Ponderings of a Biscuit

If you want to see a pic of the kittens that were dumped at mom's job as well as ANOTHER kitty who was dumped just a few yards from that today, go to my brofur Christopher's Blog Christopher's Groove.

Feel free to leave a comment. You don't have to be a member of Blogger to leave one~it's open to all.
Christopher likes it when you leave comments.

I wish people wouldn't throw away their babies =(

Meows,
Biscuit

PS, Yes, mommy's trying to find them good homes now.

Dumped kittens =(

Yesterday at mom's job, someone had dumped a box. Inside were three little kitties about 5 weeks old. Cute brown tabbies, two girls and a boy. Also with them was an unopened can of catfood.

The babies were very scared. Mommy got them toys and put medicine in the boys eye (it was a little drippy-not bad) and they will be kept at work until homes are found.
They're getting braver already and playing.

Mommy's own stray mommacat (who has been named Summer) will hopefully get into the vet for a spay this week...but not sure as mommy might be working straight thru the week.
Mom desperately needs the hours and since a coworker has like a broke leg or something, mom's picking up the slack. Not good for the coworker, of course...
Mom's ready to find Summer's 2 babies homes. And now the new 3 littles.

Peoples, PLEASE spay/neuter your kitties and doggies and keep them forever and love them!

My little bro Pickles is doing great. Thank you for your miracle purrrs!
Today is the 8 week anniversary of Patrick's passing...we love you and miss you, my brother.

Biscuit

New Update on Pickles

He's doing much better today.

Still not sure exaclty what happened.
When mom found him stiffened up in a puddle of pee yesterday she started to give him oral glucose immediately...he could have had a blood suger drop and/or fallen from the counter and shocked maybe.
His blood suger looked ok at the vet but then mom had been pumping him full of sugar so the test maybe was tweaked. I know they pop up pretty fast after they get sugar but he was a limp rag for HOURS...that's what makes mom think he fell or something. He gets on the chair and on the counter and was in that vicinity on the floor.

No sign of infection but he's taking a med just to be sure.
Taking a sugar syrupy med three times a day just in case.
(And he LOVES the sweet stuff.)

Knock on wood, he seems to feel much much better. Hopefully we won't ever see that rigid siezure thingie ever again.

Thank you so much for the purrrrs.
It really has worked a miracle. He looked very very bad yesterday.

~Biscuit

Update on Pickles

As you may or may not know, my tiny bro Pickles had a seizure of some sort earlier today. The vet still isn't sure exactly what happened as the tests so far have come back ok.
Pickles was pretty laid out and unresponsive for most of the day and when he seemed to "wake up" he really didn't have control of his legs or balance.

He's very small at 3 months (he looks about a month younger) and born deaf.

The vet closed early and no one is there at night to check up, and really the most that can be done right now is supportive care, so mommy brought him home. He seemed pretty zoned out like he had some brain damage or confusion and weakness.

Mom had to go into work for a four hours tonite, so she put Pickles in a cage (a really nice guinea pig cage actually) with a pee pee pad. She was afraid he'd roll over and drown in water so she syringed some water to him before she left and he was able to swallow. She wrapped him up warm in his Tranquility Blanket and went to work.

Mommy expected Pickles to be passed when she got home, but your purrrs carried him thru.

He still cannot stand but he had his head up and began purrring when he saw her. He ate a heaping tablespoon of ham baby food from a spoon.

But for now it's wait and see.
He has his head up and knows mommy.
He purrred when he saw mommy and as she massaged him.
And he ate on his own and enjoyed it.

If he's crippled or something but otherwise has a quality life, mom will care for him and help him.
If he deteriorates or is in pain, uncontrolled seizure etc, mom will let him go to The Bridge.
We are prepared for the worst but thrilled that he's still hanging in there and could never have dreamed he'd eat.


Thank you for the great outpouring of support in this difficult time.
Mommy thanks you all and believes in the power of the paw.
We love you.

~Biscuit

My Sisfur Bedelia

She turns 2 years old today.
Wow where has the time gone? Seems like only yesterday she was on death's door being fed thru a tube. Now she's strong and healthy and happy. Her eyes are quite scarred but she sees well.
She's still mothering little Pickles. He's staying quite small...maybe because she keeps him licked down like a lollipop, mol! She has her best pal Cassie to play with as well.

Thank you Jessica and Amelia for being such great Guardian Angels.
Thank you Earth Angel Hazel Lucy for making her a healing tranquility Blanket when she was so ill.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SISFUR BEDELIA

~Ol Biscuit

A/C TODAY!

The a/c wasn't supposed to be delivered until Monday but it came TODAY!

My catfamily isn't complaining, mol, and mom caught it just as sce was getting ready to go to work!

It's raining here now, in fact...it's kinda flooding mol, but south Texas is hot and stuffy all the time and even when it gets cold in winter it doesn't last. And we go right into sumer and skip Spring. So we'll need this a/c and no better time than now.


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On a very somber note....please take a moment to reflect on those who lost their lives on this anniversary of 9/11, their families and friends and all of those who were touched directly or indirectly by the loss. Our nation's loss. Our loss.

Bless.
~Biscuit

A/C on the Way and Happy Labor Day!

Great news!

Mommy got rid of the TV and put the monies in the bank then bought a new A/C off eBay. The local ones are sky-high because where my furmily lives it's still bakin hot summer!

Better than the recent 101-107 + but 94-95 is still hot with no A/C. Mom came home from work the other day almost 9pm and it was still 91 inside the house with fans going full out and windows open. The babies were just so hot =(

It's still hot but knowing we'll be getting a little windy box for the window in a week makes everyone happier. It's not a big windy box but it's enough to get my furmily thru our warm "Autumn".

And please go back a few of my diary entries to this one tis very important on August 1. I would put the link but IE isn't letting me open my own diary to get the address =(

Anyway, it's about two kitties mom got. One she trapped and rescued from being trapped in a ceiling for about 6 days. The other is a stray kitty female left behind by the neighbors. Well, the young mommy cat had her babies, two little girls. Christopher (my blind bro) mentioned the little ones in his blog Christopher's Groove and a nice doggie who reads his blog offered to help get mommy cat spayed thru a neuter/spay organization! This is her blog Shawnee the Shepherd.


Have a wonderful and safe Labor Day everyone!

Love and Purrrrs,
Biscuit

One Month Today...

We lost our beloved Patrick.
It's been hard =(

But he couldn't have survived the intense heat here now anyway.
The hottest longest summer on record (and we're still hitting 98-99) and it burned our window a/c out. It just couldn't take the 101-107 for two months straight.
The last few days we've had just fans and a room temp of 91 yesterday.

We're praying for cooler weather.
Mom's sick with headaches too hot to sleep or eat.
The baby Pickles was overheated and lethargic yesterday.
Mysty was throwing up (which may be the heat and humidity OR the fact she eats like a pig.)
Mom's job keeps sending her home early because they aren't busy enough.

Patrick would have suffered doubly.
He's safe and well now and comfortable at The Bridge. That's the only consolation mom has knowing he's not baking with us on top of being ill with CRF.
Still, mommy misses him so so much.

Rest in peace sweet Patrick.

~Biscuit

My Blind Bro Christopher....

He's got a blog now. He writes it with the help of our new deaf baby bro Pickles. Between the two of them they hopefully will pull it off.

So please go by and check them out Christopher's Groove.

If you're on Blogger click to follow them and make them happy =)

Somecat told Christopher he needed to get on Twitter...so, um, he's a Tweetin right on his Catster profile or you can go straight to his Twitter page ChrisGroove1.
Follow him and he'll follow you. He likes that.

As a big brother I thought I'd help put the word out for him...

~Purrrrrs and Love,
Biscuit

Meet Pickles!

PICKLES


Purrrs,
~Biscuit

Remembering Sharon Tate.

Just a quick note of remembrance for Mrs Sharon Tate Polanski.
Today is the 40th anniversary of the Manson murders and her death.

It is a little known fact that Sharon was a great animal lover and at the time of her death she was caring for 26 kitties and nursing a lost kitten with an eyedropper.

What a caring person.
Bless her.

~Biscuit

Patrick's Gift to Us

As you may know, my brofur Patrick lost his battle with CRF on 8/4/09 (Tuesday).

Mommy thanks you for all of the gifts and rosettes and sweet pmails and will send out purrrsonal thanks very soon. It is still so difficult to come on Catster and see Patrick's picture/page.

Sweet Calvin and Autumn gave Patrick the lovliest set of wings and we will post the picture as soon as Patrick gets more proficient in his flying. It's beautiful and mommy loves it...but it still too soon to see him with his wings everywhere.

Last week mommy found out she'll start working 35 hours a week at a retail shop. She starts next Friday. Still min wage (which has gone up a bit) and we will still be poor, mol, but it's a step up. I didn't post about it here because I didn't want to jinx it and because Patrick was so ill and in his last days...nothing else mattered but the time with Patrick.
That was what was on my mind most.

Then something odd happened.

The day after Patrick passed (Wed) mom was off work but left her phone so she dropped by to pick it up. A few doors down someone had dumped a box of kittens. The shop-owner was nice and took the kittens in and there they will stay until she finds them homes.
Mommy would like another white kitten someday...she will NEVER replace Patrick or even get close...but in the future, perhaps another white boy.

Anyway, mom has to go look at the kittens just because. And there in the middle is a white kitten, male. And obviously meezer mix. Like Patrick. But where Patrick had green eyes, the little kitten had blue eyes, not that kitten blue/grey that changes, but pale clear sky blue with a red shine behind the pupils.
And he was deaf.

It didn't help that he acted like he already knew mommy all his life.

Mom started crying and held him and played with him for over an hour and almost forgot to go get her phone.
But, it was just too soon after Patrick's death. One day after.

So she left the kitten behind. But not before putting a big X in his ear with a black marker. Just in case...of....well...until she decided...something.
She wasn't even sure why. But she had to mark him so he wouldn't get taken yet.
The next day she left for work early just to play with him.

Annnnd she did the same yesterday.
And during a snack-break.
And today he broke away from his five littermates as soon as he saw her and ran to her meowing extra loud (because he's deaf).

Mommy gave the lady $20 because that's all she had, to help with food/litter while she finds homes for the little ones.

Tomorrow mommy will pick up the kitten (he's about 7-8 weeks old)
and bring him home.

Yes, it is soon. Much sooner than mom would have ever guessed.

But it feels right.

It feels like a gift from Patrick.


Purrrrrs,
Biscuit

Something....

Something is happening and maybe Patrick is behind it.

Do kitties have souls? Do they live beyond the realm and are they capable of looking down on their peoples and sending comfort and contact?

I think we know the answer...things we cannot explain.

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This is a very difficult time for my mommy regardless and we want to thank everyone for your caring for our dearest Patrick. You are truely our family.
Mommy will send out thank-you's in the next day or so. (It's difficult to come on Catster right now.)
But she, and I, will certainly send our heartfelt thank you to each and everykitty and their sweet mommies and daddies.

I love you and Patrick loves you.
Forever.

~Biscuit

A Few Meows From Patrick

Hi!

I'm writing this in Biscuit's diary because he has the biggest friend list and I need to meow to you all.

Where do I start?

First, I would like to thank everycat and their mommies and daddies who helped me and my family when we got down. (Which has certainly been more than once.)

The response to my Medical Wish List was more than we could have ever hoped or dreamed. You all literally saved my life and turned three months into a almost a year and a half!

My sweet CRF buddies....some of you have gone ahead of me to The Bridge and it was with your continued purrrs and concern that I was able to keep going. When you could not use your supplies anymore...you sent them to me. How can I ever ever thank you enough?

The pmails, rosettes and gifts. Real packages thru the snailmail and sweet cards. And hope.

I will be leaving this mortal Earth soon. Probably by this time tomorrow I will have slipped the bonds of CRF and flown to freedom. (My Angelfriends...see you soon!)

It's been a good life. Quality life. Because of you all.


I just wanted to meow out this thank you in case I don't get to meow to you individually before. It's so very difficult for mommy.
I am her last family from the time when she had a family. A mom and daddy and stuff. I was there.

From my heart and soul.
Thank you.
I love you all.

Patrick

Wild Kitty Drama

Mom's been going into the den and checking on the wild kitty.

She even put her hand into the kennel for the kitty to sniff. The kitty hissed then bit mom's finger. More of a hard pinch and it didn't break the skin. Mom let kitty sniff again and kitty hissed but didn't bite.

A couple hours later mom went to check if kitty had food/water for the nite. She put her hand in again and kitty growled and hissed. Didn't bite. And it let mom grudgingly rub behind the ear. Stiff. Ears back a bit.
Then mom rubbed lightly under the neck a bit...kitty relaxed and mom rubbed along the neck and kitty stretched out the neck.

Then suddenly the kitty leaned into the scritches making bread hard, turned tail straight up (it's a BOY) and on tip toes then came full into moms arms and collapsed into a heap of rumbling purrrs.


Well I guess this means he isn't wild.

He's shy he ducks if you reach towards his head like he's been punched before and he's jumpy at loud sounds....but he wants to be loved.


~Biscuit

Kitty is Caught.

