Well, this one is actually hardest to write. Who am I? Well, I am just a crazy girl who cannot live without animals, more specifically cats.

The name Katje comes from my early IRC-days. I know there were a lot of girls out there with that name, but I was the original. It means ‘Kitten’ in Dutch, my native tongue. I have been compared to cats since the age of eight. I have had cats just about my entire life,( since I was three years old) with the exception of the two first years I lived on my own, and I went nuts.

I am about 25 years old, have a boyfriend I have successfully driven nuts and built a life with. I studied languages because what I really wanted to study(‘Cat psychology’)wasn’t available in my country. Then I volunteered at a shelter for about a year. After a while they had more staff and I had moral dilemmas with the way the shelter was run, so it was easier to just leave. I landed my first real job during that time: receptionist/assistant at an animal clinic. I have been working there for just under two years and my contract will soon end. I then hope to go back to school to study what I really wanted to study in the first place, and get a part-time job somewhere to pay for it. We will see how it goes, I guess.

Why am I doing this? Well, I enjoy a cute cat picture or story as much as the next person, probably even more. And, I must have told stories about my cats already dozens of times to my friends, and they are getting tired of hearing them ;) Cats are an incredibly source of fun though, and I enjoy writing about mine. And this way I will build up some sort of family-album over time. These sweeties are after all my babies.

I hope you will enjoy the website and everything that’s still to come. I love new projects and adventures and I absolutely abhor boredom, and this feels like a project that will let me be creative without ever becoming a chore ( I share some annoying traits with the Lulu you see, so I totally get that cat).

Enjoy my little hooligans,

Take care
Katje