Leave a treat for Muppet Nicknames: Puppet, Precious & now 'Muppet-ini '- thanks to my good furiend Sausage Kitty Complexion:
Activeness
sleepy
very active
Intelligence
silly
genius
Curiosity
not curious
very curious
Friendliness
timid
affectionate
Vocal
not vocal
very vocal
Quick Bio:
-deaf
-cat rescue
Birthday: May 31st 2006 Coloration: Tortoiseshell Likes: attention, not letting mom out of her sight & being able to play outdoors ~supervised~ Pet-Peeves: vet visits, people chuckling at her cute facial expressions, and the vacuum Favorite Toy: ~ Her piece of sisal rope & pens,pencils & mousies. UPDATE: Mupp's piece of sisal rope was lost & now she's attached to her big brown mousie & a featherwand that has a mousie attached to it ~ Favorite Nap Spot: anywhere she feels like it, usually the room I'm in Favorite Food: ~ Beef and Halibut - - Tuna, but she is allergic to it ~ Skills: She speaks 'monkey language'. Oooh ooh, ahh ahh ! Too adorable! ~She also has the ability to miraculously overcome all of her life's obstacles~ Dwells:
indoors Arrival Story: I rescued Muppet from a huge cat sanctuary where the cats had been left to starve. Several hundred did not make it and many more were critical when we arrived to try and help the end of May 2007. Muppet and precious Beannie Baby were among the most critical too and the heartbreaking day when Beannie Baby died from kidney failure I scooped up Muppet and brought her home. I didn't want to let her out of my sight. She weighed only 4 pounds, she was emaciated and dehydrated. She could barely walk and she looked like a puppet on strings when she tried. It's been over 3 months now, and Muppet weighs in at 6 pounds. Still needs to gain a couple more pounds. Her kidneys are thankfully hanging in there, but she's still having some problems with her ears. For the first month after we brought her home, she slept by the food and water bowls. She didn't want her food and water to ever get 'lost' again. She's learned to trust again that the food and water will always be there, so now she likes to sleep on a bed or by a window. Her personality is starting to come out and she is such a sweet little character. We love her so much. Bio: Later, in mid July, Best Friends thankfully took over the sanctuary thanks to my pleading phone calls, and they've already adopted out over 100 cats. About 550 cats still need to find homes. We have now officially adopted Muppet!! Yeah! I named her Cassidy in June when I first took her to the vet, but 'Muppet' seems to fit her better. On Catsters, Best Friends has posted some of the beautiful cats from the sanctuary for adoption. They accidentally put my Cassidy/Muppet's picture on another cat's story. They do have another Tortie that they named Cassidy also who is up for adoption. But that adorable little kitty that I'm holding in their photo is our precious baby. :) The photo I added where she's sitting on a chair I took the end of May 2007 out at the sanctuary. Muppet, as most of the cats, was emaciated and almost bald from malnutrition, mange and ringworm. There will be justice for the cats in this horrible animal cruelty and neglect case at this sanctuary. I will be one of the many to testify to make sure the persons responsible hopefully get what they deserve. .......................... UPDATE 12-02-07 - What can one say about Best Friends Animal Society? After they arrived, 748 cats were recovered and 684 of those survived thanks to BF's at this nightmare animal place. (They were awarded by the court another 114 animals,that they flew to Utah, when the former owner's home was raided by Animal Control.) In all, over 300 sadly did not survive due to neglect, and in the end starvation and dehydration, by the previous owners. But as of today, out of the 684 cats that BF's endlessly and diligently worked to save, only 200 or so remain that need to be adopted in to their forever new homes. That's close to 500 cats saved, at times to the tune of $50,000 a week in vet care expenses, and placed into fantastic new homes!! This horrible, so called sanctuary, known as F.L.O.C.K., For Love Of Cats & Kittens (Now rightfully renamed 'For Lack Of Care & Kindness') is now known as among the worst ever recorded hoarding, animal neglect and cruelty cases ever discovered in our Nation's history. We are STILL WAITING for the D.A. to press charges................ As for Little Muppet, she's doing better. Her right ear still bothers her a bit from time to time, but other than that her health has greatly improved. Her newest thing is that she's discovered how to play and that it's fun. She still will freeze and stare at her feet if another cat comes close to her. She has recently warmed up enough to trust one kitty, Armani, a huge breakthrough for her. (Thank you Armani for being so gentle and patient with her) She's such a doll and we love her so much. :) (Further updates are in her diary ) Lives Remaining: 6 of 9 Forums Motto: Kindness Matters
I’ve had many kind people write to me over the years and tell me that they are now sponsoring a kitty from Best Friends in my honor. (grateful purrs) I also know of many that sponsor kitties from there that are not because of me. Mol! (more grateful purrs) Bless all who sponsor a kitty/animal at Best Friends, a rescue or shelter and all who volunteer and help out any homeless pet!