Mom went and found the trap sprung and a kitty about 4-5 months inside. Very scared hissing and growling. May be a female but mom hasn't gotten to see that end...just the hissing and growling end.
The kitty looks very much like a young Angel Amelia.

Mom used gloves and a towel to put the kitty in a carrier and brought it home. Now it's in a bigger kennel, draped with a towel for privacy.
The kitty looks pretty good inspite of being in a ceiling for 5 days without food and is eating and drinking now. Slightly slim but ok.

Mom was thinking maybe...maybe in the future getting a pure white male kitten. She wasn't in the market for a wild grey teenage cat.
Not sure if it'll ever be socialized enough to find it a home.

Anyway, the kitty is safe and fed and resting now.

Thank you so much for your kind meows and purrrs of encouragement. It sure helped a lot and led the kitty to the trap.

Many purrrrs,
Biscuit

Mom's PrettyTired...

You know, mom gets tired of hearing neighbors complain about stray cats yet they will NOT do anything about it.

Like the next door neighbor who complains because the other neighbors moved out during the nite and left their cat to roam. It's not mom's cat, but mom has to hear the complaining, so mom offered to go half for a spay surgery if complaining neighbor would throw in the other half.

Why, no. She'll complain but she won't even try to help. After all, it's not her cat.
Well, it isn't mom's either, but mom believes if you aren't part of the solution then you're part of the problem.
Put up or shut up.

Then mom hears from someone at her job that there's a CAT in the ceiling. That a customer carried it in only to let the terrified cat go, who ran into the backroom and apparently up into the ceiling thru an open panel. And is still up there. Maybe.
Mom had no idea and asked when this happened.
Five days ago.

FIVE DAYS AGO?

Mom was shocked! Did anyone go up? What about the woman who brought it in? She didn't even come back! Has anyone put out food/water? Has anyone looked for it????

Well, they gave a look in the back room and found what appeared to be a poop a couple days ago...but other than that. ZERO.

Mom almost flipped. It's been 102 degrees plus everyday and a kitty is up there frying with no food and no water (unless it came down to drink from a toilet ) and no one does anything?
Besides being cruel...what if it dies up there and smells up the place would they care?

So last nite mom brought catfood and water and put it in the store room and this morning sure enough half the water and all the food was gone.

Mom searched all over and found nothing so it is probably up in the ceiling and came down to eat.

So tonite mom left a humane trap baited with cheapo stinky fish catfood.

Mom has no idea what shape this cat is in. Or how big it is or what it looks like. Or if it's tame or can be tamed.

All mom knows is that she's sick and tired of being the fixer of situations like this (or at least trying) and she feels like there is no hope anymore. Mom doesn't have money or transportation or much resources yet she feels if she doesn't do it it won't get done.
No one would even call around to see if a vet would loan/rent a trap.
Or even put out a handful of food.
For five days.


But of course, she can't let the kitty suffer up there.
She'd like to just ignore it like everyone else has been doing but as soon as she found out...she had to do something. Or at least try.

Mom's slightly POed about the whole deal.
Mom's no saint, but darn, who could let a kitty fry and starve up there and not even care?

I'm sure there are quite a few Catsters who run into apathetic people who don't care in their day to day lives.
Does it bum you out, too?

*sigh*

Anyway, please purrr that mom can catch the kitty and it has a happy outcome.

~Biscuit

Coolest Cat Furniture. Ever.

Scroll all the way thru.

CatsPlay.com

*faints*





Biscuit

Gotta Check This Out Kitties!

A kitty names Atrus just turned me onto this in the Furniture and Fashion thread in the Forum:

Turbo Track

OMC! We love the TurboScratcher and StarChaser and we never knew they make this now!

Check it out, kitties =)

Meows,
Biscuit

It's Monday!

Today was mom's first day of her new job. (Cleaning.)
Mom's fairly tired. In fact, she needs to mop HER floors but the last thing she wants to see right now is a mop.

She'll do it tonite =)

Patrick is being a hater, mol. Mom ran out of his tonic and gave him something called "nutri-cal" which is supposed to have an irresistable flavor. Patrick wasn't crazy about the taste of his Liqui-tinic but it's thin and goes right down. THIS new stuff is thick and sticky and smells like yeast and molasses. Mom likes molasses...but this is gross.
Patrick gagged it and had to swallow twice. It discolored his fur and his breath still smells of it sometime later. The smell is on mom's hands.

Since the stuff also has phosphorus, mom has to mix a phosphorus binder into it as well.

Maybe dogs like this stuff but none of the cats will even look at it. Giotto actually fled the room.

And we're having a fleas in the humid hot Texas summer. They may have come in the house on mom's shoes from the yard. (The neighbors have dogs.) Mom's vacuuming and powdering the kitties. Mom's going to get some more Frontline when she gets her check. (Christopher even has buttworms because of eating a flea.)

"TOO MUCH INFORMATION" ~Christopher

Oh my, I guess I'd better stop while I'm ahead, mol!

Bless,
Biscuit

Mom's going to make a little headway!

My mommy will be going in to clean a store. She starts Monday.
She got her schedule and she works for about 3 hours a day and it's alllll the way back to minimum wage for her...but a little something is better than a big nothing.

It's sure not retail management, it's more like doing floors and stuffs, but it's a step up from the present situation.

Of course mom's still looking for a job that helps pay the bills mol but it's something until then ;)

Thank you everycat who's purrred for us kitties and my mommy.
It sure has helped.
Patrick's cheek looks great and there is no more draining from it. It hasn't filled again at all in 12+ hours. He's still getting his "facials" (his warm compresses) he likes them so.
His face is kinda hairless and pink over there mol.

So it's good news tonite =)

Purrrs and Bless,
Biscuit

Patrick's Doing a Lot Better.

Wow my brofur Patrick is doing so much better today. That ol potassium must've been really unbalanced and the stress of his emergency surgery really knocked him over the weekend...but Monday brings much better news.

NO more crooked stiff neck and front legs and weaky backlegs.
He's more alert and even jogging where he goes. And eating good. Really good. His infection was SO much better with the surgery but the stress of the surgery itself really made him feel bad.
Real bad.
Now he's getting strength back and we're very happy.
He still has his CRF, of course, and it's one day at a time, but he's enjoying his day =)
We aren't going to try to analyze it, just be happy and embrace it!

Gosh, we can never express how grateful we are for the purrrs and support. Patrick would like me to thank everycat.
There are no meows to express how we feel and how much we appreciate all you guys and girls have done.

Bless you all and Purrrs to each and every one of you and to the mommies and daddies who love you!

Biscuit

My Brofur isn't feeling well...

I'm worried about Patrick, tonite he doesn't feel right. He seems kind of off-balance...a slight head tilt maybe? And just weakish.

Mommy is very worried that this is his decline.

But he has been thru a lot so maybe he just needs to recharge or just needs to shake off that anesthesia. Mom has heard of kitties coming out with vestibular head-tilts for a while, some permanent.
We just don't know.
But we're doing all we can do and hoping for the best.

And he DID just scarf down a bowl of food. So that's good.
Now he's sleeping.

Just wanted to keep all of our pals updated.
You have all been so kind to him.

Bless you all.
My family and I appreciate it so much.
Biscuit

My Brofur Patrick

...is home and resting!

We thank you for your purrrs of kindness from the bottoms of our hearts and the tips of our whiskers.

Bless,
Biscuit

Patrick in the Hospital

I am relaying a message from my dear brofur Patrick:

"Mommy just got her computer part so I'm back online!

But I am also in the hospital.

This (Friday) morning my infected face (that seemed to be getting better) just blew up huge. It was in my face/jaw/system and I needed to have emergency surgery.

Unfortunately my CRF makes deep anesthesia impossible and I would die on the table.
But I would die of the infection anyway.

At that point if my CRF was making me real sick as well then we would have elected to go to The Bridge...but I've been hanging in there with my CRF enjoying the catio and my life...so the vet asked if we wanted to risk a less stressful gas anesthesia and he'd get in and out as fast as possible.

So I went for it.

And I woke right up afterwards!!! I'm still here and the vet got all kinds of pus and bloody stuffs and pulled two old teeth just so I wouldn't have to worry about that later.

After any stress like this I still run the risk of my kidneys crashing so the next few days are very important. I'm resting at the hospital tonite and will hopefully come home in the morning =)

You all have been so kind and I hate to ask for more purrrs and prayers but if you have some to spare I could use them.

Headbonks,
Patrick "

We are purring for a fast recovery and hope he's around for a long while to enjoy things. He loves our mommy and she loves him and she's hopeful but very worried as well. His kidneys are fragile. Please purrrr for strength and health for my brofur.

Bless,
Biscuit

We're Going Offline!

Mom's laptop compy cord just broke. We have only 30% battery left and it's going off. We just ordered a cheepy ac adaptor from eBay.

See you kitties in a few days!

Purrrs and I love you and will be watching over you all regardless!

Biscuit

Patrick and Stuff

He had to go to the vet a couple days ago. Luckily it seems he will be feeling better very soon.

A few weeks ago he was sick with a high white blood count from an infection we didn't know exactly where. He has CRF so we were thinking maybe a UTI or kidney thing but wasn't sure. He took antibiotics for 10 days and seemed to feel better.
He'd been really down and we didn't know if he had much time left.
With your purrrs and purrayers and our nice vet, Patrick recovered.

But then he started feeling warm again and when mommy got up te other day, she found Patrick with one side of his face all swollen and drool and a tear in that eye.

Seems he has an infection/inflammation in his face. He probably had that in the first place when he had the high white count, just the seed of it deep inside, and the antibiotics didn't kill all of the germ. So it flared back up in a big way.
It hurts, too.
But the swelling is slowly going down with his new meds.
He's resting and taking a little pain med so he won't stop eating or get some pain aversion to his foods.

We love him lots.

The feral kittens are very fluffy and cute and are hitting the litterbox like experts now.
Little Red has stopped mutilating himself and his fur is grown back and looking good.
Everycat else is doing good, too.

The catio is on hold at the moment but we have cabana lights and a few pics to post soon =)

Thank you for you purrrs and purrrayers and kindness.
You are our family.

Purrrs from the bottom of my Heart,
Biscuit

Love

My family and I love you from the bottom of our hearts endlessly.

Yes, YOU!

We are so grateful for the purrrs and purrrayers and helping paws and smiles and hope.

Bless,

Biscuit

Its so difficult...

Mom lost her job yesterday.

Why again?

Her mommy died four weeks ago, Patrick is in the final stages of CRF...and now this. Mom feels beaten.

I just don;t know what else to meow.
I hope mommy gets to feeling better soon.

Biscuit

Feral Kitten Part III

Today mom was frying herself building a catio outside.
When she was going to the garage, she saw feral mommacat zip out...but one of the babies didn't zip as fast and mommy tackled it!

Only one kitten left to go!

Momma put the spitting kitten with his brother Bob so she could finish working. The new kitten is the exact twin brother of Bob (except Bob's fatter~he eats a huge amount) and much wilder than Bob was.

So now we have Wild Bob and Mild Bob.

We're hoping Mild Bob shows Wild Bob some manners.

I think they remember they're brothers.
The Bobs have been quiet tonite and are sleeping together

Mom needs to get the last wild kitty. May be a female. Mom thought she saw an orangish patch in the grey fur as it sped by.

Purrrrs,
Biscuit

Little Red was hurt in a Chair...

This is a warning for anycat who sleeps/walks/jumps on a chair with slats on the seat:

This afternoon our Little Red was in the kitchen and mom heard him screaming like she's never heard a cat scream. She ran into the kitchen to find Red with his back leg thru the slats up to the knee and his body hanging over the side of the chair upside down with his leg twisted.

Mom tried to pull his weight up and remove his twisted leg and he really bit and scratched her. He didn't mean to, he was flailing around and in a lot of pain.

His leg/knee isn't broken but he's limping and it hurts a lot.
It really scared him a lot, too.

What would've happened if mommy hadn't been home? He couldn't pull his weight back up to get free...

PLEASE if you have furniture with slats on the seat please put a seatcover on it (one that ties secure). And remember outdoor furniture, too. Please don't let a kitty get hurt like Little Red.

Meows,
Biscuit

Feral Kitten , Part II

Ok, so the little feral kitten has a name. Bob. Baby Bob.

This morning mom was wakened by the sound of baby Bob squeeling (mom calls it "bobbing"). He was hungry.
He's drinking his formula out of a little salsa bowl and eating Iams kitten in a can.

Anyway, mom goes in there with his fresh breakfast and instead of running back and hiding behind his bed, he's right on the front gate of the carrier (its a big carrier...mom can crawl into it mol) and when mommy opens the door and gets him and puts him against her, he started to purrr.

While mom was cleaning his litter box (that he spilled then layed the poop on his bedcover instead) Bob was crawling all over her and playing.

Just a couple days ago he was hissing and scratched mom pretty good.
Now he's Mr Social.

Whats really odd is that even tho he's still toddling and can't run across the room without doing a face-plant, he can easily (and frequently) sit up like a prairie dog.

Purrrrs,
Biscuit

Little Feral Kitten

There's a wild female kitty in the neigborhood. Mom saw her a couple times then didn't see her for quite a while. No luck in catching her and she appeared fairly round.

