dona nobis pacem 2012

today is a special day

the gerl says it is a special day because it is her/our moms birthday. we think it is will be special because she will be going out to a fancy restaurant to celebrate. for us it means a kitty bag/box will be coming home for us. we heard something about seafood. that means shrimp! we all love real live deaded shrimps. 

oh yeah,

happy birthday mom!

p.s. don't forget our shrimps.

tt

kintaro

buddy

  brownie big boy

  penny

buddy (formerly known as mr. kitty)

i have been working with buddy for about 5 months now. somehow i felt his former name, "mr. kitty", just didn't fit this guy. although he wears a tux, he is more of a low key, laid back kinda guy. more like a good buddy. hence, he became my buddy boy or buddy.

in the last week, i noticed he was acting like he was trying to hack up a hairball. then he started making a wheezing sound friday evening. i took him to the vet to see if he needed some antibiotics. keep in mind buddy is still feral, so this was an interesting adventure to say the least. we ended up having to sedate him for the exam. while there, i figured i better go ahead and have him tested for heartworms, fiv and felv (hope i got all those abbreviations right). the blood work showed his white cell count was low. vet said his heart and lungs were fine so he was thinking allergies. i thought great! buddy will get a steroid shot and we can go home. when the vet came back in the room he said he could not give him the shot because he tested positive for fiv. he showed me the little test thingie (kinda like a pregnancy test thing). i was really hoping buddy was going to be all negatives on that test. but given his age (vet says around 6 years), living outside and that he had been intact when i rescued him, well, i guess it was nothing more than wishful thinking.

so now buddy cannot be integrated into my cat family. my house is not set up for him to have his own room. i feel bad about having had to keep him in a really large dog crate for this long but now i can't let him out either. i started giving him l-lysine last night. i am hoping this will make him feel better since there is no cure. i don't know how long he has before the virus kicks in and he goes to the bridge. i will have to read up on feline fiv.

i am going to have to figure out what is best for buddy.

missing my two girls

missing my two girls today. kimiko (calico) was always my baby. she talked to me, gave me head bonks and was always so attentive and loving. yuki (white) became my lap cat as her health failed. she was always so aloof. but age and illness softened her heart and she needed me as much as i needed her. kintaro and tt are not lap cats. they give kitty kisses and love attention but it is always on their terms. i love kintaro and tt but i really miss having a kitty in my lap purring away my stress. i have had a lot on my plate lately which is why my posts are so few and far between. i think i might have to go find me a kitty fix.

mini mancat monday

so much has been going on! my parents rescued a kitten. they found him too close to the roadside near their home. he was only a few days old then.

 
he is 10 weeks old now. they have named him "speedy". he is spoiled rotten and enjoying his new life in his forever home. his sister meme, who is also a rescue, is slowly warming up to him but she still thinks the little terror is a real pest.

i am having no luck with getting mr. kitty to come to the realization that people are ok. although he is enjoying his yummy meals and climate controlled quarters, he is just not interested in being touched, spoken to or even looked at. so now i am looking for a barn or other similar home for mr. kitty. he is a healthy 14 pounds of solid cat. he has been fixed and has his rabies shot. so if you know of anyone that needs a barn cat, please contact me.

celebrations!!!

we are celebrating our 300th post this weekend! mom said we can do whatever we want. so we are going to take some long naps, eat treats and play with da' bird! mom is going to make chicken and dumplings for supper. that means we get to lick the sauce off of her fingers!


we are also celebrating a rescue! we would like you to meet mr. kitty (aka houdini).

mom rescued him from a person who trapped him and was going to dispose of him. he was in the trap outside in the cold rain (that is why he is wet in the photo). mom got him into a crate and gave him a blanket to lay on. mr. kitty is still scared even though he has been living in our den for about 3 weeks. he is eating the same dry food and stinky goodness we eat. but he only eats and drinks when he knows no one will see him. mr. kitty escaped from the huge crate mom had him in so he is living in our den. he stays hid until he thinks the coast is clear. mom wants him to know he has food, water, and shelter here. she wants to get him neutered and UTD on shots. but first she needs to get mr. kitty to trust her enough to let her touch him. once she gets him all fixed up, she wants to find him a home of his own. if he continues to stay scared of people then she wants to find him a nice home as a barn cat. a friend of hers knows someone who loves barn cats but he has coyotes that like to visit his property. mom really doesn't want to let him go there. she would prefer mr. kitty has a safer place to live.

mom here. this poor guy is still scared of people after 3 weeks in my den. we are not pushing him to be friendly. small baby steps. my daughter will watch tv in the den and we still use the den as the main entrance/exit into the backyard. the scratches on his face have healed. i think he got them trying to escape the trap he was caught in. he is a nice size and seems otherwise healthy.

mom adopted 3 cats!

kintaro and tt here: 

mom found a store that has lots of cats living there. they are all waiting to be adopted. mom said they were cats of different sizes and colors. we were worried we was gonna have to share our stinky goodness with them. then mom said there were not real live cats. we didn't understand why she would want to buy real live dead cats. we thought mom must be getting that old timers disease or something. then she said the store had cat statues. fake cats!?!?!?! why would she waste good green papers to buy fake cats? we think she should have used those green papers to buy us real live cats more treats! 

when i chaperoned a field trip the other week i found this small store. it is called Go Fish. they are a clothing and jewelry store with lots of cat statues. the website is nice but doesn't have all of the items that are in the picture at the store i visited. the store i went to is on Main Street in Greenville, South Carolina. they also have lots of giraffe statues too. one of the giraffes was taller than me (i am 5'2")! the ladies that worked there were so nice and helpful. i asked them if they would mind if i took a photo of some of the kitties and shared them with my fellow cat bloggers. as you can see by the photo, there are lots of kitties. the statues in the photo are made of a very light weight wood. they are all handmade so no two look exactly alike.  Go Fish is a fair trade store.

mancat monday

we would like to let everyone know how much all of the purrs and prayers meant to us. mom is doing well. sometimes she gets a little quiet, other times she laughs really loud when she plays with us. tt is trying to decide her place now that she is the only girl kitty. yuki was always in the same room as mom. today tt stayed in the living room with mom. not in her lap but in the same room. i guess we will see what happens as time goes by. 

mom found my cow bed. she put it out for me. i climbed in and it came alive!!! it tried to eat me! mom got a photo of me trying to escape. 

don't worry. i got away and mom made the cow bed promise not to eat me again.