Darby, Highlander & Fifi Darby is a our sweet male dalmatian rescue. We obtained him after a man called the lawfirm where I worked asking if it was legal to "shoot" a dog within the city limits. Unfortunately, Darby has had to have two knee surgeries and had to have his tail cropped due to it being broken as a puppy. He has also been diagnosed with cervical vertibral instability or "wobblers disease" which is a serious spinal cord disease usually leading to paralysis. We love him dearly. Highlander is our baby doberman boy. His registered name is "Toledobes Highlander V Dobayr". He just turned one year old and is currently being shown by his *daddy* in conformation. FiFi is the little chihuahua lying on the pillow. She was a dear sweet little rescue who came to us in early 1999 with many many health problems. She had cardiomyopothy , a collapsing trechea, and a lesion on her brain that the veteranarian specialists believed to be a brain tumor. She only lived with us for about seven months.. .but she was special and made a difference in our lives! Rest in peace dear FiFi	Greyson This little guy got us started in the "rescue business." I saw him for the first time one Spring evening as a young kitten. He was just a thin little thing and when I called to him, he came out from under our car and looked at me and then ran away. I saw him several times after that and began to put food out for him. It was months later, (after taking in a number of other strays that were a little less shy and finding homes for them) that we finally bought a Haveaheart trap and trapped our little Greyson. He remained ours due to his coy nature and because he was the reason that we began feeding and rescuing stray cats. Today he is healthy, strong, and quite lovable (although still quite shy at times) but will always be dear to us for helping us realize the job that we had to do. Thank you Greyson!
Louie We rescued Louie one day while we were donating extra supplies to our local "humane society". We saw a man walk in holding a thin beraggled little orange white cat and tell the people behind the counter that he "wanted to get rid of this cat" because his son was allergic. They took Louie and informed the man that he would probably be put to sleep because he was "an older cat." And the man said that he didn't care. Even though we had already filled our car with a great dane mix and two 6 month old cats that other people had been turning in, we grabbed Louie (actually the humane society made us pay a $35.00 recovery fee since the man had actually surrendered Louie). Well Louie turned out to be between 10-14 years old and was suffering from early kidney failure and ardiomyopothy. We have been treating him for both diseases for over two years now and he is going strong! He is a sweet undemanding little boy that we cherish with all of our hearts!	Oreo This is the Queen of our household. She is the smallest and the oldest kitty in our house. Oreo suffers from a chronic upper respiratory infection...and her little folded ears are the result of hemotomas which were never treated. The poor little thing has had it pretty rough since her owner of over 12 years dropped her off at a shelter in Virginia...but you would never know it by her attitude! She is definitely the alpha cat and you can't help but love her for her saucy little attitude. She is a darling girl...we are so happy to have her with us!
Poo Bear Pooh is a sweet little girl who we rescued from a shelter in Virginia when she was almost 12 years old. After having been an only cat her whole life, Pooh was not adjusting well to living in a shelter with many many other cats. She had lost almost half of her body weight, had an upper respiratory infection, eye infections, and had pulled out most of her own fur due to stress. We decided that we would love to have her spend the rest of her life with us...and have never regretted it for a minute! Pooh now weighs almost 17 pounds again and is our little kitchen cat. (She likes to sleep on top of the refrigerator.) She is the sweetest girl we have.	Sampson Sampson was one of our first rescues. He had been living in our neighborhood for a while as a lonely boy without a home. He was very shy and never allowed anyone to get very close to him. We had to use the Havaheart trap to catch him. Poor Samson...even after almost 9 months of working with him, he refused to come out from under the blanket in his cage when people were around. So we decided that he would stay with us. Now he is a very sweet and loving cat who isn't the least bit shy!
Spirit Our dearest darling angel--Spirit one of our FIV+ kitties. He is our little boy who came to us from Virginia where he had been living in a feral colony. He was rescued by a very dear lady and came to live with us in January, 1996. Since then, he has been our little angel...always guarding me as he slept above my head on my pillow...with so much love to share...and never asking for anything in return. As of the middle of October, Spirit has been very ill. It seems his FIV is taking over his body. All of our prayers are for him right now. We all love you so much sweet Spirit. (NEWSFLASH!!!! Spirit's condition is improving evryday! It seems that he had hemobartonella -a bacteria that destroys red blood cells--and the treatment is working!!!!)	Flash This is our other little FIV+ boy. He is Spirit's best buddy. We got Flash from a very nice veterninarian who thought he was just too sweet to let the owner have him put to sleep. Spirit & Flash just adore eachother now...but when we brought Flash home for the first time...so that Spirit would have some company...they fought like crazy. In fact, they fought for almost a year. Now, they clean eachother and sleep together. They are quite a pair!
Roo & Cheyenne Roo is the orange & white boy and Cheyenne is his dainty little mother. Both of these kitties came to us as ferals from Virginia where they were rescued by a caring lady. Today Roo loves to be petted, sometimes pushing other cats out of the way to get his share of attention. Cheyenne remains very shy and delicate...she is still pretty feral...but we love her just the same!	Bear David Kobe Kat
JP's Pequena Nina del Oro This little "girl of gold" helped my Mother get over the loss of our little recued girl, FiFi. Since we got her for Mom, she has been non-stop fun rolled up in to a 2 1/2 pound package! We just adore this little wee one...how could anyone not?