Hi Peggy,

I hope this email finds you well. I'm great and Maggie too. I know I've told you this before, but Maggie is the best cat I've ever owned and I've had twelve! She is sweet and very loving. She definitely has a mind of her own but in a good way. Everyone who meets her falls in love with her. You did a great job raising her in her first three months because she loves people and they her...even non cat people!

I take lots of pictures of her so I thought I'd send some to you so you could see how she's grown. She is around eight pounds and I'm hoping she'll stay on the small side. These two pics are of her in one of her favorite hiding places. She loves to run 90 miles an hour and jump and land in the pot. Sometimes if I'm looking for her, I check the pot and she'll be all curled up and sound asleep in the bottom.

Take care and thanks for such a great cat,

Debbie February 2009

Dear Peggy:

I had meant to send you an xmas card as I wanted to let you know how
the boys are doing but it just got too hectic!  They have physically
matured and are both quite handsome in their own ways. Emotionally
(I'm not sure if this is a correct word to describe animals) they are
still very kittenish. Wilbur looks like a baby raccoon from the neck
down.  He has wonderful owlish eyes and can out-stare one, my son
tried it. He is very easy going and gets along with everyone.  As
Robbie matures he has become much more sensitive and when we go to
pet him he flinches as if we have been beating him. He still is quite
pretty and everyone, including me, frequently calls him a "she". He,
too has beautiful eyes but shaped differently from Wilbur's. He is
much more agile than Wilbur and can fling his body everywhere. He has
to decide when and where he can be petted, and, yet if one of us is
lying down he will come over and lie on us.  He seems to be the
brighter of the two.  It used to be that if the doorbell rang they
would both run like mad to the door to see who was there.  That is no
longer the case, Robbie runs and hides until he knows who it is.
Wilbur wants to check everyone out and will follow workers around
including the painters and got into their can lids necessitating a
hurried and harried wash.  Wilbur is not a lap cat but will  lie next
to you and insists on taking over 1/3 of the bed. However, once when
my son was visiting, Wilbur got on the couch next to him and threw
himself on his lap and got into his silly mode in which he lies on
his back, all four legs splayed out and his head upside down and goes
into what we refer to as a trance.  It was most amusing but we were
jealous as he does not get into our laps. He does, however, get into
the above position quite frequently when we are stroking him.  They
had their annual physical and shot a few weeks ago.  It was suggested
that we not let Wilbur gain any more weight, he is somewhere around
11# and Robbie close to 10#.  As you can gather we are still crazy
about them and spoil them rotten.  They are very much members of the
family and are always in whatever room we are in.  I will try to
attache a relatively recent pic of them - it's not the best but is
the more recent one and when we get a better one I'll send it on.

I hope you and your people family as well as the animal family are
doing well and have a healthy, and one can hope, a prosperous 2009.

Vi and Richard Buck