Ariel

Here is my story:

I had one hoomin family until I was seven years old, when they took me to the animal shelter. I stayed there for a long time, and I was sick for a lot of it. Then a nice hoomin came and took me home, and kept me with four other kitties.

My new hoomin tried to find me another home because she thought there were too many kitties where she was living. She even took me to another hoomin, but I wasn't having any. I went on hunger strike until that hoomin took me back to my One True Home, and here I am still!

My hoomin thinks I am part Persian because I have long fluffy fur underneath. I'm a pretty quiet kitty, and I'll go hide if someone is looking for a fight, but I love making friends. Most of the other kitties in my hoomin's house are my friends now.

Azad

Hello dere, mine naym is Azad.
Aktooally, it's Azad bin Julian.
But dat's kinda stuffy.
An I'ze not like dat atall.
I'ze a reglurr kinda guy, yu no?
I likes drinkin frum da fawsitt.
An sleepin between da pillos on da bed.
An climbin an playin wiff mine ferrit Boo.

Benny

I wuz left in de entryway uv meowmie an paw's house bak on Halloween 1994. I wuz a furry cute kitten and nuffin wuz wrong wif me but dose nasty eermytes. I lyke to sit inna owt on cool, rainy days and let de wind blo in my fayce. I lyke to have de fine mist on mineownfurr. I lyke tew hep meowmie onna puter, too.

I am a furry gudgud boy and I always come wen Meowmie calls me, cuz I know she will pik me up and smurgle my bellee. I really lyke dat.

Blackie

Ize a big black kitty cat wif long fur. Ise about between 8 an 10 yeers ode, cording tew TED. I use ta lif in da owt by myownself fur yeers an yeers, meowmie furst saw me wen day bringed Maggie home, back in 94. Day fot dat I had a hoomin fambly dat just didunt tayk gudgud care uf me, but urleeur dis yeer, meowmie started talkin ta me inna owt and I let her smurgle wif me as long as she wus giffen me dat fancy fud outta da kan. Wun uf da reesuns dat dey fot I had hoomins, wuz becuz I wud get deez bald spots on my side and day fot dat TED shaved me frum catfite wunds. But day wuz spots ware I pulled doze big hunks uf hare frum my body. It rilly hurted ta dew dis. Meowmie skweeled wif delyte wen she feeled my back an all doze mats I fink she called dem.

She wuz nurfus about trapping me, cuz see, I'm kinda skeery lookin an she didunt want to git hurt. I wuz furry gud bowt goin in dat box wif da windows an I rided in da meddulmonstur and only tried tew get owt a liddul. At TED's day took my bigbig eggs an taked sum uf my fur off (da gurl hoomin at TED's sed I looked lyk a baboon, wuteffur dat iz) and chekked my teef (one has sinc gone ta da brig) and in my eers (TED rilly scraped in wun, he told meowmie I hadda pawlip in dare) and put me in a bowl wif waddur monsfurs. Den dat ladee dat put me inna carrier came an we got bak inna meddul monsfur and went bak tew ware I liffed. But she took me inna rume by myownself. I thot bowt leefun a liddul, but not much. Dat wuz about six weeks ago and heer I am. I had a ril badbad bladdur infekshun, my pee wuz da kolur uf red wine. An I liked to poop an pee onna sofas. But now, I go inna box lyke da uffer kiddees and my pee izunt so red enneemower.

Caffy

Ize 'bowt 10 ur 12 yeerz ol. I doant kno fur shur. Sum hoominz gotted mee frum da Hoomayne Sosietee wen Ize wuz awlredy growed. I lifed wif dem fur a few yeerz an den dey gotz a skaree d*g. I wuz reelyreely skared uf dat d*g, so dey wuz gunna sen mee tu da Brij!! Myown Meowmie'z boyfren knu deeze peepul an sez, "No! Ize tayk him an find him a onetruhome!" Dwight, my Paw, iz lergik tu kittiez, but Ize bin lifin wif him fur 'bowt free an a haf yeerz now. Weez jus a cupplea bachlurz lifin heer! I lyke dat.