Today mom got home from work and saw the female hightail it from the side of the yard thru the back tru some shrubbery. Mom went round the other way to see momcat and two little ones scurry thru the back fence and into a ditch/lot.
Mom started the grill and went to get some bbq tongs from the storage room and noticed a little fuzzy thing huddled beside the store room down in the grass...and the little thing dashed under the edge of the store room.

Back and forth they went until mom snuck up on it, reached under and nabbed it,
It hissed, tried to scratch, yelled a little then curled up into a ball.
Mom held the fluffy ball while she cooked and sat down with it and massaged it. It didn't do much else but be a ball and try to go in reverse a few times. It got to go to his first fish-grill., as well.

After dinner, mom took it inside in a very large dog carrier and put it in a room alone from the other cats. Then she sat down and took it out and held it close. Then it started to want to nurse.
It looks about 4 weeks old. Really stocky little thing. He has his little teeth but hes still a baby. Mom fixed him a bottle (FYI keep a can of formula in hand at all times...you never know when you'll need it.) and he took right to it. The she made him some gruel with a little wet food and he ate it.
He's very shy and wild but he was hungry enough to compromise and give it a chance.

He's a gorgeous kitten! Very long hair in a soft blotched tabby pattern...a fuzzball deluxe!

With all the loss and difficult times lately, mom didn't expect to find such a little gem.

Mom's not sure what to do with him right now but she's enjoying having another fuzzy around since I left =)

The little guy is asleep now.
Sweet dreams little fuzzer =)

HAPPY ST PATRICK'S DAY EVERYCAT!!!

I'm very happy and want to share the love!! Our Patrick is celebrating "his" day with fun and feeling good!
All my catfamily is doing well thanks to the generous purrrs and help that we've been given. We are blessed!

I'll send out some more gifts later tonite when mom gets home from work. If we miss anycat (and I'm sure I will because I have so many wonderful friends that a million zealies wouldn't be enough) please accept my heartfelt purrrrrs instead.

I love you all. My Angel pals. My earthly friends. New friends I have yet to meet! =)

Purrrrs and Happy St Pats Day to all the kitties and to their mommies and daddies who love them!

Purrrrrrrs!
Biscuit

Steak.

Tonite mom brought home 2 small steaks. She cooked one and set the other back to use as a soup base. After she ate she got on the computer and lost time.

Tuesday started calling loudly over and over then came into the room with the leftover raw steak in her mouth and walked over and gave it to mommy.

Mom wasn't exactly happy Tuesday had gotten to the steak but she was so impressed with Tuesday's love that she couldn't get mad.
You see, Tuesday could've run off and hidden with the meat and eaten it all. Tuesday loves raw. Instead, she took a few bites then brought the rest of the "kill" to feed mommy.

A dog sure wouldn't have done that.

Cats still retain so much of the nature of the beast yet they choose to share their lives with the lucky cat people.
Mom feels very lucky.

If anyone lives in the Florida area or can arrange a run, a very nice shelter is going out of business due to the bad economy. The kitties will be pts in about 2-3 weeks as there is no place to go. They got all kinds and shy ones and ferals and oldies need the biggest breaks.
Please, anyone who can share their lives with one more kitty, or foster, or who has a nice cozy barn that's in want of some dandy feral mouse-wranglers...please go here:

http://www.catster.com/forums/Shelters_Rescue_and_F ostering/thread/603032

Purrrs and have a great weekend,
Biscuit

In Dire Need of Purrrs for these Catsters!

Two of our Catsters have been in a terrible accident. Their people's house EXPLODED on the 7th. The family was inside. Blazer died in her mommy's arms from fire-related injuries the 9th. Tootsie hasn't been found. We think she ran. Please help me get the word out all over to send them purrrs and purrrayers. It's heartbreaking =(

Here are the links:

News story:
http://www.wftv.com/news/18878195/detail.html

Blazer's thread:

http://www.catster.com/forums/We_Miss_You_Memoria ls_and_Support/thread/602511

Her page:
http://www.catster.com/cats/354825

Tootsies page:
http://www.catster.com/cats/876738


Please purrr for them and their pawrents,
Send pmails, gifts and rosettes so they know we're thinking of them
after this devastating ordeal.

C'mon let's give em the support Catster's known for!!!
Biscuit

Broken Computer =(

My family won't be on much because our computer went belly-up. We're hoping it's not something fatal because we can't afford a new compy right now.
We sure do realize how important it is to us now that we raely have one.

Our purrrs are still with you all.
Mommy will try to sneek in a few moments at work and stuff ;)

Many Purrrrs and Love,
Biscuit

Patrick's BIRTHDAY!

My catfamily memeber Patrick is celebrating his 13th birthday today.
We're all very excited because he wasn't expected to live but a couple months after his CRF diagnoses...and it's been one year and a week since, today !

Anyway, a word from my pal Patrick:

Hi everycat and doggie! I'm really happy to be here well past my original "expiration date" and feeling good and having my birthday!
I'm looking forward to St Patrick's Day now mol!!!

I'd like to thank everyone for the purrrs and purrrayers that have helped me so.
I'd like to thank my pals Winnie and Chester and Taz, Amelia, Rufus, Scooter, Minxy, Hunter and Hazel Lucy for helping me with supplies (and my family as a whole). Thank you anon kitties who sent help to me, too.
Thank you my Guardian Angels Rufus, Minxy and Scooter and my ol pals Biscuit and Black Jack.
Thank you for the cards, toys, gifts and pmails when me and my family were on hard times.
There have been a lot of hard times lately but we'e hanging in there and grateful and don't know how we could've done it without the Catsters.

I literally owe my health to you guys.
I can never find words to express how grateful my family and I are.

I'm here because of YOU.

Thank you =)

*purrrrs*

Patrick


**************

And there you are, guys.
We send purrrs to you all for health, comfort, love and friendship.

Meows,
Biscuit

Today is my Earthly Birthday!

Yes, it's that time of year again!

I would be 26 today!
And I almost made it...I got close. Almost 24. IOf I hadn't had that lil stroke I know I'd be right on Earth right now. I was never sick...ol Biscuit just kept on ticking =)

But here I am at The Bridge. It's nice, actually. I met up with old pals and met tons of new ones. Many Catster friends of me and my catfamily I've met in purrrrson here...

I'm still very close to my Earthly family and I'm still a very strong presence. I always will be.
I have lots of great kitties I look after both on Earth and here.
(Some don't even know it mol.)
I have my bestie with me, Black Jack.
And my lovely girlfriend Elmo.

Bridge life is good.

Purrrs, my friends and thank you soooo much for the gifts.
Mommy and I appreciate it so =)

*watching over you*

Biscuit

ARNOLD P.!

Arnold P Arnold P
Just how cool can Arnold be?
He always has the best DIARYYYYYY!
I wish I could be half as cool as he!
ARNOLD P.!

*chant along*

Arnold Arnold Arnold P.
Arnold Arnold Arnold P.

*do some high-kicks*

Arnold P Arnold P
Just how handsome can he be?
His pics should be hangin in a GALLERYYYYY!
I wish I could be as good lookin as he!
ARNOLD P.!

Arnold Arnold Arnold P.
Arnold Arnold Arnold P.

Now go by his page and take a look
He's so cute you wanna take him home!
Leave him some treats, pmails and rosettes
Call him up and breathe on the phone (no maybe not).

*sing it again*

Arnold Arnold Arnold P.
Arnold Arnold Arnold P.


Purrrs,
Biscuit

Hmmmm....

We've been off Catster for a couple of days because mom got sick. Again.

She got the flu and it hung on like two weeks...then she finally got over it but was still a little tired. So she figured it would be healthier to drink some fruit juice instead of coffee like usual and bought a guava drink at a local Mexican market.

And got food poisoning.

Well, that's NOT the way to get better!

She's feeling better now and eating some soup for dinner, but she's feeling more tired than she was.
Luckily she's not at her work yet and the kitties took care of her.

Sorry if we took a bit longer to get back to our pmails.
Mama used to like guavas but doesn't like them anymore...

Heavenly Headbonks,
Biscuit

Good News!

Mommy got a temporary job!
It's just a few hours each day and around 175 a week but it gives us something for the next 6 weeks or so, and room to run.
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for all your purrrs and words of encouragement! It's really helped!
=) =) =)
I'm purrring for all those kitties in the north, northeast and midwest stay WARM. Cause it's sure cold!

We thought we're cold at 25-35 at nite mol but it's nothing compared to those other temps.
We purrrr that there are no power outages and that you all have plenty of power and fireplaces and blankets and stuffs!

Much love and Purrrs,
Biscuit

PS, I am warm in my rustic cabin here at the Bridge with my gf Elmo.
Our besties Black Jack and Amelia and Bill and McKenna and Buddy and Minxy and Patches, and Whilton and Freddy and Buster and...oh my, I'd better put our some more cushions and blankets...and Catfish, and Picasso, and Maggie, and Tiger and Ollie, and...oh my, we'd better send out for some more dinners...Cleo and Platypus and Typhon and Bigfoot and Eddie and Giotto...and...on and on (you know who you are and we love you allll) and Mr Sister and Morey, and Tc and Miss Dback and Simba and Baby and Tiny Krazy and....etc etc...

The Guest.

In September when Patrick's generously donated medical supplies were arriving, mom noticed a big orange tom sitting beside one of the boxes the UPS left. (I wrote about this in my diary.)

I don't believe anyone sent us a kitty. And we don't rememeber ordering one along with Patrick's meds.
Did someone send us a kitty?

Anyway, we was wild and would run out of the yard wen mom went out. However, he seemed to be pals with our two kinda-stray kinda-not outside guys Fuzzy and Squint.

Over the months he's gotten brave enough to sit a few yards away while mom put out food for F and S. He sleeps in the heated cathouse on the gated front porch at night.

Tonite when mom took the bowl of crunchies out for the guys, big orange tom ran up and started eating as mom stood on he porch. She reached down and petted him. He looked up and hissed then started eating again.
She petted him all along his back and scratched his tail root while he ate. Then she went inside.

Four months.

He's all orange, brigher than Little Red. But not yellow. And his eyes are the same color. He's intact but mom doesn't have money to get the snip-snip until she finds a new job. He's a handsome guy.
No one ever claimed him or put up a sign or ad.
No one seems to have missed the big guy at all.

He's still very shy but got all petted tonite.

I guess he should have a name.
I don't know what would be a good name for him...

Purrrrrs,
Biscuit

Mom's Product Reviews!

Ok, so mommy has a good track record for doing reviews on Amazon.com. People vote them as helpful.

So, she tried her hand at doing paid reviews. Here is her first under pets/pet supply:


Hi-Tor Neo cat food. OTC food for CRF Cats!

Cats are living longer these days and with that, many are living with CRF (chronic renal failure). While many advances are being made to extend the quality of life, one of the battles has been an appropriate food. Many CRF cats don't care for the script vet diets and weight loss is a common occurance.

These foods come in 6-ounce cans and is sold OTC online. It's cheaper than vet foods and is usually more accepted. To my knowledge this is the only CRF geared food sold OTC.
My cat likes this and when he was getting back on his feet we also used this food in a large syringe for assisted-feeding.
If your cat has been diagnosed with CRF and isn't much into the taste of the vet script foods, Hi-Tor Neo is definately worth a try!

She received this reply:
YOUR REVIEW IS NOT VALUABLE AND WE'RE NOT INTERESTED IN IT.

Ok. Fine.
But here are some reviews that WERE accepted (what the heck?):

Item: Umbrella Cockatoos
Location:
by InfoShorts
Review:
When we lost our beloved 15 year old umbrella cockatoo, Poppy, I was brokenhearted — and at the same time relieved. This is a bird with the potential to live for 80 to 100 years, and I had been 40 years old when we adopted her...

She reviewed her bird. And was relieved when it died.

Another:

Item: A Game of Spies by John Altman
Location:
by LP Jardine
Review: This evening I finished reading “A Game of Spies” written by John Altman. I was not quite sure what to expect of this novel. I had never read anything by this author before.
This was a spy novel, set in the time...

A SPY NOVEL got accepted in the pet supply reviews!

Another:

Item: Bloat health condition in Dogs
Location:
by Nan
Review: I am writing this in hopes that it helps someone learn about this serious health condition in dogs. I have a 13 year old Lab Mix, Rebel. He has always been healthy except for arthritis in his back legs, which is getting worse as he gets older...

A review about a medical condition?

Ok...mom's not really sure what they want reviewed =(

Purrrrrs,
Biscuit

URGENT FRIENDS in NEED!

A cat rescue we support is trying to save two loving kitties who will be gassed Monday 1/12.
Please donate and help us get them out of death row. The sanctuary will house and adopt them from there.

Mom is jobless yet we donated $20. We feel that strongly about this!
They need $360. 22% has been raised. The shelter has a good track record for rescues but times are so tough =(
We need to get word out NOW. The clock is ticking.

