I can't imagine having more than 2 cats. When I was a kid, we had one cat, which only recently died which was obviously hard as we loved her so much and we'd had her for 18 years.

But my two baby girls that I have now, I can't imagine loving them any more than I do and I love hearing about people that love cats as much as I do. If only there were more of us!!!

The cat my mum recently got was a rescue cat from the Cats Protection League. We didn't get much info on what had happened before my mum got her except that the people before her got her from the Cats Protection but then they got dogs and left her outside all the time. My mum is trying to introduce her to the garden but she gets so scared and runs in. She is also extremely scared of people's feet and particularly women. She is great with my brother of a night and in the morning but she's not great with my mum (or with anyone during the day, although she isn't as bad with my brother). She obviously had some form of a home before the last one she had but I'm assuming they severely mistreated her as I've never known a cat so scared.

When we got our 2, Poppy was always confident and up to no good, whereas Daisy was so shy and scared, the only one she liked was Poppy, her sister. But now she is fantastic and it didn't take her long to warm to us. I'm thinking because my mum's cat (Tilly) must have been mistreated for so long, it is going to take a while. I'm wondering if maybe her previous owner used to kick her? And maybe it was a woman as she is much better with men (I think I'm going to make a separate post on this).

Well we take some kind of happiness in the fact that she will have a good home from now on and hopefully she will snap out of it and get used to the fact that we would never ever hurt her.

I remember the first time Poppy did something naughty and I smacked her. I felt so bad that I picked her up straight away and gave her a kiss. I haven't done it since. I think that giving them a good telling off is enough, although she is still naughty but I have to admit, I quite like it. It really does add to her personality.