Rosie:
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She's a tortoiseshell tabby. She follows me everywhere, and likes to sleep with me. Found out recently that she seems to really think of me as her mom. She has a certain attitude, and is very opinionated. She hates the other cat. I think mainly because whenever she wants to play with her, the other runs away like she's going to be killed by her. Like one of the above pics, she likes to play with balls. She also plays with a really old tug toy that used to be our beagle's. Buster passed away about 10 years ago.
We still miss him. The tug toy still has some of his blood on it from when he played too hard with it.
Tasha:
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She's a Turkish Van. (I don't have that many pics of her.) She's rather an unusual cat. She's polydactyl, so she has many more toes than she should. She has so many that we had to declaw her, since no matter how short her claws were, each one was digging into her flesh. There were just too many of them. So, she has huge paws. Her head is unusually narrow, so you can't put a collar on her. It just slides right off. She barks like a dog sometimes. Her fur is only one layer, so it's extremely soft compared to most cats. (Most cats have 2 layers.) She's absolutely terrified of Rosie, although she's starting to get some more confidence. She spends most of her time on the banister from the pic. She has her own food and water bowls up there. Funny how she used to terrorize Shadow, one of our previous cats, and now she feels like the other one's out to get her. But, Shadow would play along with Tasha, so this is different.
In all, I've had/been around 5 cats, 1 dog, a bunch of different fish, a lot of stick bugs, and a tree frog. When I was born there were 2 cats, Shana and Drifter, around. Drifter would sleep in my crib and protect me. They both passed away about a month apart from each other when I was 14. Both were 19 years old. They really loved each other. Seemed like they were an old married couple. We got Buster not long after that, and we got Shadow about a month after that. They liked each other too, only in a more sibling-like way. One of the goldfish I caught at a carnival, we called him Big Guy, lived for 10 years. He also had a tumor on his side for a while. He ended up eating most of the other fish. The stick bugs were sort of like class pets, that I was allowed to take home. I only took 4, I think, but the next day they had multiplied considerably. They got everywhere. I thought it was cool, my parents thought otherwise...But, that was around the time when I'd bring toads, slugs, snakes, etc. home. The tree frog lasted until their final life stage. It was so sad. They made it, and then suddenly died. Anyways, that's about it. I might want another cat or easy to handle dog in the future. (Beagles can be hard to deal with.) Sorry, if this was too long.
