focus… focus!
i can’t seem to get motivated to write a decent blog the past few days. i know alot of it stems from the fact that my dorked up leg from that little fall in my neighbor’s yard won’t let me sit at the computer long without screamin’ at me.
and my mom has had such drama (much of it self-inflicted i’m afraid…sigh…) from some kittens she’s fostering. in fact, one of them is at the vet’s office hooked up to an i.v. right now… he went downhill almost overnight and the vet has no idea why…
i think that my next article will be on the ‘fading kitten’ syndrome. in talking with my vet’s techs, other rescuers, and my own experience, this is a real issue. i lost 10 out of 11 2-month old kittens almost overnight a few weeks ago. it was horrible.
God love my cats, all of a sudden they want to do the “weave around mom’s legs and headbutt her” thing, but how do they know that’s my BAD leg they’re smackin’? :-D
and elsa… oh my word elsa. she’s the one in the picture. when she was a kitten, she would climb me… and i mean RELENTLESSLY. i never saw her coming. i could be doing laundry and she’d launch herself out of nowhere and climb me. sitting at the computer was the worst, she’d either launch from the bed or just from the ground up. i kept her nails trimmed, but that didn’t help much because when she couldn’t get a purchase on me from her front claws she’d engage the back claws! wow! she did it for months and then suddenly stopped. well, it’s been about 3 months since she quit and now for some reason, she’s started again! thankfully she’s a small cat but STILL…. just thinking about it makes my hair stand up!
she also loves to help me, as you can see in the picture, with my crafting endeavors! thankfully she’s not very destructive, she just likes to look and check it out and then flop down and go to sleep in the middle of it all!
another thing that’s making me nuts is this weather. we’ve had no rain in 2 months plus it will NOT cool off. well, it has a little bit, instead of being in the 90’s we’re now in the upper 80’s. if we don’t get snow this year, someone is gonna answer for that! i am a happy camper when it’s cold out. unfortunately, my cats get really wound up when it’s cold out. doesn’t matter if the house is warm, they just get so wound up… like i need more of that ‘eh?
oscar - when i’m doing the potty boxes in my room … i have a craft area set up for my work and under the tables, i have four potty boxes… i’ll be bent over scooping and oscar, a beautiful orange boy, will get on the tables and start rummaging in my hair. he’ll pull hair, he’ll snorgle, he’ll knead, and i’m helpless for a few minutes while i’m scooping. i just want to scream when he does this! then when i look at him and tell him to please would he just please STOP IT - he has the most amazing look of love on his face… i wish i could capture that look in a picture… and i just can’t holler at him.
munch… well, she think she’s a mom. whenever i have foster kittens, she takes over. she has that special ‘mom’ meow and i know when i hear it she’s snatched someone from where he belongs and is carrying him to where SHE thinks he belongs. she’ll even snatch ‘em from their proper mom. she’s doing it now and i’m wondering what her deal is cuz there’s no kitten around for her to snatch, except the one i have left from the foster litter, and he’s nowhere to be seen. hmmm.
here’s a link to another post of mine about these crazy furbrats: http://www.weheartcats.com/cats-argh-w/
and a great post on birds and acorns! : http://www.backyardbirdingblog.com/offering-your-birds-acorns/
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