In addition to my love of horses and my dreams of one day owning them again, I also have an adorable Ragdoll cat, affectionately known as Cheesecake, and 3 pet rats. The rats I have include Shai (an Irish rat), Atsuka (a lavender hooded rat) and Amon Ra (a cream hooded rat). They are all adorable pets and I love them dearly.

OMG! I have 3 Ragdoll cats!!! I have Loki (seal bicolor), Melody (blue/cream mitted) and Zeus (seal colorpoint). I adore them all. How old is Cheesecake? What color/markings is he/she? I don't meet many people who have ragdolls, so am excited to hear that you do!

Amazing cats, aren't they??? Cheesecake is a seal mitted and between 2 and 3 years old. The amazing thing was that I got her from the animal shelter, of all places. I had taken in a sick stray several years before, only to fight a never-ending battle with FeLV, which she had contracted before I got her. After I finally had her put to sleep (she was diagnosed with intestinal cancer), it took me a long time to get up the will to go look at another cat. Something just told me it was right, one day, and I listened. I was glad that I did.

Cheesecake (her name was Olivia then) was a stray that had been brought in via ambulance (she had been injured or having kittens when brought in). Weighing less than 6 pounds, she was tiny, skinny and scared of everyone and everything. She'd been available for adoption for 11 days and no one had shown any interest in her (most likely because she was terrified of everything). Even though my mother advised me against it, I went back to this one cat after looking over and visiting with all the other cats. My mother told me she felt I was making a big mistake, but I paid my $15 and brought her home.

2 days later, she was running a high fever and the vet didn't think she would live. Suffering from an extremely bad case of URI, as well as complications from what my vet determined to have been an emergency c-section that had been done on her, combined with a spaying, it was really touch and go with her for almost 2 weeks... every day, I had to take her into the vet for shots of antibiotics, IV fluids, and fluids given in under her skin. It traumatized her and cost me over $300 in vet bills too. She was worth it though... pulled her through it and, today, she is nearly double her size, very happy, healthy and playful. I wouldn't trade her for the world.

I thought she was a siamese mix but both the veterinarian and a local Ragdoll breeder say nope, she's the real thing. It's amazing that no one claimed her or that she was abandoned like that.

How did the cat get the name "Cheesecake"? I'm having visions of Garfield and his lasagne obsession.

Hehe... interesting tale about Cheesecake and the origins of her name.

I have a very dear friend, online, who is sick with cancer. At most, he was given 3 years to live and he's just a young man. It's very tragic.

When he was ill and in the hospital, having all these tests done, he would get very scared and upset, so I would talk about my old cat and her crazy antics. When I had to put her to sleep, when she was diagnosed with intestinal cancer, it broke both our hearts so I promised him that, when I did go to get another cat, that he would help me pick a name for the cat.

He was taken back into the hospital again, when I went to the shelter and picked her up. Bringing her home, I snapped a couple of photos and sent them to him, and he informed me that he would think up her name and that he needed time. He took it very very seriously.

The next day, he tells me that she reminds him of Cheesecake, so that is the name that I gave her. We sometimes call her CeeCee for short. It's cute though, all our friends say she's our kid LOL.

I love the name cheesecake. That's one of my favorite foods. I also love how she got her name...very sweet.

I once had a mouse named crumpet. Like the name CheeseCake!