random Fridays

Quick side note: Tuesday night non-Calvin and Winston DID go back to the adoption center. However, it was due to their URI getting worse. Both were in need of stronger meds and probably neubulizing (which we aren't set up for) and mom wasn't certain Winston was eating. The concern is for them but also to keep everyone else around here healthy.....

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Coral and Quartz getting their snooze on

Tommy says "MINE"

Quartz's shaved belleh

We hope you all have a great weekend. Jet is scheduled for her spay on Monday. Once that happens and she has a couple of days to recover, she will be ready to be adopted. The theory is that the 4 kittens here (Coral, Quartz, Ash and Jet) will then go up to the adoption center.
(right...sure they will....darned kittens here those two words and sneeze on me. the mom)

Thankful Thursday....

We hear so much about hate and violence on tv and social media that sometimes we think that we forget that there are people out there doing the right thing - not for the attention, heaven knows not for the money or fame. But because doing the right thing is exactly that - the right thing....

On Sunday mom went up to the adoption center for the rescue to talk to Miss Mona (the head of the rescue) and pick up vaccines for Sunshine and the little geology girls. As mom was getting ready to leave, a lady walked in carrying a big box.

Now...if you have done rescue in any capacity, you learn to dread the big box. Cause 9 times out of 10, it AIN'T got donations in it.

And this box didn't have donations either.... it had a VERY skinny medium hair brown tabby mom and her 7 couple-days old kittens.

Let us say this here right now: this particular rescue is glad to help, but they will be the first to ask you to help US help YOU!

The lady explained that her husband works for the phone company and on Friday they were working when he heard a cat (they have one at home, so he is a cat-guy). He looks around and in a concrete pit is this momma cat...and she starts yelling even louder when she sees him. There is no way out for this girl.... So the man grabbed a ladder, climbed down and rescued the family. He and his wife took the family in and were looking for some assistance. So Miss Mona asked "would you be willing to foster the family with our support until the kittens are weaned and everyone can be spayed/neutered and then we will adopt them out through here."

The lady has a separate room, her current male cat doesn't seem to care that this lady cat is in the house and the plan was put in place....mom and kittens are set up in their new foster home and the rescue will get them adopted once they are big enough.

WIN all around....  (sorry - no pictures, mom didn't think about it)

video Wednesday

Quartz, Coral, Ash and (not) Calvin were having quite the play time with the esss

weekend wrap up

**note from the mom: some of you may have seen this before - blogger gremlins posted it before they were supposed to. ugh...

Well, mom took Quartz, Coral, Ash and Calvin to a local Petco for an adoption event. And we got....

NOTHING.

Quartz and Coral were spayed on Friday and did great. Quartz came home Friday night and was WOUND up!!! So she spent Saturday sleeping - preferably on someone (Ash in this case).

Coral was pretty hung over Friday night:

what are YOU looking at??

Oh, and Saturday night, mom made a discovery: remember how we took in the two older snotty kittens? And Miss Mona was a little confused about who was who. Well.....Calvin the Black was sleeping on mom Saturday night and was upside down. And.....Calvin is now Not-Calvin. Cause Calvin is....a GIRL!!!  Bwahahahaha

The snot seems to be improving, so not-Calvin, Winston and Ash will go up to the adoption center on Tuesday. Paws crossed for quick adoptions.  *note: Ash's eyes continue to run and non-Calvin started sneezing again.....so Winston will go up. sigh...

And now for some orangey goodness:

Sunshine

 Tangerine

Clementine

Sunshine is a great mom. And the kittens are getting a little more active - and no more coordinated. :)  They tend to walk along and then fall over.  Mom is handling them to get them used to her.

Belated Birthday and a Gotcha Day

Mom is so going to get fired!!!

 OMC!!! Mom forgot my BIRTHDAY!!!!

Sorry Princess.... I didn't mean it. How about some extra treats???

Ivy is 6 years old. While she is our only girl, she seems to certainly enjoy being the Princess around here. She came to us as a foster with her mom and sisters. Our mom says she didn't intend to keep Ivy, but apparently our girl had other plans.  MOL

 And today is Tim and Tom's Gotcha Day.....