"
Posting for Winging Cat Rescue
Caromel and Nougat are 2 sweet cats who have found themselves on death row. They are scheduled to die in a gas chamber on Monday 1/12. WCR is trying to raise funds to save them. No donation is too small. Below are the links to WCR's care2 page and a link to make a donation. Thank you for your help!
WCR's page:
http://www.catanna.com/wingingcatrescue.htm

Their pics:
http://www.care2.com/c2c/groups/disc.html?gpp=119 34&pst=1232038

Link to make a donation:
http://widget.chipin.com/widget/id/0a54a40659 1bbcd6
"

If you know any other kitty-friendly sites you can post this on PLEASE CROSS-POST


From my Heart
Biscuit

Thank You!

You guys are our family.
Family is very important in hard times.

What would we do without you?

We certainly can't leave our family and friends here on Catster!
We are staying put =)

Mom's taking a deep breath.
She's come down with a fever and sore throat but instead of getting more depressed, she decided it's nature's way of telling her to stop acting like a nut and relax. She's putting some job applications in by email, having some hot tea, and the kitties are purrring.

She just called the hospice and grandma's quietly asleep.

The kitties are doing good.

Thank you for your purrrrs and purrrrayers.
Gonna chill out over the weekend but we're right here.

MUCH LOVE!
Biscuit

Trying to Think Straight =(

Thank you for your nice pmails and emails and for your support.

Mom is thinking maybe we'll just take some brief time off and not leave Catster altogether. Not delete the accounts.

To be honest, this is like the only family we really have left now...
and family is very important in difficult times.

We don't want to lose you.
We don't want to go =)

Please forgive mommy, she's just been very upset and not thinking straight.

Purrrrs and thank you for bearing with us.

Love,
Biscuit

We're Leaving Catster for a While

I just wanted to let everycat know.
IWe didn't want to just disappear and make everycat wonder what happened or that we were upset over something.

Everycat has been so kind to me and my family. I cannot put it into meows how grateful we all are.

Human grandma is very sick and mom lost her job yesterday. The job market is bleak and we have no safety net.
Lots of people and kitties are in the same boat these days, losing it all.
We're just one of many families.

It's too difficult to put our minds on anything, right now.

I just don't know what else to say.
Maybe some other day and time, we'd like to come back and have fun again.

My family and I love you from the bottoms of our hearts and Black Jack and I promise to still watch over all of the kitties.
We will always love our girlfriends and boyfriends and crushes (you know who you are).
We love our friends forever.

Purrrrrs,
Biscuit

PS, Christopher's blog Christopher's Groove is being closed. I don't think anycat reads it anyway mol.

Thanksgiving...

I hope efurrryone is having a good Thanksgiving whether it be small or huge. Earthly or at The Bridge.

Thanksgiving is a little bittersweet as it's the 2 year anniversary of my friend Toot Suite's passing. Little did my mom know but the very next day, on the 28th, both Black Jack and I would also leave for The Bridge. Together.

Toot was there with our angelfriends to welcome us.

On the eve of our first Bridge Anniversary, last year on this date, my dear friend McKenna started on her journey. She was there to help us ring in the year...just as Toot had greeted Black Jack and I, we greeted McKenna.

We have quite a crew up here now.

Thank you so much for the holiday rosettes and gifts. From our old friends and our new =)

Purrrs to those under the weather.
Purrrrs of healing and comfort and warmth. Get well soon and have some turkey (or ham, or fish, or a bite of babyfood).
And gentle open paws to those on their Bridge journey.

Thank you kitties for letting me and Black Jack be your watchful Guardians.
Thank you for watching over us as well (you know who you are mol).
And Thank you for help in watching over my Earthy family

*purrrrrs*
Biscuit (and Black Jack)

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

I was going to undertake the task of sending every friend and corralled kitty on my lists a Halloween greeting with an animated scene. Because I have well over 2,000 on my lists, I was going to use the free Febreeze rosette to send my holiday wishes.
About 25 minutes into clicking my thumbnails (I was only halfway thru) the giftpage disappeared and when I went back to begin again, the Febreeze rosette was gone =(

I guess no more freebies...

I am so very sad because I thought it would be super fun to send out so many greetings. I was going to use the "Anonymous" so allll those icons wouldn't be on my page or history (not that I mind but over 2k of them would be HUGE) but I was going to sign it and link my page.

Well, I guess I'll have to say it here and hope everycat reads it:

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

*is disappointed about his spoiled grand idea*

Meowies and Heavenly Headbonks,
Biscuit

Thank you for voting for Christopher!

Our blind kitty Christopher has an entry in The Worlds Best Dog & Cat Show.
He's kinda the rep from our catfamily so he's the only one of us and only has one entry.

So stop by if you haven't already and drop him some generous paws.
(Also, if YOU are in the contest please drop me (or Christoper) a pmail and send us your link and let us know so we can vote for you if we haven't already.
VOTE FOR CHRISTOPHER * cause he's GROOVY


Also, our pal Guido is in a contest offsite and he's up against a lot of non Catsters and...dogs. So drop by and show him some love. The deadline is Mon 13 nite and he needs 75 more votes. SO VOTE OK!

VOTE FOR GUIDO * don't let the dogs win!

Big Meows for the good news for our friend Althea. She's feeling much better and her anemia is saying bye bye! She's having a vacation in her woodland cabin and I'm hoping for some pretty pics =)
Our Patrick is feeling good, too. He has a little tear in his eye and a sneeze now and then today but we're purrring it's nothing.

I think he'll be just fine! Thank you to all his pals for helping him with his medical supplies and helping him to live and thrive. We owe it all to YOU who provided so generously! We've been sending out cards I hope you're receiving them =) We have another food shipment on the way (auto-ship ROCKS)!

Bless you all and Sweet Dreams,
Biscuit

VOTE FOR CHRISTOPHER!

Ok, I know every cat/dog and their brother/sister is in the Worlds Coolest Dog & Cat Show...but we have one of our catfamily entered as well. Christopher is our only entry (cause he's cool like that).

So if you have time please drop by and give him as many paws as you feel he deserves (FIVE would be nice mol) in the Costume and Shades catagory.

Please vote for Christopher in the World's Coolest!

C'mon, he may be blind but he knows he's looking good!!

Purrrrs,
Biscuit

Emma's Surgery ~ Helpful Links

We only have ten days left till the end of my doggie pal Emma's fundraiser raffle. for her surgery. She's about 1/4 way there. Little Emma was born with birth defects/cleft palate. (She would so very much like to eat real food instead of mushy stuff thru a tube.)

This is a HQ approved fundraiser and has some really great gifties up for raffle (I mean some COOL pet stuff and a COACH PURSE for the mommy)!
Please take a look at the page Emma's Raffle

Also, Forever Franklin is holding a raffle for her on his Forever Franklin Fund page. It's called "Emma's Smile" and again, really cool prizes for just $5 a ticket. (Heck, even my mommy could afford that mol!)

*Franklin helped Dogster Casper raise funds for his heart surgery~Casperis home now and recovering. Drop him and Franklin some treats ok!*

I know times are tough. The economy stinks. Trust me, we know.
But we are giving back to those in need the way others helped us in need.

If you can't help Emma with $$ (and Emma certainly understands) please take a moment to stop by EMMA'S PAGE, read her story, and leave her lots of rosettes and treats and gifts and join her group Friends of Emma.

Woohoo I hope all my links work mol!
Bless you all and Sweet Dreams,
Biscuit

Our Furry Little Doug has passed =(

Mommy came home tonite to find our little family member Doug passed away. Doug was a Degu and was about 4.5 years old.
He seemed fine and this was quite unexpected.
They often live in pairs (even same-sex pairs) but if given a lot of human interaction they can be happy as an only. Doug's brother passed away about 2 years ago and he didn't really bond with any other Degu. He liked mommy.

Doug seemed to recognize and like Little Bee, too. He pretty much ignored the other kitties (and they him) but he'd call out to Bee just like he used to "talk" to his brother.

He's up here with me now at The Bridge.
RIP, little buddy.

Purrrs,
Biscuit

Mean Ol Stinging Bugs!

Mommy came home tonite, kicked off her shoes on the porch and came inside. It's dark in the living room and she feels the kitties greeting her and a leaf in the front of her hair.
Or so she thinks it's a fall leaf.
Mommy brushes it away and gets a painful sting!

She gets the light on and there's a yellowjacket fluttering on the floor.
The kitties are trying to play with it.
Mysty gets stung before mommy pulls her away. Mom can't exactly step on it cause she's in her socks so she picks up the StarChaser toy and uses the edge to kill the bad bug. (mol)
Mommy takes Mysty in the bathroom to check her paw and sees another wasp fly to the hall ceiling. Then feels something in the back of her hair. She pulls off her shirt and another bad bug flies into the bathroom light fixture and another is under her shirt on her side.

The bad bugs must've attacked mommy on the way up the walkway.
It's dark, which is wierd because don't waspies sleep?
Mommy went and got the broom and started killing the bugs so the kitties wouldn't get hurt. She killed half a dozen.

Mysty's ok, her foot isn't swollen bad. Mommy's hand hurts because those bugs are just plain mean.

Mommy got online and did some research and found this:

"Minimize use of perfumes and other strong scents, wasps are attracted to sweet smells."

Mommy was wearing a sugar apple body spray.

I'd like to tell my kittyfriends to warn their mommies about this especially if you live in warm areas. Wearing sweet/fruity colognes and body sprays can make you get swarmed by bad waspies.

Purrrs and Have a Great Weekend ( w/out bad bugs)
Biscuit

Some Pics finally =)

We have some new pics on Patricks page of his neat gifts.

There is one on Jet Giotto's page and Little Red's. And two on Tuesday and Mystery's page.

Everycat is so happy!

We will put up the newest pics of the Starchaser and fountain in action soon =)

I don't know if you can see in the pics but we got some cute little toys by Fatcat and a little thing called a Zanies. Bless you whoevercat sent these as all of our catfamily appreciates them.

The Zanies thing was just a little puff of fur.
And there was almost an arguement over it! Mommy will def purchase a few more because they are really fun.

Kitties, if you want a fun toy try a Starchaser (a high-tech turboscratcher) or the little furry thing. Also, Fatcat makes a bunch of cool and fun things too.
In fact, when I was living on Earth, my favorite toy was a Fatcat Teenie Sardini mol!

Heavenly headbonks,
Biscuit

My Mommy's Not the Brightest Bulb Sometimes...

So mom's going to take piccys of the newest wonderful gifts from our generous friends. The case of foods for Red and Patrick. The cool water fountain and the Mother of All Turboscratchers....the Star Chaser.
The little digital camera keeps saying it's full after two pics and the flash doesn't work.
The batteries are like 325 years old. Duh.

So mommy goes to get batteries yesterday and forgets to pick them up at the market. (At least she remembered the dry catfood.)

Today she goes after work between bus transfers and gets the batteries. She swore the little bitty camera took the little bitty batteries. She finally gets home and find that the little bitty camera takes the little batteries. NOT the little bitty batteries.

Well, heck.

It's almost 6:30 and mom's beat and feels like ramming the little bitty batteries into her forehead.
(At least they're the little bitty ones, right?)

So after work tomorrow. Again. It's the little AA batteries, mom. Not the little bitty AAAs!

********************

On a happier note: Somekitty sent Patrick some Renal Essential tablets to grind up on his food. They look like a cool idea and are full of good things =) Thank you. Thank you from our family and especially Patrick.

We'd take a picture of them today if mommy didn't get the little bitty...er, you get the idea.

Please don't lose faith kittypals. I will purrrsonally see that our pics are taken and posted because I want everycat to see the cool stuffs that have helped us so!

Love and purrrrs,
Biscuit

Where are the Pictures?

I promised we'd put up the pics of the new wonderful gifts we have gotten...and we're gonna do it =)
Darn, we had to get batteries for the camera and mommy's got stuck between work and a sick grandma (she's doing much better now). But we're gonna post em tonite after mom's work and put them up on Patrick's page.

I'd like to purrrsonally thank my fellow angel Amelia for the lovely card and support that arrived yesterday. Angels seem to know when you need a shoulder and nice words.

Little Red would like to say "MEOW and THANKS" for the get-well wishes and purrrs. They sure have helped. He ate by himself last night and this morning =)

Patrick's doing good and he's active and vocal.

Christopher is having fun and happy as usual.

Bedelia has a little sneeze but she seems to feel fine. She has herpesvirus too, like Red, and every now and then she gets a little flare up. Very mild unlike Red's flare ups.
Her best friend Cassie is right with her =)

Mystery and Tuesday are doing great. How such a gentle kitty like Tuesday gave birth to such a brat like Mysty, I don't know mol!

Jet Giotto...is big. Really big and muscular. And the biggest sissy. Angel Giotto says his nephew Jet is just like him.

Ive always wanted to say "Tune in! Pictures at 11!" mol!

Purrrrrs and Blessings,
Biscuit

Christmas in September!

My mommy came home tonite to find we had three other boxes waiting. That makes four!

She wishes she felt better (she got a migraine) but she let the kitties look in the boxes and then they can really get in the stuff and take pics tomorrow. (She did let Patrick have his yummy pirate ration.)

We want to thank the Angel Rufus and his catfamily of Bob, Briana, Hamlet and Jack for sending Patrick his box of Hi-Tor Neo. Since he has CRF he must have a low protein, low ash food so as not to burn out his kidneys. Plain and simple, the food from the vet tastes nasty.
This stuff is pretty tasty!!!
He sends his gratitude and doesn't have to choke down that emergency can of N/F again!

