Secret Paws!!

Our Secret Paws for 2010 was Kaltsas Kats!!


Sammy started out sitting on the box while waiting for Mama to help us open it.

We got a stocking FULL of toys & some catnip, a HUGE bag of tem-tay-shons, a BIG bag of cat grass & a Christmas card with pictures of Patches & Nemo on it!!!




We LOVED checking it all out, even more eating the treats & playing with the toys!!

Thanks Patches & Nemo, it was great meeting you & the gifts were PAWESOME!!

Happy New Year!!

We want to wish all of our furiends & their families a very healthy, Happy New Year!! May 2011 bring all the best to all of you & thank you all so much for being our furiends!!

Mama says we will post about our Secret Paws this weekend.

Merry (white) Christmas!!

We have no idea what this will look like once it posts, Mama is having trouble lining up the pictures. So if it looks really strange, please try to ignore the strangeness.

Anyway, we are having our first white Christmas in 8 years!! We've been having fun watching the big snowflakes falling! Mama's not so happy about it though. She wishes it would have waited a little later in the day to start snowing. She missed out on her family Christmas gathering cause she didn't wanna drive 25 miles in the pretty snow. She's not the most confident driver in good weather, so this really put her off. She'll get over it though.

We want to wish efurrybuddy the Merriest Christmas ever!! Hope Santa Paws brought you all you wanted!!

We got our Secret Paws package on the 23rd, we'll blog about it later.

Brrrrry Monday

We got our first snow of the season yesterday. Not very much but more than Mama wanted. She's not a fan of winter weather...she's really not happy that the temp is 7 degrees!

We got Mama to get our Christmas cards ready & our Secret Paws package ready to mail. She had the Secret Paws package all sealed up when she realized she forgot to put our note in with it. Some days she's just useless, *sigh*.....

Wordy Wednesday

We really gotta keep a good watch on Mama or she will be bringing in another kitty. Yesterday when she went to get the mail, there was this small tortie cat sittin on our back step. She petted & loved on him/her for a bit then walked on to the mailbox. The kitty followed her! I mean, really, she's our mama...not his/hers! Our mailbox is across the highway, so Mama picked up the kitty cause she didn't want him/her on the road. The kitty didn't want to be held, so he/she jumped down & beat Mama across the road then followed her back home.
Mama came in & got the very last of our stinky goodness & some crunchies & took it out for the kitty to eat. Our LAST stinky goodness!!! Doesn't matter that we won't eat it, it's the principle of the matter!
Anyway, when Mama came back in the house, that kitty tried to come in with her!! Mama is very tempted, especially since it's turned off real cold, but she can't afford to take him/her to the v-e-t. And after efurrything with Joey last year, she doesn't know if her heart could take it. So we're on a wait-n-see watch. We keep tellin her we don't need anymore kitties here!!

Easy Sunday

We hope everybuddy had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Mama was sick all week, but a furry good friend of hers brought her dinner with all the trimmings. We even got bites of turkey!! It was yummy!
Anyway, we're just gonna be laying around snoozin today. Hope you all get your snoozins in too!!

Happy Birthday Sammy!

Today is Sammy's 8th birthday & Mama almost forgot. We don't know how she could almost forget, we guess she's just losing her mind or something.

Anyways, we're sending her to the store to buy all kinds of yummy noms & things to play with. Come on over & party with us!!

We are very thankful to our veterans who keep us free. Happy Veteran's Day!!

Remembering Joey........

Today would have been Joey's 1st Gotcha Day. These are the first pictures Mama took of him.

She still misses him & gets all leaky-eyes over him. Joey was a furry special kitty & Mama still loves & misses him furry much.

Now what??

Mama here. I am totally at my wits end! I squeeze Fessy's ear as hard as I can & get little to nothing out...seems like I'm just making it worse. It is now so swollen that you can hardly see his ear canal.
I read that the hematoma will heal itself eventually, but it takes awhile & is very painful. I just know that I can't afford to keep taking him to the vet & torturing him only to see it get worse.
If anyone out there in cat blog land has any suggestions, I would really appreciate them. I don't know what else to do.

Another Update on Festus

Mama took Fessy back to the v-e-t today. She had to drop him off after lunch & pick him up around 4:00. This time they just cut a hole in his ear, but didn't put stitches around like last time. The v-e-t told Mama to make sure she squeezes his ear 4 or 5 times a day. She doesn't know why he didn't put a drain in, probably because he's a country v-e-t & maybe he just doesn't do that. He doesn't recommend using a hot compress. We're just hoping it heals up this time. It's hard on Fes & it's hard on Mama. Her eyes leak something terrible when she has to squeeze on his ear, she hates hurting him like that but that's all she can do right now.
Thanks for all your purrs.

3rd time's the charm???

Mama has to take Festus back to the v-e-t yet again. His ear filled back up worse than it was....hopefully it will get taken care of & never come back!

Update on Festus

Fes saw the v-e-t today & he sang to Mama both ways! Oh Funny Farmers, we only wish we could raise money that way, we'd be rich!! The v-e-t stuck a needle in Fessy's hear in 3 different places to drain it (ouchie!!). He said for Mama to keep an eye on it (that's weird) & to let him know if it fills up again. Mama said that Festus was the best boy & never made a sound while all that was going on. He laid still, well Mama & another lady was holding on to him, but he was really good. Too bad that didn't happen on the way home, hee, hee.
When they got home, Mama opened a can of stinky goodness for all of us to share! Only thing is, we just licked the gravy off & Festus is trying to cover the rest up. Oh well, the gravy was good!!
Thanks for all the purrs, maybe we can keep em up so that his ear finally heals. Thanks everybuddy, we love you!!!

Not again......

Mama has to take Festus back to the v-e-t. His ear quit draining so she stopped squeezing it, but now it's all puffed up behind the stitches....so, back to the v-e-t. Fun, fun,fun....NOT!!!
So, we'll make Mama update sometime after the v-e-t visit. Festus will probably sing to her again on the way, we think he sings Opera. She says, thank goodness it's only 7 miles to the clinic!

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