Pawty like it's your birfday! Wait! It' MY BIRFDAY!

Birfdays here at the bridge are fun. We can eat whatever we want, as much as we want and never get sick. No tummy aches, no poopies, no puking, no nothing. It's pawsome! Wow mommy woke up to find all kinds of lovely prezzies for me in our inbox. You're all so great, we love you. Hope you can all celebrate with us today. I know yesterday was very sad with the passing of Blizz's brofur Squeaker but let me assure you he is resting right now because he wants to have some birfday cake and do some dancing with us later. It usually takes a little longer to get settled in but he's determined to do it. Strong little guy. He's going to make a great angel. He promises to visit Blizz and his family after the pawty tonight. So look for signs that he was there Squeaker's daddy!

Anyway, mommy has errands to run so she has to go but thank you all again! And Finney says thank you for the DDP today too. He's not going to do a diary because mommy said he's being a brat and he's trying to steal my thunder as it is right now. MOL. Poor Finney, he can't control himself. I knew he'd keep mommy busy when I sent him to her. Little did I know just how much he and Lacey both would keep her on her toes. MOL.

Luv you all! Happy birfday to me because I have so many wonderful furriends to share it with.
XXOO

New blog entry

New Blog entry!
Stressful Times
http://ibdkitties.blogspot.com/2012/08/stressful-time s.html

Thought this entry was fitting and how a lot of kitty parents feel.

HOW UPSETTING!

I don't know if it's the full moon or what but suddenly tonight the crazies are out. Because we have Google Analytics we can go on there at any point and see who is on our website, what referral site they came from and what search words got them there. A short time ago, we saw something upsetting. We have a toxic and dangerous foods section to our site to help people avoid those things! Not to hurt a cat! OMG I cannot believe someone is doing this and went to use our site for it. Someone Googled "how to slowly poison a cat" and ended up on our page! There's nothing we can do about it! We are so mad right now, so furry, furry mad. What is wrong with people? How can someone be thinking of doing this? There are tons and tons and tons of websites with a page like mine that are meant to be helpful to AVOID hurting our pets and this person came to my site to try and figure out how to kill one! sigh.

I know this diary is going to do nothing but make everyone else as mad as I am but I had to talk about it. I can't do anything else! Thanks for listening. Now I need to go and find a big tree here at the bridge to drag my large claws down, so I can fly down and find this person and use them! MEEEYYYOOOOWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!

New blog entry

Hey everyone I have a new blog entry!
Disruptions In A Kitty's Life

How's that for a short diary! MOL! Hope you like it, let us know!
Luv Alex and mommy
XXOO

Thank mew!!

Hi everyone! I just wanted to say thank you for hanging with us on Tuesday, my rainbow bridge day. It was a tough day for mom but she got through it just fine with the help of all of our friends. Thank you all who gave me prezzies but especially for the LOVELY and TOUCHING notes that came with them. Those notes mean more than any presents ever could. Mom is tired and can't think of anything else to write, MOL. Talk about a writer's block, jeez! Anyway, we just wanted to say thanks and we love you all.
XXOO
Luv Alex and meowmy

These darned memories

Someone who also lost a kitty almost a year ago at this time told me yesterday that she still has to push the bad memories out of her head and hang on to the good ones. She still gets haunted by some of the things that happened when her kitty passed. That's how I feel also, though it doesn't happen nearly as much as it used to. But for some reason this year is hitting me a little harder. Maybe because the last 3 years were all about helping IBD Kitties and I was too busy to think about anything. I liked it that way. Not so right now, I am dealing with some things and IBD Kitties is pretty established right now. So I don't get the constant emails asking for help anymore. Which means the site is doing it's job. Also this anniversary falls on the same day of the week it happened.

Four years already! Amazing how time plays tricks on our minds. In the beginning it feels like the pain will never end and it'll eat you up like a lion, ripping you to shreds. But before you know it, it's been a year and you think, "wow, a year already! how did I get through that?" Time flies by now and after four years you'd think I would have forgotten some of this awful day, but I haven't. Unfortunately I still remember every second of it. I woke up and fed her like any other day, she seemed fine. She really did. And then BAM! Everything changed in a heartbeat. I still wonder if I did something to make it happen. I just don't know what could have changed and why. She was doing so well. I know it's not my fault but we all feel this way I'm sure.

Anyway, I know we haven't been very good friends lately and have been staying away from here. I have my reasons, some people have hurt my feelings yet again. Catster and their stupid fleas are just sickening, can't even get notifications at all, nothing is working here. Fix it already! Why can other techs on other sites fix their bugs and not here? I don't get it. Midnight is losing some of her kidney function so I have been stressed and worried. Neighbors are still really horrible and basically all of this is affecting me emotionally and I am just tired. I'm very sorry to not have been here for everyone else. It's just too sad around here sometimes with all the losses, Bob passing away and then Big Harry right after just killed us. Other sites don't affect me like this one does. I get sad, sure. But not like here, because I am so close to all of our friends here. It hurts us all deeply to lose one of our own. And both Bob and Big Harry's mom have been SO SO SO very good to me. Such wonderful friends. I feel so much for them and their losses.

