Former Foster Friday - Anubis

The kitten formerly known as Anubis.. 

I got an email yesterday:

Anubis has been changed to little belle. We found that Anubis is an Egyptian God that has the body of a man and the head of a jackel. Now she is the pretty girl of the ball (French). Belle is doing great. Eating very well. Like a little piggy. Can not see her spine or hip bones any more. Still slim though. Loves to cuddle still. Sleeps with us with us every night. A sweet girl but can be a wild little thing at times. We say that she won the lottery. Belle met the chickens and climbed her first tree last week. She gets along well with our other cat princess. Does not back down much from princess. Loves the fire but would rather sit on our lap. Likes to watch tv. A very clean little girl. She is a sweet girl and we are glad to have her in our lives. She is growing and learning every day.

I replied thanking her for the update (and asked for pictures), and in conversation she also told me that Belle was sleeping in front of the fire, and how she was a little unsure of her 14 month old grandson (oh how that made me smile) and that she likes to play with ping pong balls and laser beams. She also has much more energy than Princess who is an 8 yr old Maine Coon/Manx - which I can so just picture her with Princess.

It totally made my day.

Wishing you and Belle and Princess a long and happy life together.




I still think she should have been called Velcro

Muffin Cam

Sharing photos my cats take is an exercise in not over sharing.  It's also fun to go through so many photos except that many are of the exact same thing as they lay there and nap for hours on end.  Sometimes they move ever so subtly so you scroll through them fast it almost seems like a little movie.  it's just cute...

But because I don't believe in over sharing my house, nor in over sharing 100 photos of the ceiling as my cat sleeps..  here are some judiciously edited photos..

Muffin's favorite place, the Kitchen

Sleeping under the bed, looking at a door  knob for some reason.. 

Muffin foot and Jack.

Keeping an eye on the neighbors.. 

A near self  portrait 

Wordless Wednesday Fleurp Edition

Update on Esmay

On Sunday I attempted to post an update about Esmay and it didn't go through.  I didn't feel like being pushy about it and figured it was for the best, as I tend to over react..

Poor Esmay was not doing well.  She was slowing down quite a bit on eating, and when I went to pill her she had a strong reaction when I got too close to her bad ear.  I was cleaning her ear out quite regularly and pulling out a chunk of debris pretty much every day about the size of two grains of rice.  It starts out a brownish liquid, but dries black and hard..  Saturday and Sunday she didn't want me cleaning her ear and her eye was starting to water, her nose was getting wetter and she had an interruption to her purring.. kind of like she had to take a second breath.. it was just odd... but it reminded me too much of Em when she had a growth in her head (she died of cancer in her sinus cavity)

I know all too well that the eyes/nose/ears are well connected in a cat due to Eli's scarred tear ducts.  For the first few years of his life his ears were nearly caked closed with debris.  The vet explained that his tears ended up there.. as well as spilling into his nose causing some debris to build up there as well.

So I was concerned.

When by Monday morning she still wasn't eating well and generally had an excess of attitude that she wanted me to leave her alone, I decided to box her up and bring her into the shelter.  She ended up going to the vet and is now back with us.  All I know is that I am to give her Baytril (an antibiotic) once a day instead of twice that she had been on it for her urinary issues and that they cultured the debris in her ear..

although I also know she went from 15lbs to 11lb 2 oz.. which I think I'm even more concerned about..   This girl so totally needs to eat..

What to do with plastic eggs..

Looking for something to do with those left over plastic eggs after you eat all your jelly beans?  Put some cat nip in them, and have more Easter fun..

2003 - When the crew was young

Reposted from April 2011