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!!!