Hello everyone, I've just spent ages googling to try and find a cat forum that looks good and fairly active... eventually settled on this one 
I'm new to the forum but not to cats. Over the years I've had 8 different cats, but I currently only have 3. All of my cats have either been rescues from vets or shelters, or homeless strays that turned up at my house.
I'm from Australia and live on a small farm so I have quite a menagerie of animals including my 3 cats, 2 dogs (A Kelpie and an Australian Shepherd), 3 ferrets, 2 ducks, 27 chickens and we also have a herd of beef cattle.
I mostly joined this forum because I'm looking for some guidance with caring or one of my cats (Tank) who has over the last week had quite a health scare, I'll make a new thread about that though.
I suppose now is the part where I introduce my kitty cats
First up there is Sebastian (Seby for short). We adopted him from the local vets as a kitten. He is now around 8 years old. Although he doesn't look it, everyone in my family agree that Seby has Siamese in him, his personality fits a siamese cat perfectly. My mum grew up with siamese cats and I've worked with many of them (I work at a vet). I also will not deny that Seby is quite overweight, this is something we're working on fixing.
Next up there is Tank. We adopted Tank 4 years ago from the same vet that Seby came from. He was 2 years old when we adopted him and had been waiting for a home for 6 months before we found him! He is very cuddly and loving. He's also quite a sensitive boy, over the last week he's had serious issues with his bladder (We could have lost him). The vet says its FIC... so unfortunately could be a reoccurring thing, which worries me.... I'll post a different thread giving more detail on all that though...
And last but not least, the little girl, Bubbles We adopted Bubbles with Tank, she's the same age as him and had been waiting for a home for 3 months. If we didn't take her, I wouldn't be surprised if she has to be put to sleep because she was absolutely terrified of all humans. It took many weeks for us to be able to pat her at all. But over time she eventually came to trust us, now she just adores us. She has the loudest purr and beautiful long whiskers. She is still terrified of all strangers, but at least she loves our family None of my friends have met her properly because she's too scared of them! Her tail is permanently paralysed too, she has no movement in her tail, it just hangs limp behind her. Luckily its a short tai and doesn't drag on the ground much!
I'm new to the forum but not to cats. Over the years I've had 8 different cats, but I currently only have 3. All of my cats have either been rescues from vets or shelters, or homeless strays that turned up at my house.
I'm from Australia and live on a small farm so I have quite a menagerie of animals including my 3 cats, 2 dogs (A Kelpie and an Australian Shepherd), 3 ferrets, 2 ducks, 27 chickens and we also have a herd of beef cattle.
I mostly joined this forum because I'm looking for some guidance with caring or one of my cats (Tank) who has over the last week had quite a health scare, I'll make a new thread about that though.
I suppose now is the part where I introduce my kitty cats
First up there is Sebastian (Seby for short). We adopted him from the local vets as a kitten. He is now around 8 years old. Although he doesn't look it, everyone in my family agree that Seby has Siamese in him, his personality fits a siamese cat perfectly. My mum grew up with siamese cats and I've worked with many of them (I work at a vet). I also will not deny that Seby is quite overweight, this is something we're working on fixing.
Next up there is Tank. We adopted Tank 4 years ago from the same vet that Seby came from. He was 2 years old when we adopted him and had been waiting for a home for 6 months before we found him! He is very cuddly and loving. He's also quite a sensitive boy, over the last week he's had serious issues with his bladder (We could have lost him). The vet says its FIC... so unfortunately could be a reoccurring thing, which worries me.... I'll post a different thread giving more detail on all that though...
And last but not least, the little girl, Bubbles
We adopted Bubbles with Tank, she's the same age as him and had been waiting for a home for 3 months. If we didn't take her, I wouldn't be surprised if she has to be put to sleep because she was absolutely terrified of all humans. It took many weeks for us to be able to pat her at all. But over time she eventually came to trust us, now she just adores us. She has the loudest purr and beautiful long whiskers. She is still terrified of all strangers, but at least she loves our family None of my friends have met her properly because she's too scared of them! Her tail is permanently paralysed too, she has no movement in her tail, it just hangs limp behind her. Luckily its a short tai and doesn't drag on the ground much!
