I'll start with teh Clans Founder members the ones who stole my heart and became my world after ar eally bad first marriage breakup
His gorgeousness Toerag and his sister The Princess Sweetie
Toerag and Sweetie came to me at 5 weeks old and became the best thing to come out of my first marriage, we moved out on our own just the three of us when they were coming up a year old, we moved to a house that meant they could be indoor/outdoor but Sweetie never went beyond the garden and Toerag found the fields of rabbits who became regular dead visitors.
We spent until 1995 on our own and then I met their best Daddy in the whole world Robin who wondered why I wasn't that keen to work late 5 nights a week on aour works project then he took me out for dinner for my birthday and found my 2 reasons, this was a Sunday he took me out and by the Thursday of the following week he moved in and the kids got the best Daddy in the world he soon got trained by them and they adored him although Sweetie was harder to win round as she is still to this day my soul mate and the one who sleeps with me everynight and who still gets all the extra's the others don't always get.
Once Robin had moved in we were married within the year and moved house and Toerag started to be a real Daddy's , watched football, rugby, cricket helped with DIY and became Robins shadow but still had time for his Mum but Sweetie was still in the well is he here for good phase and showed this the only time Robin left her out as she wouldn't come in before he went to work and she destroyed the letter box from the outside in after that he made sure she was in and then we gave them acces through the new window we put in the rented house - he had now learnt that they got everything they wanted no matter the cost! Whilst in this home Toerag managed to get ripped on barb wire, have kidney stones and knocked down in a cul de sac and Robin got on first names with the vet!
We then moved to a rural place and they both loved the new house and its surroundings this is where our idyll went well for a while we gained a feral tabby called Tiger and him and Toerag were brothers in arems they both weighed in arounf 25lbs of lean mean balck and tabby boys and Tiger slowly tamed down and became Toerags shadow and both treated Sweetie with the utmost respect as she could flip them with one paw for no reason - Tiger still is wary of her after 10 years!
Toerag was killed by a speeding car on Mothers day in April 2000 and Robin found him at 06.35am on his way to work, our whiole world seemed t collapse that day as we had lost our precious son, Sweetie lost the only cat she ever curled up with, Tiger lost his brother and teacher and it was to soon he was only 7.
Sweetie continues on in this life and is the leader of the Clan Cats and is still my special girl above all the others in fact it was them who started my lifelong love of the Black cats and there have been afew in the Clan since then.
Tiger like Toerag suddenly grew up and became the Alpha male of the Clan, he caused me heart failure in 2001 the same Mothers day date again and was missing for 6 days and when we found him he had lost a third of his body weight and had been also hit by a car, like to think Toerag had a guiding paw as althought the vets didn't have much hope for the boy as the bladder function had been affected and his tail was amputated (he now has a stump) we decided to give it the go and Tiger duly had a vet outside digging for soil at the 3 day deadline and the boy duly went in the box parents overjoyed, vets bill rising and home he came to cage rest for 3 months with 60 stitches and a shaved hind end 0- cage rest lasted 3 weeks its amazing the damage a caged feral can do from inside the cage and we were getting desperate by this point so stiches removed and he once again was out bruisng the neighbourhood.
By the December 1999 we decided to get kittens - we know alot more now we went to a CP shelter and fell in love with Havoc and Chaos 2 ferals aged 11 months - they are now called Lima and Clio and worship Tiger to the extreme took 3 years before they became handlable and are now a defintie split pair Clio is my girl and Lima is Robins boy - Lima has put 2 vets nurses and a vet in hospital after he shredded them and they got cat scratch fever so Lima only sees male vets now and doesn't shred!
Lima and Clio are now 8, Tiger is 10 and my beloved Sweetie is 15 and they are wonderful - 3 ferals and a princess and more tales to come which I will add over the coming days!!!!!
