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I have been with out kittens for WAY TOO LONG!! why aren't they calling me?!?! They also started to promote Project Kitten with out letting me know. I'm going to have to march my butt down there and get involved. :) They had a bit on the local news and in the local paper. I hope this year's fundraising is even better than last years.

My kitten room is still not quite finished. I think I'm going to move into it anyway. Hopefully the cement wont be too cold, and if it is I'll just move the heater down there. Once the warm weather starts, it will be awesome. There is sunlight down there.. the kittens will love it!

Electrostatic kitty

Sadly it is that time of year where most of my cats don't like to be patted for extended periods of time due to the dryness of the air and the shocks they receive from the patting. However Eli LOVES to be shocked. He will let you pat him and pat him, all the while making mountains of electricity. He almost sounds like a bowl of rice crispies. Most cats will get into a petting and end up further away from you when they started. I have always thought they do this to see how much it means to the human to pet them, to see if they will follow. Although when Eli is getting his "shock treatments", if he gets too far away and you stop, he'll turn around and come closer to you.

Tonight I got up and went to the bathroom. It was the middle of the night so I didn't want to turn the lights on. Eli wanted to be petted and I could see the static. It was very pretty. I wish I had a way to take a picture of it. It really looked like a field of fireflies.

Tweedle has decided to come supervise this post. Good thing since I'm not wearing my glasses and could be making major typos. She is fascinated with the cursor, and will often attack the screen. I've read books that say that cats don't have the best eyesight, but if that is the case how can she see the little flashing dot? I'm getting concerned about Twee again. She's been sneezing a lot lately, which I've often attributed to the fact that she gets covered with dust. If there is a dust bunny in this house, she will find it. I've seen her crawling out from under my dresser, which hasn't moved since I brought it in the house (well except when I painted the walls) but now one of her eyes is starting to wate4.575111111111 Twee, get off the keyboard.. as I was saying, one of her eyes is starting to water. She seems in good health otherwise - well except the wheezing which she still does. She is continuing to grow up. The other day I noticed her head looked much more like a cat than a kitten. It was amusing since she still had a kitten body. Although just now I noticed her body is starting to look more adult too. She is still rather petite just much more grown up.

On a side note - or should I say actually back on topic of this blog - there has been a major reduction in the number of cats at the shelter lately. They have four cat rooms, which are usually full, and recently they have only had to use two of them. There have been no kittens at all. Part of me wants to throw a party at that, but then part of me really misses having kittens around the house. I was watching the animal planet the other day and they had kittens on. They mewed, and my heart went out to them. I love that sound. I so need to work on my kitten room so it is finished when they start showing up. At this point, I need to start looking into radiant floor heating. I want to see how much it would be since the room is in the basement and little kitten feet can't stand too much cold.

Well, I blew it

The shelter got in a four-month-old baby flemish giant rabbit. Ever since I had Tobin, and realized that he was antisocial, I have wanted a larger rabbit, one that would interact with me. And there he was. He was beautiful. He nipped at my arm when I picked him up, but it was just a gentle nip. I didn't spend a whole heck of a lot of time with him, so we weren't horribly bonded. I am not quite in a place to provide a great rabbit home. I have a great home, don't get me wrong, and he would have been loved greatly, but it wouldn't have been ideal. I hemmed and hawed about it, and today came to the decision I was going to spend time with him on Monday and if he was social, I was going to take him home. Well, someone else adopted him today. Yay for them, and yay for the bunny finding a good home, but booo for me for not having him. It is probably for the best, flemish rabbits can get up to 20 lbs, which is actually bigger than Emmy, my eldest and fatest cat at 16.5 lbs.

Sigh.

I miss having a bunny around.

Fun with helium

I bought a helium balloon at the grocery store today. They were selling them for a quarter to raise money for the United Way, and I've always loved balloons. When I got it home, Tweedle was fascinated by it. She followed me around the house till I let her have the string. She grabbed on to it with both paws, all wide-eyed and cute. She soon let go of it trying to bite it, and was all sad when she couldn't. Eli could, and I joked at Tweedle telling her if she were a bigger kitty she could get it. She just stared up at the balloon. I tied an extra piece of ribbon on the end of the string and she was in heaven. She played with it for over 20 minutes. It was so cute. Jack even got into the act. Too bad the balloon is going to be deflated in the morning.

I had the strangest experience tonight, which is why I'm up blogging at 3 am. I was sound asleep in the middle of some ordinary mundane dream when I heard what sounded like someone cooing over Tweedle. Well, there is only me and the hubby in the house, and he was snoring. I was wide awake, and I could still hear it, but not as clearly. I sat up and shh'ed my hubby, and listed more. It was gone. I thought that maybe my Yahoo messenger had come on and someone was being silly. I made motion to get up out of bed and realized Emmy and Tweedle were curled up in my legs. Now this is going to be the real bizarre part. I had a thought that I heard Emmy cooing at Tweedle. Tweedle loves Em and often is cuddled up to her. I gave them kisses and came to the computer, which was off. Very strange.

Thinking about computers and Tweedle, she's going to need her own web page here. Now that she's officially part of the family its only fair. (see dots across top of page for web pages on the other five)

A clean bill of health

The kids got a clean bill of health today. Emmy's murmur is a I/II instead of the II/III it has been, which is good. Twee is still a little congested sounding, but I'm just going to keep an eye on that. Jack's feet look good where he ripped off his two claws. Ok, so they looked like ripped off claws, but they don't seem infected. Ollie has a flat lypoma on his chest. (a fatty lump) I couldn't feel it, but I'm not going to worry about it. He's not one to let me rub his belly/chest anyway. We decided against doing a rabies vaccine on Emmy. She's 14 and the doctor said if she hasn't developed an immunity to it by now, she isn't going to. We waited on the distemper vaccines too. Going to do those every other year. Eli and Muffin were "unremarkable". I appreciate there is nothing wrong with them, but he so needs to come up with another choice of words :D

I asked the dr about a possiblity of getting a job with him when he opens up his clinic. He said it will probably be a while, and I told him that it wasn't a problem. He said he would put me on his list of people to call. I would LOVE to work for him. He is the kind of guy who knows how to be a boss... so opposite of other bosses Ive had in the past. So I'm looking at a year and a half without a job.... I can live with that :) Maybe I'll find something part time. Something fun. Who knows. Maybe my ebay business will pick up, maybe I'll start a traveling cat spa. Maybe I'll just go take a nap w/ the kids and tell them that the horror they just went through was for their own good :D