Clean Bill of Health from Dr. Alexander!!

 "Mom took me to go see Dr. Alexander this morning after she viciously gave me a pill and my second dose of fever medicine.  Mean ole' mommy!!  When I got there they took me into the back and the mean ole' vet tech stuck something up my... my... my... ::shudder:: oh the horrors!!  But then they took me back to my mom and there weren't even any cat treats!!  Dr. Alexander came in and told us that my temperature was 102.3 and I had gained an ounce.  He and mom were very happy with me.  Mom told him that I didn't like the water in the bowl but I started drinking as soon as mom put my favorite fountain in the bathroom.  I used my litter box and both of them were happy with me.  Dr. Alexander told mom I don't have to go back unless I get to feeling bad again, mom will keep an eye on me."

"Mommy and I want to say thank you for everyone who purred & prayed for me!  Mommy is a little worried because my visit to the vet costed her 220 green papers but she said I was worth it."

Mean Ole' Mommy!!

 "Mean ole' mommy won't let anyone OUT!!"

 "This makes emo kitty even more emo.

I prefer the outdoor kitty litter."

 "At least mom is giving me greenies when

she viciously forces me to take my meds!"

"LOTS of greenies!!"

"Well, if she feeds us enough greenies we guess we'll keep her."

Me-om! I wanna...

 "New toy!!  New toy!!  Mine!!  Mine!!"

 "Nu-uh... I got it!!"

 "I've gotten soooo big I'm almost as big as Star now!

So mom should buy me a catio for my bedroom window! 

Right?  Hey!  Is that a hair band?"

"Don't press your luck.  Catios take green papers."

 "So Audrey wants mom to get her a catio for the

master bedroom and a window seat for the kitchen."

"HA!  Even if mom had the green papers it wouldn't matter.

I'm big enough to sit on boffum."

"Don't tell Audrey but she wants a catio for the master bedroom

& a window seat for the kitchen.  If you buy stuff from our store we gets 10% and mom said we can put it toward that." - Star

Introducing New Cats to Hordes...

 "Someone asked earlier how to introduce new kitties to an established cat horde.  So I thought I would pass along my

mom's method to everycat in case anyone else is planning to

adopt another furfriend (and all of you should if you can!!)."

One of the best ways I've found to introduce cats is to put a fragrance, one that I use myself, on each cat's head or between

their shoulder blades.  This makes them all smell the same.  Cats identify prides by scent.  Another thing that I do is to sleep with a couple of towels or wear two shirts so they get my scent on them

and then have the cats sleep on them as well (or rub them all over their faces where the scent glands are).  Then I switch up which

cat(s) has which towel/clothing.  This gets them used to the

scent.  Once they've done this, I begin having them in the same

room with me.  Whenever they get near each other without

hissing or striking out I praise, pet & give treats.  Once they stop growling I do the same.  If they misbehave, I pick up the offending cat and toss them gently away and then immediately praise, pet & treat the cat who was hissed, struck or growled at.  Rinse & repeat!!  It can take some time but I have rarely had failures with this method.

 

Mom's New Toy... or is it??

 "Hey!!  Where are mom & dad going?!"

 "Shopping.  Feeders have sales after Christmas,

just like we are in our store."

 "Waitaminute.  This is not what I asked for!

It's a toy cat, not a cat toy!" - Thomas

"Harrumph!  I don't think they got it for you!" - Star

 "It might be for me!  It looks like me when I was a kitten!"

"What do you mean it's for mommy??"

Pleh! Pleh! No, really, we need your help!!

 "Okay, here's the deal.  Mom has to take out 13 or 14 items out of the store to be able to put in the rest of the Winter Holiday stuff.  (14 if she puts in the Breast Cancer Awareness candle graphic)."

"Now once Halloween is over, mom can take that down and put up the New Year's Eve graphics (there are only two but there will be invitations, shirts, & stuff.  So is there anything that you wouldn't mind seeing go down for awhile??  Mom's got some ideas

but if there's something you were planning to pick up for a gift, meow neow!!"

