Best Toy Ever!!

and then just to make it even better..

Today is the Day

Can you believe it is here already??

Today is the day that Odilia's new mom is going to arrive in the state and meet up with our girl.  She and her fiance are staying in a hotel that is not pet friendly, so I won't officially be letting go of her until Saturday, but I am sure that is going to be here before I can blink.

Yes, I am sad.. Odilia is special... but keeping The Crew happy is my main priority, and so this how it needs to be, and while it is bittersweet, it is all good.

Amy Jo is on Facebook, and she has already created a Facebook page for our Odilia, and she has promised us all oodles of updates..

To try to make this transition a little easier on Odilia, I asked Amy Jo to send something up that smelled like her.  She sent up her BlogPaws T-Shirt from 2010 (which made me laugh since Odilia's trip to BlogPaws got her her home)

Hey Odilia, come here, I have something for you.. 

Something for me??

What can it be?

Let me get down from here and get over there.. 

What's this??

Now this smells interesting

Now this is going to be an adventure..  

Wordless Wednesday - Group Photo - sorta

Odilia says...

I think you need to know.. 

That from the tip of my nose

to my belly dots

to my super toes

I am 100% adorable!

Don't you agree?

Fun with Kittens

I was attempting to get the toys IN the basket, but I was aiming through the view finder of the flipcam, so my aim was horribly off.  It still was quite amusing though.

And for Odilia's next trick...

Hello, and welcome to the "Omazing Odilia Show"

At a wave of my paw, I shall make a kitten appear out of this empty box!

*Wave* *Wave* *Wave*

You are supposed to appear OUT of the box.. 

Are you out yet??

I think she needs to work on that some more.. 

The Big Snip

or probably more accurately a little one..

On Wednesday I took Miss Odilia in to see the vet and had her neutered.  I talked to them about her eyes and the bump on her head, and warned them not to scruff her and went off to work.  I got a call just after lunch from the vet to tell me how things went.

He said he took a look at her eyes and while he didn't feel comfortable "prying them open" he said he did get a peek inside and he agrees that she does not have eyeballs. Everything she is able to do is with hearing, smell, touch and pure spunk! :)  He said things looked fine and there was no need to do anything to them or with them.  The spay went uneventful and she was doing very well.  He also got a good look at the bump on her head.  He said he got a good look at it and even attempted to aspirate it (put a needle in and take out fluid if there is any, cells if there isn't) and he believes it to simply be some scar tissue and is nothing to worry about.  Although doing it gave her a new funky "hairdo"

Don't worry, it really isn't that noticeable in person.

He could not give her the rabies vaccine because at this point her paperwork said her birth date was her intake date and thus not old enough.  We will get that straightened out and get her vaccinated before she goes up for adoption.

I also took home her booster heska vaccine.. I don't like to do those on days of surgery, so she will either get it today or tomorrow depending on how busy I am.  I'm intending on bringing The Spitters into the shelter for their booster vaccines and some revolution as well, so we will see how it all goes.

So all is well and we are right on track for her adoption in just under three weeks!

Free Product from Petflow in exchange for an honest review.

So I was contacted by the awesome Rob over at Petflow wanting to offer me one of his "Spoiled Rotten" boxes for kitties.. I couldn't say yes fast enough..

What makes Rob so awesome is that he replied to my reply almost as fast.  What I value almost above all else is good customer service.  Rob and I emailed back and forth several times that day, each time he was very responsive and very quick.

To top it all off the box arrived the next day.. I've got to say, I'm a huge fan..

Petflow's Spoiled Rotten box is a monthly service where they send you a box a month for the low price of $24.99 ($5.00 off your first box with the code SRB9)

Unfortunately the items in the box were all inappropriate for Jack's current dietary restrictions, and I just don't think it is fair to offer some of my kitties some thing and not him.. so they all go into my pile of things I'll probably give away when I'm not so overwhelmed by kittens.. (I've got about five bags of cat treats I can't use at this point)  I did give the cans of food to the foster kittens.. and the toy.. because they go through toys so much faster than The Crew.

