We run an unofficial animal rescue, so we have multiple animals. At the moment we do not have any dogs, due to the fact that we travel so much-- we gave all the puppies and Lacey away to families-- but we have 5 cats (which is a low number, actually).
La Fangel (it stands for Little fat Angel, but we just call him Angel most of the time): He has been an old friend these past 12 years. I can't imagine life without him. He is the leader of the Rat Pack, as we call our motley crew, and is the first to welcome a newcomer and make the other cats fall in line and accept any new rescues. He's a beautiful mix of some kind.
Cricket: My bottle baby. She's nine, and I've had her since she was abandoned at 2 weeks old, due to an upper respiratory infection. Basically, when a kitten gets sick, the mother cat will remove the rest of the kittens from the litter and leave the one to die, in the hopes that the rest of the kittens don't get infected. She was starving and helpless, and when I picked her up her eyes were matted shut. She latched onto the side of my finger and I never let her go since. She was bottle fed way longer than she needed to be.  She's grey with a white muzzle, and white stockings up her legs.
Cinder Soot: All black. I've had lots of all black cats over the years, because people are so superstitious around here. They still drown black cats, in fact, or throw them out of the car as they drive down the highway. Cinder is a long haired nine year old, and she's very.... hormonal. She is the last to accept any newcomer, but she loves the family very much.
Riley and Lenox: They are short haired grey tabbies. Brother and sister, and only about 7 months old, I think. I've had them since they were 7 weeks old. They were unwanted kittens that someone was trying to get rid of, and I was going through a rough patch and needed kittens to throw myself into (not literally, figuratively). So, I brought them both home. Well, I brought Riley home (boy) first, and a week later the unloved and unwanted Lenox who was going to be without a home soon. I'm very glad I made the choice to take them, because they have been wonderful.  And now Angle has kittens to torment him.  It keeps him young, is my way of thinking.
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