They were our first fosters...and the first failures. To think mom had a 100% failure rate right out of the box. MOL  After fostering them for 4 months, mom couldn't imagine them not being here. They fit right in like it was meant to be. And besides, how would we raise foster kittens without Uncle Tim to help???

random Fridays

Cattime.com posted 20 cat facts to share with your kids....it was interesting and mom printed it off to send to the kid.
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Saturday is another adoption event. Mom will be taking Ash and the girls. Calvin and Winston are just too danged snotty. And then up to the adoption center.....

Thanks for all the suggestions from yesterday. Mom is gonna have to do some looking around - and then find a handy man. :)
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Coral and Quartz are right now at the clinic being spayed and mom will pick them up after work. Jet was WAY too snotty to have surgery.

need some ideas

Some of us don't get along quite as well as mom would like....  Junior bascially causes a lot of havoc around here. In fact, last Friday he went after Ivy and managed to remove some furs. Which of course results in some serious Ivy screaming. Keep in mind that Junior is semi-feral...so there is no way drugs or collars or anything else is going to work on him since that would require actually CATCHING him. :)   But there has to be some sort of solution to get some peace for Ivy and Spud (Junior's other favorite target - he generally leaves the older three alone).

She got to thinking that maybe it is long past due time to do some catifying around here. She won some shelves from Contempo Cat and Hauspanther and those will be coming soon. And here is the thought:

The wall you see in the top pic is at the top of our stairs (pay no mind to the Ivy tail). Our front door is at the bottom - you walk up 8 steps, turn around at the window and the up 8 steps to the living area of the house. Mom had grandpa put in the half wall at the top of the stairs to replace the fugly iron railing that was in the house when she bought it.

Here's her thought - install a pretty wide (12 inch at least) shelf along the top of the window that stretches from the half wall all the way across. It would still be about 7 feet up in the air, so it could in fact be a little wider even since there wouldn't be any real concerns about getting under it to get upstairs.

Or maybe put the smaller shelves up here.....

But then what about escape? Mom knows Spud would love to be out there - when the entry was being painted there was a huge scaffold put up and Spud would sleep in the far corner. The nice part is that Junior would NO WAY go out there - so Spud would be safe from the orange menace. But there should still be more than one way to get down. She is thinking cut a back corner out of the far side of the shelf (think over by the wall hanging) and then install our new shelves along the wall as a way down. But she isn't sure it would work....or look right. And while Ivy hangs out on the half wall, mom isn't sure she would go out that far, so it doesn't so much help Ivy. 

Plus mom worries about some cat hanging out that far up and maybe falling off - or some unsuspecting foster kitten. So put a "side" up on the long shelf?  But would anyone then go out there??? Mom is hoping for some help before she puts a lot of work and/or money into this (since she would have to hire someone to put the shelves up).

Any ideas?  Suggestions??? Anyone want an orange menace?? (just kidding)

video wednesday

Coral was in the tunnel and Quartz snuck up on her.

Slowest cat fight ever:

Opt to Adopt - Calvin T

Calvin is about 4 months old....neutered, negative FeLV/FIV test, up to date on shots.

He has a mild URI which is why he is here with us, but can stay in foster until healthy but would be ok to go home with a family that can keep him separate from household cats and medicate him until he is healthy.

The rescue was contacted and was helping a woman with cats that were multiplying. She was willing to care for the colony but needed help to control the population. So the rescue stepped up to help with TNR and the woman agreed to care for the group once everyone was returned to her. Calvin was part of that....so he was neutered and eartipped though the woman did say that she was working to get some of the cats to be indoor/outdoor. But better to have the ear tip. However, Calvin caught an upper respiratory infection and stayed at the rescue to get better. And then he ended up here.

He is super sweet and people and cat friendly. Mom calls him Calvin T as in Calvin The Black (a good pirate name).

 Calvin and Quartz

 Calvin and Ash

Calvin and Junior

the newbies - orangies

We interrupt this post for:

BREAKING NEWS

We have a winner in Coral's weight contest. Mom weighed her last night and....

drumroll please.....