Recently WALLY‘s family kindly began sponsoring one of my fellow furmates from the Great Kitty Rescue. Wally’s diary entry about the beautiful and sweet Wild Child has been chosen twice as a DDP, and we hope his message travels far and wide. Let’s all see Miss WC in her loving and forever home by this Christmas! That gorgeous girl has been patiently waiting at Best Friends for her perfect home to come along for 4 years now.
I’ve read some comments regarding her name and I just giggle. Back when meomy called Best Friends to see if they could come rescue my fellow furmates, she estimated that there were approximately 250 of them still alive. Imagine the surprise as around 800 cats were recovered, all needing immediate medical care, one by one quickly having to go through the intake process…. and each be given a name! That's a ton of names to speedily think up. A lot of the kitties that appeared feral/wild at the beginning, in reality turned out to be sweethearts as such the case with Wild Child. Best Friends states that she is now very loving and playful and would do wonderful in a home of her own with one or two other kitties.
I know a lot of us have as many pets as we can handle, so I’m not asking that one of my Catster friends adopt her. But, if I may, I would like to ask one thing….. Please take a moment to picture in your mind Wild Child being in her perfect home, surrounded by love and comfort. I believe if we all do this, feel the love and the joy of her being adopted, then it will come to be. And if you could in any way, pass along her story and info on how to adopt her that would be so appreciated. http://adoptions.bestfriends.org/Default.aspx?dbid=1013278
This is what WILD CHILD looked like when meomy first arrived to help, and this is her NOW. (Pic thanks to Wally’s mom.)
Dreams do come true, let's all dream of Wild Child being in her own home for Christmas!
Meomy told me this morning ‘Happy Thanksgiving!’ and then she picked me up, showered me with kisses, told me how grateful she was to have me in her life, told me ‘I love you, I love you, I love you right down to every single piece of fur on you!’ I purred out loud to show her that I love and am grateful for her too.
Thanksgiving, ooh ooh! For me, I believe it’s all about love. It reminds me to keep focused and count all of my blessings that I have right now in my life no matter how big or small. Blessings all originate from love. Like the love from above that moved kind people, circumstances and events to:
* bring my meomy and me together *
* guide us to this wonderful and loving community of like minds, known as Catster, where we have met so, so many pawsome friends *
* bring to a reality Muppet’s Bucket Fundraiser that truly saved my life *
* bring the knowledgeable Doc Forbes into my life at a time when I needed her the most *
I had my annual check-up yesterday. I weighed in at 9 pounds and my doc and meomy were thrilled with the results of my blood work. Other than my kidney disease, which showed no worse than last year’s exam, I am one healthy kitty!
I am so blessed in so many ways, and I am overflowing with love and gratitude for everyone and for every great thing in my life! Thank You!!
I wish everyone a Blessed and Happy Thanksgiving! And I send each of you kind thoughts of Love and Health!
I’m camping! I wish that I could say I was camping out with my beau, Grey, at a nice place where there’s lots of critters and birdies. Or camping out in a comfy place in our home staying cozy and warm. But the truth is that I have taken up camping right next to our bowls that usually contain our crunchy dry food. Notice the term ‘usually contain’. Yep, for some odd reason they are all empty! Humph! And for some other odd reason meomy has been aware of this for several days and hasn’t filled them back up. *scratches head*
Sampson is loving this because he gets to eat as much yummy wet food as he wants, whenever he wants it. Meomy is not so happy about that because he tends to eat too quickly and sometimes re-deposits the food right back on the carpet.
Nakita, who normally throws her nose up in the air and refuses to eat wet food, finally became very hungry and is now eating whatever meomy gives her. Meomy is liking this because she has always preferred that all of us kitties eat more wet than dry food.
Chico is just flat out confused and non-stop screams to be let outside. He tells me that he likes the wet food, but then wants outside because he can hunt down his own crunchy food. This is driving meomy crazy, because he follows her around the house rudely screaming at her that he wants to be let outside right ‘NEEOOOOW!’ *giggles*
I’m not quite sure what’s going on here, but I kind of get the feeling that our feed store messed up meomy’s order again. This happened to our neighbor’s kitty, Justice, not too long ago. His mom bought a different brand of dry food and it almost sent sweet Justice to the Bridge. After witnessing that, meomy refuses to risk that with any of us, so our only option is eating the wet food until our brand of dry food arrives. Our neighbor felt so bad when he saw me pathetically camping out next to the empty bowls, that he told meomy that he will go to Las Vegas tomorrow and pick up our NB dry for both Justice’s family and ours. *grateful purrs*
Until then, you can be sure to find me diligently sleeping next to our dry food bowls which meomy finds quite odd because…. I don’t eat dry food! Mol!
Purrs and prayers for all of the ill kitties & doggies. And gentle hugs & prayers of comfort for those who have had to say their sad goodbyes for now to their beloved furry family members. There have been so many recently. *sad purrs*
