Dr Suess Day

We will never admit to being overly original.....

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 One cat

(Junior)

Two cat

(Miller and Stella)

Small cat, Fat cat

(Cheeto and Ivy)

bwaaahahahahaha........

Thankful Thursday - an adoption update

Most of you will remember that when Mom attended Blog Paws last year, she took Triscuit with her.

maybe 4 weeks old

"yep - I could get used to this hotel thing..."

"I think I hear some adoring fans"

Triscuit was a hit and while we aren't on Twitter, we understand she was all over it.

Well, the snack kittens turned a year old this month. Normally after the initial follow up, mom will leave contact up to the new families. Some keep mom updated and others we don't hear from. But... mom couldn't help herself and emailed Marissa and asked how things are going.

Triscuit is now Nala and has settled in wonderfully. She loves her big kitty sister and her mom and dad.

We don't think that sweet face has changed a bit.

Marissa - thanks for the pictures and the update and for adopting our girl.  :)

a good start

Well, Milano went home with her new family on Tuesday. We aren't sure how she is going to do in a home with 4 kind of wild kids, but mom says the dad of the family seems to have a clue and hopefully Milano will have all the time she needs to adjust.

Chex is up at Petco along with Licorice. Mom says that she gets told that people are in and keep looking at them, but mom says she refuses to get excited until she gets a good application.


And in true tradition, mom stopped at the adoption center for the rescue to drop off paperwork and came home with a kitten....

Cute little booger isn't he??  Miss Mona from the rescue had him at her house but he was by himself so mom offered to bring him here. He needs to be socialized a little and get big enough to be neutered. So far he is living in the playpen. He seems to want to come out to play but mom wants to give him some time to check everything out around here. Since he came in and Saffron is still here, mom decided to call him Cumin.

Another kitten has fallen to the charms of Uncle Tim.

We bet by this weekend he will be out and running around with everyone. Amelia has checked him out and doesn't seem to notice. Saffron came up and sniffed him and then hissed at him. Mom makes sure he has toys in there and she is getting him out lots to hold him and let us all check him out.

A year in review (part 2)

July:
With Killian getting adopted and the rest of the beer kittens up at Petco, mom felt the need to bring home more kittens: Sorcha, Sebastian, Sierra and Screech

And then Licorice arrived....that has been an adventure (and she is STILL waiting for her forever home).

Our wordless Wednesday posts were dedicated to one of us per week. Most of July was taken up trying to determine what was up with Licorice, getting her healthy and less itchy.

August:
Sierra and Sebastian got adopted. And of course mom brought home more kittens - Hobbes and Mandy.

We celebrated our 4th blogoversary.

Busch and Miller were adopted together. We helped a former adopter rescue a kitten named Mitts. And Jake and Elwood came to the house as fosters.

September:
Stella was adopted!!!  And the pilot kittens - Goose, Maverick and Amelia (the Dust Bunny) joined us as fosters.

Mitts got adopted!!

Licorice finally was spayed, got her teeth cleaned and went up to Petco.

Spud and Ivy turned 5 years old and Maestro turned 19 years old!!

Elwood got to meow like a space-pirate.  MOL

And mom had an adventure with Junior that she could have done without.

October:
Tim and Tom turned 10 years old!

And we celebrated National Feral Cat Day. Especially our girl Allie.

Our cousin Max crossed the Rainbow Bridge. And Jake and Elwood got adopted.

And Basil and Saffron joined us as fosters.

November:
Oliver went to Petco, came here (in October), gave everyone the snot and then got adopted.

Rosie came to join Basil, Saffron and Amelia.

And Chex and Milano were returned due to medical issues with their family.

December:
Amelia finally got big enough and without snot to be spayed. Basil went with and was neutered.

Mom broke out some Christmas stuff....and made some of us wear it.

Basil got adopted. Maverick got adopted. Milano moved up to Petco. It was a wild weekend. :)

We got a special Catmas present from mom.

We participated in the Secret Paws gift exchange.

Rosie got adopted.

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It has been quite a year. The blogging community has lost several members - you can see them here at the blog Our Rainbow Friends.  We have taken in fosters, and some were not strong enough to survive, but we know that part of fostering isn't always the good things but sometimes being there to help those that need us - even if it is help crossing the Bridge.

We have taken in 39 fosters this year. We have had some great adoptions. Mom has helped transport 20 dogs.

We wish you a wonderful, healthy and happy 2014!!  We can't wait to see what comes.

A year in review......

January:
We started the year off telling you about the adoption of Bourbon and Moonshine. Amazing that it has been a year already.

 We had a few short timers come and go into foster, including Nurdle:

 Tim lost all his teefs but the front ones.

And then the arrival of Mist and the pepper boys:

February:
Mom bought the playpen and put it to use with the pepper boys at Petco.

We posted about the sweet kittens that went up for adoption at Petco for Valentines.

Mist and the pepper boys got adopted!!!

March:
The Brat Cat (aka Emma...the longest running foster ever) was finally spayed and went to Petco...and had an accident and managed to get adopted!!

And then we got a new family - Cookie and the snack kittens: 

 

April:
Most of April was spent getting the snack kittens bigger. They cracked us up most of the time.

no idea what Cheeto is laughing about

They went on their first adventure to an adoption event.  And then we picked up Frito.

Mom got new (more) ink.

And some of the snack kittens got adopted!!

May:
We took in another new family - Rapunzel and her kittens from the shelter. This ended up being a fiasco and the end of mom fostering for the shelter any more.

Mom went to Blog Paws in Virginia - and took Triscuit with her. They met lots of blogging friends.

The rest of the snack kittens were spayed/neutered and adopted. And so was their mom Cookie.

We had our first return from doing adoptions at the Petco store. Opal was returned...fortunately she was adopted pretty quickly as well.

And the beer kittens came to us as fosters from the rescue:

June:
Mom continued to have issues with the space kittens.

And the beer kittens got their freedom.

Triscuit got adopted!!! Despite the bowl on her head....MOL

And we got updates on Whiskey/Tucker and Bourbon and Moonshine/Gray Goose and they celebrated their first birthdays!!!!

And then mom hit the end of her patience with the shelter about the space kittens.


Tune in tomorrow for the second half of the year (we split it in half or this post would have gone on forever).

an interesting observation

When mom was going back through blog pictures looking for pictures of Maestro for his gotcha day, she noticed a pattern. We have had a certain number of gray and white kittens (maybe she just noticed cause she was looking for that since Maestro is gray and white). So today we are flashing back:

Maestro

the original gray boy - though not a foster

Carolina and her brother Nevada

(after seeing some pictures, this may have been the funniest group we fostered)

Silver says - white spots are overrated  MOL

Moonshine
*yes, he has stripes, so what?

Mist - momma cat to the pepper boys


Milano (when she was really tiny)

Triscuit

the snack kittens

Orbit

Gryff

*no, he isn't ours, he lives at our rescue vet's office

Rosemary (aka Rosie)

 

OK, mom thought there were more than that. :)

But we bet you appreciate the cute no matter what.