The Story of the Lilac Bush...

 "mmmmm, this smells goooood."

 "Yesssss, it's mine!  All mine!"

 "But I'd better mark it to make sure everycat knows it."

  "See mom??  It made the lilac bush bloom even better!!"

"What?  Me??  Star!!  How could you tattle on me to mom!!"

"Be nice to me!!  Mom took me to the vet today because

my eye was hurting!  He gave me drops for my eyes, mom

had to pay them nearly $75.00 and they didn't even give me greenies!!  Good thing mom gave me some when we got

home.  She said I'll get more after each time I get meds."

StarWalker BitCat the ComputerKitty Will See the Vet on Monday

"No, really, I'm fine mom.  I don't really need to see the vet."

I had thought I'd noticed a small bump on Star's spine but it wasn't always there and he never reacted to touching it so I wasn't that worried.  Until last night.  My husband and I both noticed not only a large bump (yes, large 2" x 2") on his spine about 2" down from his shoulders.  Then he moved while we were petting him (still no reaction to be petted or poked) and we saw another small bump.  I called our vet (they are open on Saturday until 1... go Brogli!!)  They are the only vet I use when I've lived in Smurfreesboro.  Part of this has to do with the fact that besides that fact that they rock, but when a friend of mine called her vet when her Queen was in trouble and delivering he told her the cat had just gotten into some beer.  Riiiiiight.  I told her to call my vet.  He told her to met him at the office and proceeded to stay up all night trying to save momma & the litter.  Mom had kidney failure but the kittens made it.  He was so apologetic.

"Hey!!  I thought you were talking about me?!"

::sigh::  The vet was booked city today.  Not unusual because even though they stay open until 7 there are still a lot of people who work during the week and need Saturday  appointments.  OTH I know that he starts feeling punk or otherwise gets worse before his appointment and someone will help.  The hard part is that the kids' dad still hasn't been able to find a job yet.  ::sigh::  I'm praying that a) he isn't too sick b) it won't take too many green papers (we're already on plastic for the month) and c) my ex will find a job soon.

Please send purrs and prayers for StarWalker BitCat the ComputerKitty and if you happen to have a green paper or two to spare, we have a PayPal button on the left.  Thank-you SO much!!

"Okay Star and every other kitty needing purrs, this candle is for you!"

New Section, Vet Called, or I's been busy...

I just finished putting in a new section called Cat Fancy in the shop.  It's got designs for those of us who are Cat Mommies & Daddies, who feed kitties, & those who breed sweetie-babies.  There are nine designs in the section and I hope someone would like to give some of them a home!  I particularly like how this one looks...

Brogli, Lane, Weaver, Alexander Animal Hospital called today to remind me that it's time for kitty vaccines (eeep!!!!  four times... eeeeep!!).  This is the vet for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Kitty Horde.  I used this vet starting in the early '90s.  They kick butt and take names.  No, really.  I'll tell you why.  Back in the early '90s I knew someone who had a slew of cats, two of whom were unspayed females.  Unfortunately she also had unneutered males in the house.  ::sigh::  She couldn't afford to have them broken (hey!  everything was working right before surgery, right?) according to her, unlike us who had ours done one at a time every time we could scrape up the money (and didn't get another one until all of the others were broken).

Anyway... one of her Queens had a litter of about two weeks and the other had just delivered.  The second one, who was her favorite, started staggering around the house like a drunkard after office hours.  She called her vet in a panic who said, "Oh she probably just got into some beer.  Call me in the morning."  ::head:desk::  While this woman may have been a college student, she did not let her cats get into things they should not!!  She called me up crying.  I immediately told her to call my vet which she did.  The on-call vet listened to what she said, asked some questions, and said, "I'll meet you at the office."  He spent all night trying to save her.  It turned out that the poor baby had kidney failure.  No one knew because all of the symptoms are ones that this particular cat exhibited during pregnancy.  She brought the litter of three kittens home and I helped her get the other Queen to adopt them. 

Anyway, if you live in the area this is the vet office to use.  Of course, part of my predjudice might also be how much they fawn over my babies whenever they've had to go in, the quality of care, how happy the office dogs are, how wonderful all the staff are... oh, is that my outloud type??  ::grin::  At any rate, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Kitty Horde gives them Four Paws UP!  Which multiplied by four...