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"I'm one lucky cat! That's why I'm named Seven! You can read about my unusual name right here on my page. I'd purr really loudly if we could be furriends!"
"We love our sponsored kitties from the Blind Cat Rescue and Sanctuary! Natasha and Mike are our sisfur and brofur in spirit. Please visit www.blindcatrescue.com and learn how you can help these very special cats."
"I love my new Tranquility Blanket!!! Hazel Lucy's mommy makes these and they are so snuggly! I claimed this one for my very own as soon as it arrived. Purrrrrrr!!!!"
Coloration: Tortoiseshell
Likes: Climbing her cat tower and sleeping on the highest shelf...cuddling first thing in the morning.
Pet-Peeves: Not knowing where 'her people' are in the house! Going to the vet...taking her interferon.
Favorite Toy: Her mouse maze. She loves it!
Favorite Nap Spot: Almost anywhere, but she loves her special cat bed.
Favorite Food: She prefers dry food, especially as she's gotten older. She loves cat milk, too!
Skills: Attacking feet under the covers at night - and she uses claws and teeth! Very effective! Turning the tables on brother Bo and chasing the much larger cat around the house!
Dwells:
indoors
Arrival Story: On 7/7/07, my husband went to the grocery store at about 11:30 PM. He was in the dairy section, next to an emergency exit fire door, when he was sure he heard the crying of a kitten. Being the soft-hearted man he is, he asked the check-out crew if they knew of any cats around. Teenagers being teenagers, they weren't very interested, but shortly afterward, he saw two boys headed to the rear delivery docks, one carrying a broom. My husband drove around back, not wanting to leave a defenseless cat or kitten to face the broom-armed boys alone. Beneath a pallet, they found a small kitten, no more than 4-5 weeks old.
Naturally, the kitty came to a forever home with us!
Bio: We named our new family member "Seven" because she was found on 7/7/07 - and she was certainly a lucky kitten!
Seven has been diagnosed with Feline Leukemia, like our Bo. It broke our hearts, but we are giving both kitties interferon and doing our best to keep them healthy and happy. We recently enclosed a terrace and made a screen porch where Seven and Bo can go and watch the world outside. We're hoping they beat the odds and live long, healthy cat lives.
Seven apparently used up her 'cat voice' crying to be found. She can't really meow, though she cried loudly enough to be heard inside the supermarket when my husband heard her! Now she 'chirps' and squeaks. Only very rarely, when she's very upset, will she manage a sort of meow. We think the chirping is cute!
Seven is usually the first to greet her mom when I get home. She is an expert ankle-weaver, which sometimes makes walking difficult. She takes great offense if I don't pick her up for a cuddle within the first minute of arriving home. Seven is definitely a cuddler!
Lives Remaining: 9 of 9
Forums Motto: Lucky Seven!
The Groups I'm In: !!!!!!!Rescued Pets!!!!!!!!!, !!!The group for disabled and/or cat rescue cats!!!, "Cats Raised In The South", ♥ Love that Pet ♥, Calico & Tortie Darlings, Catservatives, Friends of the Blind Cat Rescue & Sanctuary, I HELPED JASPER AND JILLIAN GET TO THEIR FURR-EVER HOME 21-22/7/07, LIVING with FeLV, Pen Paws, Special Needs Cats, The Catster and Dogster Railroad, The Hazel Lucy Appreciation Society, ~*Totally Torties!!*~, ~*~Tortoiseshell Lovers!~*~
The Last Forum I Posted In: The Book game
Blind Cat Rescue & Sanctuary was started to answer the need for a safe place for blind cats that were deemed unadoptable by regular shelters and were going to be killed just because they are blind.
We are a registered non profit with the state of North Carolina. There are no paid employees, only volunteers, so all contributions go directly to the kitties.
Rescue is about restoring hope and dignity to creatures for whom no one else cares about. We are but humble vessels to help these magnificent creatures find their forever homes. The responsibility is big but the returns on our emotional investment are greater. You cannot place a value on the look of contentment that comes when an animal is clean, exercised, warm, fed and safe for the first time in its life.
Blind Cat Rescue & Sanctuary
Helping Blind Cats See a Future!
Please visit Katie Scarlett's Attic, an eBay store where all proceeds benefit the Blind Cat Rescue. Won't you help a blind cat find a safe, loving home?
Katie Scarlett's Attic: An eBay Store to Benefit Blind Cat Rescue & Sanctuary
Dog's Point of View: "Humans feed us, protect us, pat us, and give us shelter.
They must be gods..."
Cat's Point of View: "Humans feed us, protect us, pat us, and give us shelter. We must be gods..."
Yesterday started out perfectly. I woke up and went out on our cat porch for some mornin' air. The spring air was crisp but not too cold, and I saw a mockin'bird diggin' fur worms out in the yard. Our cat porch is screened so it's a perfect place to watch for birds, bugs, and other interestin' stuff.
Meowmy called us fur breakfust and it wuz my fav'rite! Fish and shrimp!!! Mmmmm! Delicious, furst thing in the mornin!
Then brofur Bo and I played chase around the den 'til I got tired and climbed on the top shelf of the cat tree fur a mid-mornin' nap.
I wuz still sleepin' when Meowmy picked me up. I mewed in protest, but before I knew it, I wuz stuck in that most terrible of places - the dreaded CAT CARRIER!
