My Family

I thought I'd share a few pics of "My Family". Hubby and I don't have biological children; however, we do have 3 furbabies!!! lol Our furbabies are very well cared for, and in fact are the most spoiled animals we have ever met!

So, here I'll show a few pics of Hubby and I as well as some pics of our furbabies. :)


Here is a more recent Pic of Hubby and I... 8-18-18. Camp Catalpa Park and Bird Sanctuary, Richmond, KY

Here is one of my favorite pics of hubby and I. it is an older photo, but, it's a great pic!

Here are 2 pics of us together at Cumberland Falls in Kentucky. These were taken in May 2011. :)

Now, for some pics of our furbabies! :) These are some pics from our collection over the past many years. Some of the pics that I like most! ;)

This is our funny cat Adam. RIP, passed 2015. He was a big boy! He weighed almost 10 lbs. And he was considered the lion king of the house and a TRUE Kentucky Wildcat!!!! He pretty much ruled everything and everyone LOL

See, even Dusty thought he was crazy!

This is tabby, she is Adam's litter mate sister, but she is MUCH smaller than he is! Tabby was born to a stray in our neighborhood. She almost died. She was being eaten alive by red ants when we found her. She weighed 1.7 ounces and I nursed her back to health. She is now a cute little kleptomaniac kitty. LOL.
But, just because she is small doesn't mean she doesn't rule ME. I can't do anything on my desk without her taking it over! And if I ever wanna use stickles, well just forget that, I have to literally lock her out of the room. I have to write to ranger and ask them, WHAT do they put in stickles because I can take a lid off and she will come running from the other side of the house just to get to it! LOL

Seeeeeee, Here is her getting into the stickles!!!! (I assure you she is NOT after that gum that's under the scrap paper with stickles. I have many other pics of her getting into stickles LOL)

Here's a pic of Adam and Tabby. Adam, left, Tabby on right.

This is stormy, Hubby rescued her from a trash can in the middle of winter in October 2009. How cruel and heartless can people be?!?!?! Stormy is just a tiny thing! she only weighs 2lbs. and she is full grown.  She is my registered ESA kitty. She is a little fuzzball though, and she is such a talker and lover. she loves to cuddle. every night she sleeps right on my pillow next to my head. sometimes she'll sleep next to me, but usually on my pillow. Of course, this is not good for my allergies, but I don't care, she makes me feel safe and comfortable. She is so attached to me she even sits in the tub floor with me sometimes when I'm showering, haha. (if she isn't on the tub floor, she is on the side of the tub. I have a huge garden tub and it's got a big side to it where she sits and keeps me company). (pardon the clothes in the background we were folding and hanging up clothes and folding sheets--she decided we weren't allowed to fold that sheet set, LOL).

and here she is again... we LOVE the hair that comes out of her ears, it makes her look like a little lynx kitty!

We initially thought stormy was a boy and hubby named “him” SCRAPPY because hubby had to fight to catch “him” when he found “him” (SHE was a stray and it was the middle of winter). When we found out she was a girl, we changed her name to stormy because of her grey and white color and because she was found on a stormy snowy day.

Now for our doggies!
Dusty was our oldest boy. He was 18 years old when we had to send him over the rainbow bridge in 2015. I originally got him for hubby when he had his first back surgery in 1997, so he would have someone to cuddle with (we didn't think dusty would grow out of his "puppy" size so fast!). Well, dusty ended up being a little more active than we had hoped for. LOL but, he had been through so much with us and he was such a good boy. Even though he was older, he was always a puppy at heart, and, as big as he was, he always thought was a lap dog puppy! LOL

And here he is cuddling with his sister, Tabby when she was smaller.

Here is Dusty (Oct. 2012). This is a face he makes often, his smiling face and his satellite dish ear. And that tail of his may look "fluffy" but let me tell ya, that thing is wicked strong when he gets to wagging it. LOL He was half German Shepard. with his old age, his face is turning grey and it's so cute! he even has grey eyebrows LOL

This is Buddy. RIP,  we also had to send him over the rainbow bridge, very shortly after Dusty in 2015. We should have named him Jerry Garcia. He was half blue healer and half jack russell and he was such a lazy little thing! Our dogs are always inside dogs, but buddy would be completely happy if he lived outside. We would normally have to literally go outside and pick him up and carry him inside. He was such a hippy dog, so laid back and mellow and he loved just about everyone. However, he did NOT like to have his pic taken, which is why there are very few of him in our stash. He usually ran when he hears the camera turn on, not quite sure. :-/

We found buddy as a stray when we went to Mill Springs Mill to check out the spot overlooking the lake to decide where in the park we wanted to have our wedding. When we got there and got out of the car, buddy came running up to us, he followed us everywhere for the whole 4 hours we were there! When we were done looking around the park we went door to door for about 2 hours asking and looking for his owners, but we couldn’t find them so we brought him home :) He was very emaciated and he had a huge hole in the top of his head where he had been bitten by another animal. After taking him to the vet for a check up, I nursed his head to good health. He was so skinny, but after getting him fixed, he fattened up like a thanksgiving turkey. LOL

This is him and bella when she was a puppy!

This was Buddy the day we found him, just loving to be loved and give love

Buddy in his natural habitat, LOL. We would often get up from the couch or bed and turn around to find him stretched out, and always with the remote. If it wasn't "left" on the bed or couch, he would pick it up with his mouth and lay it by him. He was a weird one, but we loved him.

Bella! Here she is when she was a baby... She is half yorkie and half terrior. or should I say TERROR! LOL she is truly rotten, but we love her!

Here are a few pics of her and "her buddy" when she was little...they truly were the best of friends and he was such a great big brother to her.

And this is ONE FUNNY PIC!! one day I came out to the living room when she was a puppy and she had all her toys in a pile... SHE put her toys like this! they were previously spread alllll over the living room. she was laying on top of them. I went to snap a pic of her and when I took the pic she stuck her tongue up her nose! It still makes me laugh to this day seeing this pic of her! LOL

Here is a recent pic of her after she had her spa day at the groomer! She doesn't even look the same, does she? :)

Here is Bella in Sept. 2012. She had just gotten home from her "spa day" (groomer) and she had long car ride home. She was so sleepy! As you can see, she took my space when I got up to get a drink. LOL Her t-shirt says "Bad Attitude" (and it's true!)

Well, those are our furbabies!! Hope you've enjoyed looking at my pics, I'm sure I'll be sharing more from time to time. :)

~Melisa Marie