Little Red got a case of Hi-Tor Felo (he gets crystals in his urine so has to have a low magnesium food) and he sends manhugs to Chester and says thanks for helping him out even tho it was Patrick's Wish List.

The kitties would like to send cheers for the nice water fountain. Even tho it's primarily to keep Patrick (and also Red) drinking, I know they'll all appreciate the licks.

Thank you Winnie for the Star Chaser toy. It looks like FUN! Tomorrow mommy will put it out and let everycat have some playtime galore.

Now, this is the wierd part:
When mommy got home, she found something else waiting.
A young orange male kitty. Sitting near the Star Chaser box on the porch.

Now, mommy doesn't remember ordering a kitty.
Did someone else send a kitty?
An Angel? Rufus or Taz or Giotto or Amelia or Jesse or Oliver or Jessica or Eddy or any of the many Angels who watch over my Earthly family so well?

He was shy and ran a little and sat a couple of yards from mommy but he meowed to her the whole time. She put out a couple bowls of food for Fuzzy and Squint (the kinda-not stray cats outside) and the orangie came and ate after she went inside.

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It's about 11:30pm now and mommy's going to finish doling out the meds (and to herself as well mol) and then everyone will go to bed.
I and Black Jack and our Piper will fly down softly and rest quietly as well with our Earthly family like old times...

Again, our hearts are filled with gratitude and love and we wish many blessings to everycat and their mommys and daddies who love them.

Purrrrs and Sweet Dreams,
Biscuit

Little Red Taken to Vet but Will Be Fine =)

Our Little Red had a terrible herpesvirus flare up in his eyes that went into his nose and sinuses again. (He has damage in the labyrinths of his nose from infection when he was a wee kitty, the vet believes, and makes him pre-disposed for catching bacteria.)

He was spiking a fever and feeling slow and not wanting to eat yesterday so the vet gave him Zeniquin which is pricier than Amoxicillin but he said it's better (and it sure is~it's working real fast). The vet is letting us pay the bill off later =)

Mommy gave Red his half-pill, syringe fed him 3oz of A/D (the size of a Fancy Feast can) and put him to bed.
Tuesday went and laid with him as she is his nurse and seemed to know he didn't feel well. Then mommy went to work.
When she got home, mommy went to check on Red and found the nurse all sprawled out in his bed and Red curled up asleep beside it.
Some nurse! mol!

Red seemed a lot cooler and after his second med dose that nite, he seemed to feel a lot better already.
Today he ate a bit by himself (Mommy then syringe fed him his full portion) and he was up and about and being annoying to Mysty...while his nurse has taken over his hospital bed mol!

Red's an easy piller and an easy assisted-feeder, and he's feeling better. His nurse is seriously slacking off, tho...

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Today they delivered a package! Mommy was running late and had to hurry and catch her bus, so she just locked the package up behind our gates on the front porch and dashed off to work...

I wonder what it could be?

The Earthly kitties will have to wait until she gets home around 10pm or so to see.

Patrick can see it from the front window.
Red sees it too.
Tuesday thinks it's for HER because it was delivered on a Tuesday.
Mysty and Jet Giotto are rabbit-kicking each other and haven't noticed yet.
Little Bee wonders what could be in a box that looks, oh, maybe 14inches or so across but only about four inches deep...
Bedelia wonders if it could be...a book?
Christopher says he hopes it isn't a book for HIM because he's blind, darnnit!

Ooo what could it be???

Meows,
Biscuit

Ike. We're Fine =)

We're having storms today from the edges of Ike but we're fine.
Thanks for the concern and please remember to purr for our friends in Houston, Port Arthur, Corpus and nearby areas.

Don't hesitate to send aid to the kitties (and other animals) and their peoples who have lost their homes due to the hurricane.

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Yesterday we got Potassium suppliment and Epatikin for Patrick.
Thank You Chester!!!!
Epatikin is what binds the phosphorus in food. Phosphorus is what destroys the CRF kidneys further....so we don't like that phos stuff!
The potassium suppliment is GREAT! The last one was a gel and tasted horrible. This is a powder and Patrick can't even taste it in his food!

Thanks from Patrick and from all of us =)

Bless,
Biscuit

Received a Another Great Gift!

Patrick received his bottle of Liqui-tinic today.

This is probably one of the most important things he needed.
Thank you whoevercat sent it.
Patrick is very grateful!

Honestly, he said it tastes a little crappeh mol, but he remembers that grandma used to say the worse the medicine tastes the better it is for you!!!!!

The plan is to baby and coddle his kidneys and take stress from them so they will be able to continue to produce the hormone epo (and hopefully produce even more). Epo is what signals the bone marrow to make blood cells. In CRF cats the kidneys wear out and forget to produce it. Hence, anemia.
This non-regenerative anemia is what kills.
A human hormone replacement called Epogen is begun at that point.

This is pricey and risky but does stimulate the bone marrow and can be a lifesaver.

The best thing to do is try to be conservative and push back or eliminate the use of the Epogen if possible.

So that's what we're trying.
To help him make his own hormone (by babying is kidneys) and boost his "blood food".

The tonic he got today is the nourishment for his blood.

Thank you for giving him that ammunition to help fight this disease.

Patrick is LIVING with CRF and not dying with it.

Bless you,
Biacuit

Oo A Mystery!

Today the Postwoman tried to deliver a package and because mommy wasn't home, she left a note to come pick it up at the post office. (To be honest, the Postwoman is kind of lazy and doesnt even come up and ring the doorbell with packages. Mommy's been off work and seen her put the note in the mailbox then speed off, w/out ever leaving the truck.)

So, we don't know if she actually tried to deliver it or just didn't want to get out of the mailtruck mol.

We wonder what it could be.

Tomorrow mommy will go by before work and pick it up.
Mommy's sworn to ride the bus everywhere and she's sticking to it.
Tomorrow it's going to thunderstorm (a giant hurricane coming into the Gulf of Mexico) and she's hoping the package isn't too big mol.

It's going to be an adventure =)

*gets umbrella ready*

Meows and Mols,
Biscuit

Another Lovely Gift!

Today Fed-Ex delivered the IV stand that lovely Scooter bought for Patrick. THANK YOU SCOOTER!

In record time too! He wasn't expecting it so soon and it was such a surprise for everycat. (The warehouse is closeby in Texas mol.)

Mommy took quick pics while Little Bee photohogged Patrick's stand.

Pics are on our Little Bee's page and Patrick's page (or Sword-Jugglin Paddy O'Pickle as he's being known at this time).

There sure are a lot of pirates on Catster lately...

Mol,
Purrrrs and Blessings to Everycat,
Biscuit

Holy Guacamole!

I was waiting for our zealie deposit to come in at midnite so I could leave a gift for my dear friend Giotto
who passed away recently (I am Giotto's Guardian Angel and our Jet Giotto is named after him)...and found the account to be bulging at the seams!

Angels are afoot everywhere on Catster both at The Bridge and on Earth! Thank you secret zealie depositor!

And the first gift is for you Giotto *hugs*


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Also, packages began arriving for Patrick later in the day yesterday.
A case of fluids, needles and sharps container!

All the kitties wanted to get into the stuff but it's for Patrick's medical needs so they had to wait outside of Patrick's "office" while he opened his packages and looked in side and took pictures.
Except for Christopher. Who must be present when Patrick does anything.
Christopher was in everything and photobombed the pics.
What he was looking for I don't know because he can't see a thing, but he was in the boxes "looking" regardless.

The pics are HERE

Sweet Dreams and Blessing to All,
Biscuit

Important Message to You.

Hi everycat!

This concerns our Patrick's Medical Wish List. He would've written this up in his diary but his page is new and I have about, oh, 2000 more pals than he has right now mol, so I'm putting out the word.

This word is VERY important so please take a moment to read even tho it's long:

Like everyone else, the bad economy hit our family hard. Mommy works retail and the business cut hours a lot. Still, we made do. But then over the summer our human grandma got very ill and spent time in ICU. Mommy missed quite a few days of work (she has grandma's medical power of attourney) and at her job she doesn't get paid days off.
At the same time Patrick was diagnosed with CRF.
Mommy had to move grandma to hospice after she left the ICU and regular hospital. (She's mommy's mom.)
She also had to make pre-paid final arrangements so we wouldn't be caught unprepared. Grandma had no insurance so the plans are out-of-pocket.
Mommy's pretty good at juggling her modest paycheck but this time the expenses piled up. The utility bills were pushed back late and began to snowball.

Grandma will be cared for at the hospice (the people there are verynice) but at our house the utilities were threatening to cut us off for being so behind. (We live in south Texas with triple-digit summers and must run the AC.)
Mommy was going to have to choose between having the utilities turned off or continueing with Patrick's CRF therapy. (He's been doing great, too, with his meds.)

Mommy has no human family (except grandma) and she'd never asked for help before.

It's VERY hard to ask for help =(

But she made a Medical Wish List with Amazon and put it on my/Patrick's page .
She'd never done a wish list and wasn't sure if she did it right mol.
Didn't know what come of it if anything.
And just prayed.

And the Catster's came to our rescue!
The first day some anonymous kitty bought Patrick a lil sharps container for his needles =)
Mommy was floored! OMC!

Then a pair of true Angels on Earth, Winnie and Chester stepped in with a gift card from Heaven!
Mommy burst out in tears at her work! HAPPY tears this time!

Then a generous anonymous kitty bought Patrick a case of medical food!
Mommy's eyes leaked again! AT WORK AGAIN mol!

Then our wonderful ladyfriend Scooter came thru with the IV stand (she uses one too!).
Mommy cried some more! DARN THOSE CRYING HOOMANS!

Hazel Lucy and Amelia are right there and our Rufus and all those wonderful kitties who have sent p-mails of emotional support and all the cute virtual gifts. There are too many to list and mommy's eyes are doing that THING again, gah!

Looong story a lil bit shorter: You guys are truely our family. Mommy has family right here.

Mommy had the cable TV/high speed internet taken out and is riding the bus to save money and gas. She replaced the phone with a pay as you go for emergency calls only.
With the generous help from you kitties and your mommies and daddies, Patrick and Little Red as well
have their special food and Patrick has his medical supplies to float him until mommy pays off the bills.

We are well on our way! Your gifts have allowed mommy to put her full paycheck onto the utilties. In a couple more we should have our feeties back on the ground =)

It seems like when you're down financially that's when people/animals get sick/the appliances break/or the weather is especially bad. We got hit left right and center. And we know you guys are in the same boat, and it isn't easy...
Bless you all.
Bless you for helping our Patrick to live and stay well. Little Red, too. They send their heartfelt kitty-love.

Mommy is overwhelmed and humbled and very thankful (and using lots of Kleenex).
We purrray that your caring, concern, and generosity comes back to you ten-fold.

We love you,
Biscuit, Patrick, Little Red and mommy (Roxy)
and Catfamily

PS,
The Medical Wish List is being taken down soon *now closed* because our Wishes have been Granted! (and then some).
We will be receiving:
Boxes of needles
Case of fluids
Epakitin
Potassium suppliment
Case of medical food for Patrick
Case of medical food for Little Red
(both with subsequent shipments as well)
IV stand
A really cool toy highly recommended by Winnie and Chester
Vitamins
Two sharps containers

EDIT: Some generous kitty purchased Patrick a bottle of tonic (he's a little anemic) just before the list was closed! THANK YOU and BLESS!

Thank you! How can we ever thank you enough...

Thanks for the Diary Pick congrats!

I really appreciate all the gifties and well-wishes!

It was all about my catfamily member Patrick =)
Thanks for making him feel welcomed here at Catster.
Thank you from my heart and my mommy's heart.

You all make this ol Angel-kitty purrrr really loud.
Patrick sends his love and appreciation,too.

I love you,
Biscuit

Welcome our Patrick to Catsterland!

Please welcome our CRF kitty Patrick to Catster!

He's a great guy and an even better patient than ME (that's saying a LOT mol)!
He loves everyone and he's living, not dying, with CRF.

Thank you Winnie, Chester, Taz and Hazel Lucy for helping Patrick to thrive!

I know Patrick will be as happy on Catster as I and the rest of the catfamily are.

Love you all!
Biscuit

Thanks so Much!

Thank you whoever purchased the sharps container for us from our medical wish list!

This really helps us! Patrick, who's battling CRF (and not on Catster) thanks you from the bottom of his heart!
He's going in for his checkup and blood panel today so I'm sending big Angel Purrrs that his numbers look good.

We can't wait to receive the giftie!

Everycat here is just so touched by the generosity...

Again, thank you!!!

Biscuit (and Patrick, of course)

LET'S BREAK THE BANK!

As you know, Simba went to join the Angels yesterday at the age of 20.

Today she's Cat of the Day!

Right now her treat bank sits at an impressive 81,000+

I think it maxes out at 250,000...

Think we can do it?

Simba's Page

purrrrs,
Biscuit

(Feel free to crosspost this everywhere!)

EMERGENCY KITTY DAY!

