I'm the mother of three boys, my husband retired 10/04 from the Air Force. I taught band and guitar at a small Catholic H.S. and am currently volunteering at the Humane Society. Our darling almost nineteen-year old DSH girl ,Dyna, black and white and ornery,passed away due to renal failure 2/04. Elmo our black DSH joined her at the bridge 11/08, after living with CRF for over 6 years, mellow and sweet past his 20th year. Solomon joined our family September 2, 2001. He is a classic red tabby with white Maine Coon cat and an absolute doll baby(unless he's getting a bath). We lost Bink, a rescued ragdoll kitten almost eight years ago to FIP and the resident princess, a calico named Ariel to cancer in July 2001. After much searching we found a ragdoll breeder and Widget joined our family the end of October 2001. He was a seal lynx point and one sweet, gorgeous boy. Sadly, we lost Widge to HCM on Super Bowl Sunday 2003. We hadn't planned on adding another cat to our household anytime soon, but a charming little rescue Raggie mix at the Humane Society grabbed our hearts and Bug joined our family on 2-9-03. Electra, a gray and white domestic medium hair, charmed us in August of 2004. In December 2008 an adorable gray and white tuxedo RagaMuffin puffball, Sterling came to be part of our family.