Dwight gottid mine neece, Frass, fur mee tu play wif, but it wuz tuu much eggsitement, speshully fur him (he doant unnerstan kittenz!), so she wented home wif Meowmie. Ize cud go der, tuu, but itz tuu much goin' on der fur mee an dey gotz a noyzee barkbarkbark d*g der. Ize purrfurz beeing an onleecat. Itz kwieter an I lyke kwiet.

My hobbyz are:

• Hyding wen Ize heer enny noyse uf enny kind
• Eeting treetz
• Sneekin in da bedruum (an peein inna waddermonsterbed)

an now dat Ize a membur uf da rpcc, Ize gunna bee spendin mine free tyme purrin fur alla kittiez an hoominz dat needz it. Ize a reelyreely gudgud purrer.

Caitlin

Meow! My name iz Caitlin. Iz haf Himmy. My mommy iz a Seel Poynt Himmy. I wuz borned August 16, 1994. Iz almost 3 but mommy still kalls me Baby Gurl. And she alla time calls me KiddenFayce. Whatz she spektin, a RynosserusFayce? : 3

Mine big sistur Malusee is also a white kitty, but she haz short furz. We plays sumtimes, and chase eech othur rownd thuh partment. I iz fur effer N effer winkwinks wif my darlin Rorsy. He is thuh handsumest kitty inna hole wurld.

Iz kinda shy, I don like new peeple or aminals. I like owr new partment tho cuz it haz a big patyo door to luk owt of. My favrite nap places is unner mine own box and unner thuh cuvers onna bed. Mommy finks it keyute, but I sayz itz just warm an kwiet!

Ciara

My name is Ciara (Keera). I was found bandoned on da street. Meowmie sed she wuzzunt takin in enneemower kittees, sed she had enuff. Den da boy sed is dis your kittee an meowmee sed no dey wurnt missin enny, but wut duz it look like? Good fing I had blue eyes. She walked down, held me, noticed I was breevin hard, sed "we'll take her", brought me home, took me to TED wiffin an hour.

It tooks mumfs fur dey could figured out why my breevin was so bad. It was a pawlip. It started frum a URI left untreeted by my first home and went into my ear. It was growin in my froat and had been pushin up on my nazul passuges and den got so big it was pushin on my mouf. TED put me to sleep an cut dat fing out. He showed it to meowmie, it was as big as da top of her fumb. No wonder I couldn't get breffs uv air.

An I went into heet right after dey got me an TED wouldn't pay me cuz I couldn't breev. After two mumf of medication, I could breev enough (the passages were firty free percent open) so TED could make it so I didn't get so hot.

Cinnamon Rose

I'm Cinnamon Rose, or Rosie to my friends! I am a luvely, fluffly Dilute Calico girlkitty. I was born in 1989 inna barn and lived there for 8 weeks until mine mom came and kitnapped me. I have three brothers and two sisters, and I don't like ANY of them. I don't like other kitties, and I only like hoomins when they are lying down and can properly appreciate my fluffy self. My favorite bonding activity with mine mom is to crawl down unner the covers and knead herown tummy with mine prickly, fluffy toes. Mine mom calls me Princess Toes and tries to KISS mine toes all the time. Ugh!

Galaxy

Gypsy

I found my onetruehome by runnin in front of Meowmie's car on Septemfur 25, 1997. Meowmie thought Ize was onlee 6 weeks old so my Purrday is in August. She rescued me by climbin under a metalmonster in da cold an damp an ketchin me. Ize was furry scared but she took gudgud care of me an found me a reel fine place to lif. Meowmie calls me Gypsy cause Ize was wanderin when she found me, Paw (Meowmie's brofur) calls me Kitten Chow an Paw's daughfur calles me Sara Marie. Ize fink Ize got too many names.

Hoover

Hi!!! I'm Hoover and I found my onetroohome on Cinco dey Mayo, 1999. Dats May 5, 1999 in hoomin inglish.