Coral weighs 2 pounds 4 ounces

Our winners are Kintaro and TT. Please email us at randomfelines at hotmail dot com

And mom made another decision: we are going to make a donation to Feline Rescue in the name of Glorgirly, Katie and Waffles since they were closest to when Coral hit 2 pounds.

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What is in a name??  Well, around here it is a way to know who everyone is and keep them straight. And as we have said before, we love a good theme, no people names (except for that one group, but they were named after famous actors), and mom doesn't have to have a name related to the group.

Sometimes the names come quick and sometimes it take a little longer. And sometimes you stumble across the name. In this case, the mom cat kept trying to get out the bathroom door. At one point mom said "I don't think so sunshine" and it stuck.

Meet Sunshine

She is probably about 9 months old. She came into the local humane society and gave birth to her kittens there. The family didn't have much a chance and so someone pulled them and we are going to keep them safe.

  

Sunshine had two kittens. One male, one female. The boy is a brighter orange than his sister (though it is tough to tell in these picture). He is also twice her size. MOL  Going with the Sunshine thing, mom named the boy Clementine and the female Tangerine. (aka Clem and Tangie)

They are about 12 days old give or take. Eyes open and a little mobile. Sunshine is being a good mom though she is more interested in mom when she comes in than in the kittens. We suspect once those kittens get old enough to eat on their own, Sunshine will lose interest pretty quickly. She has made it out the bathroom door once and was fine with everyone here - no freaking out or anything.

Random Fridays

Yes, that is a full size kicker from the Celestial Kitties. And yes, that is Coral beating on it.....
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Have you heard about the Catastic Event being held all this week over at the Maaaaa of Pricilla???  And the publicists blog too??  You HAVE to go check it out....there were guest blogs and giveaways and everything hosted by the farm cats!!
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Ash will go up to the adoption center this weekend. We hope his new family finds him and he can go home very soon. Good luck sweet boy...and we hope they have a kitty just like Uncle Tim that will love on you.

moving around

On the 11th, mom came home with three little old lady-cats that she was watching for a friend. They are in "retirement" with the rescue (and have medical issues) and are living with our friend Miss Karen (she watched Jade and the littles when mom was in Utah). And while she was on vacation and her cold air blower was being fixed, the girls were staying with us. Which meant there had to be some rearraging of the kittens. The girls got the bathroom and everyone moved from there.....

Oh, and come to find out it is Winston the ORANGE and Miss Mona can't remember the black kitten's name so we are calling him Calvin. Now, Winston is very very shy and Calvin was very very snotty. Since they were bigger, they went in the playpen since the top zips shut (mom has visions of not being able to find Winston).

Which meant that the little girls - Jet and Quartz were moved to baby jail. Coral and Ash have been out 24/7 for a while now.

Only here's the problem - Jet figured out how to get out of baby jail. And she is freaking out being loose in the house. So.....

Calvin was released from the playpen (and is doing much better...though still snotty). He is very friendly and very playful. When he was neutered he was eartipped as the lady who brought him in has a colony that the rescue is helping TNR. The original plan was to send him back and he was going to be indoor/outdoor. We think the plan now is that he will go back to the adoption center to find a new home.

Winston and Jet are in the playpen 24/7. Quartz (who is so friendly it is kind of pitiful) is out during the day but in the playpen at night since she is still pretty little. The old ladycats went home Monday night so mom needs to clean that up and then decide what is next......

Did you get all that???  MOL

And stay tuned....the bathroom is inhabited again.

not so wordless Wednesday

 what is going on down there?

 Coral and the stringie

 making sure the toys know she is the boss

but apparently she isn't all that interesting

Opt to adopt - Ash

Well, with Captain Dingbat (Ash) getting his stitches out last week, it is about time for him to go up to the adoption center since no one showed any interest this weekend at the adoption event. He is on Petfinder, but being seen in person makes the adoption process happen much faster. Mom is probably going to get him up there this week.

Ash is now 15 weeks old and just sweet as can be. He LOVES to play and loves his sister Coral, the other kittens and the adult cats here as well. He would be great with another cat, a slightly older kitten or even by himself (though we love seeing kittens getting adopted in pairs and there are LOTS at our adoption center that need homes that are about his age).

