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"My handsome beau GREY & I grateful for everyfur's prayers ~ Photo by Grey's mom ~"
"~ Mousie & I 'going for a ride' ~"
"~ cracking up at my mousey's jokes ~"
"~ Heading home after my scans at UC Davis ~ thankful to have my HL tranquility blankets, my blankie from Sky & my mousie with me ~"
"~ My mousie and I meeting Lisa, Freckles & Angel Minxy's cool mum, at motel room outside Davis, Calif ~ I later stood on my hind legs & gave her my special Muppet kisses ~ I luv Lisa! ~June 1st 2009 ~"
"~ OMC! Did you just give me 'mouseytude'? ~"
"~ Yep, we knew it was only a matter of time! Mom just discovered the extreme close up setting on her 3 year old camera! Look out furmates! *giggles* ~ January 30th, 2009 ~"
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:
-cat rescue
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
Favorite Nap Spot: anywhere she feels like it, usually the room I'm in
Favorite Food: Beef and Halibut
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. 'Cabbie the Tabby' was one of them, him and his brother Chaos's stories by their real mom are here on Catster's too. (They were thankfully micro-chipped and recently reunited with her two years after being stolen.) Muppet and 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: In mid July Best Friends thankfully took over the sanctuary 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's 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
My meomy and my kitty doc have been saying the word ‘bulla’ quite a lot lately. Bulla this and bulla that, right bulla, left bulla and even the big long word bullaosteotomy. Humph! I’m kinda getting tired of it! There’s something in my left bulla that’s taking up the lower half of it. Then there’s something much smaller in my right bulla also. Ok, so what now?
My kitty doc showed us a model of a kitty’s ear sliced in half. The bulla is the part of the bone on our skull that sits right below the ear canal. It’s where we get what’s known as inner ear infections. It’s round and hollow in the center except for a thin bone or ’shelf’ that separates the top half from the bottom half. In a bullaosteotomy, the surgeon cleans out any debris or infection in both the lower and top half of the bulla.
With the new CT scan and MRI it shows that just the top half of my left and right bullae (plural for bulla) were cleaned out during my surgeries, leaving the trapped debris in the bottom half. The question that remains is this; if you have debris, with no obvious inflammation or infection, sitting in your bulla can this cause pain? UC Davis isn't sure. Since the severe pain was on the right side of my head prior to my surgeries, and then switched to the left side of my head after, and now the CT scans and MRI show that my left bulla is half full of something, meomy and my kitty doc would have to say, “Yes! This is what is causing my chronic pain.”
Nobody wants me to have to go through another surgery, but at this point it’s looking like I may need the bullaosteotomies performed again and done correctly this time. *sighs* Since having the TECA (total ear canal ablation) surgeries I have done remarkably better. I no longer tilt my head to the right and walk into walls. I don’t scrunch up my right ear with pain glaring from my eyes. The surgeries truly saved my life it’s just too bad that the other surgeries, the osteotomies, as far as we can tell were not done correctly. We are waiting on more info from my doc as where to go from here.
Our buddy HOOCH! is very ill and is still in the hospital! We are purrin’ so hard, as many others are, for him and MADI! and others to get well soon.
Ooh ooh, Aah aah!
Worried purrs for our sick friends,
Lil’ Muppet *the one who runs and dives in my box car now & knows how to lie so mom can pull me around a bit faster….. zoom, zoom!*
Ooh! I’ve been tagged by Miss Angel Cleo to play a summer game! It’s a simple one but took a lot of thought. The tag question is, “What kind of ice cream flavor would suit you best?”
I would have to say that my answer is Rocky Road with fluffy little marshmallows & small bits of nuts! I’m soft and fluffy but can be such a silly nut! *giggles*
If anyone would like to play this tag game, consider yourself tagged by Mupps! Thanks!
Ooh ooh, Aah, aah!
Nutty Lil’ Mupp
P.S. Meomy’s working on an update regarding her meeting with my kitty doc yesterday. She’s trying to make it so it’s not so long, confusing, and boring. *yawns - giggles*
I have been observing this strange play time with meomy and a few of the other kitties for a long time. Whenever we get a new box, no matter the size, Sampson and Nakita will take turns riding in it while meomy either pulls or pushes them along. They go from room to room saying hello to every fur and eventually wind back up in the living room. Sampson loves for meomy to go super fast and make the box slide around the corners! That always looked scary and I wanted nothing to do with ‘going for a ride’ in any box!
Sissy C just received some work shoes in the mail. The shoe box was inside another box and Sampson and Nakita were right on top of it arguing who got to ‘go for a ride’ first. Meomy tried to push them around for awhile, but the box was a bit too small for them. Their rears and tails hung out over the edge of the box, and it looked like meomy was having a hard time keeping their fun time going. * giggles - it was a comical sight* Sam and Nakita finally gave up and wandered off. I decided for the first time to muster up some courage and I went over and climbed into the box, which fit me nicely, and sat there staring at meomy. She got all excited that I finally wanted to try this game! She showed me how I must hunker down and lie like Sam and Nakita do so I won’t do a back flip out of the box, but I didn’t want to. I preferred sitting up! *giggles* So off we went, in utter slow motion compared to my furmate’s rides, but still I got to go for my first ride! We were going so slow that I actually had time to lean over and give Armani and Spunky each a kiss as we passed by them. Oh, it was so much fun and I wanted to do it again and again! Meomy gets wore out though and needs to take breaks. Humph! Hee, hee!
A few times today meomy couldn’t find me, but her worried thoughts turned to laughter when she discovered that I was sitting in the box waiting for another ride. Hee, hee! The second time she discovered me it there, I had my mousie in the box too and we both got to go for a cruise! Gee, if my mousie and I had only known what we’ve been missing out on all of this time, but we’re not going to miss out any more! *happy purrs*
Fun Ooh oohs, Aah aahs!
Hugs & Luvs,
Lil’ Muppet
And ooh, meomy reported the bad bag of Diamond to the manufacturer like HL suggested. They gave us a reference number and said that they would investigate and test the food from the batch Grammy’s icky bag came from. Thanks so much for everyone’s suggestions on a new food for Grammy’s kitties. We’re still checking into all of the possibilities, and meomy is going to try and get grammy to slowly coax them into eating some wet foods too. *big hugs & thanks to all*
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