This is probably an odd request, but everyone here is certainly likely to be a cat lover and I do believe that good thoughts can make a difference (and at least certainly won’t hurt.)
I’ve been fighting fleas in the house and have had to do without much chemical treatment due to multiple sensitivities in my cats. I’ve found that fleas here in Pennsylvania (where I am a new resident) are far worse than I ever encountered in Florida, and carry all sort of extra nasties. Already suffering from a little anemia, one of my girls got hit with a parasitical infection that greatly (and quickly) worsened it. She’s at the vet clinic now, in kitty ICU, and will be receiving a blood transfusion this afternoon. Her name is Chloe and she’s a lovely black/white mask and mantle cat.
I’m sort of in shock at this point, and while I hope y’all won’t think it too weird of me to ask, anything that I can do to help her, I will. So if any good thoughts could be spared for her, they would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Delaney, that’s not an odd request at all, and I hope that Chloe gets better fast. Poor girl – my thoughts are with you both. Please let us know how she’s doing!
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This Shironeko blog post reminded me of all your lovely da-bird-jumping photo series – including an orange bystander. LOL Just look at those toes mid-jump!
That is awesome! I love the spread toes so very much.
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I lost track (partly because I haven’t watched the series): how many boys and girls? And how do you tell the tabbies apart?
There are three boys (Tony, Silvio & Paulie Walnuts), and four girls (Carmela, Dr. Melfi, Adriana, and Meadow). Telling the brown tabbies apart is hard – I’m not sure I could do it without my cheat sheet (at least not yet), but there are differences, you just have to look closely for them. Carmela has no white fur at all, Tony has a half-pink, half-black nose. Silvio has a lot of white around his chest, and in fact the white goes around his neck in a “ring.” And Dr. Melfi is the “other” one!
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That is one gorgeous mama kitty – and well I just have to say – Jon Snow made the best faces.
He certainly did! That is one expressive kitten. These two pictures make me laugh every single time I see them.
Especially the squint on the left. Kills me DEAD.
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You’ve probably seen this, but I couldn’t take the chance of you missing it. #18 made me laugh until I wheezed. 🙂
I had seen that, but I happily scrolled through and looked at every single one of them again. I love BuzzFeed!
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My dad’s cat is named Doc. He wrote down all the names of the dwarfs he could remember (five), then tried them all out on the cat one by one for about a week. It’s an improvement – he usually names them according to color. Black animals are Blackie or Midnight, white animals are Snowball, brown animals are Brownie or (he was really proud of this one) Sandy, and anything with complicated coloration is Lady for female or King for male. It’s a wonder I’m not named Pinkie!
PINKIE killed me. But, hey – at least he doesn’t name them “Dog” and “Cat.” He has a SYSTEM.
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I just noticed that Stefan isn’t included on the ‘Permanent Residents’ page.
He seems pretty darn permanent to me. How about a bio?
I decided that putting the “Stefan to come” line under the pictures in the sidebar gives me a few months to slack before finally getting his page done.
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I eventually want to adopt a cat or 2, but I think I may be slightly allergic.
I went to the local shelter and spent some time in their cat colony (6 cats together in one room), and my eyes were itchy when I came out. I had this reaction before when I was taking care of a friend’s cat for a week, but I wanted to be absolutely sure, and so I spent about an hour in there with the cats.
I have heard that some people can get used to this over time, and fortunately itchy eyes were the only reaction I had. Any suggestions on how to mitigate this?
I don’t have any suggestions on this front, but hopefully there’ll be some helpful advice from others.
I will say that 6 cats in one (presumably small) room is probably more concentrated fur and dander than you’d have at home, so I wonder if you’d even have a reaction at home. When I used to volunteer at Petsmart on Monday mornings, cleaning the cat cages, I was really really itchy for the first year or so, even though I had cats at home. Having all those cats in one room really did a number on me, but after a year (maybe less), it stopped happening.
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Is that a picture of the Spud below Tubby? I wonder what she will think when the cat’s picture is ABOVE hers and WAY bigger than hers! LOL
Both the picture on the right and the four smaller pictures in the picture frame to the left are the Spud (Danielle). I suspect she would not be at all surprised to see that Tubby’s picture is way bigger. 🙂
I had intended to put her pictures on canvas as well, and hang them up with the Tubby picture, but like I said – I had no idea that the Tubby picture was going to be so big! I still intend to put her pictures on canvas, I just think I’m going to hang them in the hall or the front room instead.
