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

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