Nobody's Home But Mom

 "We promised to show off the cabinet doors in the kitchen.

They used to be wood colored."

 "NoooOOOooo!!  Don't go!!"

Sorry, going to see my grandparents & granddad is

gonna show me Civil War sites.  See my nifty IJDM shirt?

Mom gave it to me for Christmas!!

"I'm still not sure if I like this curtain material or not."

"Jen's visiting a friend."

"I helped mom put up a couple more Breast Cancer Awareness graphics.

Now we just have three more to put up!"

Spoons? Mom Has No Spoons But I'm Getting Furs!!

"These are the two Calendar types mom did.  One has pictures of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Kitty Horde & one has mom's drawings based on us."

 

"See!  See!!  We have icky food and the fountain pump isn't working so we have to drink from a regular bowl now and it's never ever ever ever full!!  No, really!!"

"The only Good Thing&tm; is that my furs are growing back!!  Harrumph!!  Which is good because I've had to sleep with mom every night, not that she's getting to sleep before two or later because the season is turning cold.  ::sigh::"

Bleh. Bleh. Bleh. Oh and make that bleh as well.

"Uhmmmm, mom doesn't feel good and we're keeping her out of the kitchen 'cus her tummy's upset.  In fact, we won't even go in her bedroom because WE don't want our tummies to be upset.  But mommy still managed to get up the two special Hanukkah cards up.

She said for us to ask anyone who sees

a mistake to let her know about it."

"Mom's got more stuff to put up in Winter Holidays but she also wants to get up stuff in Breast Cancer Awareness.  So she'll probably do the two special Kwanzaa cards & a couple of Santa cards, then some more BCA cards before finishing the Winter Holiday stuff.

Mom needs to make her own appointment.

She got her reminder card in the mail!"

Who We Sat on... uh... ummm... What We Did This Weekend...

"First we did this..."

 

"No, really.  All weekend long!!  Corwyn was at his dad's house.  Dale was at Music in the Mountain.  Mom & Jennifer were stuck in bed all weekend, mainly with mom massaging Jen's sore legs.  We got hardly any attention at all!!!  ummmm Not even at the neighbors! 

[mom, don't believe a word they say!]" 

"Star is looking much more better"

"Meanwhile the rest of us read.  Reading is good."

"We'll see you later!!  We're all exhausted!!"

There's a Star on the Shed!!

This morning we were all running late.  Why??  Because Jennifer decided to sleep downstairs with me on Dale's side of the bed.  When the alarm went off she turned on the light and hit a button.  Now, silly me, I assumed she had hit the 'snooze' button.  Au contraire!  She had turned it off!!  Thus we woke up at 0715!!  Now, you must understand that the kids need to be at the bus stop by 0725.  Neither of them are Larks.  Both of them are Owls.  So there was nothing for it but that I take them to school.  Not something I really wanted to do given how I've been feeling but being tardy would have been worse.  We did stop at the local Krogers (just around the corner and almost on the way) so that Jennifer could pick up a lunch since we were out of ham.  Got to school at Whew!!

I stopped back by Krogers on the way home to get some gas since my van was on... fumes.  I pulled into the driveway and as I got out of the van, the neighbor helpfully pointed out, "Star's on top of the shed.  I don't think he can get down.  ::head:laptop::  Poor pitiful Star!!  I pulled over a chair to see if I could reach him, as our ladder is still at my mom's house in Nashvegas.  Almost!!  But he refused to come over the slope within reach of my hands.  Nothing else was taller that I could step on safely.  My neighbor queried about my success and I said that I needed a ladder.  She said that she might have one in her garage, put her dog in the house, and proceeded to look.  Just before she got to the garage, Star made a Mighty Leap!!  I called out, "Never mind!  He's down now!"  I guess it just took the threat, either that or he was worried about me climbing the ladder!!  Mister Kitten and Star came docilely inside whilst Thomas decided at the last minute he didn't really want to go in the back door.  ::rolls eyes::  At the moment there are no members of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Kitten Horde to be seen!  Guess no one wants morning treats!

