Last Weekend Caturday Saturday-Basement Grand Re-Opening Party!

A little 'backstory' on this basement, aka Cat TV Rumpus Room, Grand Re-Opening...

Back in 2008, Wishnwhiskers Sir Spoticus (aka Spot) had an error in judgement and while Teri was away on vacation, he was lounging in his favorite spot (hahameow), the bathroom sink.

While this is only conjecture and circumstantial evidence, we believe as he was exiting the sink, he grabbed on to the faucet handle and turned the water on. Unfortunately, because he was also a large cat, he had pushed down the plunger in the sink...So the water only had one place to go...over the edge like a waterfall!

Our petsitter came in at 5:00pm as she did every day when she was watching us then, and heard water running. It was raining outside and she thought it was the rain she heard, until she looked up and saw the ceiling sagging!!

She ran outside and got her husband and they proceeded upstairs to find the catastrophe! They went above and beyond the 'call of duty' and secured all the cats in one room, sucked up all the water they could, pulled soggy jute rugs out onto the deck and filled up a huge garbage can with wet drywall chunks, and mopped and vacuumed as well as they could.

But it could have been worse, really! The cats were safe and hadn't crawled into the ceiling or anything. And the insurance company was great, putting me up in a Residence Inn for a week. Our petsitter took both momcats and kittens, Brighton and Spot stayed with Teri in the hotel, and the rest of the crew boarded at t he cat hospital where she works.

But after all the repairs were done, Teri just couldn't get the initiative to get the basement back in order. The flood had damaged all 3 floors and the basement turned into a catch all, storage area while the repairs were being done and it kinda just stayed that way...for 3 years!

It was a place that Teri and Mike and us cats spent a lot of time together in, too...he playing World of Warcraft or watching TV...Teri on her computer, corresponding with cat friends and learning more about cat health and she hadn't even started blogging way back then! And we watching 'Cat TV'...

Depression affects everyone differently, but keeping the basement a mess was one way of Teri keeping herself from 'moving on' and making a life for herself...We kitties tried hard to help, but well, we don't have thumbs, so we can only do so much.

But with the help of her therapist, and putting one paw in front of the other, it is with great fanfare that we opened up our house for a party and celebrated our basement aka bird n squirrel watching station with our furrends!

There weren't any Niptinis, but there were Mojitos with mint, Sangria, Chili Dogs and a kitty litter cake, hahameow!

Oh, yeah...and Teri finished staining the deck too, MeWowZa!

For our CB furrends who couldn't be here to help us celebrate, here's our 'Home Movie' of us cats showing off our Cat TV Room, from the inside and the outside!