Pets can come from various places- where did you
        get your pet, or where would you get one in the future?

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My cat was part of a litter born in the student house I lived in in East
Lansing a few years back.  (Anybody from MSU remember a house called "Thee
Alamo"?)  We had a cat (well one of us did) that was a rather strange breed
with a short tail, and she hadn't been spayed.  Long story short, Dave was
one of the kittens.

I'm (as always) seriously considering getting a second cat, which I'll
probably get from somebody I know.

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Hey Scott.... I happen to know of an adorable, mostly kitten that
is looking for a good home..... <grin>  She's a stray that is kinda
staying with someone I know, but he can't keep her....

Both of my family's current pets- a dog and cat came from the Humane
Society.  Our dog is a purebred German Shepherd (with out papers,
unfortunately....) who was two.  And my cat was on of a litter of
abandonded cats, I have no idea what breed he is except mostly
Siamese (the voice gives it away...  and what a voice he has...)

Anne, I'm interested, although I'm worried that I'm too busy to keep my
current cat happy, but also too busy to be around when a new addition is
getting acclimated.  Maybe in a month I'll be a bit more free...

Well... the one cat could help to keep the other occupied and
entertained... <grin>

Thanks a lot of thinking about it. :) :) :)

I got my kitty from a friend.  Gomez was a stray, and they rescued 
him.  He was so weak from hunger that he couldn't run away from them.  =
(  They cleaned him up, took care of his ear mites, fed him 'til he got 
a baby kitty belly, then called me.  They knew I wanted a cat, and 
Gomez was perfect for me.  I almost cry every time I think about him 
out in the summer heat without any food or water.

The way some people treat animals just burns me... <sighs>  Many just
drop them off into the country thinking that they'll just be able tosurvive
on their own... That's how my friend Julie got her beautiful, long-haired,
tuxedo cat Nikita.  Someone just dumped her off a week or so after 
Christmas- Julie and I are thinking it might have been a gift to someone
who turned out to be allergic- and Julie found her sitting in the middle
of the road.  Took her home and for awhile she was her "Ethiopian Baby"
cause all she did was eat, and ended up with a lil tiny body and a big
big belly. (Okay, so Ethiopian Baby isn't politically correct... but
ya know...)  

Julie also rescued a beautifully trained chocolate lab, she found her on
Thanksgiving.  No one replied to her adds in the paper, or signs in the
neighborhood, or even reported her missing... So Julie got another pet.

Jackie had come from the pound after having been abused and left on a door
step.  (Best dog in teh world!)

Meow came to us.  Pinhead came to us.  

My aunt got Bee-Jay from a Shit-Tzu breeder for my grandparents.  My
grandmotehr has taken perhaps fatally ill.  I don't trust my aunt with pets
because she is the poster child for irresponsibility and the humane society
gets more pets from her than from anyone else I've ever known becuase the pets
"turn bad"...  She can't have animals anymore if I have anything to say to
her...  So I brougth Bee-Jay home with me when I came back here from my
grandmotehr's house, not making my aunt's house even the slightest of an
option.  

Good for you, Amanda. :)  My grandmother actually did the same thing to 
my aunt...  Aunt was moving to an apartment and gramma said she would take
her dog, Misty. (Misty was a... large furry dog, I'm not sure what breed,
but she was big, with long dark fur)  Auntie couldn't control Misty, but
didn't want to give her up. Luckily for Misty Gramma convinced Auntie to
leave her.

I got my first cat Uke-Chan from a coworker. She had taken in a pregnant stray
and I signed up for a kitten. I had him for about a year when I got a
girlfriend. I paid so much attention to her and not poor Uke-Chan that he got
depressed. My girlfriend suggested that I get him a kitten to chew. Jherico
is the name my friend gave her. She is a small tortoiseshell calico and she
and Maine Coon Uke-Chan get along fine.
About a year later, we heard a pitiful mewing at the door. I opened up and
in walked the thinnest, dirtiest little orange tabby I could imagine. Having
had experience with the heartbreak of feline lukemia, I took him to the vet
the next day for testing. Knowing that the likelihood of FeLuk was high in
a stray, I forced myself not to name him. But in the vet's office, filling
out the papers, I thought it would be very sad for him not to have a name.
The name which came to me was Peter, and Peter he is.

Years ago, I used to work in a pet store. One of the dog groomers stole 
a young cat from her neighbor because the neighbor was abusing the cat 
(starving her, throwing her against walls, etc). The dog groomer brought 
the cat to the pet store with the idea of making her a pet store cat. It 
turned out that she was really afraid of people and spent all day hiding 
and clearly wasnt too happy at the store during business hours. Then one 
night, someone didnt close the finch cage properly and in the morning, 
there was a pile of about 50 dead finches on the floor of the store. The 
owner decided that the cat wouldnt be a good store cat and paid me $20 
to take her home. I have had her ever since. 

It's too bad about the finches, but I'm sure the cat thought she went 
to little kitty heaven! <grins>

Rescuing cats is good. <nods>

Yeah. It is too bad about the little birds. I have a bird and when I 
first got this cat, she tried to stick her paw in the cage to kill the 
bird. I have never heard a cat scream like that. There was a lot of 
blood and a kitty with a sore paw for quite some time. The bird still 
hates the cat and yells at her when she comes in the room. She has never 
put her paw anywhere near the bird cage since that one time. 

woo ,i like cat

check this dog out...it looks like a panda bear (sorta)
http://www.angelfire.com/anime4/pandadog/Enter/PandaDog.htm

Oh that's cute.

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