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  • shepkitty
    shepkitty Member Posts: 878
    edited May 2016

    LOL for realsies!

  • shepkitty
    shepkitty Member Posts: 878
    edited May 2016

    Wren - last week you posted about a new shelter baby that looked like a Somali. Hoping he has gained weight and is doing okay.

    Love looking at all the kitties!. Teka's "creepers", CJ's lil' conehead tux, Ruth's gardening crew, plus wild cats, musical cat, fat cats......image

    FeelingFeline - can you believe I have never seen the Aristocats? FFH is working 12 hour shifts this weekend...might have to rent it :)

    lessharp - The Catgenie has really come down in price! Glad you posted it. I had looked into getting one several years ago when my geriatric heart cat became diabetic. He was peeing allll the time. At 18 lbs he could pee as much as a big man. One visit and the litter box was flooded. I ended up toilet training him using the Litter Kwitter. My dear-heart was 15 but proudly mastered the loo. I've used it with my last 3 kitties. Lots of work to train in the begining. And I've never been able to teach any of them to flush! Next go around I'll get the Catgenie fur sure!

  • lessharp
    lessharp Member Posts: 51
    edited May 2016

    Shep...I thought about potty training...just didn't want to deal with litter on my toilet seat during the training! I am lazy, too! ha!


    Ruth...love the photos of your babies...they look very content ;-) How is it kitties know how to relax so well? lol


    CJ... I have two very fat cats that fit that bottom post to a tee!

  • wren44
    wren44 Member Posts: 7,931
    edited May 2016

    Shepkitty, The Somali went to foster care for TLC. We're now looking for a fospice home for a sweet loving kitty. She's 12, has a heart murmur and early kidney failure. She's not adoptable, but I think she could have 2 good years left. Very loving sweetheart. If no one steps up, I'll take her, but they say she doesn't like living with other cats.

    Someone returned a kitten to the shelter because it had fleas. What?? Before they got paperwork on the cage, another adopter had scooped her up.

  • CJSharma
    CJSharma Member Posts: 305
    edited May 2016

    Wren - people return animals for the craziest reasons! I actually have Gus because the original foster couldn't handle the fleas. I'm happy she couldn't as that silly cat is my heart cat. Glad the kitten found another home. Sweetie.

    Teka - I love tabbies - Cinnamon is gorgeous.


  • feelingfeline
    feelingfeline Member Posts: 5,145
    edited May 2016

    Beautiful pictures everyone. Heart

  • feelingfeline
    feelingfeline Member Posts: 5,145
    edited May 2016

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    Arthur supervising yard work !

  • boobsBgone
    boobsBgone Member Posts: 34
    edited May 2016

    I love this thread. I am starting my journey in June with chemo before surgery - and I run a non-profit cat rescue/adoption organization. i loved seeing the pics of the kitties. This is Jamel (aka Munchie) - we saved him as a baby, helped bottle feed him and now look how big and strong at 5 years old. We decided to adopt him, well I did and just informed my husband he was ours! Heart

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  • leftduetostupidmods
    leftduetostupidmods Member Posts: 346
    edited May 2016

    I tried today to take Conor's first "Maine Coon style" photo but I'm afraid I'll have to ask someone to take a pic of me holding him as it's very hard to hold AND take a photo in the mirror. He's still young (2 1/2 years old) and sometimes they don't reach max size until 4-5 y.o. But here he is, lynx "sideburns" and all. And' he's not fat, he's just fluffy. For realz. And I just love those big paws.

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    And this is a more "normal" photo of him with my (fat) whippet

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  • feelingfeline
    feelingfeline Member Posts: 5,145
    edited May 2016

    HeartThumbsUp

  • feelingfeline
    feelingfeline Member Posts: 5,145
    edited May 2016

    Hi and welcome to the crazy cat gals boobsB. Best wishes with your treatment. X

  • CJSharma
    CJSharma Member Posts: 305
    edited May 2016

    BoobsBgone - I do rescue, too. And my Gus is one who came to me at 4 weeks, and never left (spoiled rotten, but sweet). I love your Munchie! I'm also about 2 months ahead of you on this journey. I have 8 rounds of chemo before surgery and I've just finished round 5. So three more to go. Good luck to you.