 "Well?  What did you expect mom??  I am a Ninja after all!!"

Actually, I can, but....

Shhhhhhhhh! We's Trying to Get Mom to Sleep

"Dad has gone to Music in the Mountains in AK.  Mom would have gone but we sat on her.  I mean really.  She's not only had a bad  week but who on earth would feed us and water us and and and..."

He's right.  I don't even know what day it is.  Which would explain why I missed the massage class... not that I was in any shape to stay anyway.  Flop Cat aka Mister Kitten sat on me for a loooooooong time.  I need sleep.  And kittens who will both do homework on time and turn it in.  ::sigh::

"I can keep an eye on 'em mom!!"

"I'll give them the lecture mom!"

"And I'll help lay on you and make sure you don't get up!!"

"Us??  Ummmm... uhhhh... noooo... not us!!"

Yesterday Was Busy!!

First I went to the pain clinic.  A week early.  ::head:laptop::  Which actually didn't turn out too bad because I was able to ask them about getting an Allegra prescription for the itching I've had since switching from Lyrica to Keppra.  They didn't do that but I called my pcp and by luck they had a 1300 appointment (the first appointment that isn't until next week was at 1145) so I hung out in the parking lot talking with my mom.  I didn't see my pcp but a doctor who is helping out and will fill in for her when she takes a vacation next month.  We talked about a concern so I got an ekg & chest x-ray, all good!  I just heard from the office & have an neuro appointment at Vandy early in the morning which works well since I have a near lunchtime appointment with my pdoc.  Whoot!  I thought my daughter had a make-up test that afternoon so I went straight to the school, calling just as the bell rang, hoping to catch my son before he got on the bus (both kids hate & loathe the bus but I don't have the energy to pick them up everyday).  It turned out that she didn't have a test so we all went to get flu shots and then home again, home again, jiggity jig!!

"I am soooo glad that mom finally let me out!!  My bumps have gotten smaller and are going away.  I told her I just needed to get outside!!  I'm back to sleeping on the bed at dad's feet but I'm not really getting up close to mom, even for treats!  I don't think she's going to pill me again but I'm going to take any chances for awhile."

"Well, not only do we have Pernicious Fleas, but I'm having to take Hairball Remedy!!  Okay, okay, it actually doesn't taste bad at all.  And I just hate hairballs!!!" 

"My Feeder and I enjoyed watching the NCIS premiere last night!!

I'm also glad he got his flu shot.  Do you think it will make the Pernicious Fleas go away??"

Thomas says, "This is one of my bestest friends who was the second or third members of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Kitty Horde.  His name was Nicodemus the Evile Anti-Koala, aka Thief Cat.  Whenever mom & our ex-dad moved they would find stashes of the things Nicky would take and hide.  He also really liked crackers (but especially saltines).  If mom or our ex-dad left them on the table, Nicky would hunt them.  He'd sneak up (we are Ninjas after all!) and then grab a cracker, swoosh!  Then he'd got to a corner and nibble on the cracker just like a squirrel!!  Nibbling round and round until it was allllllll gone.  Mom says he had more Burmese blood in him than Siamese.  Nicky crossed the bridge in our last house purring on her chest.  We all came up to say good-bye and gave him purrs, head butts, & grooming and made sure the house was quiet for him."

"There are lots of poses of this but I  like this one.

It makes me think of teenage kittens."

PS - Please keep sending purrs & prayers for Bruce my ex's cat.  Also, he has three interviews this week.  We are all crossing our paws!!

The On-going Debate

Star's lump has gotten much much smaller so the consensus is that we wait a bit given the money situation.  I let him go outside today because a) he's finished his antibiotics (actually ate it out of Jen's hand last night, left one treat to have after it) and b) he's been jonesing so bad!  He's starting to sleep on the bed again at night but won't come up to me or eat treats out of my hand.  He has let me pet and love on him though.

"Halp!  Mom's been keeping me prisoner!!

And my fur hasn't grown back in yet!"

I came up with this one based on the rules for my own kittens!  ::grin::

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