I havent pawed out an entry in so long

Well I celebrated my 3rd birthday with both my fur and human Mommy. I got a steak for dinner (No spices and cut very very tiny). Mommy even blew out a candle for me. I also for a brand new leash, a day at the cat spa, a grooming and my nails trimmed. On a sour note-- I also got my yearly shots. To date it's July 16th, 2007. We no longer live in the apartment. Mommy said it was too crowded with so many other fur babies. Not to mention Mommys room mates gave Eros and Oscar away to someone while she was away on a business trip. So after that Mommy decided we had to move. Now its back to me and Isis and Mommy. Anyway. That is all for now
~*Kisses To All*~
Artemis Gwenivere

Eros has a middle name...

Mamma decided it's Eros Ross. Speaking of which she needs to find out his birthday...

Also Mamma has sorta adopted an outdoor cat that lives in the complex. She calls him Oscar. He's very skittish and very skinny. He will not come to anyone else except Mamma in the WHOLLLLEEEEE place but Mamma got him to come inside today for about an hour out of the rain and loved on him and fed him and gave him water. I didn't mind. He needs to eat. So Mamma is fattening him up slowly and gaining his trust so she can find him a good home. By the way he's neutered... Mamma is gonna get pictures up soon of him to help him find a forever home. Sometimes I get jealous but in the end I understand because my Mamma has such a soft place for us fur babies and I really wouldn't want to see him starve anyway.

Kisses to all!
*~Artemis Gwenivere~*

A new little brother.

So Mamma got moved into our new place. It's a ground level apartment. With roommates but I don't mind. There's other fuzzy humans here too but I don't mind that either as they don't try to take my Mamma. Anyway. So we got moved in finally and all settled down and everything was great. See our roomate has children. Booger, Dee, Merlina, Everett, and Siren. Sammie is their fur-Mamma. So when we moved in Sammie belongs to Kim and Tony, my human Mamma's room mates as do all of Sammie's children except one named Booger who was decided the other room mate Pell belongs to him and it seems Pell has given in and decided Booger is her's as well. That's all well and good. Siren belongs to Tony and Kim's 7 month old daughter Arianna. Stupid fur-baby. I wouldnt have chosen a human baby to belong to but Siren did so Siren has a baby. She chews on him lots but he never minds. He gets right up next to her and cuddles her and loves on her while she pulls his hair and slobbers on him. Like I said SIREN HAS LOST HIS EVER LOVING MIND. So yeah. Re run.
Tony, Kim & Baby are owned by:
Sammie and Siren.

Pell is owned by:
Booger

And We (Isis and I.. and as of late..Dee) own Mamma.

That leaves Merlina and Everett. Poor things haven't taken to anyone so Mamma is planning on taking them to the Memphis Humane Society to make sure they find good homes!

So about this new brother. After the house of Mews adopted Peanut out from under Mamma's foot when she had been down 6 times to get him and they weren't ever open when she was off work we moved not long after. At first none of Sammie's babies bothered my Mamma but then Dee decided Isis and I could share. Eventually he grew on Mamma (He's a bit ditzy....) and now..we have a new little brother. Bah. But Shh I like him. I play with him when no one's watching.... Oh! Also Mamma has renamed him. She doesn't like the name Dee as Tony and Kim were calling him and has decided his name is Eros.
Eros = Greek God of Foolery, mischief, joking around, and goofing off in general. Eros was also known to be a bit of a clutz and slightly ditzy according to Greecian Mythology. So Eros suits him. Mamma hasn't picked a middle name for him yet but there's my update. I have a new little brother...

Kisses to All!
*~Artemis Gwenivere~*

House Of Mews....