In her diary she said she'd be leaving Sat 28. Maggie Moo asked to have a Kitty Day to celebrate her. Saturday is the 29th. Today is the 28th and Hazel Lucy announced it is, in fact, today.

We are rushing out the pic. PLEASE cross post.
Her family is devastated.

Kitty http://www.catster.com/cats/136789 will be making the journey to The Beautiful Bridge. Let's honor her by putting up her picture on Catster.

I've unlocked my pics so feel free to go to my page and save it and put it up on your pages everycat.

Here's a hosted link as well:
http://i11.tinypic.com/81sook1.jpg

CROSSPOST AND PASS IT ON!

Thank you, my friends!
Black Jack

EMERGENCY KITTY DAY!

In her diary she said she'd be leaving Sat 28. Maggie Moo asked to have a Kitty Day to celebrate her. Saturday is the 29th. Today is the 28th and Hazel Lucy announced it is, in fact, TODAY.

I'm rushing out the pic. PLEASE cross post.

Kitty http://www.catster.com/cats/136789 will be making the journey to The Beautiful Bridge. Let's honor her by putting up her picture on Catster.

I've taken it upon myself to whip up a pic to display...I hope no one minds, I'm not very good with stuff like that...
I've unlocked my pics so feel free to go to my page and save it and put it up on your pages everycat.

Here's a hosted link as well:
http://i11.tinypic.com/81sook1.jpg

CROSSPOST AND PASS IT ON!

Purrrrs, Biscuit

Merry Christmas Everycat (and doggie).

This Holiday at The Bridge has turned out to be quite an affair!

The Angels definately know how to party anyway, but this time I'm not a clueless newbie. And this time I'm surrounded by even more of my dear friends.

It would be a lie to say it hasn't been a heart-breaking year at Catster, especially as of late. While Heaven has gained so many gifts, I know the families have lost their furbabies (if even only in body).
The ones left behind...that's the heart-breaking part for us Angels.
The furbabies are fine here (and boy are we gonna party) but the mommies and daddies are sad. The furbabies left behind are lonely.

The hard part about being an Angel =(

Not much we Angels can do but purrrr for those and promise you will meet your loved babies again.
But that's a promise.
I promise.

So don't be sad. Have a wonderful holiday. Hug those earth babies and we will hug your Angelbabies and everyone will be fine.

A special message for those that are very ill over the holidays:

We are watching and purrring for you (and yours).
We purrr for healing and comfort so you can enjoy your families and festive time and get well soon. We aim for miracles! =)
But sometimes The Bridge does call. Sooner or later it calls for all of us...mommies and daddies too...to start a new life whole and healthy and happy. Never fear it. We're having a Wonderful Holiday up here too!

Thank you so much Secret Santas. You made my families holiday.
Thank you my families dearest friends and our new friends-to-be.

Love and Headbonks,
Biscuit

One Year Bridge Anniversary

Thanks everyone for the pmails and rosettes and gifts for me and Black Jack. It doesn't seem a whole year has passed since we both, well, passed.

I am very happy up here with my bestest bud, yet it is bittersweet because mommy misses us terribly. Bittersweet because my girlie pal McKenna came for the anniversary with her brother Buddie...I wasn't expecting her but she suprised me. It's been fun playing with my friends up here but I am quite sad for her family. I know how it feels for the family to lose two babies together...

I purrr that her family finds the comfort my mommy did in knowing that I am with my best friend at The Bridge.

Purrrrs, my friends,
Biscuit

So Sorry My Friends!

First, thank you sooo much for the wonderful gifts for me and my family! =)

We would love to give back and send our pals some goodies, but for some reason, we cannot access the gifts anymore. Not even plain ol rosettes. It may have to do with the new Catster upgrades and our sad ol dailup...it just isn't working.

But thank you thank you thank you, and we will try to send out pmails to you guys as soon as we can.

Purrrrrs and Headbonks,
Biscuit (and Family)

Mommy's Bittersweet Birthday.

Today is my Mommy's birthday. This time last year I was alive and Cat of the Day. It happened on her birthday!

This time I am gone and so is Black Jack.
And today Piper's ashes came home. What a bittersweet gift in the little pine casket.

But Piper is home now...

Then she went to the post office to get a parcel that had come yesterday while she was away. It was the blanket that Hazel Lucy sent our fragile tiny black kitten girl. (Her brother passed away 10 days ago.)
Mommy had asked Lucy to pick any colors of her choice for us and she chose a deep hot orchid and lavender, and wow, how did Lucy know that the little kitten's fleece bed is lavender?

The little kitten (who we named Cassie) started eating just knowing the healing blanket was on the way.
She's much plumper now even since Hazel put it in the mail.

We will take a picture later and send it to Hazel (Mommy is just too fatigued right now.) Awww Hazel and her Mommy are very nice, and Hazels business card alone is worth many smiles.

Please go to Hazel Lucy's page or straight to her Tranquility Blankets and Hats site and see what cool stuff she makes and how you can order. Best of all, she makes things for shelter kitties =) so give her some
paws up.

Well, night night my friends,
Purrrs,
Biscuit

My friend Piper has passed.

He slept comfortably with Mommy all Thursday night, then wanted into his bed nearby just before 7am.
He passed in his sleep gently there around 7:30am Friday morning Nov 2.

I am very grateful to my angelfriends helping me carry our Piper to The Bridge. And for purrring him to pass comfortable at home with his loving family.

Black Jack and I missed our pal so.

It happened so fast. He was so healthy and playful...who would think it would be him?

Please kiss and love your kitties everyday.

Purrrrs,
Biscuit

Today is my First Catster Birthday!!

And HQ gave me a cake!
I have met sooo many wonderful friends here!
In a way it is bittersweet because Mommy had no idea I would pass only 27 days after joining Catster =(
But things happen. And my family is VERY grateful that we were here because of the great outpouring of love and support when Black Jack and I passed together.

An update on our ill catfamily (see previous entry please):

Piper (not on Catster) is resting comfortably at home surrounded by those who love him and who he loves. (If he gets distressed then we will have the vet help him cross.)
We love him dearly.

Our Little Black Kitten went to The Bridge Tuesday afternoon. The vet thinks he had some internal problems he was born with. His bigger brother and sister are fine and will be adopted out in a couple of weeks.
His tiny (runt) sister is smaller than he was and fragile. She just may stay with our family...
She has her own issues but she's a fighter and is determined to live for her brother. Hazel Lucy is making (and testing) a blanket for her, filling it with healing purrrs.

I and my catfamily haven't been on Catster much this past week or so...with syringe feeding sick kitties and stuff, it's been hard. And I am lagging seriously in thanking everycat for the treats and gifts.
But hang onto your whiskers because I will =)

I love you guys (and girls)
Much Purrrrs from my heart,
Biscuit

We Have Been Away....

And we are sooo sorry for not responding to your sweet pmails, rosettes and stars. My whole catfamily thanks you and we have just seen our goodies and headbonked each of you wonderful friends! We will try to respond purrrsonally very soon.

Thank you for the purrs for the Little Black Kitten. He's hanging in there. Not really improving but not getting worse, either. Keep up the purrayers Amelia!

We haven't been online in a week and may not be on much for a bit. One of our kitties not on Catster, Piper, is very ill with liver failure. He's 11 and the best daddy-cat ever. We love our "big-eyed Pipie" very much and he's been with us since he was three weeks old. Mommy bottle fed him and he's never done anything wrong ever in his life. (I got in a few things, I'll admit.)

He's slowly making the journey. There is no date for PTS, but we are watching.
He seems comfortable. Mommy syringe feeds him and moves him around. He doesn't throw up or have bad poops/pees and doesn't seem in pain. He's just slowly going away =( and will be gone in a couple of days perhaps...

Mommy is very sad. Sad to the heart about Piper. Sad about the Little Black Kitten (who gets syringe fed too).

Sad that this Thursday (Nov 1) will be my one year anniversary on Catster. She never thought I'd be at The Bridge 27 days later.

Sad that we have lost so many dear friends here.
We have made great friends, too, but at this time it is especially sad to go to Catster and see our friends sick or passed.

Black Jack and I will continue to purr for those who need it (of course).
We will purrr for those in Southern CA fires. (We have family in San Diego Co. and Poway.)

Little Bee and Giotto and Little Red and Black Jack and I thank you guys for the tags even if we haven't been on to really play.

Tuesday and Mysty thank their special friend Lucky for all the pretty pics and promise to get them up on their pages.

Jack and I will get our Angel Squad badges up as soon as Mommy feels better.
Promise =)

My beautiful Elmo! I love you!

Love,
Biscuit

Please Purrray for Stray Kitty's Babies.

Two of Stray Kitty's babies are very sick.
The two boys.

Seems that SK had coccidia in her system (that didn't bother her because she's a big kitty) but made two babies sick.
They have only been exposed to her and the vet says that this is about the time that kittens pick it up from mommycat if it's there.

The girls seem fine but they are all on meds to make sure, and they have been seperated from mommy while she's being treated.

Please help me purrr and purrray for them. They are only 35 days old and they want to have their first Halloween and grow up.

Thank you my friends,
Love,
Biscuit

Man Adopts Cats to Murder =(

This was in our local news:

STORY

He posed as a nice person and adopted a 3 year old kitty named Taylor that a family could no longer keep. The family gave him an hour interview to make sure the kitty would have a loving home on 9/15.
On 9/17 morning a man found Taylor and two other cats murdered and mutilated.

The guy is being held on three counts of State felony animal cruelty charges...

Please read the story. Please remember Taylor.
And do not forget the murderers name or face.

I am putting a picture of beautiful Taylor on my page. Do not forget him.

Biscuit

Stray Kitty Gave Birth Today!!! Baby Pic!

Stray Kitty didn't seem about to have her babies besides being really BIG. (She's been really big for quite a while.) She was up and about and relaxed and playing. But just as Mommy got ready to go to work, Stray Kitty came up and stretched up and put her paws up on Mommy and looked into her eyes...big belly hanging down.

And Mommy knew. Even tho she wasn't in labor or looking for a nest. Because Stray Kitty told her it would be soon.

So Mommy went and put a catbed in the den with some toys, a water bowl, food bowl and litter box (all new just for the occasion). Then Mommy left for work at 2pm.

When when she got home at 10pm BABIES!

Stray Kitty looked big enough to be carrying 6+ (Mommy thought she had felt three before the tummy got so huge and tight and was beginning to think she was WAY off-Stray Kitty grew so big.)
But she had four. Mommy was relieved because It will be much easier to find homes for four than a hamster-size litter.

There are three black and one grey stripey like mommycat. We think the grey is the only girl but there is a black one that looks different each time Mommy looks at its tooshie mol. Stray Kitty is loaded with milk. Mommy has never seen such a milkfilled-kitty and joked that if she runs out of coffee creamer...she knows where to go!

Mommy's trying to decide on a name for Stray Kitty because it looks like she's gonna stay.

Purrrrs,
Biscuit

Babies are Almost Ready...

My family is caring for a pregnant stray kitty (there is a link in my last diary entry with her picture) and I'm pretty sure the babies are going to be born soon. I'm hanging round best I can, with my Guardian Angel duties and all, to watch out for her.

We are pretty sure we've seen her here and there for a while outside but she was scared and wild. In fact, she'd come eat at the back porch when I was still on Earth and so I had the pleasure of knowing her in life. I told her she had a place here when if she decided to leave where ever she was staying at, if anyplace at all. Sometimes it was weeks and months we didn't see her.

Anyway, with the last floods, she decided to stay and did not leave. She was in late pregnancy and knew my family would help her. Mommy says Stray Kitty "fell in love" with our family. She did. She's very sweet and loving now.

She doesn't even fuss at the other kitties and loves for my mommy to rub her big pregnant belly.

Tonite her tummy is hanging lower. The babies are turning and kicking. Mommy thinks she feels three. (We hope she doesn't hit the jackpot and deliver more than that as mommy will be finding homes for the little ones.)
Regardless, I'm purrring that they are healthy no matter how many or few, and Stray Kitty will do great as a mommy. I think she will =)
I just LOVE kittens and I'm soooo excited!

We really need to get her a better name than Stray Kitty, tho...

Purrrrs!
Biscuit

Picture of Stray Kitty

I'm putting a link of Stray Kitty's picture.
She's really sweet =)

Stray Kitty

Headbonks,
Biscuit

Stray Kitty Comes To Visit...

Yesterdays rain put a stray kitty on the back porch for shelter.
She looks familiar. Every now and then mommy sees a stray kitty that looks like her in the neighborhood. (Well, we think she's stray.)

Mommy let her stay there hoping she'd go home if she has one. But she's still there today. A dark storm is brewing. Lots of thunders.

Mommy, who must be insane, took the stray kitty in because she's afraid she'll get flooded/lost/and because she's heavily pregnant. We don't want her taking the kits off to be born wild.

The stray kitty is very sweet. She's not a big kitty but she's mature. She looks healthy and well fed (probably by mommy leaving food out for the kitties and oppossums). And really really pregnant.

She'll stay in the bathroom until mommy finds her owners. If she has any.
Stray Kitty looks very happy to be there and rolls over so mommy can rub her preg belly. She's a grey tabby with silver cheeks like a cougar =)
If no owner is found, mommy will take Stray Kitty to the vet for a checkup and find homes for the babies when they're ready.

