Mr. Don and Mrs. Sharon Doenitz are expatriates who moved from the state of Oklahoma in the United States of America. After they lived and worked in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia several years, they relocated to the little island country of Bahrain to live and work.

They might be called "cat lovers" since they  brought their aging Siamese cat named Daisy with them to Saudi Arabia. After a long and happy life, Daisy became very old and died. Then Mr. Bob helped them adopt Shoufy, the cat, whose adventures are described in:

The day Shoufy, the cat, started to purr.