Another Peeve

People that view pets as disposable toys or possessions.  Pets are like children.  they are a commitment. Unlike children, however, once domesticated and cared for, they can not just be turned loose when they grow up. But people do just that.  They turn them loose or abandon them when they become inconvenient.  That's why I enjoy my work  with AFCHS, because they screen adopters and also take back  the critter if the person finds it impossible to keep it.  If some one is too ill to properly care for a pet, returning or relinquishing to a sanctuary is of course the thing to do.  My peeve is with those who do not take ownership as a lifelong commitment, and abandon or release a  critter who  has not learned to hunt or care for itself,  and therefore will be at a disadvantage on return to the wild. That's two  peeves in one day!  No  more for a while, Please!

Back at the Cat House

Dori and Hope, the only two remaining fosters, came home from Petco yesterday.  They have settled in, but Hope misses playmates.  Dori isn't much of a playmate.  She has turned into quite a young lady.  She put on a couple pounds lying around at Petco, and enjoys lap time now, when I visit. 
Hope is now a gangly youngster, also having gained in size while away for the two  weeks.  She has the longest tail  I have ever seen on a kitten her size and it will take some more growth before she totally grows into  it. She used to enjoy chasing it and would entertain herself doing that rather than playing with toys.  Now she pounces at Dori, who just ignores her antics.
While there were adoptions at Petsmart this time there were also six or so returns of previous adoptees.  I have agreed  to  take two  of them, Marian's choice. This next Friday she may bring one.  I  will get some pictures of the girls for posting tomorrow.  I have the picture of Winnie and I for our happy tails story but have yet to download it. 

Peeve

Trying to  buy the perfect Christmas gift  for someone.  Thought I had it and  then the  recipient  calls to say  that he just bought that item for himself.  It is my karma for all those surprise parties that people tried  to give me that I sussed out. I hate returning stuff, but it must be done. 

Happy adoptees

Here are the 4 lucky kitties that were adopted yesterday.

 Faith

 

 Joy

 

Tabeto and Sweetie

 



I am  always thrilled  for the kitties.  I love AFCHS because   if anyone changes their minds, at any time later, they can return the cats to us.  I have not had any returns, but I have fond memories of all the 25 fosters I have raised, many from the bottle baby stage.   If they were  to be returned they could come back to live with me.  Winnie particularly took to Wendy and Winchester this year.  She is into black  cats.  They were rough necks and despite her being twice to 3 times their size, wrestled her to  uncle a couple of times. 

 

Here are pictures of her with her favorites.

 

Winnie and Winchester

 

Winnie and Wendy 

Passion: Purrfect, Purmanent homes!

Four of my foster kitties were adopted yesterday.   Fortunately, I got shots of them at Petsmart while I was up there cleaning Friday morning.  Little Miss Sweetie, my Velcro girl was adopted with Tabeto, her lap buddy and cell mate at the pet store!  Faith and Joy, who were housed together also were adopted together.  So, I have only Dori and Hope remaining.  They are currently at Petco  but may go  to Petsmart this week.  There seem to be more adoptions happening at Petsmart  right now than at Petco.
Mika is thrilled because she will get more walks  and Winnie is thrilled because she will get more lovin'. 
I have listed a bunch of sewing and knitting projects to  my "To Do" list, and  want  to resume some shedding.  I have tons of books and clothes that need to  go and I am like stuck!  Inertia !   Action constipation ! 
I have also  neglected yoga  lately.  With more free  time and not having to manage crating and transporting the kids, I should be able to resume my one to two  day asana practice and one to three days of Mika walking.  
I have not neglected reading, or blogging.  I have read  both of Ken Follett's works in the Fall of Giants trilogy and am  now reading Elizabeth George's  latest novel in the Inspector Lindley  series.  I have read all of her works and so have to  eagerly await new releases. On the serious side I  read  The Amature and Thomas Sowell's  auto  biographical reminiscences of the important events affecting his current philosophical  and economic views that he writes about.  I always eagerly await his columns from Townhall.
I spent a lot of time organizing the photos that I have downloaded from my camera to my computer an have more work to do there.  I want to post the pictures of the adopted kids in a brief subsequent post about the kids.  This update is for those of you who  want to know what I have been up to. 

