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[LibGwen Resident]

The KittyCatS found me in December 2011, but it was a two-month journey to my first birthing. I'd been in SL only a few months, and in my wanderings I'd seen the horses (they were everywhere), the dogs that greet you with sniffing, the Meeroos, those one-prim cats that just sit, a bird that whistled the same tune over and over, and another cat that didn't look much like a cat but had appealing behavior. I'm allergic to cats in real life, so I thought it was great that people were trying to make virtual ones. I had a leisurely December that year, so I was able to really have fun and visit SL holiday villages and a bunch of advent calendars each day, one of which was the KittyCatS calendar at their holiday village. I had no idea what was going on there, wasn't even sure if the KittyCatS group was a store, and there were no indications of how to find out. But some of the dioramas people had made with the cats were ingenious. And the advent calendar intrigued me--pet furniture! Gosh, wouldn't it be interesting to have a pet cat? --Oh! Oh my!

The Starry Starry Night cats were everywhere after that. I was able to observe them and other KittyCatS, and the more I observed the more I wanted to birth mine. The animations are wonderful! The notecard in the package led me to the webpage with its helpful FAQ and Manual, and from the main store and private blogs I was able to calculate how much food a cat needed and how much it would cost. (Let me emphasize how *helpful* it was to be able to find out what an animal needs and what's optional and be able to *plan*.) I joined the KittyCatS Addicts group, asked some questions, talked to a few big breeders. At the end of January I had a place (no Cattery back then, it was all in-world) and food and held my breath and birthed my first kitty. Awww! --The first of much cooing. I named my boy Kepler. I was able to Perma-Pet him during this year's birthday celebration.