not good mews but GREAT mews!!!

In our last post we told you about a cat that we found. Pretty little Gracie went HOME! I had posted about finding her in a local lost pet group on facebook. Someone finally recognized her and messaged me. She went home that evening!

To finish off our great mews post, Buddy has been accepted at Rikki's Refuge! This is a super group that helps so many different animals. Now they will be helping Buddy become adoptable! I am so excited. I will be helping in the transport to get him up to the refuge. Please visit their website and support their efforts by sharing and, if you can, donating.

One more thing, please keep all of the people helping with the transports in your prayers. Drivers give up their time and money to help animals in need. It takes a lot of work to put together and arrange a transport. Be a cheerleader for the animals, drivers, fosters, planners and rescues!

We need help!

We have a problem. If anyone out there in the cat blogosphere can help, it would be greatly appreciated.

As many of you know, I rescued Buddy from a trap that a woman had set in her yard. If I would not have taken him, she was going to "dispose" of him. I just could not let that happen.

I have had Buddy neutered. I also had him tested and he is Fiv+. I know this is not a death sentence. It just means Buddy needs a little extra care. Buddy is a hissy cat. He hisses at us whenever we approach. He never strikes out or bites. Buddy loves being brushed. Buddy really loves to eat. He is now on a diet to lose the pounds that I didn't realize he had put on since his favorite position is the "meatloaf" position. Here he is sitting up in the photo. Can you tell Buddy is a bit round for his height?!?!

Recently we found a young cat in our yard. She is so friendly. She also happened to be in heat. We brought her in and proceeded to try and find her home. She was way too clean and healthy to be a stray. Our efforts have failed. She is smart as they come. She understands "down" but always seems to jump back up after a few minutes. Typical teenager/cat. LOL We think she is fairly young and this was her first heat cycle. We have also discovered that she can be quite clutzy when she tries to jump up on anything. We joke that she is graceless. So her name is now Gracee. I haven't had a chance to get her tested for all those nasty diseases so I try to keep her separate from Kintaro and TT. Did I mention how she is so persistent that she managed to open her crate twice by herself? We now have a tie on it so she can't escape. She loves her feather toys! She plays with them until they submit to her.

So now I have 2 cats that I am taking care of. Unfortunately, I can no longer care for them. My new business takes up so much of my time. What used to be a 40 hour work week is closer to 50+ hours a week. I am working way too many hours each week to work with Buddy in an effort to help him become more trusting of people. Poor Gracee stays in a crate until I can spend a couple of hours in the kitchen with the doors closed to let her out and play while I do paperwork for my business.

What these two cats need is a home, a real home with people that want, will care for, spend time with them and, most of all, love them. I will do anything I can to help get them to the right home(s). Our local shelter is full (kitten season) and is not a "no kill shelter". Buddy can't go there as he would be deemed "unadoptable". Gracee has a better chance but cute kittens beat out an (almost) adult cat more times than not. Since the shelter is full, I am worried that if I take Gracee that another cat will have "to go" in order to make room for her. I can't stand the thought of that happening.

It breaks my heart to have to let them go to another home. But it is not fair to them to have to live this way. Is there anyone out there that will step up and take a chance on either one of these two? Perhaps, you might know someone that might be interested? Would you please share this story, this plea for help with them? 

Thank you,
momsbusy, Buddy, & Gracee

today is tt tuesday

tt here! mom took a picture of my behind while i was eating. wasn't that rude of her?!?! of course my ploofy tail is beautiful.

 my face is so cute, i am adorable, i have extreme cuteness.

A new post!

Time has certainly flown by! I can't believe it has been 5 months since we posted last. It has been a busy time for our family. Beside the usual craziness from the holidays, there was a special birthday for our girl (she turned sweet 16), two grand babies turned 4 years old, one daughter turned 30 something, a new grand baby was brought into our family (he was born in september), and the business I have worked at for over 30 years split into two separate businesses (I bought one of the halves).

Enough of the small talk, it is time to see how the kitties are doing!

Today's kitty is Speedy. He is the little kitten (just a week old) my mom found and brought home. He was way too young to be out on his own where my mom found him. He is now spoiled rotten. He has serious catitude and rarely stays still long enough for me to get a photo or two that is not blurry. He will be a year old next month (I think).

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.