Here is our courageous boy, fully adjusted to living without his left leg- just as Mike has to. I find it quite ironic that both the males in my life that I love have lost the same leg in almost the exact same spot!

I also wanted to add that I entered a writing contest yesterday sponsored by PetCo. The contest benefits the rescue that I got Cooper from they are entered into the chance of winning $100,000 grant for every story entered about one of their adoptions. IF I win grand prize it is a $1,000.00 gift card from PetCo it is called the Holiday Wishes Contest. My entry is entitled The Three Legged Heart. I will let you know what happens.

I am thrilled to report that last night, Mr. Meowgi went back to his owner Scott. This cat has been missing for quite awhile and on the strength of witnessing the emotional reunion between the two of them, I am glad to say Scott never gave up on his cat! He had taught Meowgi aka Ebon to high five and this was performed after the initial re-introduction. But it wasn’t necessary. Once Meowgi heard his beloved owner’s voice, he leaped into his arms and stopped crying and started purring. It was humans that were crying by then.Thank God for Facebook!

Holy Smokes! 14 kittens (2 queens) all bobtails! My first response was “Cute!” My second “Please spay and neuter!”

It has been a morning that I won’t forget for a long while. I was on my way to the vet with Mr. Meowgi- a 7 year old male (neutered) black boy who had the misfortune of wandering into a yard of 6 pit cat hating pit bulls BUT was instantly scooped up and put in the garage to keep him safe. I saw the post on FB and because of the passing of Bella, we have room and I told the girl I would take him. I was taking him in to be tested and scanned for a chip when my phone rang. One of my volunteers, her son had been watching a cat wandering down by the river (for two weeks) The cat was extremely skinny, scavenging food out of the trash barrels and had been hanging around the bridge for about three days, so Chris brought her home and Dee called me. Could I take her? It just so happened I was about to pass their home, so I swung in and picked her up as well and took both to the vet.

Mr Meowgi, no chip, healthy, beautiful sleek just keeps calling out for his human.

The second kitty is not so lucky. She is paper thin, she has muffled breathing sounds. I wanted them to treat her but their was a problem. She was microchipped, so for now, I was out of the equation. I waited at the office while one of the girls tried to contact the owner and it didn’t go well. One family member didn’t want the cat back, the other did. They had to “discuss it” and would call back. I waited from 8:30 till noon for that call which never came- so I told the vet that if they decided to put the cat to sleep or didn’t want it all. That we would take her if the vet thought that there was a chance the cat was treatable and able to be saved. I left and prayed all the way home.

I got the call at 3:00. Final verdict, they did not want their cat back. Apparently this cat would “vanish” from time to time so they were over it. So I gave them permission to do what needed to be done to help the cat become comfortable. She was given injectable steroids, antibiotic and anti-inflammatories. I am to take her back in 2 weeks to be re-x-rayed.

I put  her by herself in the deck enclosure and moved Mr. Meowgi to the Introduction Cage. I have to keep her secluded because they don’t know if this is asthma, pneumonia, cat flu, a viral or a bacterial infection. Her name had been Cracker and after thinking about it for a few- I decided that if there was a glimmer of hope that she could be saved- by golly we would go the distance and so I named her Sparkle.

Would like to ask now for donations for her. Whatever is going on with her is pretty substantial. I still have 40 calendars left would someone like to order one? They are $10.00 all the money donated goes to vet care and gives these cats a fighting chance at new life NO MATTER how old they are. Today’s  bill alone was $381.00.

I did take her to my friend Midge to get photos of her. She is a Russian Blue mix. She has already eaten in the three hours she has been here 1.5 cans of AD and 2 cups of dry. She drank water like a camel. You run your hand along her back, you feel every bone of her spine. When you pick her up to move her- you feel her ribs. I don’t know how long she has been “lost” I wonder if she was dumped but we will never know. She is here now, she is safe, she is loved and I will keep you informed of her progress.

Because she shares the same symptoms as Bella had, I was so afraid she was also going to be a cat that was hit by a car but all the x-ray showed was her lungs looking like gravel and empty stomach and colon. Thank You God-

Here she is and I think she is beautiful (or she soon will be). I can’t wrap my head around someone owning a cat most of their life and then not wanting them anymore. But it happens all the time.

So if anyone can tuck a few dollars into the CATS Inc., fund- it is very much needed-

She was not thriving after being here. I would go out and find her asleep with her head in her food bowl (even wet food!) Her breathing was labored- her stool the color of jaundice and stinky as all get out. She was eating AD. I was supposed to wait one more week to take her in for a re-check as the vet thought she might have asthma or heartworm but she was so anemic and depleted he wanted her stronger. I didn’t wait. I went in this afternoon with her because her breathing was just odd.

