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if the food don’t get you,
May 5, 2008 – 12:22 am
the DISHES will….
this would be funny if, well, it weren’t: Toxic China
look it up YOURSELF
May 4, 2008 – 9:22 pm
i’m sorry, but what IS it with people who post to groups asking to find this or that rescue when one single search, using any search engine, would give them the answer? i’m not talking about OBSCURE sites here, i’m talking about things like, oh, “how do i find the Pink Cat Rescue located at 1432 main street in east podunk, WV. does anyone have the contact info?” with that amount of detail, your CATS can look it up for you–and people who have far better things to do than look things up for you (like find homes for five possibly FeLV-positive kittens) won’t have to.
clearly, this is another rant.
let us help the ones who really need it–there’s enough hard-to-find stuff out there, after all, on top of real live animals to save.
bitch bitch bitch bitch BITCH.
what i’ve been up for the past, well, 9 months or so…
April 25, 2008 – 8:31 pm
lots of legal hassles; finally showing light at the end of that tunnel (as opposed to the proverbial headlight-of-oncoming-train)–don’t quit your day jobs tho quite yet, as i’ll probably still need your help in paying my bills.
changes in the population: priscilla and missy, shaded-silvers, came to stay as fosters last august…. their human had died, and her daughter had promised mom to keep them together…. unfortunately, that meant putting them into a room for four years and giving them food, water and litter. no attention, no affection. poor dears. a neighbor in rescue finally convinced the daughter that this was not honoring her mother’s wishes. (hmmm, that pattern again.) priscilla is mom, she’s almost eleven now, all four-paw declawed. very sweet, and very very affectionate on her own terms. missy is her daughter, and is another cat altogether…. she’s almost nine years old, front-declawed, and HATES me and the house i rode in on. (actually, she’s just terrified of trusting again, but it works out to be the same thing.) they are in the front room with lacey susan, who isn’t bothered by them because, being persians, they aren’t really cats…. (they panicked when i tried to let them out into the big wide house–just too much for them.) missy is healthy, as is evidenced by the times when i try to insist that she let me pet her and she uses her teeth and rear claws to delineate her escape route…. sigh. so much for fosters, eh?
brendan had what turned out to be a stroke in mid-december; he recovered enough to enrich my life for another two months tho i realized that every minute was a gift. (we all would say, “wow, brendan’s doing awfully well for a dead cat, isn’t he?”) he woke me up very early in the morning on february 17, 2008, to say goodbye as he went to join all his furriends, and went home lying in my arms. fly sweetly dear brendan–and PLEASE don’t take off the training wings, you know what a klutz you are!
and lorelei is a year old! oh, my… she seems to me much healthier than when she was younger, and has finally had her first heat (this is something to celebrate? in a FeLV, it can be!)–she’s healthy enough to spay, which she was NOT when she was the age i usually would have done so, and i’m far more confident that she may have thrown the virus off. we’ll do an IFA when she’s spayed. but really, like i’m gonna throw her out if she’s still positive?
the neighbors remain obnoxious, and as my patience frays, so does my distance from the day i’m gonna have to call the cops and explain that i’ve killed them, that i’m sorry, but the crossbow slipped and i hadn’t realized it was loaded….
haven’t been able to do anywhere near as much rescue work as i’d like to, because of the worries involved with all the legal stuff. hiss spit, as they say.
music–ah, music. will cover that one in a bit. suffice it to say that i’ve downloaded 3.3gigs in the past two days….
that’s it for now; some other major stuff, but mostly wanted to say that, yes, i still exist. hopefully, you all do, as well.
special thanks to all the friends who have kept me going…
ava and the others….
July 2, 2007 – 7:58 pm
this is ava: 
she’s five weeks old now, and is just visiting for a week or so.
she’s an orphaned CH kitty (Cerebellar Hypoplasia, and more info can be found at CH Kitty Club), and like most, her spirit is amazing. she hasn’t a clue that there’s anything wrong with her–so she wobbles a lot, and spends more time fallen over than standing up. “what’s yur poynt, hoomin? i CYOOT!”
here’s a photo of her this morning, right after her morning goat’s milk/pediatlyte supplement (she eats solid food, but hasn’t figured out how to do liquids yet–perhaps because she can’t hold them as she can food.) cassidy and amelia are whispering to each other that THEY were certainly never that small….
lorelei gazes out the window, wondering
June 29, 2007 – 5:06 pm
sure hope the answer is yes. just this week, emailed with folks about THREE felv+ purrsians. those were just the ones in the part of the country where i had contacts.
sigh.
squeee-n of the house
June 22, 2007 – 2:27 pm
look what’s in the front room!
she’s about 11- or 12-weeks old, a pastel calico baby. (pastel is the CaLiCo-approved term for dilute, which they consider a derogatory term. more on that later.)
she’s also tested FeLV positive on a snap test. she was on her way to the FIV/FeLV sanctuary where i used to live/work, but, well, she sort of got kittun-napped. i’ve got that extra room, after all, the one that used to be the nursery/foster room, and i’ll just post her on all the FeLV and special-needs lists and either keep her til we can retest her with the IFA, or can find her a forever home….
she hasn’t told me her name yet.
beauvarts and interdimensional mice
June 18, 2007 – 6:10 pm
many years ago, Rags introduced us all to beauvarts, thereby explaining certain cat behaviors that had mystified their caretakers for centuries.
“Suddenly, out of nowhere, racing at top speed, your cat whizzes by you in a blur of fur. He skids around a corner and you hear him jump on the counter as dishes and jars crash to the floor…”
the whole classic can be found at: Beware of Beauvarts.
i was reminded of this wonderful piece last week when i found this one:
Interdimensional Mice from Planet Invisible!
You dumb ones don’t believe in them,
but I believe.
I am smart and I believe and I know them!
yes, yes, i knew that description immediately!
here’s the rest of this delicious morsel: Interdimensional-mice-from-planet-invisible.
when two such differing wise-women post their truth to the web, we KNOW it as absolute! so there.
THC
Exotic Feline … Conservation Center
June 18, 2007 – 4:12 pm
my friend stray visited a wonderful place this weekend–check out her photos, and then go to their website, and look at the pictures of all the residents.
especially the pallas’ cat babies–talk about TUDE!