Well, that's it in a nutshell! We are still here though and we love our friends dearly. Thank you for remembering us on this day of all days. I'm going to try and stay busy and enjoy the beautiful day outside. Big snoozles and whisker kisses to every fur!

XXOO
Alex and mom Lisa

P.S. Please purr for Gumpy as he has not been doing well lately and also for Blizzard's sisfur Sweetie who isn't feeling well. And if you can spare some for cousin Midnight that would be nice too, thank you.

new blog

Hey everyone! How are ya? We miss you all. Mom started a blog and right now it's about me and our website. I'm sure it'll grow with time and if she can figure out what else to write about. MOL. Check it out if you can, we'd love to see you there! IBDKitties blog

Fly free Simba, we love you!!! and other stuff

What a sad day. My dear friend Simba has passed away and is now here at the bridge with us. His family is of course hurting badly. Please go and comfort them. If you don't know what happened, Simba's cancer came back and spread very quickly. He had blood in his lungs and one of his lungs completely stopped working very recently. Finally his little body could not take anymore. I think this is part of the reason we haven't been around much lately. Not because of Simba but because mom is having a hard time losing friends and helping others on other sites at the same time.

We've been dealing with stuff with grampy, he's a complete mean grouch again and back at picking on mom and everyone else too. We don't know how many years he has left so mom is trying to be patient but he's so insulting and mean sometimes. He's been like this to mom her entire life. She's got a lot of unresolved feelings to deal with. And Midnight is having some poopy problems. Vet says nothing obvious is wrong, could be dementia, could be she's mad at grampy because she hasn't wanted to leave him alone, poking him in the lip, doing all kinds of weird things. She must know something we don't. But he's tired of it and doesn't want to be bothered. So maybe she's mad. I don't know. Mom is trying not to be worried but you know my mom!

So we apologize again for missing everyone's important days. Mom has just needed a break she's been REALLY REALLY REALLY busy on another forum helping a ton of sick kitties with IBD and lymphoma. sheesh there's a lot! Very frustrating for us. Seems it's just getting worse and worse with these illnesses. A friend of ours said yesterday that it seems like the more we pet parents express our concerns to pet food companies the more they put junk in the food that doesn't belong there. Like it's a battle of wits or something and they don't care who's the ones getting hurt, THE KITTIES. Makes us so mad.

So anyway that's our story. We miss the old days when we used to have pawties here on Catster and had so much fun. Nobody is around anymore, it seems so blah here. Where did everyone go? We're not leaving or anything, don't worry about that. Just taking a little snooze, MOL. We love you all and Simba's meowmy, please know I've already greeted him and have taken him to see his family here. He's being groomed and getting a great big meal because now he's hungry again. He's resting on a big bed of flowers and will be fine now. Please know we love you and we're sending you huge hugs of comfort from across the pond.

SPAMMER ALERT!!!

I just changed my preferences on my photos and my diaries again. If you wonder why anything you write isn't showing up immediately it's because I need to check it first because some jerk just spammed my Alex's picture!!!! I wish Catster would get a grip on this stuff. How come I don't see this on any other forums? I don't understand that at all!!!!!! HHHHIIIISSSSSS.

Whoever thinks they can mess with me via my website as well, I can see where you're located and what page you're on via Google Analytics so don't bother. When I joined Facebook and the other social networks I knew something like this would happen and it might be funny to someone else but to me it's an insult and hurts!!!!! Maybe that's your point right? Get a life then, and leave those of us that are trying to do something good with ours, alone.

URGENT PURRS NEEDED FOR MY DAD

Alex's mommy here, I need purrs and prayers. My dad is in the hospital tonight. They think it’s another stroke, I just got home. He scared the heck out of me, he passed out while they were taking blood at the hospital. His blood pressure is all over the place and he’s having very blurry vision. He’s got to stay there for now. His bp went up to 219!!! He had this in 2006 so they think it’s another stroke but the blurry vision has the doc worried about something called aortic something or other, I can’t remember. But it can make someone blind. EKG and cat scan are clear, just waiting for the lab work to come back. My sisters are there, I had to come and be with my mom. He's going to turn 85 in June and I know he and I butt heads like there's no tomorrow but sooner or later I'm going to lose him and I would still like it to be later. If you guys can spare some purrs and prayers I'd really appreciate it. Thanks everyone, I have pawsome friends here. Luv you all!!!

Alex's mommy
Lisa
XXOO