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Coloration: Dilute Calico
Likes: Eating and begging for food, looking out the window at birds and squirrels and bossing everyone around.
Pet-Peeves: Going to the vet, taking medication, loud noises, the vacuum cleaner, ignoring her when she wants attention.
Favorite Toy: She likes playing with her cork ball, catnip carrot, catnip candy cane and boogie mat.
Favorite Nap Spot: In her cat bed, the teepee bed, the *cave* in the cat tree and on my bed.
Favorite Food: She's fussy about her food. She loves tuna and people food treats such as sphagetti, macaroni, turkey and chicken.
Skills: She has turned me into her slave.
Dwells:
indoors
Arrival Story: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Mittens had two other homes before coming to live with me. A friend of mine adopted Mittens and her sister Kaci when they were a little over 1 year old and they lived with her for 8 years. In January 2006, my friend knew she was dying from cancer and was seeking new homes for them. Two days after learning of their plight, I decided to adopt them. It's one of the best decisions I've ever made!
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When my sweet Abby went to the Bridge in December 2005, I was grief stricken and decided *no more cats!* There's a saying that *the former cat sends the new cat* and Abby definitely had other plans for me! I truly believe she sent Mittens and Kaci to me.
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Bio: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Mittens is very timid and shy. She hid in my bedroom closet for the first week, only coming out to eat and use the litterbox when no one was home during the day or at night when everyone was sleeping.
At the end of the first week, she surprised me by leaving the safety of my bedroom closet and walking up to me and rubbing my legs. She let me pet her too! At that point, she set up headquarters under my bed for the next several months although she started coming out of the bedroom more and more often until one day, about 3 months after living with me, she appeared downstairs.
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Mittens is one of the most gentle, non-aggressive, peaceable cats I've ever known. She is a very sweet and affectionate kitty but very shy with people. However, when Mittens gets to know you, after observing and studying you, and feels comfortable enough to trust you, you will find out what a gentle, sweet and affectionate kitty she is!
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Her Birthday is June 1, 1996
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Her Gotcha Day is January 29, 2006
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Lives Remaining: 7 of 9
Forums Motto: I'm a Fighter! Catster Local Spots I've Marked: Veterinary Specialty & Emergency Center (VSEC), Burl-Moor-Driben Animal Hospital
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Mittens was diagnosed with intestinal lymphoma on December 23, 2008. She's taking the chemo drug cyclophosphamide along with prednisone. So far she's holding her own and appears to be getting better. Please pray that she goes into remission!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CATSTER HONORS:
CAT OF THE DAY: June 25, 2008
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DIARY OF THE DAY: September 25, 2009
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DAILY DIARY PICK: February 6, 2008, March 26, 2008, April 28, 2008, October 25, 2008, December 4, 2008, January 14, 2009, June 9, 2009, September 20, 2009, November 29, 2009 and January 29, 2010.
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A pink cancer awareness bracelet from my furriend Pretty Girl. Thank you! I wear it with pride!
My dear furriend Ishtar gave me these boxing gloves to help me fight my cancer. I'm gonna deliver a knock-out punch with these gloves!
Healing Rose from my furiend Hannah
My sweetheart and soulmate Toonces:
Toonces & Mittens Forever!
My Beloved Guardian Angel TT:
My angel sister and pawsome guardian angel!
My gorgeous *adopted* sister Saki -- Sisters Furrever!
Saki & I were Daily Diary Picks together on 2/6/08
My niece Maci (she's named after me and my sister Kaci):
Oh goody, goody! We’re getting more snow! This will be our second blizzard in 4 days and it’ll hit almost the same area as Saturday’s storm. Where we live, we’re expected to get another 12-18 inches on top of the 26 inches we had dumped on us during Saturday’s storm. That will break all records in our area!
The latest forecast says the storm is predicted to arrive in two bursts. The first burst will begin this evening around 8-9 pm and it’ll snow all night long. Then there’ll be a slight lull early tomorrow morning as we wait for the second burst to hit. The second burst will bring the heavy snow, strong winds and large accumulations.
The human kids are happy because the schools will be closed. The bigger humans aren't happy about it at all. Mommy and grandma are very unhappy about it!
Truthfully, me and Kaci don’t care much one way or the other except it means mommy and grandma will be home all day. That's always a good thing!
All I can say is Wowza! This is officially a blizzard. The white stuff is falling fast and furious out there. The wind is blowing the snow so hard you can barely see anything. The snow is piling up on roofs and against windows. It’s certainly not a day to go outdoors even if you like snow! We have at least a foot of snow on the ground at this point and the storm will continue all day. By the time it’s over this evening, we’re expected to have at least another foot of snow. That means it could total 2 feet or more. There are power outages in some NJ counties to the south of us and all we can do is purr that our power doesn’t go out too. It’s too cold and windy to go without heat today and I love being snug and warm. And since mommy can’t go out in this weather, what would she do without her computer?
Hope everyone weathering through this storm stays safe and warm!
We’re bracing for falling white wet stuff from the sky to come today. The sky is predicted to start dropping it this afternoon. Humans who speak English call it “snow”. Depending on which forecaster you listen to, we’re getting either snow flurries or light snow showers or enough snow to leave between 3-8 inches by Saturday morning. Then there’s a big one coming on Saturday with heavy snow and winds that will leave up to a foot of snow. Then another storm is predicted for Tuesday. Ugh!
The humans are all out today in the supermarkets and other stores stocking up on food and supplies. Humans think they have go shopping before snow storms and stock up on food because they fear they’ll be trapped indoors for at least a week. This puzzles me because it has never happened here. Those big, noisy plow trucks are already out on standby and will start plowing, sanding and salting the roads as the snow is falling and when the snow stops, the trucks are out day and night until the roads are clear. The businesses clear their parking lots. The roads are cleared or passable by the next day, including our residential street, and the parking lots are cleared too. Everyone will be out driving the day after. And where do you think they’ll be going? To the supermarket and anywhere else they want to go! So what’s the panic about?
Mommy was out there this morning with everyone else but she didn’t go to the supermarket. She went to the pet food store and stocked up on a week’s supply of cat food. Now that’s a very reasonable thing to do. After all, what if, for the first time ever, the white stuff does trap humans indoors for a week and we run out of cat food? Kaci and I could starve and that can’t ever be allowed to happen! Good thinking mommy!
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