It appears we are soon to have a new addition to our family. His name is Peanut and he's about 6yrs old. Mamma went to the House of Mews, seen him and fell in love. She thinks Peanut will make a good companion for Isis' grumpy butt. He's laid back, easy going and fairly lazy. Mamma says Isis needs a calmer companion as I, her daughter am a bit too rowdy in my young age for my biological fur-mamma Isis. Before anyone jumps to conclusions Mamma isn't ditching me!! Of course I stay too. She's in the market for a companion for me too that can keep up with my 'young friskyness' as she calls it. And of course not wear Isis' old butt out so much. Anyway. So Mamma has gone down twice to pick Peanut up but apparently the House Of Mews is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays -- the only days Mamma has off. How much does that suck? She even took me once along for the ride. Anyway moving on. Grandma sent Isis and I TOYS in the mail!! You know you've got everyone around your little pinky claw when Grandama lives in Ohio, you live in Memphis, Tennessee and Grandma STILL sends you toys! Yes, yes I am good. Yay for UPS. She sent Mamma some stuff too but she still sent us toyyyyyssssss. Anyway. Speaking of new toys....Im off! I've got lots of playing to do!

Kisses to all!

*~Artemis Gwenivere~*

Memphis Katz

Well today while having a lazy summer nap in the sun my femline mother and I decided to start a group here on Catster called the Memphis Katz. I'm hoping it's sucessful as it invites all Memphis and Memphis-area kitties and their humans to join us for conversation, and fun and maybe sometime we can even meet up. I like the idea and as my feline mother stated earlier in her journal Mamma still has not given us any treats and it is currently 2:22PM. I'm guessing maybe she's out and will need to go to the store and get more treats. Isis is attempting protest but I keep telling her over and over she'll catch more flies with honey than she will with vinegar. She hasn't listened and I seriously doubt she's going to. Oh well. Mamma loves her anyway and so do I and that includes her permenate attitude disposition. Oh well. Everyone can't be sweet. Isis isn't. I am. That's just the way it is.
Kisses to all!
*~Artemis Gwenivere~*

HELP SAVE OUTDOOR CATS IN AKRON OHIO

http://www.aldf.org/article.asp?cid=249

I am begging you all to please, for the love of every cat in our beloved universe visit this site! Scroll down to the bottom and wrtie the city council! Forward to everyone you know! Contact ASPCA, Contact PETA something MUST be done!

You Can Fight City Hall
Published 10-27-03 (Akron, Ohio)
Not many people hate dogs. Not many people hate horses. Not many people hate chickens or goldfish. Yet for some inexplicable reason, certain people hate cats.

Just why is a mystery. But one thing’s clear: Cat haters have a new capital city — Akron, Ohio.

In 2002, the Akron city council declared war on cats by passing an ordinance that made any feline caught outdoors illegal — and subject to summary execution. At the time, councilman Michael Williams told his fellow council members he’d “sleep fine” if 20,000 cats died as a result. Sadly, it looks like Williams is getting his wish. More than 2,000 cats and kittens have been killed since the ordinance was passed, and dozens more are dying each week.

“What’s happening in Akron is both a tragedy and a travesty,” says ALDF Executive Director Joyce Tischler. “There are more compassionate — and effective — ways to control the feral and stray cat populations. But rather than explore these options, Akron’s leaders have gone on an indiscriminate killing spree.”

Fortunately, animal advocates in Akron are fighting back — and ALDF’s backing them up. (To find out what you can do, scroll down to the bottom of this page.)

With the support of an ALDF grant, attorney (and longtime ALDF member) J. Jeffrey Holland has filed suit on behalf of six Akron residents with cats. Holland and his clients say the city left them with no other choice.

“We did everything we could to seek compromise and common ground,” Holland says, pointing out that local activists presented the city with a variety of alternative plans that would use trap-neuter-return strategies to reduce the number of free-roaming cats. Though these models were based on successful programs in other Ohio towns, the council ignored them, passing instead an ordinance that essentially sentences outdoor cats to death.

“The council wasn’t interested in alternatives,” says Deanne Christman-Resch, co-chair of Citizens for Humane Animal Practices (CHAP), which was formed to fight the ordinance. “They basically wanted to round up cats because they consider them a nuisance. They claimed cats are a big health concern because of rabies, but that’s bogus. There hasn’t been a case of cat or dog rabies in this county for decades.”

