This special section is dedicated to the numerous cats owned by Nigel and Lynne Kyte and their daughter Stephanie.
TFFC Chairman Nigel is well known for helping to form the Club and for being a long-serving referee, but little is known about his passion for homing cats. This section on the website serves as a tribute to each of the feline friends looked after by Nigel and his family ever since his wife Lynne took on her first cat Boubsie in 1982 and then adding more after starting to live together.
Says Nigel, who had been brought up with boxer dogs at the family home in Temple Fortune, "I don't think I had ever stroked a cat prior to meeting Boubsie! Living with various boxers from childhood until the last one passed away many years later, cats were alien to me. I always considered them to be moody beasts likely to scratch and bite and had absolutely no time for them."
However, once he brought home a kitten called Gattino in 1983 followed by Bertie a year later, he was completely converted to loving cats. "For a long time now, I cannot think of life without a cat in the home. They are wonderful creatures, so affectionate, very individual and very much a part of family life. I have loved all the cats we have successfully homed and would not go back to owning a dog."
Around 1998, the original website called 'With Eternal Love' was constructed by Nigel on the site hosted by webs.com and existed until www.webs.com closed the website side of their business in 2021. Although losing much of the content of the original website, Nigel reconstructed the cats' website under the same title in December 2023, choosing the TFFC website as the hosts.
With grateful thanks to the Club for homing a very important archive of these wonderful cats, Nigel, Lynne and Stephanie are proud to keep the memories of their beloved animals intact, with eternal love.
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