Three years later

When you do a blog, it is your baby for a time and then it kind of falls off to the wayward.  I thought I would put in an entry since I noticed my blog has 1900 hits since its inception in 2010.

A few things to update.

Sweet Venus passed away in August of 2010- the 12th to be exact.  Her tumor became too large and we were given no choice but to send her to kitty heaven.  It has been three years and we still have not gotten a new kitty, though we have continued with the foster program.

Since then we have had in our foster care:
Snowball
Twiggy
Baby & Artemis
Salvodore & Julius
Aslan
Spencer & Chico
Cheeto
and currently Zora

All of these kitties have had their stories and I would like to share them all.  I'll start with just some beautiful pictures of Zora, an adoptable cat in Seattle,WA.

Zora on Petfinderclick here to check her out!

Some PIctures

FUN CAT FACT!!!

The American cat population reached nearly 68 million in 1996. American Demographics magazine estimates that's about 200 million kitty yawns per hour and a whopping 425 million catnaps each day!

Sorry bloggites, Ive been neglecting you

Apologies to all who have been wondering and perhaps worrying about me. I am still doing alright, I just let time get away from me. Mom had been busy with her sister in town whom I haven't seen in a while; since we lived in Kentucky. And work is that ever present being sucking away time from blogging. And sun bathing! And she doesn't let me blog unless she's there. Someone should tell her I'm nearly ten which makes me nearly twice as old as her in my human years!

I had a few more appointments at the vet as of late. A couple of weeks ago they did the more extensive examination where they took a urine sample and did a broader blood panel. Everything came back looking good and we are waiting on the blood work from yesterday, but I imagine all is well.

All this is to assess the reaction I may or may not have from the Palladia. The main reaction that I have not had which we were hoping for of course is that it would cause my tumor to shrink. It has not.

It has not and rather has continued to grow just a little bit each week. I have now gotten the urge to scratch at it with my back claws. And now I have made a sizable scab. It bleeds sometimes. Sometimes mom tries to put a band-aid over it but as soon as she comes home, guess who's rubbed that band-aid off... at least half way.

Today mom ordered some soft paws which are little vinyl caps that can be glued on the ends of my nails so that they have blunt edges that can't scratch. They are pink!

We'll let you know how those go over!

FUN CAT FACT!!!

Ailurophilia is the "love of cats." Are you an ailurophiliac? I am!!

Dictionary.com also had this to say about it:

an abnormal fondness for cats.

To that I say....so?

Missed an Appointment!

Due to some car trouble, we missed our last appointment. I can't say I'm disappointed. This visit was supposed to be a big one, them running more tests than normal, yuck!

But it will just be moved to this Friday.

I still get to enjoy the 4th of July and welcome mom's sister who is in town for the next ten days. Mom's says since the weather is nice we will go on more kitty walks like we did back in February when it was last nice in Seattle!

Hope you enjoy these pics from said walking. Or rather me standing and looking around and then attempting to run into the nearest bush. I never could quite fool them enough to let me go in there.

Oh yeah, last time I went into the vet, dad thought I would benefit from kitty morphine. I guess it's nice for the times that I am scratching at my face a lot or get all worked up from having to take my medicine. I look pretty dopey after I take it, but I haven't a care in the world at that point!

FUN CAT FACT!!

Did you know that Venus likes to sleep under the covers? That's right, she makes a weird noise when she wants in and noses at them. If you're sleeping, she'll tap you on the shoulder so you can lift up the blanket for her!