It’s not just the city’s motives that have been called into question. So have its methods. The city hands out cat-traps to anyone who asks for them. As long as a trap is “active” — i.e., capturing cats on a regular basis — the individual is allowed to keep it.

“The city shouldn’t encourage any person to trap cats,” says Holland. “Abuse and neglect are inevitable.”

Not just inevitable — already all too common, according to Christman-Resch.

“We know that people are trapping cats to get back at neighbors because of personal feuds,” she says. “People who are in organized dog-fighting are trapping cats because they can use them to train their dogs. We’ve got animal dealers here who sell cats to research. A lot of these animals are never even making it to the pound.”

Even if a cat is actually picked up by the city, there’s not much hope he or she will survive long. Under the ordinance, cats are supposed to be held for three days before being killed, thus giving their guardians a chance (albeit an exceedingly short-lived one) to claim them. But CHAP has found case after case in which captured cats were put to death immediately because they were deemed “sick,” “flea-infested” or “feral.”

“Eighty percent are killed the same day they’re brought in,” Christman-Resch says. “More than 2,500 cats have been trapped since this started, and of those only three or four dozen went home with their guardians. And whenever anyone does actually manage to rescue a cat, they’re hit with all kinds of fees and fines.”

Of course, anyone who cares for an outdoor cat would be more than willing to pay a few fines in order to get their friend back. Sadly, however, by the time they find out their cat’s been captured, it’s probably too late.

That’s exactly what happened to Sue Richardson. She befriended a feral kitten last year, feeding the young cat after she was abandoned in Richardson’s neighborhood.

“I couldn’t bring her inside. I tried once, but my other cats had a fit and so did my neighbor downstairs,” says Richardson, one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit filed by Holland. “Still, I was trying to work with her to domesticate her. She got comfortable enough to sit with me in the yard in the evenings. Everyone in the neighborhood knew she was mine.”

Unfortunately, being outside made the cat — whom Richardson had named “Kitty” — fair game. Unbeknownst to Richardson, a neighbor set out cat traps, and eventually Kitty disappeared. When Richardson checked with the city, she found that a cat matching Kitty’s description had been brought to the pound and killed the same day.

“She wasn’t a danger. She wasn’t hurting anyone or damaging anything,” says Richardson. “The city had no right to do what it did. Granted, she wasn’t inside my apartment, but she was no less my cat.”

That’s how Rachel Neuwirth felt about Mikey, the indoor/outdoor cat she lost to the city’s traps. Mikey was neutered, vaccinated and wearing a collar when he was captured. Neuwirth found his collar tossed in the street near her house. Mikey she never saw again: A cat matching his description was killed due to an unexplained “injury” mentioned in the pound’s logbook.

“I’m really angry with the city,” says Neuwirth, who's also a plaintiff in the suit against the city. “There’s definitely a better solution than just picking up cats and killing them. It’s cruel. It’s not the cats’ fault people are too ignorant to spay and neuter their animals.”

So who’s fault is it? Certainly the city has done nothing to deal with the problem humanely — it doesn’t even have a spay/neuter program despite studies (presented to the city council by CHAP) that demonstrate that such efforts are cheaper and more cost-effective than killing.

“What does it say about a community’s government when both public sentiment and hard facts are ignored and numerous offers of expertise and assistance are rebuffed?” asks Becky Robinson, national director of Alley Cat Allies, which has been working with CHAP to fight the ordinance. “In the face of something so vile, everyone — not just the people of Akron — must stand up and demand that it stop.”

To do just that, click here and let the Akron city council know you don’t approve of its actions. You can also support ALDF and CHAP as they take the battle against the ordinance to the courts.

“You don’t need to be a lawyer to appreciate the time and resources it takes to fight city hall,” says Holland. “The city will use the full weight of its resources to win. We need everyone’s help today.”

Email the akron city council at: CityCouncil@ci.akron.oh.us

CAT LOVERS!
BAND TOGETHER,UNITE AND STOP THESE SENSELESS MURDERS.