He heard muffled breath sounds and took an x-ray. Not a good thing to see on the films. She had apparently been hit by a car several months?Even a year ago and developed a diaphragmatic hernia. For those of you who might not know what that is- it is a tear in the stomach and after a certain period of time the intestines come coiling out. She had air in her lungs and her colon and no clear tract from her stomach to her colon. She was passing out while she was eating because she couldn’t breathe and eating fatigued her! The surgery is thousands of dollars- and only 60% make it through and those are the cats who have been recently hit by a car. So we kissed her forehead and laid her down and stamped her Bridge Pass. She did not go easy- Steve said it was because she couldn’t breathe- but now she can. She running heaven’s grasses free and breathing and one day I will scoop her up and give her a hug and let her know she was very much loved…if only for just a few days-

I met a couple that were “between homes” in the Bi-Mart parking lot. Living out of a chevy pick up truck they had 2 toddlers, 2 dogs, an 11 year old calico kitty and two kittens! They asked me to please take the two kittens for “two weeks” until their home is “ready.” Been there done that too many times already, so told them the only way I would take these 6 week old (cute!)babies would be if they signed the owner surrender forms on them. I would “foster” them for 2 weeks but if I didn’t hear hide nor hair out of either owner, in four months the kittens will go to a new home. They agreed- signed the paperwork and drove away.

Cute babies living in a large open cage in the back of the truck!  Two tuxedo boys. I ran them to the vet to be tested, de-wormed de-flead and I am sitting in the lobby waiting for the tests which take ten minutes and one of the vet techs comes out and she has a really strange look on her face and she is bearing down on me. I’m thinking oh no, they so friendly probably tested positive for FELV. I ask Diddi what’s up and she said “Well the tests were negative…”

” Ok I say, why the face?”
She tells me Jacob (my vets son) is having a hard time letting them go! LOL He wanted to know if he could adopt them. I told the situation and Jacob has agreed to foster these babies until the owners get back in touch and if not- he has two lovely new companions that are set for life with love and vet care! It couldn’t have worked out better.

Tried calling this morning to see if Loki was still in the tree. he is. I told the girl about an idea that Mike had to get on the local radio station and ask for someone to take their climbing gear and get the kitten out of the tree. She said her boyfriend told her not to call anyone anymore because there were so many people gawking last night he got upset. I told her I would call and she said she couldn’t stop me and I had to do what I had to do.

Then her boyfriend calls me and tells me off and accuses me of calling the police- which I didn’t, and of calling the radio station (which I didn’t) he insisted he heard the ad! He told me if I keep harassing him and his girl friend they will have be arrested and if they see my truck in the park he will call and get me on trespass. Are you friggin kiddin me? I lost my cool and told him that if he had the cat neutered- nine times out of ten this would never happen. He shouted “I don’t want him neutered!” Then I just blew up threw in some expletives and told him he didn’t deserve to have this kitten at all. I hate ignorance. Sounds to me like they are planning to go target practicing later. I pray I am wrong. I pray this kitten gets out of the tree today on its own power. But I can do nothing now except to pray. He had the audacity to tell me he heard me call the police last night. I didn’t call someone else did. But I am getting the blame for it all. Once again, I hate ignorance.

Kitty is still in the tree- this will be the fifth day. Travis is going to go there after work with his climbing gear and get the kitty. I told him thanks to the kindness of other cat lovers- CATS inc., can cover the cost. I talked to the owner today and told her to please if the kitty isn’t eating after it comes down to please take it to her vet. But if she can’t cover the cost of the tree climb how in the world will she cover a vet visit? I don’t know, but we have done all we can to insure this kitty won’t be in the tree after today. Thank you to those who donated money and prayers-

I got a call from a woman whose kitten is 30 feet up in a tree. He has been there for three days  and she is frantic. I told her I know someone who climbs trees like a  monkey and I called Travis and he went to take a look and told them he would do it for $40.00 because he has to use his climbing gear. They don’t have the money. I gave them some ideas of how to lure the cat out of the tree and I looked in our Kitty. We only have $15.00 left after making a vet payment. Anybody have any money lying around collecting dust I can give to Travis tomorrow morning to rescue this cat?

If so please donate. I can’t live with the fact that this kitten is so high in the tree curled into a ball and scared to death to come down. The problem with abandoned kittens (as this one is) is that they don’t have a mom to show them how to climb up and down trees. Same is true for kittens with mom who get sold or given away at 5-6 weeks of age when the “kitty magic” fades and people tire of their demands. If they stayed with mom long enough- she would show them how to climb and descend trees safely.

Here she is- a pretty unique kitty if you ask me. I have to wonder if she is a product of another kitten absorbing into her in utero. She looks like a cow kitty but from other angles you see calico in her. Anyway- here she is posing for the camera- Check out her tail- it is severely forked