Actooally, I found it a foo days befur dat, but it took da hoomins a foo days to figure owt dat I belonged too dem. I was rescooed by da Persian cat rescoo of northern catafornia and my hoomins found me at da adoptathon at da local petsmart. I am named fur da hoomin appliance dat sucks fuzz offa carpets, becuz dat's my job, too! I haf a difficult job keeping da carpets cleer of fuzz but mymom tries to stop me from doing dis. She doesn't doo it, somekitty has too!

Anywayz, I love it heer - I git plenty of food and lotsa pets and smurgles. And boy, yoo should see da toys! It's a boykitties dreem come troo.

Jasmine

Hi, I'm Jasmine. I now wiv wif Simba an Lilac. I use tew jus wiv wif my daddy, but now I haf a meowmie too! I wyke her a lot, she givs gudgud smurgles. My favwit tings are tew syt in da winnows an luk at da out, an runrunrun wif Simba. I also pwetec my hoomins fwum doze moff things. I luv da wip creem in da can (drrrool). Dis club is perfict for us Persians!

Mina

My first hoomins abandoned me when they moved away from their apartment in Southern Catifornia, and left me alone in the Out. It was October of 1997 when my new hoomins, who were visiting some friends there, took me in and brought me home -- first to a little apartment in Northern Catifornia, then to a bigbig apartment in Oregon. I surprised them by having kittens in Decemfur! My hoomins kept one of my daughers, Nita, and a little while ago, they adopted a new kitty, about Nita's age -- they call her Lilith Fur. I'm a Birman kitty, or mostly so. My ancestors were temple cats, and like them, I am very calm, dignified, and relaxed. (Well, except when the hoomins want to give me a bath!!)

Miss Kitty

My name is Miss Kitty and I am furry cute. I have to be cause I am always getting into trouble. My nicknames are Zoom Kitty, Turbo Cat, Purr monster and tuff girl kitty. I beat up my 2 male siblings on a regular basis. I like boxes, cupboards, jumping on any kitty or hoomin that moves and waking everyone up at 3:48 every morning. My greatest goal in life is to get into meowmie's walk in closit and climb the clothes. I am furry happy to haff such a nice club to join!

Munchkin

My name is Munchkin. I am one of the descendents of the Sacred Cats of Burma - a Birman. My origins are a bit of a mystery - and I like it that way! I found my OneTrueHome in 1981, when I was about 5 months old. I simply walked into a house one day, sat down in front of the fishtank, and refused to leave. Oh, the humans tried to get rid of me - asking around the neighborhood to see where I belonged, putting me over the fence so I'd "find my way home". Silly humans - I had already found my way home! And when the oldest girl human got home from work, I knew I'd found MY human. She's a bit unruly at times, but I do my best to make her behave.

Omar

Ohdeer, whut to say? Well, I'ze also a memfur ov da Orange Cats Club, da Back Fence Cat Club, an I'ze da offishul Unclekitty to da Comeback Kitties (Da Comebacks haff a furry speshul plaise in my heart).

But, bein da co-fownder (wiff Dr. Stinky, who had da orijinal ideea) of dis club is sumfing I'ze purrtikularly prowd abowt, as its a furry fine groop of x-treemly beeyootiful kitties.

Princess Pasha

Fur a longlong time I thot my name wuz "OhLookAtTheCuteFuzzyKittie". I lyke to cuddle and be luved all thu time. Ize not allowed to go inna Out but I like tu luk Out thu big glass door an watch thu burds and uffer animals. There's anuffer kittie at our house whoz older than me, but she doznt wanna play wif me. Ize been wantin tu hab kittie frends so Ize prowd to be a memfur uf thu HPCC and a new rpcc kittie. Purrs and smurgles to all!

Prissy

I lif in Lawrenceburg, KY wif my hoomin parents, der sun, Sam, two d*gs, Ginger and Sunshine, and free burds in kayjes. I wuz born June 25, 1996. I am a tortie-point Himalayan. I am a IN kitty effen tho I want to be an OUT kitty. I sneek out efurry chanse I get. I allso like to sneek down in da basement when Mommy duz da lawndree. I luv to run fastfastfast fru da howse and git da d*gs to chase me an I luv to help Mommy wif hur needlepoint. Dem strings jes drive me wild and she luvs da way my fur dekorates her wurk.