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Hey – got a question for the community here – Anyone have the “litter genie“? and if so – what do you think of it?
I don’t have the Litter Genie myself, but I got an email from a reader about a year ago saying that she loves her Litter Genie and told me I should try it out. (For those of you who don’t like to click on links, the Litter Genie is a litter disposal pail very similar to the Diaper Genie – you dump your litter box scoopings into the Litter Genie and then turn a handle on the side, and it “locks in” the odor by turning the bag. Like I said, I haven’t tried it – when I scoop the litter boxes, I do them all at the same time, use the same bag for all the scooping, and then carry the bag out to the garage to a trash can in there.
Now that I’m thinking about it, I wonder if I might not want to use the Litter Genie in the garage. I keep a three-inch layer of activated charcoal in the bottom of the trash can out there, and spray it with Nose Offense regularly, so it isn’t TOO bad, but from time to time – especially when it gets really hot – it’s unpleasant out there (and that’s when I thank my lucky stars that the garage isn’t attached to the house!) So, I’d like to hear opinions on the Litter Genie – is it worth it?
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Whats under Tony’s nose – birthmark or blood?
Neither – his nose is half black (on the top) and half pink. I think it’s the lighting that makes it look like there’s blood there.
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Those kittens are gorgeous! Also, this is what I immediately thought of when you talked about naming a kitten Dr. something.
Haha!
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Check out the beautiful picture Diane Hoeptner painted using one of my pictures of Hodor as a reference. She is so talented and does such beautiful work!
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It’s hard to tell from this picture, but Norbie was sitting in the hamper, atop a mountain of clean rags, which I was attempting to fold. He was helping!
Warm and sunny Norbs.
Sleepin’ Norbs. He is just the SWEETEST boy.
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Meadow would like you to TALK TO THE PAW.
Kitten mosh pit.
Checking to see what’s out there.
Sweet Mama Livia.
Paulie Walnuts, amused by himself.
Adriana’s all “What YOU lookin’ at?”
Tellin’ secrets.
Silvio would like Paulie Walnuts to GET OFF HIS BACK, GEEZ.
So, here’s the full story of the Sopranos and how they ended up with us.
Like I said yesterday, Livia was one of many cats who were being fed by an elderly woman. Her neighbor was helping out by having the cats spayed and neutered in Huntsville. Livia was actually AT the North Alabama Spay Neuter Clinic, waiting to be spayed, when she went into labor. By the time they realized she was in labor, she’d given birth to two kittens already, so Dr. Baird opted to wait and let her have her babies, and find a group who could take them. These are some very lucky babies. Also lucky? Livia. I don’t know how many litters she’s had – I would guess this isn’t the first – but it’s 100% going to be her LAST.
I told Susan yesterday, “luck” seems to be my theme this year, between Norbie being lucky enough to survive the accident that killed his litter mates*, and now these guys. If I could have come up with names that indicated luck other than “Clover” and, you know, “Lucky”, I probably would have used them.
*If you’re new(ish) to the site, back on May 1st, as Khaleesi was in labor, I got a call from another rescue. They had a kitten whose mother and litter mates were killed in an accident. I was willing to introduce him to Khaleesi and see if she’d be willing to accept him as her own. He arrived at the house literally between Khaleesi’s third (Puff) and fourth (Scorch) kittens. She was a little doubtful at first, but after a few puzzled glances at me, she accepted him and raised him as her own. And to this day, he doesn’t know that she didn’t give birth to him. (Shhhh, don’t tell him!) You can read Khaleesi’s whole birth story here.
PS: Here’s the side-by-side comparison of Khaleesi and Livia. They certainly look like they could be related!
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“Lady. Do I hear MORE KITTENS in there? When are you going to accept that Corbie is all the cat you need?!”
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Previously
2012: Tony Rocky Magoo + red straw = true love forevah.
2011: Tucker’s all “WHY I NEVER!” Hee!
2010: “I am hanging out with my bo’friends, lady. You go away!”
2009: But Bill apparently decided that it was time for his eyelips to GO, and ::SPROINGGGG!:: off they went!
2008: No entry.
2007: It’s a good thing he’s so cute.
2006: Maddy and Miz Poo come face-to-face over Tigger. And then Miz Poo ran away from the terrifying kitten.
2005: So, that’s been my day thus far, and it’s not even noon. I think I need a nap.