We are now sitting at 9 bottle babies- all in one foster home. (Thank You God)
Ebby’s babies are so fat and sassy and healthy! They look like little butterballs in the videos sent. I am meeting up with all of them on Friday, I will meet the other five- these are just a few weeks old- mom is still being trapped. There is a torbie, a tortie, a calico, a mack tabby or two. They were found in a construction site underground in some broken rock. They were sent immediately to my foster bottle feeder and I will do their intake on Friday when I go over there.
I am so blessed to have this blog and those of you who stay here and wade through the madness. When my day threatens to overwhelm me, I know I can come here and just get it off my shoulders and go forward. I know you care even my silent lurkers who let me know privately that this blog is required reading for them LOL It just touches me.
Because of one of you, I received a package yesterday in the mail. Surro Kitty has arrived! I spoke of this invention over a month ago and my desire to actually possess one and I was going to once again ask for funds to buy one as they are not cheap. when one of you stepped up and offered to buy the whole kit! Thank you so many kittens will be saved, provided this works as promised.
It is made of fake fur, wood, and ingenuity. If it performs as promised it has the capability of simultaneously nursing, warming and stimulating 10 kittens! Imagine that, you unroll the surro kitty, you lay the kittens in their pre-designated rows tuck them down with the velco seat belts. Turn the unit on for warmth for the kittens as well as warming up the bottles that you have already filled and put in their spots. Then you carefully roll the “tummy” towards the waiting kittens until they latch on to the nipples. I amnot sure, because one thing it did not come with are the instructions- but I think, it also vibrates gently to help the kittens eliminate after eating. The one thing it does not do (that I know of) is purr! But maybe it does, I will let you know after Friday when 9 bottle babies test drive it.
Nine more kittens, means 9 more soon to be teenagers and so I really need to concentrate and find homes for Hanna, Delilah, Quinn, Poe, Twist and Ebby. Because once these kittens are spayed/neutered they are past the “adorable kitten stage” at least according to the mass majority of people who call here wanting kittens. If they are 3 months old- dontcha know, they aren’t considered kittens. So as they get older it is harder to find them homes. Everybody wants one when they can put that kitten into the palm of their hand- but they don’t leave her until they are fixed no matter who asks.
Ebby will go into spayed on Thursday and then go to her hopefully forever home. The woman is a friend of mine and she has 10 cats on her farm. But I know her and although she said she will temporarily foster Ebby until I can rehome her- I think she will quickly fall in love. When I took Ebby into the house for the first time two days ago, she was running up to every cat here eagerly wanting to be friends. But my core kitties who are in the house, they weren’t impressed and I had to put Ebby back into the enclosure by herself. Her and Hanna were going to tango big time.
The three toms will not go into a trap- so I will have to pull out my drop trap and try that. Let you know if it works. One day at a time, one breath at a time that’s how we get through it.
On the Mike Front, he is still plagued with reoccurring leg ulcers. He goes to advanced wound care once a week, except this week, he will go twice as they are trying new things with him in the hopes of getting his leg healthier. His leg was in so much pain last week and he was out of pain pills- they work on his leg every week an average of 2-3hours. He couldn’t even function, so I went into one of the Growing Green Pharmacies and bought some recreational weed in the form of an ointment with 21% THC. Without telling him what the ointment was, I slathered it all over his leg. In under an hour, the stinging, burning pain was gone for him as were the nerve twitches which lately have been non-stop throughout the day hitting him whenever a wave of pain came over him. he slept for 14 hours after that application. It’s legal here, but while in that store, I felt like I was breaking the law. Hard to move out of the 70’s I guess. I told the woman when I was buying it, why I was buying it and how I felt like I was doing something wrong. I told her I was stuck in the 70’s so what did she do? She went over the sound system and played Tower of Power! LOL Then she came over to where I was and asked me if I felt better. 🙂
I told the doctor today that I was using it on Mike and he was all for it which surprised me. But he said, he knows first hand that it works because he has patients that have kicked some pretty heavy duty narcotic pain pills by going to pot to ease their pain. Mike refuses to smoke any which would ease his pain faster. but his dad died from lung cancer and Mike was at his side through it all. Mike’s dad was the first commercial pilot for Alaska Airlines back in the day and he would be so stressed he smoked like a chimney. Before he died, he had Mike promise never to smoke anything or chew tobacco and Mike is going to keep that promise- so the ointment is how we are proceeding. he told his sons that I’m getting his leg stoned. I will say, I wish I had brought some to his appointment. They worked on his leg and they put lidocaine on it but it didn’t help. They really hurt him and the salve would have really helped him out. So right now he is asleep (I baked him some sugarless brownies don’t ya know) and he finally drifted off to sleep to be away from the pain.
What a lot going on. I hope you put up some pictures of the Suro-kitty, so we can see it in action. What an interesting device. I hope it works.
As someone who has no interest in marijuana and many other ways of relaxing, I will say that using it for chronic pain is quite different than recreational use. I am glad that you have found something that helps Mike. Those 14 hours of sleep must have been the best thing to happen to him in all of his treatments. Perhaps you should put a small vial of the ointment in his chair or your purse, so he’s never without it.
And there are worse decades to be stuck in than the 1970s!
The lady who took all the calendar photos for us last year, will be going with me to test drive this and take photos and video of it. I will put the photos up as soon as they are sent to me. Midge is really good about doing this quickly and she is excited to be on the ground floor of this new invention with us- either that or she just wants to see the cute bottle babies. *G* I had hoped to do another run on a rescue calendar for next year, but the monies that were available were swallowed up with the recent deaths of the four cats- Turner being the first one to go Alexandria being the last one. So it looks like the $800.00 is being spent instead of saved for a calendar run.
I love it, what a great concept and I do hope that surro kitty is the blessing you have waited for. on the Mike front, I am a big supporter of marijuana and medical marijuana. I believe and that it is not a harmful drug like Oxycontin, or other addictive Opiods and less harmful then alcohol. I do find it surprising that Mike’s doctor is all for it and yet did not mention it to you. to be able to get that much rest after using it is just WOW amazing and of course our bodies tend to heal better with rest, I will pray that it helps him and of course him resting has to be a blessing to you, that you know he is asleep and pain free.
The big mystery, to me, is: How do you suppose the “Church Lady” was able to trap the three Toms so quickly, and have them delivered to you in a flash, after she learned your address.
Maybe she had them already trapped or they were familiar with her and no one else? I know that if something ever happened to me, there are 5 cats on this property no one would be able to touch without a catch pole. I can approach them, pet them but when strangers or friends arrive, they vanish. I don’t know- maybe I am blaming her for something no less than just a coincidence. Right now, my primary objective is to get these boys contained and neutered something that I am not able to do right now. They want nothing whatsoever to do with traps.