Dean and Nancy's Pets

We have four cats, a salamander,
and 5 (or maybe 19) fish...

My friend Toni gave us the salamander... his name is Flathead.

He's fun!! -always hungry for a mealworm or cricket! His wide mouth makes it looks as if he is smiling all the time!! He is at least six years old, eight inches long, and doing fine in his cool, semi-aquatic tank.

You can almost see Flathead in the tank with baby Jinxy on top, I drew an arrow pointing to his tail.

Amazon has books about salamanders and how to care for them...

If you have questions about keeping salamanders, I'd be glad to help if I can!! We don't really do much, but keep him in a half-full unheated tank, and feed him crickets and mealworms. Write Anytime!!

This black and white kitten is Jinxy, when he was just a baby.

Jinxy and my friend Toni... she called him "pooper" which I picked up, and Dean calls him "cooper" but really his name is still Jinxy...

He's all grown up now, but cute as ever! He's got cool hair that gets much longer in the winter only, Especially around his face. Its in the winter, that Dean calls him "mr. puffypants"... These photos look like they were taken in the summer.

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Jinxy has an ongoing battle with the neighborhood mockingbirds. The bird SWOOPS down and tries to frighten Jinxy away. It's hysterical to watch, and the bird is very noisy. Jinxy ignores the bird, for the most part. Try as I might, I have a hard time catching that bird in photos.

		This giant grey cat is SPUD.. he is sitting on top of a Honda Civic...
When he's not protecting his territory from other male cats, Spud likes to relax!!!

CANINES BEWARE!
Spud is NOT afraid of dogs. Even at 10 years old,
he will stand his ground and ATTACK any dog who dares come near him!

Here's "My Boys" together. They get along great!

She thinks she should be the only cat. ...anywhere!	Kato, our siamese, is a daddy's girl. She only likes Dean.
	She LOVES to roll around in catnip!!
Kato likes to sleep with her Papa, but ONLY after Mommy and those "other cats" have left the room.

Mutant ... was a great name for this messed up cat. She was super-long-hair persian, and hated to be brushed.

In March 2001 we had to put Mutant to sleep. She was pretty old, she only had one tooth. We never really knew how old she was. During her first and last trip to the vet, the techs estimated she was 14-16 years old. She was playful, even a couple of weeks before her passing. Everyone loved Mutant, even though she was generally pretty messy... She always had such a grumpy look on her face. She didn't deserve to die the way she did.... I wish I had caught the affliction earlier,... but I don't know if that would have made a difference.

When Mutant wasn't snoring, we used to catch her licking masking tape.... (yes, masking tape)

UTAH

On the day before Mutant died, a weird thing happened....A large 18-wheel truck was making a delivery at my work. Our shipping lady came inside and told me that there was a kitten in the back of the truck.
huh?
The driver had no idea where it came from. No one wanted this poor kitten who was crying constantly. Everyone said to leave her in the parking lot to fend for herself. no way. She was really sweet, sucking on my earlobes whenever I picked her up.

Needless to say, I brought her home. Dean wasn't too excited about having 5 cats, but when I told him the story about her arriving from Utah on a truck, he agreed to keep her. It helped that she was VERY sweet :-) ... to us anyway, she was sweet, but she didn't want to have anything to do with our other cats, she hissed at the sight of them for about a month!

We could not decide whether to call her Ogden or Utah, because that's where the truck came from.
I call her "Little Miss Utah" because she is still wearing the jeweled collar that she arrived with!

We were not meant to have 5 cats, we realized, when we lost Mutant the next day.
Then several weeks later, Utah got pregnant and lost the entire litter...pretty scary.

Utah is all better now, and cute as ever. She doesn't hiss at the other cats, now they even play with her sometimes!....

Utah likes to chase the screen saver on my computer. In the process, she pushes button on my keyboard that open various programs like my phone dialer... she loves sitting inside boxes and laundry baskets...

We have silly names for her, depending what shes doing... If shes eating, she's "Chew-tah"
When she's stinky, she's "Pew-tah"
When she's being stupid, she's "U-tard"
When you want to get rid of her, "Shoo-tah"
Sometimes I call her Mutant on accident, it sounds similar, and it makes me think that Mutant wanted to come back as a normal, generic, clean, no-hassle cat. If so, she's having a great time in her new body!

Ever since Utah came here to live, she's been trying to get something out from under the fridge, we dont know what, she's fully grown in this photo, and she has not given up.

Jinxy and Utah often play together, play-fighting and grooming each other ... we call this the "kick and lick"...

Utah is wacko.

If you want to see more pictures of Utah,
just check the cat food aisle at your local market.

This a photo of a visiting cat, right before Utah chased it away...

We have MANY more photos of the cats
on our new photo gallery - CLICK HERE

About 7 years ago, Dean drew up some charicatures of the kitties-
they may not be perfect portraits,
but they accurately portray the personalities of our furry kids!

Jinxy


Spud


Kato





Beware of Cat! - Lots of neat kitty graphics!

and more here...

thanks for your support

This page was originally posted in 1996
	Thanks for Visiting! Love, Dean & Nancy