Monday, April 28, 2014

Duke and Doon (Dune) to Petsmart tomorrow!

Duke and Dune, pictured in my last post are going to Petsmart tomorrow for 2 weeks and hopefully will find a permanent home.  I got to thinking they would be the perfect cats for a person who works long shifts as I did when I was working.  They sleep most of the day coming out about  7 or 8 pm .  Dune heads for his wet food snack and Duke heads for a lap.  They are both very loving and after his snack, Dune comes looking for lap time too.  They will help the stress of a hard day just melt away for the person who is fortunate enough to give them a "purrmanent" home.

Friday, April 25, 2014

Current foster boys and officially adopted foster failures, Winnie and Tinker

Pictured here are Dune and Duke also called Herby and Valentino by their former foster mom.  They  are Dory's aka Tinker Belle's brothers.  the only way to tell them apart for me is that Dune is slim and Duke not so much.  Duke likes lap time in the evening and Dune in the morning.  Good thing, because when they sometimes do pig pile on together, I have to wrap my arms around them to keep them from oozing off!.

Dune

Duke



Duke
Dune
They both like to sleep under the pillow sham on the card table chair like their sister did.

Dory, now Tinker Belle sleeps anywhere she gets a nap attack.. She feels perfectly safe until the doorbell rings and then she heads under the couch.    Here she is with Winnie the Poo.  They are grooming one another on one of their sleeping perches.
Winnie grooms Tinker


Tinker grooms Winnie

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Passion: Marge Adoption

Marge was adopted Saturday!  I was so happy for her.  I never did get a good picture of her with her darling little round face and big round eyes.  Still, the little motion machine captured the heart of a young woman, shortly after we arrived at Petco.  I'm sure they  will be very happy together and I am freed of feeling sorry for her not having her very own cuddle person for when she does nap.
Now it is just Valantino and Herby (Duke and Dune) in the cat house. Poor Valentino hates being transported and messes in his crate even on the short trip from my house to  Petco, I dread this week when I have to take him for a rabies shot preliminary to his going out to Petsmart for 2 weeks, and an adoption hopefully.These 2 very loving boys are Tinkerbell's brothers.  They do not resemble her.  They are both tabby cats, and she is a tuxedo.  However, they are as large as she is:  not small and dainty like their little sister Daisy.

Time flies by when you foster cats.

A month plus has passed and spring has moved in to stay.  Romeo and Honey Bee were just adopted after being a Petco for the past two weeks. Here are photos of those two.  Golden eyed Romeo and his sis Honey Bee.  They went to the same home with a very nice couple who will be able to revel in their loud and comforting purring.


Dory has been renamed Tinkerbell, because she responds to that name.  I am fostering her two brothers Herby and Valentino aka Dune and Duke, so they do not have to commute from Sacramento to Stockton for showing at Petco.
My perpetual  motion machine, Marge,   Homer's sister, was all by herself in the Cat House  when Romeo and Honey Bee went to  Petco, and I worried about that.   She still is in constant motion, but sometimes maintains a single activity for a whole 30 seconds at a time.  She is definitely an ADHD kitty.  I never find her napping when I go over to visit.  She is always up and about.  I remember when I worried about her because she stayed in the carrier until she heard me enter. Silly me. Once she was oriented to the new placement, she never sleeps, it seems. And it turns out the constant motion was not due to loneliness.  She continues to be in constant motion  even when Valentino and Herby are napping! She has the biggest roundest eyes which I have not been able to capture in a photo because of the auto flash on my camera. She is a very pretty girl, and will make someone a wonderful companion. Here are the pics I did get


.Marge during rare moments of quiet
I am also fostering a little black 10 year old kitty named Sweet Pea.  She pretty much stays in the lanai at my house,  because she and Winnie have not hit it off.  She is OK with Tinkerbell now, as long as tinker isn't romping around.  Sweet Pea does not take well to romping around. She has a safe place under the antique desk and she heads there when scared, but otherwise hangs out on the storage cabinet,on the memory foam pillow.  
 Since I started this post, Sweet Pea has even been brave enough to wander into the den.  She still runs away the moment she sees Mika, even if Mika is not on the run.  I got a great shot of her:


Sweet Pea
She resembles Dinah, but has a pointier face.  She is  a light weight, too.  She weighs only 6 pounds, just 1/2 of the weight of Tinkerbell and Winnie the Poo.