    FF - Arthur is very handsome. :)

    Sea - Conor is a fluffy handful! So very sweet. I love the big fluffies. I see he matches your whippet quite well. :)


  • feelingfeline
    feelingfeline Member Posts: 5,145
    edited June 2016

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    spot the cat...

  • CJSharma
    CJSharma Member Posts: 305
    edited June 2016

    Heart Love Arthur!

  • feelingfeline
    feelingfeline Member Posts: 5,145
    edited June 2016

    Sas Scatzi posted a link to this video on the warm fuzzies thread



    Notice the startling similarities to this children's story by Lynley Dodd, which was one of my children's favourites




  • CJSharma
    CJSharma Member Posts: 305
    edited June 2016

    The Clepto kitty is a local celebrity. :) His people put the camera on his so they could prove to their neighbors that they were not stealing. Now people who are missing things, go to their house to look.

  • feelingfeline
    feelingfeline Member Posts: 5,145
    edited June 2016

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  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,693
    edited June 2016

    Ha! Very true!

  • leftduetostupidmods
    leftduetostupidmods Member Posts: 346
    edited June 2016

    My fuzzy ladybug chilling. He always makes this face when I take photos of him as in "you're up to something. I know you are"

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  • feelingfeline
    feelingfeline Member Posts: 5,145
    edited June 2016

    Beautiful

  • tangandchris
    tangandchris Member Posts: 934
    edited June 2016

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    This is Toulouse....the picutres are out of order....but the bottom is when he was a baby and the top is more current. He loves to sit on my lapt top when I'm working. :) He's a munchkin kitty, not sure that is noticable but he has tiny short legs.

  • feelingfeline
    feelingfeline Member Posts: 5,145
    edited June 2016

    mmmm

  • wren44
    wren44 Member Posts: 7,931
    edited June 2016

    There's a campaign here to put orange collars on indoor cats. The originator thinks that lost cats are not found because people think it's just an ordinary outside cat. The orange collar would be a tip that the cat shouldn't be there. He made a lot of money from a internet game about cats and wanted to help cats with some of it. I got Squeakers an orange collar. Had to get a dog collar for it to fit. He seems to like it. I'm going to add a bell.

  • queenmomcat
    queenmomcat Member Posts: 2,020
    edited June 2016

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    Go away. We're napping.

  • wren44
    wren44 Member Posts: 7,931
    edited June 2016

    I posted almost 3 months ago about the shelter getting in 5 tiny cold kittens. We managed to pull 2 of them thru their ordeal. Thought you might like to see their reach for adoption photo. Onyx and Coal. Adopted immediately.

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  • CJSharma
    CJSharma Member Posts: 305
    edited June 2016

    Wren - that is so tough! Cold kittens are so hard to bring back. Way to go! They are simply precious!

    I love Toulouse, too! He reminds me of Zorro, a kitten I fostered. Love the black and whites.

    QMC - sleeping cats - do NOT disturb. I always go in a do belly rubs on Gus. He just gives me the most disgusted look!

  • feelingfeline
    feelingfeline Member Posts: 5,145
    edited June 2016

    Wren what a stunning pair! Beautiful photo.

    Great idea on the orange collars hope it will help a few lost cats to get found.

  • CJSharma
    CJSharma Member Posts: 305
    edited June 2016

    My brats scared the living day lights out of me this morning! They are all inside cats, and I woke up to find that they had managed to push the screen out of a window in the kitchen and they ALL got out. 3 of them are very skittish, so I was so worried I would not get them back. But I went outside and called, and everyone came running, except Fia. She's kind of chunky so I knew she would not be leap fences, but she could probably squeeze through the picket fence I have. I ran all over the house looking for her, then went outside again, and there she was sitting under the patio chair, looking at me like, "Goodness, what a fuss!" I live on a busy street, so this could have been a disaster. Thankfully it did not. Phew. The screen will be fixed STAT - for now the window is closed.

    This is where Gus SHOULD be nightly...


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  • feelingfeline
    feelingfeline Member Posts: 5,145
    edited June 2016

    phew! Glad you got them all safely.

  • wren44
    wren44 Member Posts: 7,931
    edited June 2016

    So happy they were all OK and came back when called. Sometimes inside cats freak and hide when they get outside. Then they're too scared to respond to calling. Good idea to keep the window closed in the meantime.