Another hidey-hole story: My girl friend Cynthia takes her furbaby
Puddy on an eight-hour drive up to Sleeping Bear Dunes in Northern
Michigan several times a year where her fam has a condo. The very
first time she and Puddy made the trip and it was time to go home,
Puddy, who is not allowed out (good thing, too--wildcats have been
spotted there) was nowhere to be found! Panic, panic! They finally
looked under the beds one more time and, lo and behold, there was a
suspicious cat-shaped lump hanging under one--Puddy had torn the
fabric off the box-spring, crawled in and made her very own vacation
hammock! Puddy was a Petco kitty from Wisconsin and the very first
night she came home with her new mom (a long-time big dog owner,
first-time little cat owner) she spent all night running up and down
the stairs and the hall. She was so very happy! And she makes that
eight hour drive like a trooper. What a kitty!
Taylor Scobie Humphrey
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On May 2, 2007, at 2:32 PM, Rosenfeldt, Diane wrote:
Welcome to your new furbabies -- they are both BEAUTIFUL! Our
former feral Fred did the crawling-inside-furniture thing too when
we first got her. There was an old 50s armchair in the room where
we kept her, with big wide arms that were made by upholstering open
wooden boxes, and she got through the bottom cloth and up into the
chair arm and sort of braced herself against some corner blocks to
stay up there. We ended up having to stuff pillows and things into
the whole chair just so we wouldn't have to overturn it and pry her
out all the time. ;-)
Diane R.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:felvtalk-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marissa Johnson
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 1:31 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Some Good News (for a change)!
Hey everyone! Sorry I haven't written in a while and I've been a
bit slow to update you all...life has been pretty crazy lately!
WARNING: this is LOOONG! Sorry! lol
As I think I mentioned when Slinky went to the bridge, I promised
him I would get another baby to take care of me. The first one he
sent me came home about 3 weeks ago. About 5 minutes before I left
to pick him up, when I was feeling a bit sad about Slink, he sent
me a DOUBLE rainbow from the bridge!!! It was quite spectacular!
And now I haveTWO new furbabies in my family!!!!! The second one
arrived this past weekend.
About 3 weeks ago I adopted a beautiful tabby boy who has CH
(cerebellar hypoplasia). He's a classic silver/gray tabby and a
very sweet little boy! He's 6 months old and lived in a shelter
(first in PA, then in DC) his whole life until I got him. His CH
appears to be fairly mild as CH goes - he walks fairly stiff-legged
and kind of "swaggers" when he walks. He falls down if he gets
really excited, and it often takes him a bit longer to climb onto
things. He has a tougher time getting down, but he's learned to
fly through the air and execute a pretty good roll landing! He
almost never lands on his feet. He also has Herpes, so I'm giving
him lots of Lysine and washing his eyes with a goldenseal and
ecchinacea wash.
Because my bed is fairly high off the ground and has wood side
boards on the sides, I knew he'd have a really tough time getting
up there, so I built him a ramp complete with side rails and a cork
runner for traction. :) He's become a master at using it both to
get up AND down from the bed! I also got some small pet stairs for
getting onto the couch and he learned to use those just in the last
few days.
His name is Mouse - his idea, not mine! Since he's gray (ok, MC,
blue/silver) and squeaks when he meows, it seems the perfect name,
and he responds to that and nothing else, so.... He's got a motor
that never quits and he loves to cuddle. One of my favorite nick
names for him, though, is "Hoover" because he inhales his food the
second I put it down! I'm feeding him Nature's Variety raw
supplemented with Evo dry...and he seems to love it all!
This past weekend I added another baby to the family. Her name (at
least for now) is Georgia - but we'll see if she decides she wants
to change it. She was feral for the first 8 months of her life and
then 2 months ago was brought in for TNR, but they decided she was
too sweet to put back. She was fostered by a wonderful woman and
her 2 cats, but the woman was not able to give her a forever home
and needed to place her by May 1. She's gray tabby and white, with
an adorable little white spot on the very tip of her tail!
Georgia's foster and a woman I met through MC drove about an hour
from VA to my house with her and brought all kinds of supplies,
etc. with them! Her first hour or so was quite adventurous. When
I let her out of the carrier, we let her explore the living room,
etc. and left her alone for a few minutes while we went in my
bedroom to see Mouse.
When we came back she had gone under the couch (which is really a
twin bed)...no big surprise. BUT she crawled up INSIDE the box
spring...and got STUCK!!! We almost had to cut one of the wires to
get her out, but she finally came out on her own. Was quite the
stressful day for all of us!! lol So...we got her into the guest
room where she's been ever since.
Send thoughts and prayers her way, though, as she hasn't been
eating much, if at all! I've tried every food known to man (and
feline) and have had little luck. She did eat a LITTLE of her
canned food (9 lives - from the foster) and her dry (purina - from
the foster), and tonight I got some a/d down her. But it's been a
major challenge...and I'm pretty worried about her!
Mouse hasn't quite decided what he thinks of this new addition (nor
has she decided what she thinks about him). But I'm sure that over
time they'll come to love each other. They both chrip and meow a
lot, so I think they're a good pair. Georgia loves to sit on my
chest, purr, and give kisses and love. She's a VEEERY sweet girl!!!
If you haven't been to Slinky's myspace in a while, check it out -
it's been updated with pics of the rainbow he sent and several
poems I wrote for him in the blogs. www.myspace.com/slinkecat You
can also check out Mouse's myspace: www.myspace.com/motormouse1. I
haven't done one for Georgia yet (waiting on a CD of pictures from
her foster mom), but she does have a catster page: http://
www.catster.com/cats/531393 Mouse's catster is: http://
www.catster.com/cats/526580 Slinky's (in loving memory) is: http://
www.catster.com/cats/526570. Be sure to read his diary! And the
one for the little blind baby I applied for (but he went to the
Bridge before he could come home!) is: http://www.catster.com/cats/
531411
It's so nice to have my family back in my home! It was beginning
to feel VERY empty without Slinky! He has been faithful to visit
me often and remind me that he loves me (read his diary on his
catster page)...and that helps a lot! I'll be glad when both of
the babies are settled in, loving each other, and life slows down a
bit (will that EVER happen? lol)...but for now I'm just happy to
have them home with me. :)
Thanks, everyone, for being there and for caring...and for all you
do for our precious babies!!! I'm so thankful for this
community!! My thoughts and prayers go out to you and your
furkids...and especially to those who've lost furkids recently.
I'm tellin' Slink to keep his eyes peeled for them.
Hugs and head-bonks!
Marissa, Mouse, Georgia, and Angel Slinky >^..^<
"If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know
each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them, and
what you do not know you will fear. What one fears, one destroys."
--Chief Dan George
"I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is
to protection by man from the cruelty of man………… The greatness of a
nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals
are treated." Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948)
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