Ash on Sunday

so tiny.....and eyes still closed

 

shocked I tell you, just shocked

weekend update

Keep watching Coral's weight page - remember that we want her to get to 2 pound 4 ounces (at least) to be spayed and that is the weight that will win. HOWEVER - she cracked the 2 pound make on Saturday when mom weighed her at the Petco store.  snicker.....

Saturday morning was a transport:

Willie is a 10 month old male bloodhound. He was bought from a pet store at 2 months old and then his family didn't want him. A nice lady took him in but with three other big dogs knew she couldn't keep him. She didn't do rescue and not knowing any better, placed an ad on Craigslist...and ran into a couple of scary people. Someone pointed her to Ontario Bloodhound. She continued to foster him and the rescue put him online and did the adoption work. And Saturday he started his journey to his new home. He arrived there on Sunday.....

The kittens went to an adoption event on Saturday as well:

No takers, but our petsitter Miss Rita and her sister happened to stop by not even knowing that mom was there....  :)  Oh, and mom put Coral on their scale: official weight 2.04 pounds. 

Sunday mom ran the sucky beast and did some laundry and the rest of us took it easy. Mom told us to enjoy the open windows cause Sunday is probably the last day we will get open windows for a while. Back to the hots......

Random Fridays

Someone asked the other day if Mae's purring is as loud as her talking voice. The answer is no - she actually has a rather petite purr. :)
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We hope you are keeping on eye on Coral's Weight Contest page. Mom is keeping it updated. We got a very official weight at the v-e-t on Monday night. Keep in mind that we use a kitchen scale. And Coral runs around A LOT. And she doesn't get weighed at the same time every day....so there is some fluctuation. But... the v-e-t who has seen a her a couple of times now and declared her "tiny" saw her Monday (Ash was getting his stitches out - much easier than putting them in) and was all..."she is so big".

Right, sure, whatever....  MOL

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Mica and Amber have BOTH been adopted. Mica went home with the flaky lady mom met last weekend. Mom says she thinks he is in good hands but that the lady is just one of those that runs on her own timetable and doesn't have much regard for the concerns of others time.  Amber went home with another kitten from the adoption center. The family has 2 older cats and a dog (uh oh) but Miss Mona from the rescue said she had gotten a text and everyone was doing well (cause Amber had met a couple of dogs and wasn't so sure about them). Mom actually met this family as well. They had come in and were looking at Mica but his application was already pending. As the man was filling out the application, he was standing by their condo and Amber kept reaching out and grabbing his shirt. Good girl!!!

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We got an award from The Cat on My Head

How cool is that???? It does come with a few rules though:
1. Visit and thank the blogger who nominated you.
2. Acknowledge that blogger on your blog and link back.
3. Share 7 random facts about yourself.
4. Nominate up to 15 bloggers for the Shine On award, provide a link to their blog in your post, and notify them on their blog.

THANKS to the kitties at The Cat on My Head!! We lurv those guys and gals.

7 random facts....hmmmm

Tim: my newest spot to sleep at night is right next to mom's hip
Tom: I don't mind when mom holds me upside down like a baby and scritches me
Mozart: I love to sleep in the sun...all the time (mom says I am gonna bake like a potato one of these days)
Ivy: I wish there were less boys in the house
Spud: I am excited for mom to get more shelves so I can be UP
Junior: mom is impressed cause I am getting a little closer to her in the kitchen (ok, there was kitten food involved - I couldn't help myself)
the mom: chocolate...need more chocolate  :)

We don't know who has or hasn't gotten the award so feel free to pick it up. we love all our followers and fellow bloggers and you help us shine. :)
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It has been in the 70s here all week so we have had the windows OPEN!!! Woohoo....and mom said that it should be nice over the weekend and we may be able to have them open then too.

Jet and Quartz are feeling much better. Winston and Calvin are still pretty snotty. Though mom got all excited the other day when it now appears that Winston really does have two eyeballs (the one was pretty glued shut most of the time despite mom keeping it cleaned up). Transport for a bloodhound Saturday morning and then an adoption event Saturday afternoon (Ash and Coral are going - maybe Jet and Quartz too).

We hope you all have a wonderful weekend!!