My wife and I have 2 ‘rescue’ kittens from a local shelter. Both are approx. 8 years old now and doing fine together. (Cat’s are great in pairs. . . )
Our very first two cats were also rescue kittens. (they were 18 and 19 years old when they passed away.) It was indeed sad for us so we adopted two ‘new’ kittens as replacements from a local ‘shelter’. . Glad we did. At times they are rambunctious but for the most part we’re finally getting our communications ironed out.
Rich;)
Jetboy took us over a year to get him fully out of his shell from the things his previous owner did to him for his first 8 years. we’ve had him 8 years now and you would think with as relaxed as he is and how he gets around that he was 8 and not 16.
This is Links, He is a golden pyreneese (Im sure i butchered that) I had gotten him back in october, when my 3 dogs of 13, 12, and 11 years respectively passed. He has been a God send. And funny enough hes a mix of all 3 of Stevie, penny, and blaze.
These are Stevie(Blonde wire haired), Penny(Brown pit-terrier mix), and Blaze(australian shepard). They all passed this year 
. That was so hard to go through. one after the other….. Penny was the last one, before she left, is when i adopted Links. I was hoping a new pup would breathe some life into her… But it did not.. RIP Stevie, Penny, And Blaze…. Daddy misses you 
My beautiful baby Trinity, she’s starting to get on in years and is devolping a few issues with her skin but she is well taken care of and happy (unless she can see the bottom of her bowl 
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This is Ollie…
and with his brother Oscar when we adopted them…
Oscar is a good boy and likes to do parkour. Ollie is more of a rascal, is more friendly when hungry and might be part hobbit (begs for second breakfast and elevenses)
Well i guess i put my Royal dachshund(the bigger version) here he’s name is Gizmo and he is 2 years old.
He weights around 20-25 KG(no he is not fat he has alot of muscle)
I love dachshunds or sawn off dobies as I call them
@Mike09, here’s what I see…
Something puked on the upload. Tried a second time, got a differently-colored moire pattern. Off to troubleshoot my graphics. Sigh.
Never seen that cat species before? Strange color and did you zoom in to the fur? 
@Mike09 Try reducing the size of the image. If it is too large for the forum, it will be displayed this way (sadly).
Hopefully I got the jokes right 
Kiwi - I found her in a hedge at work as a kitten.
OB2 - I spent three years taming his feral heart before getting him inside.
Melon - He showed up in my porch one day and never left. He recently passed away and I’m still heart broken.
With a Maine Coon, everything is covered with fur. In our house, cat hair is a condiment.
Let’s try this.
Ah, that worked. My big gray girl thanks you, Shadow!
In my country, this breed is expensive to own.
Well, they eat like a truck until they are grown up, which is later than with “normal” breeds, between 4 and 5 years, and they grow MUCH bigger - ladys are around 7 to 10 kilos, boys tend to get half more. That alone makes them quite costly. If you feed them with barf, it get’s quite expensive.
The breed itself with a “certified” family tree from a registered breeder comes somewhere between 500 and thousand bucks a kitten, and that is as well very expensive.
Then you have to do the usual health care in the first year, and some regular checks in the first 4 years to spot some gen-defect related issues, and then it gets better.
So the first 4 years are WAY more expensive than with a stray cat. You get rewarded with a cat that owns it two nicknames: gentle giants and cat that think it is a dog. But don’t piss them off, than they get very ungentle cat-like. My skin has proof! I just love those cats.
My previous two cats were Maine Coons. They are an incredible breed. I miss both of them still.
This thread will sure burst the internet 
