Hello and welcome to Saige's page.  
Our family just keeps growing and growing. 
First it was a fish (Fred) then it was a 
little eskimo dog named  Nikki  now we have another. 
 Her name is Saige, named after the indian herb
 that does away with evil spirits.   
We got this little kitty at 6 weeks old.  
Thao decided we needed another pet so this was a "gift" to me. LOL.  
Anyway just like our other pets she is a true joy to have with us.  
Her brother  Oreo  is an absolute doll. 
Well I hope you enjoy the pictures and things. :p !!
Ya never know I may be back to make another page for a horse or something :p.

A couple of poems I wrote for Saige!!

Saige is a lady through and through
Who does the things she wants to do
She is just a wittle putty tat
As cute as she can be
She's not so very fat,
But trying hard to be.
What she needs is lots of sleep,
And lots of CANNED food too.
Cause growing hair and waking up,
Is very hard to do!
Then Oreo, that brother of hers, tries to hog the food
I do think that he is very rude  :p

Then at 5 p.m. when us they greet
We, again, can think it's time to eat

Saige is soft, warm and fuzzy
With one eye of blue and one of grey
so rare and true, 
How can you resist the one we call Saige
Like a warm mitten that you wear on a cold winters day,
Her tail will greet when you walk through the door,
Her paws will meet when you play with her true
And the best of all her wiskers will tickle when you are blue, 
When you have had a day of all days
How can you resist the one we call Saige

THE ANCIENT CAT

The domestic cat (or house cat) is a historical latecomer.
There are no cave paintings of cats. The cat is nowhere 
mentioned in the bible. In fact the cat was the very 
last animal to be domesticated, thousands of years 
after the dog, sheep, goat, etc. And in other ways
 the cat is unique. The cat is the only non social 
animal ever to be domesticated, all other domestic 
animals are herd or pack animals in the wild. And it 
is the only obligate carnivore ever domesticated, except 
possibly ferrets which are only partially domesticated. 
Note that a minority opinion holds that cats
 were not really domesticated until systematic
 breeding was begun in the 19th century. 

The cat was first domesticated by the Egyptians 
around 2000 BC. It was probably the result of cross 
breeding the Libyan Wild Cat* with one or more small
cat species such as the European Wild Cat*, the
Cretan Wild Cat**, the Sand Cat and/or Pallas' Cat.
Or it may literally have been bred from a mutation of
one of the aforementioned wild cats. 
The Egyptian  pharaohs were great 
experimenters in the collection, domestication,
 and breeding of animals. Armies
 were literally sent abroad to collect 
exotic animals.  The cat of course was 
far and away the Egyptians most successful 
experiment. 

And the Egyptians knew they had a good thing too.
They deified cats and had strict laws protecting them. 
For good reason, the Egyptian civilization was absolutely 
dependent on stored grain. And stored grain is a 
great temptation to rats and mice. And rats and
 mice are active during the night, when dogs are 
sleeping. Cats however, are active all night long
and find rats and mice very tempting indeed... 
The cat earned its high status in Egyptian society. 

Aside from there being several cat gods in the
 Egyptian pantheon, apparently the cat was an
 integral part of Egyptian culture and daily life.
 Families would be assigned a cat which they 
had to care for. The cats would be carefully 
brought to the granaries at night, and spend
 their days snoozing about the families homes.
 Cats quite literally were the worlds first commuters! 
There were elaborate rituals surrounding the cat,
 and the death of a cat was cause for great
 public grief and ceremony. Hundreds of
 thousands of mummified cats have been
 discovered in Egypt***. 

The laws protecting cats and prohibiting their
 export lasted for over two thousand years.
 It wasn't until the Roman conquest of Egypt
 in the first century BC that cats were exported
 abroad in a big way, although small numbers
 had been smuggled out by sailors who
 realized their utility aboard vermin ridden ships.
 And they caught on fast, not only for their 
prowess at protecting stored grains, but also 
for their generally utility in keeping vermin
 out of homes. Roman advertisements of the
 time of extol the virtues of these wonderful
 new animals over the ferret. The cat quickly
 replaced the ferret as the animal of choice
 for keeping rodents out of the home. 

By 500 AD the cat had spread throughout
 Europe, the middle east, and large parts of Asia,
 especially along the coast. By 1000 AD the
 cat was more or less distributed over the western world.
 I haven't yet found out if Columbus took cats 
with him, but research is ongoing... 



Notes: 


* These wild cats looked like your basic
 tabby but were larger on average than
 the typical domestic cat. Some (a very few
) of these still survive in the wild. 

** There is evidence that the Cretan Wild Cat,
 long thought extinct, survives in small 
numbers