Sammy

Ize wuz borned June 14, 1999. Ize had a cupple uf homes, but dey weren't mine wuntroohomez. Den I wentid tu lif wif Dwight, jus like Unca Caffy did. Den Meowmie DiAnne tuk mineself home tu lif wif Ernie an Frass. Ize fink Ize finely fownd mine wuntroohome fur reel! Ernie an Frass are owld fogiez whu doant wanna runrunrun an playplayplay like Ize du, but Ize got lossa toyz tu play wif. Mine fafrit iz da ball inna TurboSkrachur. Ize git dat going 'bowt a millyun milez an ower!

Ize awlso have da mostest beeyutiful winkwink inna wurld, Miss Holly Rankin. Ize a furry lukky boykitty!

Sammy, prowd tu bee at leest part Purrshun

Simba

My naym iz Simba. I was borned on Feb 3, 1996. I wiv in Olean, New York wif my newwywed hoomins an Jasmine an Lilac. Wen my meowmie taw me, she tawt I wus da cutest kitty. I wuz jus a widdle ball uv fluff. My favwit tings are tew unrol dat paper in da hoomin lidderbox, awange da noospapers, and play lowd ephelunts racin down da hallway. I also lyke to go in da out, but den I git rillyrilly egcyted an I haf to cum in. Ize very happy to be in da HPCC. Persians are da greeatest!

Simon

Ize Simon. Meowmie dopted me frum duh Hoomane Sosiety in August 1999 an at dat time TED sed awl he cud tell wuz dat I wuz "more dan two." So I duzint reely no my aje or birfday. I had been wandurin arownd duh area kwit sum time befor dey picked me up. I wuz all raggidy an all my bones poked owt. In duh first munf wif Meowmie I went frum 8 pownz to 12 pownz. Now Ize uh hansum fella indeed. Dont be fooled by duh grumpy luk on my fase. Datz just duh way my eyebrows iz. Ize kwite happy heer in my wuntroohome wif Meowmie an my sisfur Mollie.

Smudge

Dr.Stinky

I'm Dr. Stinky W.D.C (wonderful doctor cat). I live in Catafornia with my 2 hoomin slaves. I'ze approximately 5 1/2 yeers old, we're not sure since I was found wondering the streets neer myowntroohome. I am a memfur of the comeback kitties and the Grey Cats Club. I have a winkwink - Shamrock who lifs in Mew Jersey. She is trooly wunderful. I luv being a doctor so I can help kitties wif minor problems like getting helmuts off their back ends and when they faint (for some reason or anofur). I have a nurse helper - Patches RCN (registered cat nurse), she is furry helpful for me in my wurk. I am eggspecially proud to be memfur of the HPCC and to celebrate my persianess!

Stuff the Cat

I'm not used to talkin about mee, 'cos I'm a bit shy. Anyyway my humin finks I am smelly and scruffy, but that it ok because I fink my human is smelly and scruffy too an I make him make lots uf web paijes for me. I fink that my mind iz more important than looks, I do a lot of finking. Finking iz my favorite fing, ovver than eatin and sleepin of course. Oh an attacking long wiggly string monster creatures.

I am sorta around somewhere in rpcc, but I usually just listen, too busy wiv da finking to say much, then I forget wot I woz going to say, but you might see some of my fluff lyin around, 'cos I drop it everywhere I can - I fink everything shud be grey an fluffy.

Welll, I'm not much of a club kind of a cat but Omar called me Ma'am so how could I refuse?

Willow

Ize a formur feralkitty, hoo now livz wif tu broffurz, an wun sisfur.

Ize bin heerfur abowt a yeer anna haf now, an Ize luv mine wuntroohome! Ize getz lotz uv fud an fresh waddur, an Ize sleep onna nis soft bed effury nite wif mine meowmie an daddee. Weez got so manee toyz dat weez hav owr own toybox!

Ize nottid tutu shur how owld Ize iz or wen mine purrday iz.