This website was started in 1999 when I needed a place to store picture for auctions. I decided to utilize this website by creating a site around my favorite interests...my cats! The website contained only a few pictures of my cats and some animated gifs that I 'borrowed' from the web. All my pages now contain original content. If you have seen some of this website's work elsewhere on the web, it originated from this site. I self taught myself simple HTML with the help of Amy G. and the immense amount of information available on the Yahoo help files. I received free software for Ulead Photo Shop with my scanner and started learning how to photoshop pictures, make graphics and animated gifs. The very first animated gif I made took me 3 days to make:) I stopped doing auctions after a couple of years because it was not worth my time and I had way too much stuff piled up in my house in boxes. The experience of doing auctions greatly contributed to 'getting me' started on the web and for that, I am thankful. My website really got going when my brother, Drew Thornton, pulled out his large albums of cat photos and let me borrow them. His pictures have been used in every section of my site. Friends and family joined in and started sending me their pictures. Then I started getting pictures through the e-mail. That's how I met Lynda Burruss, Terri Morin, Neil Evans and Chris from Bristol, England....the great and talented photographers that just wanted to share their wonderful pictures with other cat lovers! All of the drawn cats where done by me and are my personal artwork. All graphics, animated gifs and etc. from cat pictures where created by me using original pictures. These original pictures where contributed by Julie D., Tami, Drew Thornton, Darlene Thornton, Nancy H., Amy G. and a couple of close friends of my children. I obtained Java applets from various sites that further helped move this site forward. All credits are on the pages that contain the Java with links to where the Java was obtained. Of course I have to mention the two helpful and wonderful men in my house, my son and my husband, who I constantly pester to look at images and graphics for me. This site is a mostly a hobby and I have spent 10 times more than I have ever made from it! Most of my free stuff is still pretty simple. A lot of it was made in the day of computers with 350 MHz processors, 64 MB memory and 4 GB hard drives... so the content had to be small in size!!!! Basically, this site is a collaboration of the efforts and talents of cat lovers for the sole purpose of wanting to share it with you! Thank you for taking the time to read this and I hope that you enjoy this website.