Passions

I have very few "Peeves" these days, and I attribute that to yoga nidra.  I am passionate about life.  I love my avocation.  This morning I got to experience Dori, coming to me and letting me pick her up and hold her in my lap.  She purred and purred.  She is not as loud as Tabeto or Sweety yet but she has come so far in her domestication that it is awesome.
I am taking a holiday from taking any of the kitties in to be on display for adoption today at Petco.  A holiday means I will have more time for them and for my own rec pursuits.,  The symphony is on the agenda today. 

At the cat house, I will get a new photo of Sweety  Then I can write a blurb on her and post her before and now photos. 

Peeves

Solicitation calls. "Unavailable"  or various places in CA without messages and availability of an automated way to shut them down.  They always come at meal times, or while I am cooking.

Wonderful Winnie the Pooh

 

More fabulous shots of Winnie 

 

The above picture is Winnie dozing on the morning I was sent to Petco to adopt her.

 This is Winnie playing reclining  nude  a la Botticelli?

 This is how Winnie loiters around while waiting for the laser light to emerge from the drawer.  Standing on the netbook usually gets my attention.

This is Winnie meticulously grooming.

Winnie the Pooh aka Winni

Winnie the Pooh is my very own adoptee from Animal Friends Connection.  Winnie came to me for observation and treatment of her second bout of diarrhea.  She also had bouts of flatulence that could clear the room!  She is well now and seldom has gas attacks either.  She consoled me following  the death of my 15 year old, Scruffy, and I knew she was taking me on, when she wrote to the staff at AFCHS giving her consent to adoption and sent me to Petco one Saturday to sign adoption documents while she dozed at home.  She was born in May 2012, came to me from the sanctuary in November, and was adopted in January 2013.  She has thrived!  She was never "tiny  or frail" even during her terrible episode of diarrhea.  At adoption she weighed in at 10.9 pounds and now weighs 12.2 pounds!  She loves to play laser light, and walks back and forth in front of me on my desk until I open the desk drawer.  She knows that is where the red spot lives and she immediately jumps to the floor to begin the chase and pounce game. She tolerates other fosters, (especially likes the black kittens), and tries to get Dinah,  the senior queen in the house, and Mika, the dog, to play when there are no kittens available. She loves to curl up on my body in the evening and it does take the whole body to hold her large body.  She really is not fat: she is just a very large, big boned  girl!

This is Winnie with one of her favorite foster kitties, Winchester, who has found his forever home. Winchester owes his purrfect socialization to Winnie the Pooh!

Work site

Nice photo of the display cages at Petco, where I work each Tuesday and Thursday morning. I get to meet the coolest cats here!

Passions day

Wednesday is my "free day".  I like to plan a walk with Mika, yoga and then whatever strikes my fancy.  Today I have a nagging "got-ta".  I promised Marian I would write a brief "Happy Tail" about Winnie (the Poo), the foster that I adopted.  I need a picture of her and I together.  Easier said than done!  She is a busy girl, especially when I am involved with the computer, at my desk or if I handle the camera.  Right now she is bird watching beside me while I type. I am hoping Ron or Ashley F can capture us together on a good hair day, for me.  She seldom has bad hair days. Here is a good picture of her by herself.

Notice that she is at the CATO site with me.  She is a libertarian cat, although she doesn't want her food subsidy cut off!  She believes in purrsonal liberty and small government.  When I adopted her she weighed about 10.9 pounds.  I have not weighed her recently but I know she has not shrunk. She is my first tabby.  I have had a tuxedo, a Siamese, a Siamese mix a black long hair, a muted calico, a black short hair (Dinah), still with me and they all have had very distinct personalities.  Now that I am fostering, I am beginning to note the common behavioral characteristics within these breeds and mixes as well as the variances in temperament and behavior between breeds. It is fun to be a modified animal ecologist.  I say modified beause real ecologists don't get to intervene.  I get to intervene. I get  to detect and remedy health problems, and do some behavior shaping, which of course takes me back to my graduate school roots.   

More tales from the Cat House

When 5 of the current menagerie went to Petsmart for two  weeks on the adoption circuit, I took the opportunity to have the floor in the cat room painted,  The room had previously been carpeted but the indoor outdoor carpet was removed about 3 years ago and since the room was unused I had done nothing with the floor.  Now it is a beautiful barn red and has two very nice area rugs for warmth and ambiance.  Every cat house should have ambiance. 

This photo shows Joy on top of Hope on one of the area rugs.
While the paint was drying, Dori,and the 3 little kittens lived in the guest house bathroom, pretty cramped quarters comparatively speaking.  They survived it though and I think it brought Dori and I closer together figuratively and literally.