Yes, this is our kitties' page...Meow!

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Purrty

Purrty has been with us since Gaye found her as a stray in a local church parking lot in Ohio in late 1998. Since she seemed to be about a year old at that time, we figure (as of this update, March 2015) that she's about 17 years old.

Sadly, we've had to recently banish her from the house, because she's basically incontinent, and will pee in all sorts of inappropriate places. (She had gotten sick and old.) She seems to like a little box-plus-tent-plus-heated-bed arrangement that Gaye has made for her to live in, just outside our back door.

Baby picture! Anne (at 5 years old) holding Purrty (at one year old) in 1998.

She'll yell at us through the door when she's hungry, and we'll typically give her some canned cat food and milk a couple of times a day. We'll sometimes (when the weather permits!) sit outside with her, and hold her in our laps and pet her.

Gaye lay on the ground and shot this up-close portrait of Purrty in 2011.

(NEW ADDITION)

Here (in December 2014) Purrty is enjoying a rare reprieve to come in the house...and is napping on some pizza boxes!

Dan calls her "Concrete Cat," because her markings so perfectly match the mottled cement of our back porch!

Concrete Cat, March 2014.

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Stryper

Stryper is our Maine Coon, which is the largest breed of domestic cats. We got her in early 2012 from the neighbor of a friend, because Stryper had broken her leg, and the husband was allergic to cats, and etc., etc...

We took her in, and she healed up just fine, and she's a very energetic young cat. We try not to let her out of the house any more, because a couple of times last year she would go out and not come back – for as long as two weeks! We honestly thought we had lost her forever, then she came back as if nothing had happened. So, now, her only opportunities to go out are under "adult supervision"...Gaye will carry her out to wave good-bye to Dan in the morning on his way to work, and then let Stryper walk around our yard (and eat grass which is her favorite thing!).

Stryper posing on our bed in January 2013.

She moves fast...it's hard to catch her outdoors. This is January of 2012.

(NEW ADDITION)

A terrific cat portrait, by Gaye, in May 2014.

Dan calls Stryper "Camouflage Cat," because her markings actually cause her to blend right in with our bedroom couch. Sometimes, especially when the light's low, we really have to look for her there!

Camouflage Cat, February 2014. (Where IS she?)