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Here's the Kat again. If he ain't eating he's sleeping.

This is my favorite picture of my two Siamese. One died a year ago; the other a year or two before that. I got one as a kitten and the other when she was a year old. They were inseparable. The dark one was demented and mean to everyone except the two of us. The light one was as sweet as sweet could be. We loved both of them.

The Maine Coon arrived several years later with my husband. She was an instant enemy of my two. Most of the time. Not always. Not when it was cold. This amused us greatly. Here she is with one of my Siamese.

A closeup of one who died last spring.

Here is the Maine Coon while I am trying to study for an Access class.

Here is the Maine Coon right now. And she is the only one left.

Littermates Curry and Pepper.  Pepper is no longer with us - Curry (now 14) is still hanging out.

My boys

Billy

and Ruby

He's a bit tricky.  Sometimes he sits differently and deliberately throws off the sundial calibration, making us think it is dinner time way earlier than it actually is. 

This is Ruby's mum Bella, who sadly got run over.  She used to go hunting in the vineyards, and bring us back a tasty rabbit.  We were surprised to find out she was half a kilometre away when she got run over.  Thankfully, Ruby is too timid to roam, but he is the most gentle cat we have had, and never uses his claws.  I am loath to share this picture as it has been sharpened to within an inch of its life, and has lots of blown pixels, but I no longer have the original RAW file

We have various assorted budgies.  One died while Chris was away some years back, and I replaced it with what I 'thought' was a close enough clone (it had wings and a beak, and made the right noises) but Chris saw through it in an instant. 

Not really pets, but Ruby sometimes lets these guys sit on the sundial.

Chris does not like dogs, and won't let me have one.  I had two English Setters and a Border Collie back in the UK, and I would dearly love to have a dog here.  I walk the neighbour's dogs when they are away, but it is not the same thing.

Nice idea for a thread Cactus.  I am looking forward to seeing Dave's pet whippet, Ged's Irish Wolf Hound and Jane's not quite tame Mountain Lion.