If you have no such restrictions, I say go for it.. it is a beautiful box, it was fun to see what was in it, and while I do wish they would choose foods more to my liking, I know I'm kind of unique in my requirements and it probably isn't fair to think they might be as picky as I am.  I am hoping in time, with the spreading of the word about how plants are inappropriate for obligate carnivores more companies will come to offer more items that would be for the cat's optimal health..  Not that I'm opposed to giving these items..  I eat foods I consider less than ideal for my health because I enjoy it.  Even knowing what I do I would often give The Crew treats very similar to these.. but as I said.. Jack.. and he would so let me know how totally unfair I was if he didn't get any.

a nice laminated card describing the items in the box

I'm spoiled.. 

We all are spoiled!!

But I'm most spoiled.. 

so if I jump in.. does that mean... 

Yup, I'm spoiled rotten!!
Was there any doubt??

Would you like to be Spoiled Rotten?? Rob has generously offered to run a giveaway for one lucky reader to win a box of their very own.  It will be "July's Box" so your content will be different than mine.. I can't wait to see what you get!!

The contest runs for two weeks ending in 7/16/13 and Rob is taking care of everything for me.  He even gave me his rafflecopter so he can award the prize and mail it right out.. if he is as on the ball with this as he was with me chances are you'll get it on the 17!  - ok fine, probably the 18th.. lol

  a Rafflecopter giveaway

FREEDOM!!

and just in time for Fourth of July.

So this post starts with the old saying, Man plans, God laughs.

I had PLANNED on introducing the Spitters to Odilia and Trevor slowly.  Taking each step and waiting to see how everyone fared medically.  We had history of diarrhea, we had history of goopy eyes and a few sneezes here and there.  Stress makes this sort of thing worse, and giving kittens new playmates might sound like all fun and games, but kitties are very territorial so you just never know how it is going to go.

Well Friday morning I walked down to this..

and then I put my camera down on the green tower and Odilia thought I needed a picture of her belly..

They had a grand old time from what ever time the boy escaped until I found them.. the room was a MESS.. So I plopped him back in kitten jail and secured it tight and went about cleaning the room and went off to work.

That night I figured it was time.  When I got to the kitten room everyone was still in good health, so I went about cleaning everything up and moving things back into a 'open door' policy.  Although doing so requires major upheaval to the kitten room.  Things were totally messed up while I worked on getting it unmessy... but in the mean times the Spitters were running around like kittens who had been cooped up for the past month - in other words they could NOT sit still.  Odilia was in heaven having something to chase, but there was a problem in that they could run much faster than she could because they could see the chaos in the room and avoid it.  I swear I could almost hear her say "this is NOT FAIR" a couple of times..

The Spitters are doing wonderfully.  Adele is quite healthy and robust and is almost two pounds!  "The Boy", now being called Keith is second in size and is a few ounces behind.  "The Girl" is the smallest and about a pound and a half.  Trevor is about 1lb 10 oz.. but he's all belly.. his limbs are still very thin and you can still feel his ribs.. :(  I'm considering one of two names for The Girl, either Tina or Clementine.  The first seems to fit, and I like it is the name of a friend's daughter, the second because I started singing "my darlin Clementine" when I was giving her attention.  We'll see what sticks..

What won't stick, us in a cage.. ha ha ha

Speaking of Crazy Pants..

Odilia wearing her crazy pants

My husband and I have a habit of watching a movie and pulling catch phrases from it that enter our life.  More than once we have re-watched a movie and we both had to do a double take when we hear a line we have quoted back and forth to one another so many time we had forgotten where we heard it..

One phrase we use in particular isn't even a real quote from a movie.  We were watching Toy Story and Mr. Potato Head puts on his angry eyes when he is angry.  We quite often joke that our kitties (Kit in particular) puts on her crazy eyes when she gets particularly playful.

The other day Odilia was being particularly playful, in that crazy kitten sort of way.  One of us commented that she had her crazy eyes on, but then we both laughed, and the other one of us coined a new phrase just for Odilia.. She is wearing her crazy pants.  (OK fine, it probably isn't a new phrase in general, but it was funny for us, and I wanted to share :) and she was being particularly crazy: turning quickly, swatting at nothing, rolling over, etc all while on top of the climbing tower)

Looking particularly pleased with herself.. 

a fairly good photo of her 'eyes'