Cats, cats, cats

Hi Ladies. I have never been a crazy cat lady until Christmas Eve. This little 5 month old nugget, Duchess RueRue, has adopted me.

Love the shot. Is Rue Rue a sphinx?

Yes. Black Tip Sphynx. I named her Duchess Rue because she has freckles like The former Duchess of Sussex.

Libber, I petsit for 2 sphinx cats, Bernie and Pixie (I posted their pictures a while ago). They are amazing and such characters. I just adore them.

I don't know if you are going to find homes for the kittens, but we were able to find homes for ours once we had them spayed and neutered - in case that helps any! Bless you for helping her!! Our little feral hisses at me too - funny, keeping that litter box clean!!

Our tomcat showed up this weekend trying to mate - I'm going to get him to the humane society and have him fixed, if he is ever around when I make an appointment! I smile, knowing no more babies!! Kittens, they are a ray of sunshine for sure!

Libber that is one beautiful kitty! So happy you have her (and she has you)!

Missouri - no can do on keeping a pile of kittens. Ha I think I would be a single girl again if that happened haha

Thank you, feelingfeline - I love your name! That is Gatsby, who loves to sleep (and talk). He wandered into my husband's work as a kitten. Rah, I can totally relate. My husband worked on tearing the carpet out of one of the bedrooms yesterday (the one the kittens were in) and installing those flooring planks. He says - the things I do for these cats! Years ago, when our siamese kitty was sick, the carpet pretty much was shot and for various reasons is now gone.

Nice the kitties are warm and sunny - we have warm and sunny today, but snow is coming, so they say!

Rah, one more thing I thought of, the Cat House on the Kings on Facebook told me of a website, https://rehome.adoptapet.com/, to list kittens. We did give one away this way. Careful still though, one lady wanted me to drive to Tulsa, and we didn't do that. Just trying to help a little, hope you don't mind.

Mommyof 2 - our pets are the best when we are sick. Hugs, hope you feel better.

Thank you, Wren, for explaining that, I didn't know. We had a hard time finding homes, I put up flyers and posted pictures and nothing happened. People told me horror stories about "free kitten" ads I never wanted to know about. It wasn't until they were fixed that good homes wanted them. Ours were fixed at the humane society, and yes, they put their kittens out front too. I am so glad you have such a good shelter in your area!!! You are wonderful to help foster and support them, thank you.

We are going into the deep freeze tonight and I hope our little momma kitty's heating pad continues to work inside that dog house. She has become our resident outdoor cat (that still runs away if you come near her).

that is wonderful, Mommy of 2!!!

The girls have been so full of energy the last two days that they have been chasing and wrestling each other. When they chase each other, it sounds like a herd of elephants in my house.

Yes they do.

You guys, I'm struggling with a tremendous amount of guilt--we are going to Nashville next Friday to meet our newest granddaughter and see our older son and his wife.

But our cat sitter isn't available, nor are any of her back up cat sitters (she runs her business really, really well and has never not been able to book us in). So we have to board the cats at our vets and both of them turn into screaming monsters there, they are so afraid.

My heart breaks for them, and honestly for us when we return and get them that following Tuesday. They're horrible even after they get home, they smell the vet on themselves and hiss and spat like crazy.

The only upside is we will get all medical stuff done over that weekend, they both always have to be sedated so we may as well fork over lots of cash in one nasty visit and get it all done.

Edited to add, these kitties are super sweet with us but NOT with others so having a friend drop in isn't an option.

If they have to stay at the vet's, doing all the necessary work at the same time is a good idea. Otherwise they'll be scared again when they have to go in for that. Getting a Feliway spray and putting it on their toys to take with them and perhaps a blanket from home might help. Poor guys. We took our dog to the vet one time and he was concerned that the dog was anemic because her gums were so pale. So when I got home, I was showing DH and her gums were completely normal. That's how scared she was.

They hate, hate, hate Feliway which was a real disappointment. I'd hoped it would work a miracle.

Now in my kitties' defense, I will say that these two boys have been through a flood with us--I'm talking we lost nearly all our furniture, clothing, etc. They (and I) were at home when the water came and they have never been the same. I truly believe they have kitty PTSD.