We're all adopted strays, some from shelters, some from outside our house. The first 5 were adopted in August of 1996, shortly after we lost Tardy. Boots was left behind when his owner moved out of his apartment, and turned out to have a serious health problem which made him difficult for the shelter to place. Donovan and Tally (father and son) were left behind when their family moved away. Zeke is a feral, trapped and semi-socialized by caring shelter workers. Gizmo's feral mom was hit by a car in September 1996 and we adopted him from a rescue group that same month. Kenya and 2 of her littermates survived after being thrown out of a moving car window and we adopted her in December of 1996. Sammy, Buster and Scamp were strays that showed up on our doorstep with several health problems. Boots and Sammy are on Interferon for their chronic stomatitis. We all live indoors only now, here in Tallyville, and are doing quite nicely, thank you very much. Life here is pretty good, once we learned how to wrap the humans around our paws.