Thankful Thursday

sometimes the best toys are ones you create yourself!

This is Furrydance Esyld, fondly called Silly, who lives with Tango in a little home on wheels...the bag was full of bubble wrap and you can imagine how that might sound with a cat around! This bag got moved outside real fast!

What we've been up to, too...

(this isn't one of us, but a kitty at a plantation mewmie visited)

How have 49 days passed since mewmie posted a "Goings On" post?? Last time she went a month without posting an update, people were calling and emailing to make sure she hadn't died. Now, we guess they just assume she

1) Can't get on the computer because we're on it
2) Buried in cat litter
3) Trapped in bed under us cats

Since mid-July, four kittens have grown up and journeyed off to their new homes. That is pleasing to mewmie and she's happy that they are happy, too. Toby has settled in to his new home in Iowa, with no spraying behavior there! And Sunny has been spoken for, but as mewmie just changed his and Disco's anxiety medication, she would like to wait a couple of weeks to see if it's helping so he can go off to his new home with a prescription to ease his transition. We are getting frequent updates on them and photos, too...here's a couple of Henry Oliver, Jasper & Clover, and Toby:





Mewmie had a mini-vacation thanks to one of the kittens. She flew down to Charleston SC to deliver Buttercup to a couple who have one Furrydance cat already and they have become such good friends, we feel so fortunate to have them in our life. The weather gods smiled on them and it wasn't terribly hot or humid and mewmie was grateful for that. They did a carriage tour of Middleton Place, a plantation, which was both interesting and peaceful. Middleton Place The grounds were lovely and she took lots of photos. Here's a couple of her favorites:


just to give you perspective, the mansion you are seeing is just what is remaining of the place--the main house and left flanking wing were destroyed by fire and then an earthquake!

Saturday, they did their own little walking tour of Charleston, ending up getting thoroughly soaked by a downpour, but it was warm and they dried off before long (thank goodness for gauze shirts and tencel pants). Mewmie did have squishy sandals for a day or so afterwards, though. They went by a new rescue & adoption shelter and were very impressed with the facility and how warm and welcoming it felt. Mewmie didn't take any photos there, but here's a link to them PetHelpers.org and here's some of the photos she took around Charlestown (that lovely street with the pastel painted houses is called Rainbow Road and as a side note, the shelter had their cat cages made to look just like them!)





The bipeds ate at a wonderful "Low Country" restaurant and mewmie had to have Yellow Grits and Shrimp and it was divine! We think the Shrimps sound divine! Kristynn and Tommy told Teri she had to have Boiled Peanuts, too Goobers and we are not sure what a boiled peanut would taste like...but Teri said it was like any other legume that had been boiled--mushy and bland. We like batting peanuts around on the hardwood floors, though.


That being said, after the third peanut they sort of grew on Teri and as they drove along back to the house, all of them were digging into the paper sack on the console of the truck! Tommy goes to The Citadel College and they drove around the campus and managed to be there right as the afternoon parade began, and then the downpour began and mewmie got the funniest video of the cadets marching in the rain, didn't slow them down one step, as they had to end the review and head back inside--heads up, pace pretty even, uniforms soaked!



They rented movies, ordered Chinese take out, BBq'd steaks one night (and Teri found a new favorite liqueur--a Sweet Tea infused Vodka called Firefly, which made a nice Southern version of a Long Island Iced Tea), had a big breakfast one morning of Tommy's great french toast (remember the video of Disco sampling Tommy's French Toast when they came to visit us?) and Teri got to sleep in and not have the worries of home/work/life in general. We're glad she got away and got to enjoy the company of friends and see new places, and knowing us cats were in the care of our wonderful catsitter, made getting away possible.

Mewmie was disappointed that she didn't get to meet a friend of theirs they have been telling her about for months...a laid back, birkie wearin' Doctor who lost his wife to cancer about the time that we lost our catdad, Mike. They'd corresponded a little and even if they didn't "make each other purr", she was looking forward to seeing if he was as warm and friendly as Kristynn said he was. But after initially saying he'd love to come over for a BBQ, he begged off at the last minute due to... a flea infestation (that's a new one--we say we gotta scoop the litterbox) and then said he was shy around women and could they meet up for coffee (and then never responded to Kristynn's page)...sigh. Must not have had time to read Miss Manners...some purrsonality!

