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Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Cats on Tuesday - Tortie Tummy Tuesday

Labels: Cats, Cats on Tuesday, Meme

Cafe Cats at 9:48 AM 18 comments

Monday, July 30, 2007

Meezer Monday

I am just WAY too crazy about this kitten! Why's he gotta live 2,400 miles away?

Labels: Cats, Meezer Monday, Meme

Cafe Cats at 2:05 PM 4 comments

Sunday, July 29, 2007

Update about Spot

Thanks to everyone and everycat for sending so many wonderful Purrs and Purrayers for Spot! I talked to her FoodMan yesterday just after she'd come home from the Vet.

He said that the swelling was gone, but that she has a hole and drain in her cheek. The surgeon said that she was purring and happy when they were getting her all cleaned up for her FoodMan to take home, and that she was purring when the got her home too.

As for the Baby Meezer ...his name is now King Tut (FoodMan is an Archeology/Anthropology major) and he's going to be staying with the FoodMan and his family in California (I kinda thought that was gonna happen). I think there are now officially more four legged animals than two legged in that house! YAY!

I'll have John swing by later, and hopefully we'll have more pics of King Tut and even more good news about Spot!

Thanks again!!

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Cafe Cats at 11:27 AM 5 comments

Friday, July 27, 2007

Get Well Soon, Spot!!!

My friend John's 19 year old kitty Spot needs some purrs and purrayers. If you leave comments here I'll be sure to pass them along to John and Spot.

Also, John found a little meezer last night. He's in the Los Angeles area, if anyone is interested let us know.

Our old cat, Spot, has been losing a lot of weight lately and has apparently stopped eating and cleaning herself. Over the last week a lump has manifested on the right side of her face...we're thinking an absess since her eye has been running too. no yellow, but she is skin and bones. She's never been a very hefty can anyway...always on the scrawny side. I'm just upset because she got like this sooo fast. She was pretty much normal a month ago with just the runny eye, then over the last 2 weeks she's stopped cleaning herself and stopped eating and now the lump has appeared in her cheek. It smells like an abcess, and although my wife knows how to drain it she's scared to. We'll try the syringe and such, but we're going to have to take her in to get an antibiotic regardless...she looks so bad and scrawny, but she seems perfectly happy otherwise...lazy old cat anyway. She is drinking milk, so we are going to try and pump some kitten formula in to her as well. As most people, we arent ready to let go of her since she's been with us forever....at least forever in cat years. If the treatment doesn't work and she continues to decline and suffer, then we will have her put to sleep, but for now....we just don't feel she's ready....nor are we. Wish her luck, and if luck isn't with her then wish her the best. Thanks.

Update:

We dropped Spot off. Doc checked her out and will be doing an extraction of the tooth if she passes the blood test to determine her Liver and Kidney status. She was about as fiesty as a furry skeleton could be while we were there, but the abscess stank bad. It's amazing how fast it had swollen and took over her face. If all goes well she will be back home tomorrow and we'll be $700 poorer.....good thing they accept payments!! If it doesn't go well with the blood test or she doesn't survive the minor surgery, then....well....we'll just not go there. She's 19 years old and still quite content to be an uber bitch of a cat, so I don't think she's quite ready to kick the bucket quite yet.

Update again:

Surgery won't be till after 8am, so we won't hear anything till after 10 at the earliest. We didn't get any calls last night as to the blood work, so she should be fine for surgery today.

In other news, while driving home from karate last night we "kidnapped" a siamese kitten that was just sitting on the corner of a street near the youth center. Little guy was starving...prolly abandoned or let out since he came right to my wife a daughter. Looking for a home for him cuz we have no more room at the inn.

Labels: Cats

Cafe Cats at 10:28 AM 20 comments

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Wordless Wednesday

Labels: Flamingo Joe, Meme, Wordless Wednesday

Cafe Cats at 11:29 AM 5 comments

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Cats on Tuesday/Tummy Tuesday

This is Fuzzy. She doesn't live with us anymore, but we miss her lots and lots and hope she's happy in her new house.

Labels: Cats, Cats on Tuesday, Meme, Tummy Tuesday

Cafe Cats at 9:33 AM 13 comments

Monday, July 23, 2007

Samantha News

Been about a month since I gave an update about Samantha and a few folks have been asking about her. There’s a third node that has started to swell below her ear and the cancer is visibly growing back into the eye socket. I had a bit of a meltdown when I saw that, and then while reading email I felt something tugging on my foot and she was pouncing on the lace of my sandal, playing and batting at it, then did the “midnight dash” across the apartment with Bebe so they could slide on the hardwood floors. Not bad for a 17 year old kitty with cancer.

Needless to say, she’s a lot more energetic since we stopped the chemo and LOVES the nipnubs that I got for her from the art fair. She’s eating more too, so I think that the nausea has finally passed from the drugs. I’m still giving her the appetite stimulant since she is still kinda thin, and she takes it like a trooper. Not terribly happy about it, but she suffers me my indulgences. ;-)