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Paper Clip’s got the crazy eyes.
Spiral from above.
Helix keeps an eye on me.
Alley Oop strikes a pose.
“What doin’, lady?” wonders Stapler.
A picture to show Andi’s cute little back end.
And the front end is pretty cute, too!
Posty’s keeping warm.
Yesterday Oakley went back to Michelle’s. I was having a VERY hard time medicating him (and failing utterly – when that boy clamped his mouth shut, I couldn’t even get the end of the oral syringe in there, and I tried a million different tricks with no luck) that I decided he needed to go back so he could be properly medicated. When I got there with her, she picked him up, put him on her lap, and popped that medicine right in his mouth. I told her he must be missing her!
I am not the world’s best cat-medication-giver, but I do okay. I’ve gotten some pretty difficult cats medicated in my time, but Oakley was just not having my nonsense. It makes me appreciate how incredibly easy Khal, Alice and Charlie are to medicate!
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Rocco’s all “Am but a poor starvin’ kitteh. Is there food?” (There was not.)(And for the record, that cat is NOT free-fed, he gets fed a measured amount morning and evening, and it’s QUITE CLEAR that he’s getting fed somewhere else, too.)
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Posted on social media (Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/Tumblr/ Bluesky) yesterday.
Spiral loaf! (My favorite!)
Paper Clip likes this tunnel (and it matches her nose!)
Andi’s all “Watchin’ you, lady.” She actually shouldered Stapler out of the way so I could pet her this morning, so I guess she’s decided I’m not so bad.
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In the foster room (not all kittens are in this video.) Sorry about the shaky camera work, Paper Clip and Stapler kept climbing in my lap to be sure I knew that they needed attention and kept bumping my arm. 😻
Sharon had a nap with Rupert (formerly Richie) this afternoon, and it was short-lived because there were things to investigate. (Pip – formerly Carmy – was very busy doing Pip things elsewhere.)
Good night innernets. (Andi (top) and Spiral)
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Previously
2024: Huey gives me the Precious Moments eyes.
2023: She decided to go to her safe space.
2022: No entry.
2021: No entry.
2020: Earl gets it from all sides. Poor Earl.
2019: “Is there pettin’ over here?”
2018: She’s a GOOD girl.
2017: Frankie, one year ago (we briefly called him Malachi.)
2016: No entry.
2015: No entry.
2014: Why you gotta break my heart, you little scaredy cat?
2013: Miz Poo says, “GREAT. I just got rid of the party girl, and this nutball moves in upstairs. I gotta stop renting and get my own house.”
2012: The black Peppers come back to Crooked Acres for a break.
2011: No entry.
2010: I’m not sure why separating skittish and semi-feral kittens works so well, but it always does.
2009: They are super-playful little girls.
2008: Believe it or not, I’m walkin’ on air!
2007: At the Copacatbana! They fell in love!
2006: No entry.
2005: No entry.
Haha Oakley made his views known!! I think if you can’t medicate a cat, it definitely has decided it’s not happening, and yes obviously he just wanted to be back with Michelle or something.
I remember trying to medicate a half-siamese cat once (my flatmate’s in a large shared house, but the cats loved me so i tended to help out a lot) when the owner was away, and her boyfriend and me getting the medication on the floor, on the wall, on the cat, on ourselves… anywhere but inside the cat. She was a drama queen and loved to complain and cause chaos. It was about 30 minutes of mayhem and eventually we got enough bits of medication inside her mouth to constitute enough but we wasted a lot and i needed a nap after!!
It’s kind of shocking just how HARD they can fight!
I beliee that Rocco has your number. He is so adorable and wants to move in !!!!!
I can’t get over how much Paper Clip looks like Charlie to me. I know you can tell the difference, but I’m so glad you identify the cats when you show us their pictures!
I need to do a side-by-side collage of the two of them. You are definitely not the only one who thinks they look alike!
My sister and I feel a little better, now, after hearing Oakley’s medication refusal saga. We have been known to have to board a cat at the vet’s for a week or two, so that they can get their needed medication twice a day!
You are definitely NOT alone! 🙂
My easiest cat to medicate is also my angriest. When I put my hand over her head to tilt it up she gets so mad she opens up her mouth and screams. Which is when I drop the pill in and she just swallows. Makes me laugh every time.
My other cats are harder. Luckily my feral cats will eat the meds if I hide it in other stuff.