My daughter has been wanting me to paint a cat portrait for her.  The cat that I painted is one she had for several years and was a stray cat.  I think she had it since she got married but when her first daughter was born it ran away.  The cat did come back for a while and then it ran away again and never did come back.  She really liked the cat and called him Precious.   This is an original oil painting by Ruth Housley. 

She has two Siamese cats and have had them since both girls were small and they call them Kristy and Smokey.
Both of the girls are in there teenage years, thirteen and fourteen.  They don't have too much time for the cats with school and their outside activities.