Le Roi II

Le Roi, who was previously dubbed Mouth because of his loud and persistent MEOWing especially during transport, was my fault.  Going into Petco one morning to clean,  a lady in a red velvet dress was exiting and Mouth was "mouthing" in her arms.  I stopped to ask her "que Passa?"She said she had rescued him from some bushes and needed to go to work  but wanted to  be sure he was safe.  I  saw Laura,Petco manager, who had to approve dumps, and called her out to view Mouth.  She alerted me that the kitten was bathed, groomed, had no fleas and she did take him. The lady in  red velvet was so relieved.  I think the real story was she got the kitten,  it yowled all day while she worked and so  someone said it had to go and there she was at Petco where people are not supposed to  dump or abandon animals but do! 
Since AFCHS was on kitten overload this spring, I agreed to take him once tested, since I felt guilty for intervening, and bringing in yet another!! He never even meowed softly at home.  He was all lover, both with  me and all the other many fosters at my house. He nurtured Sweetie  through her illness, groomed and cradled the other youngsters  and loved it when Tabeto came in because he had another boy to  play and wrestle with. Both would crowd into my lap and purr loadly on my visits to the "Cat House". 
I promised  Mouth that he would find a "purrfect" home and that his new person would give him a much more fitting name. Voila! Le Roi II!  Couldn't be better.  He went to live with another AFCHS volunteer in a house that has both other cats and two loving humans.  He was adopted with the beautiful Venus, fostered by another of the volunteers. Her picture appears in an earlier post.

Does Le Roi II look happy or what?

   Long live the king!

I  got pictures today of  Le Roi II at his new home . Here are just a few.  

Here he is with his new friends  

 Here he is with  Love goddess,Venus, who was adopted at the same time

 And here is Le Roi II, formerly Mouth,  dozing happily at his new home.

 

  I am told that he and Venus have brought a calming influence to the scene, as kings and Godesses will do, and I am delighted for him.  He so deserves calm, peaceful and loving, (which by the way is my mantra or intention for my yoga nidra, and my gift to him.)

 

Thank you  RR.  Wonderful pictures. 

Passion:A little break for "the staff".

All six of the kids went to Petco adoptions yesterday and two will be staying for a couple weeks, Dory and Hope.  I am worried about Dory because she is very comfortable   with me and the 5 other cats, but is not other people comfortable yet. She crawled under the sham when Ron entered the room yesterday.  It made it easy for me to   just lift the whole sham bundle and open up the back  to  allow her escape right into  the carrier.  I  think Ron was sorry he offered to help me.  Those carriers when filled with cat are very heavy!  I do count it as arm strengthening exercises
when I carry them.
The four kids that came home, go up to Petsmart on  Tuesday or Wednesday. 
The three lap cats are at home: Faith, Sweetie and Tabeto. Joy is somewhat of a loner and squirms out of your arms when she is held, but she purrs when petted and rubbed when she is in her favorite spot, on top of the kitty playpen.
I finally got word on Mouth's new forever name.  He is now called Le Roi.  He reportedly walked into his new home, with his new partner,  Rusty Girl also renamed, Venus,  and immediately was comfortable, He also introduced a calm into the household that had been missing since his owner's  elderly cat had passed .   I knew he would be a wonderful quiet addition to   someone's household.   No more "mouth". Well there may be come grumbling if he has to  go to the vet. Many  cats mouth off about car rides.  Up until now his car rides were all scary:  "means a loss" experiences for him.
Today  will be a Mika day.  She will get her walk when it warms up just a bit more, and I may groom her again  too.

Sweetie

Sweetie is growing up!  She needs her own private person.  She is a beautiful long hair black with silver undercoat who loves to be in your lap purring loudly and occasionally looking into your eyes and rubbing chins with you.  She had a rough start...Blowing around in a box in the Petco parking lot.  Now she is everything her name implies!  Here are three photos.  The first is Sweetie as a kitten and the next 2 .. Sweetie now.

 

Sweetie then

 

 

Sweetie now...
And with her crinkle toy which she loves. 

 



 

 

Passion: Sunset with clouds

The sunset tonight is the colors of my high school senior prom dress,  Pink clouds against a sky of blue fading to grey.. the dress was grey lace over pink toile. 
All six of my foster kitties went to Petco for adoptions today and I cleaned their room while they were gone. 2 and 1/2 hours worth of cleaning to be exact.  Lugging 4 carrying crates in and out of home and Petco and I am beat.  They all showed well but did not get adopted.  Perhaps they will all go to Petsmart in a week or two.  Then I can deep clean the room again!
Dori is well tamed and getting more loving every day.  She is also much more laid back at Petco than her sister Daisy who always looks terrified when they put her in the cage.  Of course Dori has all her buddies and today when I went to pick them up, the three little kitties were all asleep up against her.  Sweety and Tabeto had their own private cages side by side and were happy to be close.
I got progress updates on many of my adoptees.  Mouth is doing well and thank heavens, his new owner, Russell, renamed him.  Marian will e-mail his new name which she could not remember. 
Sassy is also OK except for what sounds like IBS, exacerbated by lots of different kinds of food.  She is spoiled and well loved!
It will be early to bed and early to rise for me tonight.  It is fall back Sunday tomorrow so I'll have an extra hour.  It takes my body and brain clock several days to adjust and that is not aided by the cat clocks at my house which to not observe the change overs. Winnie will be bouncing off the door at 4:30 to 5:00 a.m.