Madi and Mom Present Love your Pet Day

Mom, here....I'm taking over the blog today to introduce you to all of the pets that

have ENRICHED our lives over the last 32 years. Hubby and I have been married 40 years and thankfully only been with out a pet for 8 of the 40 years.
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Madison aka Madi aka Diva.
Madi is the ultimate socialite. She thinks everyone who enters the house does so
to admire her. She does her best diva walk through the center of the room.
She is very vocal. If she is awake she is meowing about something.
Since we started blogging of June 25, 2009 you have read and seen lots about Madi

March 11, 2002-

Milky-Way our family's first cat. 1985-1999
Milky was our Thinker...he rarely meowed. In the 14 years he lived with us, I
could probably count his meows on both hands. Needless to say, we were not
prepared for the constant meowing of Madi.
Milky was MIA when there were visitors. He did have one true love
other than us, Cali (his human sister's cat she is pictured later in the post).
Milky was 7 when Cali came in to our family at 6 mos of age. He absolutely adored her. If she came to his bowl when he was eating, he would step aside...patiently waiting while she inspected his food. He was a gentleman Cat.

Toto, the mighty mini Dachshund. 1974-1984

Our first family pet and the most comical. Toto taught us how to laugh at ourselves.

When I began blogging, many of my posts were about Toto and his antics. He had 9 lives of a cat..he was a cat trapped in a dachshund body.
Being vertically challenged he did not like snow or rain

Cali, Calico Cornish Rex loved and owned by my daughter for nearly 12 years.

She was undoubtedly the sweetest cat in the world. She had a lot of

health problems but she was always as an angel even will all the poking and prodding she endured. We all learned how to handle the adversities of life from Cali. At about 4 years of age, Cali was diagnosed with mega colon which battled her for the next 8 years.

I'll never forget the day my daughter brought her to our house to meet Milky.
Cali was literally bouncing off the walls. Milky was in love from the first meow.
She brought out the kitten in him.

Taz, Quaker Parrot (allows my daughter, son in law and Harley to live with him). He will be 7 years old soon. Taz vocabulary is small but good. He was just beginning to talk with they brought Harley home. They were pretty sure the first thing Taz would learn to say was "Harley, No". Fortunately he did not. He is a superb dancer when he hears music or singing he starts to strut his green body in perfect tune. He can imitate almost any noise he hears.

Harley, Gray and White Cornish Rex, he will be 6 this year.
Harley is my daughter's 2nd Rex. Harley gets car sick. They live 3 hours away
so we don't see him much. We are told he is a snuggle bug to his mom and loves to gnaw on buttons. In Harley's world, there are never enough blankets. I'm currently making him an afghan. Many ask about a bird and a cat in the same house....well there seems to be no problem

We feel very lucky all of these adorable pets have left paw prints on our hearts or tweets in our ears and patiently shown us unconditional love in spite of our human shortcomings.