Purrrrrs,
Biscuit

Good storm news hopefully!

We saw a new computer model showing the Dean hurricane path boring more south. That would be GREAT news! That would put only the edge on my family! Though we'd have floods still, we wouldn't have 160+mph winds in our bloomers!

We hope this path holds true!

Unfortunately, our Mexican kittyfriends and families have not good news.
But hopefully the mountians slow it down a lot!

Our friend Lucky #216423 lives in Mexico City.

I'm sending purrrs!

Love,
Biscuit

Serious Stuff my Friends...

I'm sure most of our south Texas catfriends know that a very big hurricane is
supposed to make landfall here at approx 3pm Wednesday if it continues on course.

It seems to be a very strong storm as well, catagory 4 right now and expected to reach 5.

We have gone thru hurricanes before of course...

The problem is that we've had floods over the past few weeks and the ground is soaked and cannot take more rain.
An average rain last Thursday left three feet of water in our street and crested at 8 feet in some city streets. We don't live in the boonies, either...and mommy had to wade thru knee deep water half a mile to get home. (Thank you the very nice (and cute) fireman that helped in the highway underpass.) Heck mommy had to get home with the CATFOOD!!!

San Antonio is criss-crossed with rivers and creeks but luckily, where my catfamily lives there is no major body of water.
Still, we still were in deep. Super lucky was the fact it didn't get in the house. We have a large spillway behind our back fence. It crested at about 9 feet or so but moves VERY fast and was able to redirect it around.
Sadly, when the water subsided some bodies were found a few miles away.

The problem is the floods that hurricane Dean will bring on top of high wind. Even an indirect hit. (And we are predicted to take the DIRECT hit.) They are already preparing to evacuate people from Houston to our Alamodome set as a huge 65,000 seat shelter as well as people from across the border.
We have not heard them letting in pets.

My catfamily is staying put.

Mommy is taking Wednesday off work so she won't get seperated from the house and cut off again.
Going to get provisions just in case. And extra CATFOOD!

We send purrrrs to our Texas catfriends in south Texas and esp those at the Gulf. I'm purrring that ol hurricane gets weak and not so windy and turns away, and that you guys are safe from the flood that is sure to be.

Stay safe kitties and your families,
Love,
Biscuit

I've got a Hug counter MOL!

Thank you for giving this old kitty lots of lovins =)

Anycat that has a guestbook, let me know and I will fly right over and sign it.
Anycat that would like to sign mine or leave a quick hug, it's much appreciated.

To see the sweet kittyfaces (and doggiefaces) in my guestbook makes it easier for my mommy to go to my page. After 8 months, she still misses me terribly.

We both thank you for your love and support.

And thank you for letting me purrrr for those who need it.
It's an honor to watch over you...

Love,
Biscuit

PS, Wouldn't you know it? The rest of my catfamliy had to get hug counters too =O.O=

EDIT: And thank you whoever gave Little Red hugs. Now he can stop complaining about being the only one with no hugs mol!!!

Guestbook Guest #100!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is my dear and beautiful friend Sparkle!
How cool is that?

If that isn't cool enough, #101 is our very own The Catster Cat!

My very first guest to sign is my pal Arnold P. He must've been waiting in the shadows.. I'd barely saved the code and he was in, mol!

Special thanks to my dear friend Molly, the only doggie brave enough to be surrounded by 100 kitties.

(Edit: Yay! Daisy has just joined the doggie ranks!!!!!)

C'mon doggies, don't be afraid! You are invited to sign my book, too =)


Thank you everyone!
Love and Headbonks and much Bread,
Biscuit

Guestbook! WOW!

Thank you my friends (and friends-to-be) you have made my guestbook a great success!

It is one of the most fun parts of going online, to see who has signed!
It is so heartwarming when kitties take the time to sign and I love looking at their sweet faces (and in O'Malley's case...his butt mol)!

If anycat has a guestbook and wants me to sign, just pinch my tail and I will be there ASAP mol!

This is so fun, I wish I would have put one up sooner!

Headbonks to everycat!
*your angelfriend*
Biscuit

Angels

A chorus of angels sing a glorious song.
Happy faces and joy.
Stars shine like a million twinkling lights, like the candles lit by our loved ones back home.
Welcoming the new ones, each shining like it's own little star.
The young. The old. The homeless.
Each a miracle.

Welcome, Jules Vern.



*your angelfriend*
Biscuit

An Idea....

Since I have so many friends and great kitty pals, there's NO WAY I can go to each page and check if they have a guestbook as well. (Plus, I'm on icky dial-up.)
So....if you have a guestbook just let me know and I will fly over as soon as I can.

If I have missed any friends with guestbooks, and I know I have, just pinch my tail and I'll come running right over.

Even newbies....


Love and Purrrrs,
Biscuit

My Guestbook!

I could not dream of such a great response! I am soooo happy to see my old friends and new friends, too on my page! My mommy had tears just seeing all the sweet kitties pics and words.

We are so very lucky!

Thank you from my heart for taking time to stop by and leave a message.
My wonderful friends...

I'm not sure how many pics the guestbook holds, but if any kitties want to leave a message or pic...or leave more than one...please DO! If we fill it then I will put up a second one mol! There are so many great kitties I've met here, that I don't want to miss a one!
Each is so special to me.
I love meeting new friends as well.

You make this ol Biscuit as happy in the afterlife as you did when I was on earth. I am so grateful.

Purrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Biscuit

Today is my BIRTHDAY!

I would have been 24! And I allllmost made it!
Please, my earthly catfriends, have a treat or toy for me today and help me celebrate!

I will certainly write back and tell you what happens here at The Bridge for my birthday. (These angels like to party mol.)

A kiss to everycat *headbonks*
Biscuit

Happy Valentines Day!

Of course we celebrate Valentine's Day at The Rainbow Bridge! Everycat (and doggie...hamster, birdie, and reptile etc) gets cards, treats, and visits.

And of course we get to be with our humans that have gone on, as well. Just like old times =)

Black Jack and I have met sooo many sweet kitties that we wanted to meet from catster...you know, for REAL. Some went before us and some we have welcomed.
And we purrr for those who need some healing vibes on earth and watch over those we love.

Thank you so much everycat...I wish I had the zealies to send a heart to each of my friends. Just click on my rosette and star history and see the wonderful kitties who have given me such nice gifts. I could never repay you all except to say thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Black Jack feels the same. And I know my earth family does as well.

I wish I had a thousand zealies!
Instead, I will send a thousand twinkling lights to the kitties.

Just look up in the skies and I will be there.

*your guardian angel*
Biscuit

Purrring for Winter!

To understand this entry, everycat must read the entry before mol. Or you won't see why Jack and I are purring winter down to our earthly catfamily =)

When mommy got to work Monday the rains had stopped and the temps began to fall. She closed shop early at five pm when it started to sleet. The retail stores were empty because the city was on alert to close down the major overpasses/bridges because of ice. When they started dumping gravel, mommy beat back home. After stopping for catfood, of course.

For the first time, the kitties broke out the electric blanket. I never got to use it but now that I have a fireplace at The Bridge...
But I know my catfamily really liked the blanket and said a purr for me.

This morning they closed the highways completely. Mommy got the day off work. In anticipation for the cold, she took all the catfamilies beds and blankets to the coin-op laundry on Sunday and fired up a few big quad-load washers to get the cuddling materials ready. (Hmmm, I wonder what the laundry worker thinks when she checks the lint traps after one of mommy's laundry visits MOL MOL!)

Mommy has cat tents under both the covered front porch and covered back patio, complete with electric bed heaters, for any outside kitties that are cold (or travelers passing thru) and catfood in the bowls. Little Red's friends Fuzzy and Squint are curled up asleep in the front tent.
Fuzzy was racing around thru the frost earlier mol.

Jack and I are sending winter to our earthly catfamily. We're purring for snow, even just a few flurries, and we know our catfamily is posted at the windows watching.

It's sleeting heavily and building up in corners.
The trees are shining with ice.
Icicles are hanging everywhere.
The kitties have never seen icicles. Mommy broke some off and took them in and the kitties were licking them and playing with them.

Well, gotta tie this entry up for now. Jack and I have work to do!

*love and icicles*
Biscuit

Snow!

If anycat has read my diary, they know that I passed with my best friend forever, Black Jack and that we are having our winter time at The Bridge complete with a rustic cabin and quietly falling snow.

We've had angels we've reunited with and new angels who've just met us here. And we've even welcomed in some ourselves.

The Holidays were fun and the New Years were all colored lights and sparkles without the loud BOOM. We wished our earthly families all the well and rung in the New Year for them...

Jack and I have our dream winter cabin because we lived in south Texas and never saw snow. We have it now. Just as a kitty who lived in the middle of Mid-West farmland might've wanted to see the beach someday. Here, they can. (They can bundle up in a wool blanket and sit atop a cliff and watch waves crash on a cool New England-like coast...or lay out on a Carribean-like beach of sand under a coconut tree.)

Seems that the forcast for south Texas includes a freak winter storm that just may leave a dusting of snow in the next couple of days. If only for a while. This is no chance happening...Black Jack and I are trying our hardest to send our earthly catfamily some snow from The Bridge.

We are purring very hard. We may only kick up a few flurries and some sleet...but we're gonna try!

*your guardian angel*
Biscuit

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Have a wonderful, healthy and happy 2007 everycat and their friends and families.

*sending festive purrs straight from The Bridge*
Biscuit and Black Jack

Do They have New Year's at The Bridge?

I was wondering this. Since time is not relative here in the same way...

The answer is YES they do celebrate New Years. Even tho time is not measured in quite the same way, we keep the traditions alive. We celebrate a new year not for us but for those of you earthbound. It keeps us close to our families there and we wish them well and purr for their new year.

Kitties from households that celebrated Chinese New Year or Jewish New Year, for example, hold the traditions and teach other kitties about them too.

I don't know of any kitty that likes loud firecrackers, so we take all that is good for us and those of us who like to watch the lights watch them. I hear the colors are even more beautiful than the shimmering lightshows on earth, and fall quietly down without even a pop.

I'm looking forward to it.

Other kitties ring in our earth-families New Year by a song by the fire and meowed stories of the past and purrs and purrrayers for the future.

I'm looking forward to that, too.

I miss my mommy and my catfamily on earth. So does Jack. But time is different here and we know that we'll all be together before we know it.
This makes me feel content. It's not "goodbye". It's simply "see you later".

*love*
Biscuit

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

I'm sure that most humans know about the story of the Prophet Mohammed:
The Prophet Mohammed had a cat named Muezza. Legend has it that she once fell asleep on the sleeve of his robe. Having to go to prayer but not wishing to wake her, he cut the sleeve so she could continue snoozing.
This is very true!

But not many people know about another story (which is common knowledge among us kitties):
That a kitty crawled into the manger with the infant Jesus to keep the baby warm and to lull him to sleep with it's purrrrs.

Merry Christmas, everycat and everyone!

Love,
Biscuit and Black Jack

Holidays at the Bridge!

I had no doubt that I'd be with my earthfamily for the holidays...but things can change so fast. Life is fragile.

But The Bridge is a very very nice place. There are holidays and fun all around as well as lazy days with nothing pending but a long happy nap.
"Whatever floats your boat" s the human term, I think.
Since The Bridge is a place of love, there isn't all that earthly conflict. Oh, sure, there are a few hisses and attitudes here and there (I mean, we're CATS) but there's no suffering and human-wrought cruelty. And there's no "us and them" even between doggies and kitties...which brings us to the holidays.

Did you know that Black Jack and I have our Christmas tree as well as our Menorrah? We have started lighing the candles. Starting Dec 26, we will also have Kwanzaa stories that are told around our fireplace at night. We will hang the red and green streamers.
Before Jack and I got here, I was told they held a Ramadan dinner for all kitties.

Here, kitties from Jewish, Gentile, Muslim, Buddhist, and every other household you can imagine sit down together. This isn't a phenomenon that only happens at The Bridge...it happens on earth as well between kitties.
If the humans let us.

There is no known example of a Christain-household kitty not liking a Muslim-household kitty just because of that. (Or a black cat not liking a white cat just because of fur color.) The Pagan-household kitties run in the moonlight of the Harvest Moon along with the Jewish-household kitties.
Kitties can't think of any reason why it should not be this way. And so it is here at The Bridge.

There is a light snow outside. Something is smelling good in the kitchen!
We send love and purrrrs and purrrayers to our earthbound families. We send purrrs to any other kitties (and doggies) in need. (My friends in Colorado please stay warm and safe in the blizzard!)
Thank you catster kitties for opening your paws to my catfamily here. Thankies to Jet and Co. for the early and generous Christmas gift =)
Love to my girly Elmo.

*more reports from The Bridge Holidays later*
Biscuit

Diary of The Day

I'm very happy to have gotten the Diary of The Day for Friday the 8th.
Thanks for the congrats esp all the fuss The Olde Furts made lol.

Unfortunately, my mommy was sick with a headache and offline and didn't get to see me win that day. But she sure was happy when she did find out.
She's very thankful for the nice pawmails and congrats I got, too.