Henry Oliver, the kitten our friends were adopting, settled in amazingly fast, even getting used to their dog and sharing the couch with her after only 4 days. Mewmie thinks he will be quite a different personality than their first kitty from our place and that will be fun for them--he is clingy and a purrbox, where Teddy is more of a restless teenager. Here's a couple of photos of Henry and Teddy:



Work at the Cat Hospital has been frustrating for our mewmie due to ongoing new computer software issues, and she always comes home late, but she says they are making headway and in a couple of weeks, three of them are flying to St. Louis for a 3 day training seminar. She hopes she comes away with lots of shortcuts and new ideas...and can then relay them to those who couldn't attend (that's the hope anyway, that nothing's lost in translation...). We are sure we could help!

And as this is Labor Day weekend, Mewmie also gets an extra day off (she'll need it since she's been on the computer most of the day) and she's invited to a BBQ out in the country and with the weather being fantastic right now--cooler and almost like fall--she says she's going to relax, eat and drink and she's taking along her sleeping bag just in case she has to "sleep over", sharing floor space with Silly, a Furrydance kitty, and Tango in their little abode...

Easy like Sunday Morning

Well, Teri's not a football fan, so today on Super Bowl Sunday, we are hoping she fills up our Food Bowl with some special Tail Gate Party snacks! So, Teri's catching up with Blogs and laundry (oooh, that means piles of warm things to snuggle in!)

Well, one more kitten went to his new home yesterday, and we cats think the mommycats are glad, they didn't want to be bothered by silly kittens any longer. Jack went to live with a couple in Alabama with another Cornish Rex named Mr B and a dog named Tugboat. We had a nice visit, they took lots of pictures and then the beans went out to dinner at a yummy Thai place.


Teri talked to them last night and Jack was having fun running round the hotel room and playing with the toys Teri put in his Kitten Care Kit.

Luna and Madeline are still here, but Luna's family are coming for her next weekend and Madeline new owners are still making arrangements to come and get her. Luna is going to live with a Chihuahua and another girly cat and she is such a little Princess, Teri knows they will adore her! Maddie is going to be a showcat and a momcat in the future, and Teri hopes she will have a happy life with the breeder that her dad came from. When Maddie (oh her showcat name is Furrydance Newquay--named after a town in Cornwall where the surfers hang out) retires, Teri will get her back and that is a comfort to her.

Disco's doing good with his rehab and diet! Teri moved him from the stud room to the library room about 2 weeks ago and so far, no spraying. His all canned food diet is working! He's lost 12 ounces. He got very fat living in the stud room because he wasn't getting any exercise and went from 10.5# to 13.75#. That can be dangerous, because fat cats can get diabetes. It's also hard on their joints. But getting them to lose weight slowly is important too, so they don't get Hepatic Liver Disease (Fatty Liver Disease).

Toby, on the other hand, has sprayed by the bedroom door a few times. He's in the guest room with Silly, a young spayed girlcat, for his companion. Teri forgot to put a Feliway Plug-In in his room, so added that today and we'll see if that helps. In Toby's defense, both momcats have been in heat and yelling outside his door, so that might be part of the reason.

If the Feliway doesn't help, then next step is to try him on some anxiety medication. His family (our petsitters) visit him every couple of weeks and they say he looks happy and relaxed, not as anxious as when he lived with them and was such a bad boy. Teri thinks he is re-homeable, it will just have to be a quiet, sedate household for him to be happy he said.

Someone is interested in adopting Silly and Teri's getting to know her and is going to visit her place next weekend to see help her cat-proof it and see if she is comfortable with her adopting Silly. This lady, her name is Tango, is a little younger than Teri, has no other pets, travels a lot to car shows where she shows her Scion Xb, so she wants to be able to take her kitty with her. We think Silly would like that, though it makes Teri a little nervous she might escape and get lost. But heck, some of us go out to cat shows and that's sort of the same thing.

Her lifestyle is different than ours, and her home is a travel trailer, but like Teri told her...she has sent kitties off to homes that seemed perfect-family, nice house etc, and then had things fall apart when they get divorced. The only cat she lost track of was in that circumstance and that saddens her. So, we'll keep an open mind and think that we will give Tango a chance to have this sweet little kitty in her life.

Coco'a got a busy week ahead, meeting with her cabinet, getting briefed on world mews, and planning her wardrobe for the next week. She'll be posting photos of the Inaugural Ball preparations soon. She hired a personal assistant (Kiki) to help organize her closet (the purple storage box) and will be going to her hairstylist, Daisy, who knows how to make curls look their best!

Well, after all that news, here's a photo of an easy Sunday morning...