Of course, these stories don’t stop with the rescues. These cats were lucky enough to live out their lives with their people, and now, in 2011, several are still very much with us. This section includes notes about the subjects and their people and what they’re doing now—when I called to get their stories and visited to photograph the portrait for a newer digital image I was somehow not surprised to see a fair number of the people still rescuing cats.

I have also included notes on the design and completion of their portraits—I specialize in creating a custom piece of artwork and I love to discuss how it comes together, so those are often interesting stories as well.