Being on Catster has been very good for me. It made me feel very special while I was on this earth and helped in the very difficult time of my sudden passing to The Bridge. And now you have made me feel special, again.

Thank you everykitty and your mommies and daddies who love you.

*Purrrrrr Purrrrrrrrrrrr*
Biscuit

A Secret.

Mommy went to see grandma today but did not tell her that I (or Jack) have crossed The Bridge.

Grandma really loved us a lot and she should know the truth...but it didn't seem right in the situation. Mommy was thinking very hard of me and it opened a window and she knows that I agree with the little white lie.

We will call it our secret.

Grandma doesn't really recognize mommy much anymore. But she does respond when you ask for a hug. And she responds when mommy says "ol Biscuit Kitty". The doctor says it's one of her last memories for some reason.
Except for mommy, I was the last of the family when we had a family (like moms and dads and stuff).
So we chose not to tell her I'm not in the house anymore.

The delta society will bring a therapy kitty next week and she probably won't know the difference. (Hey, I have a stunt double!)

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For my 21st birthday mommy got me a kitten. We hadn't had a kitten in the house for a while and what do you get a cat who has everything on his 21st birthday? Her name is Tuesday. She was a little grey/white shorthair.
Tuesday grew up but for some reason never went into heat and mommy for got and...about five months ago Tuesday ran out the door. And came home all sexxy after two days.
My foster-daughter was a hoochie lol.
Tuesday got really really fat and mommy was thinking she was going to have 6-8 kittens. She told Tuesday we'd find good homes for them all because it would be too hard to choose just one to keep...and we couldn't keep them all.
On 6/5/6 Tuesday went into labor and had one kitten on 6/6/6.

And it was little. A calico. Ooh I LOVE kittens! There was only one so I got a grandbaby to keep and help bring up.
They miss me.
Today Tuesday went to my vet and got spayed. She was so scared until she sensed me there with her. I was with her when she drifted off to sleep. She asked if she was going with me to The Bridge but I said "no" that she would wake right back up before she knew it and go home later to be with baby Mystery.

While Jack and I curl up and wash each other in front of our fireplace in our cabin at The Bridge, we close our eyes and know that Tuesday and Mystery are napping in front of the heater at their earthhome safe and sound.

Tomorrow we will bring in our Christmas tree at The Bridge.

*purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr*
Biscuit

I Came Home Today.

My ashes did, that is.

It's been a week since I and my best pal Black Jack got to The Bridge. It's very nice here. I'm meeting new friends and reunited with familiar faces.

I have found if I concentrate real hard (esp when mommy is thinking of me) it's like a little window. I get glimpses of her and my catfamily at earthhome...and she feels my presence.
It's nice to know that even tho it's so fun here, that I'm not totally cut off from my earthfamily.

Anyhow, mommy got my ashes back today. They are in a polished pine box that looks like a little casket. How my earthly self ever fits in that I'll never know. Ashes must be very tiny.
The vet also had a cast he made of my footprint after my mommy left my body there last week. It was very nice of him. The staff had a card and a letter with the story of The Rainbow Bridge signed by everybody. They knew just where I was going to this nice place.

Black Jack is here with me but his earth body is not with mine. Yet.
You see, the vet was closed when mommy found Jack passes away and there was no place for her to keep his body. It was getting ready to rain that night so she buried him right then and there next to our catfamily girl Misty.
She knows we are together in spirit for sure and that our earthly selves are just the shells for our souls. Cats do have souls for sure. Mommy knows this.
When my girlfriend Sugar died three years ago at 16, I sat in the hallway and meowed to her for a week...looking at something that only I could see. My Sugar.

So Jack and I are together for sure, regardless.
But when mommy is able to really open the box and not get too upset, she will put a pinch of my ashes on Jack's grave just for good measure.

*purrrrrrrrrrr purrrrrrrrrrrrrr*
Biscuit

PURRRRRRRRRRR PURRRRRRRRRRRRR

Oh my! Look at all, the Rosettes and Forever Stars I have today!

The Rainbow Bridge is all they say and more. In fact, each kitty gets to have little excursions and special perks...little dreams come true just for them.

For example: I was born and lived in hot south Texas. I have only seen a few snowflakes and we didn't have (or need) a fireplace. But I always wanted to have one. And watch it snow outside. For me and my best friend Jack it's snowing at The Bridge for us right now. And we are in a cabin-type home with a big fireplace. There are thick blankets on the couch with little moose pics woven in...so I think they call it "rustic".

It's a people-size home big enough for human grandpas and grandmas not to mention any kitty and doggie guests.

Jack and I were crazy for eggnog and we still are. We have it along with our catnip. Our granddaddy liked eggnog and we are hoping he drops by for the holidays. We haven't seen him since 1997 and it's going to be fun!

Any angel kitties that like winter retreats are invited to drop in.
We're carving the ham in two hours.

*purrrrr purrrrr*
Biscuit

After Almost 24 Years I FINALLY Got My Wings!

I started feeling down just a couple of days ago. Not pain. Just that I was getting ready to pack my bags for The Bridge...

I am an angel now. My passing was serene and calm and without pain. I was the oldest kitty that my vet sees and everyone came in to meet me (the young kennel techs that didn't know me) and the petted me and I purred a lot and rubbed my nose on them and stuff...

Then it was just me and mommy and the vet and vet tech of 20 years. We talked a lot about old times and laughed and cried and stuff.
The vet gave a thumbs-up when he heard I had so many friends on Catster and said that I lived a great life and went out like a king. Mommy told them I had a girlfriend named Elmo. I wore my sweater with the hood and pompoms =)
Then my body went to sleep softly.

My catspirit watched as they talked and petted my body afterwards. They talked a long time.

I began my journey to The Bridge but my mommy had no idea that I wasn't going alone...
After she made the "arrangements" (I get a cool urn thingie) she went home to feed the other catfamily. She wondered why my best friend Black Jack didn't come when she opened the cans. She went to wake him as he slept in the bed we shared and found him unexpectedly passed on.

Mommy's heart isn't just broken in two...it's shattered. But she understands that Black Jack and I were best friends. Right to the end. And we headed to The Bridge together at about the same time. Both of us leaving, and esp Jack, was unexpected. I was 23 years and one day shy of nine months. Jack was at least 13 and handicapped...but he's running and leaping now =).

We passed three hours ago and are heading towards The Bridge with a short visit in Seattle, where my catspirit will give my ladylove a kiss in catperson and introduce my best buddy. Then Jack and I are off.

We can't wait to meet all the friends and family that have gone on as well as meeting all the angel Catster kitties for REAL. IMAGINE THAT!
And we'll be gaurdian angels looking out for all our friends still on the mortal earth.

THANK YOU for all the best wishes and purrrrs!
It was a very gentle and good crossing.

Give me a couple of days to answer all of your nice pawmails, rosettes and stars...because I want to talk to all of you =)

*purrrrrrrrrrr purrrrrrrrrrr purrrrrrrrrr*
Biscuit

I'm Unexpectedly Looking Towards The Bridge

I know this sounds like a downer...but I have unexpectedly taken a turn myself.

Saturday I was up jogging around and eating and being my ol self...and when my mommy got home from work 9 hours later, I was laying on the floor beside the couch where I'd collapsed.

The doctor says my heart has just about gave out. My heart is old. I guess it was years of babying all those kittens. It takes a lot of heart. I'm home and the vet has made me comfortable so I can spend my time with my mommy. I know her heart is breaking in two.
I have maybe a few days. I'm not afraid because I have many catfamily at The Bridge to welcome me.

I'd like to send my thanks to everyone who's been so kind to me here, I just regret I didn't get on Catster a long time ago. You guys have made me a very happy kitty! COTD on my mommy's birthday was really fun.
The friends I made from all over the world from China to my own backyard. All the stars, rosettes and TREATS!

*I'm purring right at this moment*

I will try to post when I can. It's very difficult for mommy. 23 years and 8 months is pretty good and I'm going to enjoy every last moment.

Elmo, I love you.
*purrrrrr purrrrrr*
Biscuit

The Bath & The Fly (Combined stories)

Nov 19, 2006

I like to sit in the little window in the bathroom.
I jump on the toilet lid and up on the back of the tank then up on the sill.

Mommy heard a big splash and passed me as I was jogging back down the hallway. She didn't remember not closing the toilet lid but saw a large puddle of water beside the pot.

Honestly, I did not fall into the crapper.

I gave myself a bath in the tub and then drained it and dried it out.
I put the cap back on the shampoo and hug the towel back up.
I might have left a little water on the floor.

But I did NOT fall into the crapper.
Not me.

*purrrr purrrr*
Biscuit

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My mommy opened the windows for some fresh air. Unfortunately, being in south Texas it's warm and humid right now...and about 500 flies must've come inside the house.

Mommy said it looked like Amityville Horror.
Personally, I thought it was pretty cool stuff.

Anyhow, since we can't use poison, mom bought some "old fashioned fly paper". It was working pretty good. Lil buzzers stuck all over it.

When mommy got up this morning she found me also stuck to it (or it to me).
It was mainly wrapped around my back end. Since it said FLY paper I didn't think I had anything to worry about. I walked around with it during the night and picked up some dust bunnies, blanket fuzz, the wrapper from some Halloween candy, and a few flies flying under the radar.

Mommy didn't think the idea of greasing me up to break the sticky was an appealing idea and neither did I.
Then she told me that people pay big bucks for a bikini wax and I was going to get a swanky spa job for FREE!

YEEEEEOW!

I don't care of she DOES tell me I look Brazilian now.
I don't even care if she sings "Girl From Ipanema" to me.
And I don't care if I AM thong-ready.
Flypaper being ripped off your hiney s*cks.

*hmmmph*
Biscuit

THANK YOU!

Thank you, each and every kitty (and their human mommies and daddies who love them), for being so kind to a deaf ol southern gent like me.

Being Cat of the Day has been a hoot. I'll enjoy it down to the last second and remember it forever.

The Rosettes and Stars (and Turkeys lol) have been supersweet.
Over 1200 treats WOW!

But it's my friends here that mean the most.
The baby kittens. The seniors. The sweet spirits that have passed on.
And a special lady named Elmo.

I'm a very happy guy. I'm still a goofball.
Tonite I had slices of New York Strip steak.
And baked potato (I LOVE taters).
Now I'm relaxing and watching Dracula (I used to have fangs too, you know).

All is well.
*purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr*
Biscuit

OMG! Cat of The Day!

I just noticed I'm Cat of the Day!


*faints*

Thinking....

Tomorrow is my mommy's birthday. (She's even older than me!)
I don't know what to get her. She says my love and companionship is enough...and she doesn't like that birthday fuss...but I really think I should give her something, you know?

I thought about it all day. They say that gifts that are handmade mean the most to humans.
So thought about it a lot.
Then I got to work.

I was able to regurgitate one of my best hairballs ever. I'd been working on it for a while and this seemed like a good time to launch it.
I hid it wrapped in my mommy's fleece throw blanket.

I bet she'll be surprised!
I hope she doesn't find it before Thursday. (I hid it real good.)

Man, she's gonna LOVE it!!!

My Sore.

A little while back, mommy found a little bump on my leg/heel. Because I am a "senior" I have more of a cancer risk. It didn't look like much but I guess I had to have it looked at. Mommy was really scared.

The vet said it's just a little irritation on my heel where I have a callus. And of course I picked it. Because that's my job.
Then it tried to heal and my hair stuck to the scab. So I picked it again. Until I made a little hardish feeling bump on my skin under the hair/scab. I had to pick it on general principal after we got back from the vet and mommy put the medicine on it.

When it was almost gone, I had to pick it one last time just to see if it was still pickable. Which it was. So mommy put some really really crappy tasting stuff on it.

Now the last final bit of scab is coming off. The skin underneath is really nice.

I really miss my sore. (I want to pick it.)

What a Way to Start on Catster!

Wowie! I've only been here a day and I have over 60 friends! I've been corralled three times...I have some little ribbons and a turkey...treats...emails and pawmails!

I've got to say that I've never seen so many pretty girlcats in one place!
One especially has caught my eye...

The guys are great, too, and I've found some cool buds.

Catfriends from all over the world!
And one's even a pirate.

All the kitties here (and their human mommies and daddies who love them) are so nice.

*purrs*

OMG! 34 Friends!

MEEEEOOW!
I'm so happy I just don't know what to do! I have 26 friends!
I'll...I'll...lick myself furiously for a few moments until I compose myself!!!

*faints*

Edit: After a long nap, I am greeted with 34 friends, 24 treats, a lovely Rosette and a Pawmail!
Thank you everyone. You have made an old kitty very very happy.
I am very glad I came here to meet such cool kitties =^..^=
*Biscuit*

My First Day on Catster

It's hard to type because my thumb's too short to hit the spacebar...it's gonna take me forever. Thank God for sPellcheCk. Oh nO I hate tHe shift key!

It's been fun here I have only been on two hours and I have 7 treats! I asked for a friend but they haven't got back to me yet. (Probably types slower than me.) Thank you everyone that looks at my page and leaves a treat.
I'd love to have friends.
And this is much better than MySpace.

Well, I gotta go lick myself for a while.
*Biscuit*