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Seems i have been away from lycos for to long, its gone to the wall, well i can now be found on facebook.

Uploaded photo's of our new addition, James Nathaniel, born today at 8:52am and weighing in at 9lb 4oz

 

 

Thanks to all the friends and visitors, but its time for me to leave, this message will remain for 24 hours then this space and associated msn will be deleted.

Well yesterday was spent looking for a cat to keep me company for the times i spend alone, which is most of the week after trawling the net searching the cat rescue places we found one in Marton Blackpool with several possible candidates, Hector, Margaret and Barbara, not your usual cat names, but when your having to rehome upto a 1,000 cats a year, names are hard to come by, and you know how long it takes to pick a suitable name for a kid, The cats were beautiful and as i expected when i got their, we wanted to take them all home, but alas, it could only be one, i've always had a passion for long haired cats, and i do like single colours, grey, black etc and their was one their that met those criteria, but i didn't pick her, i know i'm still in shock myself,  we spent a good hour with the cats seeing which would take to us, and it made t doubley hard as all except one, kept coming for a stroke, purring, and nudging us as cats will, Barbara was a little shy,she kept herself to herself, though would let you stroke her but wouldn't get out of her bed, sounds like me on a good day lol. Margaret her sister was totally the opposite, she was all over us like the plague, we couldn't push her away, and it was a shame to leave her behind, but i thought, it would have been more of a shame if we had took her away from her sister, Their was a cat their with six toes, he was well cute, but wasn't fully litter trained he liked weeing on lino  though would do his other business in the litter tray, some cats just have some weird quirks about them, their was however one cat that stood head and shoulders above the rest, quite literally, he was huge, a small siberian tiger if you ask me, except his temparement you couldn' fault, his name was Hector, he came when you looked at him and patted your leg, he loved being stroked and was the father of the other cats though only about 4 years old, poor thing, can't have any more kittens though, as he has been neutered  being a big man myself with the same kind of temperament, but no, i haven't been neutered  i think we were meant to be, so even though we spent another half hour looking at the other cats i had already made my mind up that he was the one and from his reactions i think he knew it to, after filling out the paper work the chap took the cat basket we had took and asked us to wait outside whilehe said goodbye to him and put him in so we watched through the window, and Hector casually got up from his bed, came oer to the window were we was looking through had a good look at us, stretched, and walked back to the man for a final stroking, and casually with an air of grace, maybe even royaly walked into the cat basket without any to do. He didn't like the ride home to much, though i guess not many cats do like travelling, but he didn't fret to much, just a few meows and Keekee comforted him while i drove, he was content, when we got home, he warily got out of the basket and looked round, went behind the tv, and watched for a while, to see if their was anysurprises in store for him, like another cat, or a dog, but none appeared, so he went slowly for a little walk round, watching anything that moved, he then hid behind the couch for quite some time and had to be enticed out with a saucer of tuna which we left him to eat while we went to pick Antz up, my youngest son, and go and get a few tins of cat food and some cat litter, when we had come back the tuna had gone, and he was under the shelving unit watching us as we came in, Antz enticed him out with stroking him then he came round all 3 of us for a stroke and then went back into hiding , we left all the doors open so he could go explore the rest of the house, which he did eventually, finding his way under my bed, on Antz's bed in the bath, when it was time for us to go to sleep he was sprawled out n Antz's bed so Anthony jut climed in, and the cat stayed with him most of the night, hemust have had another exploration during the night, most of the water had been drunk, his litter tray had been used, and again he was in hiding, though i didn't find him till after i ad come back from taking Anthony to school, he was in my junk cupboard hiding between some boxes, i've put some more food out for him, but at the moment he's back under my bed, stretched out as cats do when their content, not bad for his first stay in a new home, i'll give him a few days to let him get used to the house then i'll close a few doors so he knows he's not allowed in certain places and hopefully he will come out of his shell a little more, once he comes out from hiding in places that have to much junk, i'll take some pics and put them on here to you can all have a look at what i think will be the new master of the house, till then Adios.  for those who can't wait to see him, then take a peek at him on their website http://www.catchat.org/furrytails/cgibin/prview.cgi?id=2007040305 or if your looking for a cat yourself try this link Furrytails