Cats, cats, cats

Daughter and Boyfriend took an outdoor stray cat to a no kill shelter. The elderly lady that was feeding the cat up and moved. The shelter doesn't take feral cats that are caught in live traps.

Arthur did go in a cat carrier, butt 1st. ;o)

Lisa - there's a book I remember from my childhood called "The Silent Meow". It's about a cat who adopts a family and the husband isn't keen on it...the cat wins him over. Wish I could send you the beautiful pastel tortie I rescued this week. She's dog friendly and such a snuggle buddy. Hoping she gets adopted quickly; her previous owner broke my heart and make me beyond angry. They had 3 females who had kittens (including pastel tortie). They surrendered the "ugly" (i.e., not fluffy) kittens, gave away one of the moms to a questionable person, and gave me the remaining 2 mom cats. They're keeping the fluffy kittens. They don't want the moms back because they're "tired of them". And the moms are such sweet kitties! Oh well, these morons don't deserve such lovely cats. I have experiences like that which make me want to stop doing rescue.

And then I get this: people had just built a beautiful wooden deck.They could hear a kitten crying, but couldn't get it out and couldn't get under the deck. The sawed the boards in the deck, took them out, lowered a cage with food, and played cat meow noises for 2 hours (while lying on the deck) until the kitten got into the cage. The kitten is semi-feral (well, pretty wild actually - we've named it itty bitty hissy spitty kitty), and these people could have ignored it or dumped it somewhere. So those experiences restore my faith in humanity. Spitty is now in foster care and doing a bit better; actually letting his foster human sit about a metre away and not hissing or spitting. That's after just 24 hours.

Hugs to all,

Terre

Sad story with happy ending. A man had to surrender the great Tom cat he'd had for 9 years (from kitten) because his evil landlord decided he needed to make a $500 damage deposit and he couldn't come up with the money. It hurts so much to see someone surrender a beloved family member. The happy ending is that he was adopted 2 days later (the first day was a holiday and the shelter was closed). The housing situation in Seattle is just cutthroat. I'm sure the man couldn't find an alternative that would work.

As of today our shelter has 2 adoptable cats. One is a kitten who loves to play, but will attack if picked up. She is starting to allow a pet or two.

Oreo helped take down the Christmas decorations today.

Oreo is adorable!

Hi all been wail with Christmas and getting ready for the return of our Canadian family.poor Gus has had a terrible time if it lately as he was attacked by a Tom who I hadn't seen before. He was mangled round his rear end. He has loads of stitches poor boy. This was him the day after. 

Wren so glad that poor Tom got a new home.

Oreo photo is beautiful. You could make a card out of that!

Poor Gus, I hope he recovers quickly and gets the lampshade off his head soon. What a miserable thing to happen to him. Cat bites are nasty.

I would suggest keep a spray bottle of cold water handy in case that tom comes round again, it really discourages them without harming them.

These are the two feral cats I have been caring for for two years, named Big Nuts and Princess. We finally trapped Princess last year and had her spayed but Big Nuts is trap savvy.

I hope the picture is sized right, this is the first picture I have put up so I don't really know what I'm doing. We also have two indoor cats, and the picture will follow. Cant figure out how to put two in one post.

I have read all the pages and so enjoyed all the shots, wonderful, wonderful balls of fur.

I finally got the picture of our two siamese (indoor) posted and then could not write below the shot. They are brother and sister named Bonnie and Clyde, now about 10 years old. Clyde's favorite thing to do is throw up and Bonnie's is to sit on my lap pawing my face till I scratch her head. We nick named them Sir Purrs-alot (Clyde) and Lady Annoyington (Bonnie).

We are trying to keep Gus in at night now. So far so good. He is looking good now but has to have his stitches out next week so won't appreciate another trip to the vet. 

The cone lasted a day before her tried to strangle himself on it. However he has been very good with the stitches. 

Smaarty that is an ugly cat. 

Leaves surprises to step on in the dark? ;o)

Smaarty I agree that that is an ugly cat, and it is also one no amount of evolution ever produced - that's a man made cat!

Gentian I will try to give you help with the pics:

1. Click on the mountain icon to upload a picture (presuming you are using a clickable device)

the icon looks like this

2. After the picture uploads (appears on the preview of your post) click AWAY from the picture onto the space below the picture.

3. You can then choose to type there or you can click the mountain icon again to upload a second picture.

The trick is always to click down onto the space below the image after it appears.

Best wishes

We too had a "puker" We tried every kind of food, expensive, cheap, vet quality, you name it. It was until I started feeding her raw chicken that she stopped puking. A friends daughters cat had the same problem, she changed him over to raw chicken, no more throwing up. GG