Now as far as I know, nothin' good ever comes from bein' in that carrier! Sometimes, it takes me a long ways off to our beach condo. It's nice when we're there, but the ride lasts furever!!!! 'Course we usually rides in the big dog carrier for long trips like that, and I has brofur Bo with me.
But this wuz the small carrier. That means only one thing...an even more dreaded thing...the VET'S OFFICE!!!
Somethin' different happened this trip. I wuzn't alone! Brofur Shamrock wuz in another carrier. And Holly - the sole dog amongst all us felines - wuz ridin' in the back! Three of us wuz goin' to the vet's!
We didn't have to wait long. We went to a small room and a few minutes later, Dr. Heather came in. She looked at Holly first. I could see out of my carrier, and they stucked a needle in that poor dog's leg!!! Then BLOOD came out and filled up a little container on the needle. Holly wuz so brave! She didn't yelp once.
Then it wuz Shammy's turn. He wuzn't good like Holly dog! Shamrock is deaf, and maybe he just didn't understand what wuz goin' on. 'Cause he hissed and howled, spit and scratched. That poor tech holdin' him for Dr. Heather didn't get scratched but he came awfully close! They stucked a needle in poor Shammy, too, but they didn't take anythin' out. They put some medicine in, I thinks. Meowmy called it a 'booster'. Shammy wuz awful glad to get back in his carrier, I thinks.
I tried hard to squeeze all the way back in my carrier and hide, so's maybe they wouldn't find me, but it didn't work. Meowmy helped pull me out. Bad Meowmy!!!!
I decided I wanted to be like Holly and be brave. So when Dr. Heather stucked that stick - I thinks it's called a 'mometer - up my...rear end...I didn't say nothin'!
When she stucked a needle in my leg and pushed in the 'booster juice', I didn't say nothin'! Dr. Heather called me a brave girl, and I got to go back in my carrier.
It wuz over!
Meowmy told me on the way home that Dr. Heather thinks I's very healthy for a FeLV+ kitty and doin' very well on my interferon and L-Lysine. I guesses that's the stuff Meowmy makes me drink and mixes with my food every day. I's not sure why, but it must be important.
Then Meowmy promised all of us that we's through with the vet's office fur a long time!
Soon we wuz back home, and I wuz back on my cat porch with brofur Bo and sisfur Darcy. The sun wuz still shinin' and that mockin'bird wuz still huntin' fur worms.
My good day turned bad day had turned out pretty well after all!
Our Meowmy loves the Blind Cat Rescue & Sanctuary of North Carolina. They help kitties who are blind find loving homes and give them a safe, caring place to live. Our new sisfur, Scarlett, is blind and we're glad she's safe with us! Meowmy sponsors two of the blind cats at the rescue - Natasha and Mike. Lots of other Catster members are now sponsors, too.
We just got word that the blind cats are SO excited!! The rescue has the chance to win $10,000.!!!! I don't know much about money, but the humans seem to think this is a LOT.
The best part is...our Catster furriends can help! And it's so easy!
All you have to do is visit the link below. Fill in a few fields of information, and viola! You've voted for Blind Cat Rescue and Sanctuary of North Carolina! You can even vote anonymously, if you prefer. (Whatever anonymously means...)
So please vote for Blind Cat Rescue today. Tell your furriends and ask them to vote. The rescue wants to build a new cattery so can more blind cats can be saved. Wouldn't that be a wonderful way to start the New Year?
Here's the address: http://www.care2.com/animalsheltercontest/76194/?refer=30719 .15.1229633524.6461
(Meowmy doesn't know how to do a link in my diary. Poor dumb Meowmy!)
This has been the scariest night ever!!!!! Fur a while, I thinks I's gonna die!!!!
It was a terrible, horrible thing!!
Let me 'splain!
Meowmy wuz wrappin' Christmas presents in the den and watchin' a movie on the TV. I doesn't understand watchin' TV, unless there's animals on. Then I luvs to watch!
Anyways, Meowmy had tossed this sack on the floor. It was not too big with nice rope handles. I luvs sacks! So I decided to peek inside. It was pretty inside that sack, so I stuck my head in a little more. Then I felt brofur Bo battin' my tail. He luvs to bat at my tail when I's busy with somethin' else. Grrrrrrr!
So I turned around to growl at him and that's when the terrible, horrible thing happened!!!!!
One of them handle things wrapped itself around my kitty neck. It held on tight! I tries to shake it loose but it wouldn't let go!! I tries to tear it loose, but it wouldn't tear.
I started to run and run and run, as fast as I could. I heard Meowmy calling fur me but I wuz too scared to listen. I just runs and runs and runs.
I runs around the den - twice! The terrible, horrible thing won't let go!!!!!
I runs around Meowmy's music studio - three times! The terrible, horrible thing won't let go!!!!
Then I runs down the stairs to the basement!
Meowmy's still calling me. Bo and Shamrock and Darcy and Catfish are following me to see what's wrong.
I just runs!!!!!!
I decides to run out the cat door that goes to our cat porch.
That did it!! The terrible, horrible sack got catched in the cat door and ripped away from my little kitty neck.
Meowmy scooped it up and throwed it away! Bad terrible, horrible thing!!
Then Meowmy scooped ME up and cuddled me fur a long, long time. I wuz breathin' hard and shakin' - just a little.
I has decided I likes Christmas...
But I doesn't like SACKS!!!
Merry Christmas, everycat!!!!! (And watch out fur them terrible, horrible sacks!)
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