (the runt) got very ill after the mother cat weaned the litter, I took her in, planning to nurse her back to health and then return her to my parents. Obviously that didn't happen! She's a happy 7-year-old now, and relatively healthy, although she has some health issues (mainly IBD and asthma, both of which she's had since she was young and have been very well-controlled thanks to an amazing vet, but she gets UTIs sometimes too). She loves going for walks, eating paper and music (she will come when I whistle her favorite songs).
Klio and Daisy are both shelter cats. Klio is the same age as Sparrow, and I adopted her at 8 months old. She's a huge grumpy grump and has some behavior issues that lead me to suspect she was never properly socialized, if not outright mistreated, but she and Sparrow get along pretty well and after I'd had her for a few years, she started approaching me for cuddles and pets instead of just when she wanted to play or eat. She has some arthritis in her hips and is grumpier than usual because of it, but we're working on getting her comfortable again.
Daisy is a year and a half and I adopted her this October. She is a cuddly sweetheart but very anxious. She and Klio aren't getting along well yet, although they are improving a lot. She and Sparrow get along great. They mostly just hang out together when they're both sleepy because Daisy is still a little too nervous to play with the others yet, but they've begun playing in 3-second bursts on the cat tree and Daisy follows Sparrow's lead on everything now, so I have high hopes that they will entertain each other soon.
Aside from my cats and apparently writing novel-length forum posts about them, my hobbies are writing, hiking and tai chi, and I work in the news media.
I hope your asthma kitty is doing well!
