Hello & Aloha anyone still checking this old account!
I want to apologize for the long time it took for me to get this account back and updated to let you all know I go by the new username of TigsyKai now. If you've been looking for me I took a break from furry art for awhile an posted other art and illustrations on Instagram and Facebook as TigsyKai.

This has been my new name for quite awhile now. For those unaware, I moved to Hawaii in 2015 after getting engaged in 2014 to the best person I've ever met, I am a very lucky lady to have him in my life. Now If you don't remember or know, Foux is the name of my main fursona and oldest fursona I kept as my main, and I wanted to be able to use a different name for ALL my art, not just furry styled art. I decided with all the great changes that were happening to me after such horrible dark times I was definitely in need of a happy refreshing new Username/Art handle. Something that I could easily fall in love with, identify with an be ok if I was to die being known under that name. A name I would want to keep forever onward as I grow old. TigsyKai is this name!

SO the story on how the name came to be is pretty simple I think. My darling love named Jaime started calling me his cute Tigsy. I am the sign of the tiger in the Chinese zodiac and I have collected tiger objects since I was a small girl, many of my tiger objects started out as childhood gifts. I also just absolutely adore tigers, they are one of my greatest loves and a symbol of my strength an other personality qualities. Anyone lucky to get close to me (cause I don't easily share my personal space with strangers or people I don't know deeply) would undoubtedly see inside my bedroom the wall to be covered with images of the tiger, a tiger calendar, a tiger wall scroll...faux tiger striped fur blankets along with super soft tiger mural comforters on the bed. In shelfs little knick knacks, old tiger toys old tiger plush/stuffed animals,and tigers in my jewelry as well as most obvious tigers in my artwork.
Besides having the tiger as my chinese sign I was often told I was cat-like, said to have cat like eyes, said to be cute an adorable as a cat, playful and shy like a cat, graceful in my dancer moves like a cat. Maybe even naughty like a little manx! Before long, kitty nicknames became tigsy, tiggy, tiggles.

Now you could be wondering why Kai? Also simply to put, When Jaime called me Tigsy I called him my Bunny, as rabbit was of course his Chinese sign. I often called him my Jai, my Bunny Jai. My real name is Kimberly, it in no way is Hawaiian, but without even thinking much we took the first letter of my name to match his and there was born the nickname of Kai. He was my Bunny Jai and I was his Tigsy Kai. Later I researched what Kai meant, and it indeed was a nice Hawaiian name. I was happily surprised it matched me so well. In Hawaiian the word Kai means "The Sea/Ocean, or Ocean water." I thought to myself, how perfect, It's like calling me the tiger of the sea, which was my new path in life, since I was moving from Nevada to Hawaii. It was perfect for the new found me.

The name Kai is not just hawaiian, it is used in many different cultures and each language had a great meaning attached. I am happy to share the other meanings that the name Kai has...

In Japanese, Kai has a number of meanings, including "ocean" (海), "shell" (貝), "restoration" and "recovery". As a surname, it means "Worth" (甲斐). It can also mean "forgiveness."
In Navajo it means "willow tree."
In Basque, kai is a common word meaning "pier of a harbour" and a variant of the first name Kaio (from the old Latin name Caius, meaning "happy").
In Burmese, kai means "strong" or "unbreakable".
In Chamoru, Kai is a nativized version of the Spanish name Francisca, which is the feminine form of Francis, meaning "from France" or "free one".
In Mandarin Chinese, Kai is a common given name with one of several meanings, most often "victory" (凱), another being "open" (開). The word cài 菜 in Mandarin also means vegetable. Kai can also be used to transliterate the Chinese character used in some names meaning "start" (啟) in the Cantonese pronunciation.
In Estonian, Kai is a name meaning "pier."
In Frisian, Kai is a short form of Frisian "Kaimbe", meaning "warrior."
In North Germanic languages, kai means "lord", "keeper of the keys" or "earth".
In Germanic languages, kai means "quay" or "safe harbor".
In Scottish, Kai means "fire".
In Swahili, Kai is a name meaning "lovable".
In Swedish, Kai is a name meaning "Rejoice".
In Thai, kai means "chicken" and used as a nickname.
In Wayuu, kai means "sun". It also means "the one who brings the light in the dawn" and/or "the one who brings knowledge".
In Welsh, Kai is a popular given name normally spelt "Cai". It is the the diminutive of Cajus, meaning "Rejoicer", and is frequently used as an independent name in Wales due to its use in the Arthurian legend of Sir Kay. Another variation is Cae, meaning "pitch" or "field".
In Wolof, kai means "come".
In Kono and Kissi, Kai is a male name; it is also a Paramount Chief title or prefix that means king of kings. It can be found as a name, or part of the names of several towns and regions in the Mano River Union Countries of Sierra Leone, Liberia and Côte d'Ivoire.