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Leo the Lion's Roar

While the cats at play.. and early Happy Paw-lidays!

My meowmy has been busy with everything that life and this horrible economy has dropped on her. She wanted to send out the best wishes to all of her furry friends this holiday season. We are all fine. She has been trying to help a friend of hers with a kitten situation. 8 kittens need a home in the Oakland area. Her friend is having a difficult time finding them homes. She is worried if they do not find homes soon they will be going to a high kill Shelter. So she has asked me to write about it here. The friend of hers that has the cat and kittens is willing to do a at home foster she cannot afford to feed the cats and my mom has been buying all the cat food and litter for her. But this is an urgent rescue needed. Her friend is also losing her place that she lives in. The owner of the building let the building fall into foreclosure. And the bank is trying to evict them from their home. It’s going to be a tough call but she knows she cannot take 8 cats with her she already has 3 that have to go with her. My mom has done all that she can and she has given her phone numbers to rescue organizations out here but those are full. The only hope is if she will do a home foster till adopted. But that’s not going to happen if she doesn’t have a home to move into. My meowmy won’t even go look at the kittens because she doesn’t want to get attached to them. Anyone’s advice would be helpful and I will make sure to pass it along to my meowmy’s friend.
I am sure you have seen my new picture. My mom says that I am a very handsome man. My friend Lardo was sick last year and had an operation with biopsies. No cancer but he started to develop fatty liver disease from voluntary anorexia. I don’t know about you but why starve yourself. My mom feeds us the best food and fresh filtered water. Treats. You name it I have it. Vet visits and plenty of cuddle time. I don’t understand Lardo tho. All I want to do is sleep with him and lay with him and he won’t have me at all. I think I am too squirrelly for him and not an accomplished power sleeper like him. But Lardo he’s going to be fine as long as mom watches his weight and she feeds him this premium cat food. He’s a trooper.
From my family to yours Happy Pawlidays!!

Leo The lion Hearted

Leave no Aminal Behind...

My mom is sad today. Maybe it’s because she is reading a lot about people abandoning their pets. This isn’t just about the cats that they find locked up in abandoned houses wailing for help. Nor about the dogs left tied up in the backyard and left to die of starvation and dehydration. This about the people that dump their pets in animal shelters after knowingly taking on the responsibility of a life this is why she is sad. See my mom is quite militant about her love of life in all forms. She learned that everything has life from the plants to the bugs to mice to cats and dogs to livestock to wild animals in the jungles of Africa to even the humans that walk this earth. Why would anyone take on that responsibility if they are not willing to make the necessary sacrifices? Are people that selfish now that if it doesn’t fit in their agenda they are willing to toss a life away? Is life that disposable? If animal life was treated as human lives are then I would have to say that public openly condones disposable life. When you pass a person in need of help its apparent that life too many is disposable or that life is an inconvenience in your plans. No one is going mind if you are a few minutes late. I guess she says this to me because she notices that rarely do people stop to help others. My mom and dad make it a point to make this world just a little bit better by trying to help others when they can IF they can.
But I guess I digress. I wonder how people can just dispose of their pets so freely and keep going. My mom tells me that there are people out that change pets because they don’t fit the décor of their house like a black and white room with an orange cat or because their Labrador isn’t the hottest pocket dog on the market and he won’t fit into her $2000 dollar purse. I guess people don’t realize how silly it is to own an animal just because you want to join the pocket dog club. Now with that contradiction my mom got me a purebred Abyssinian cat but I am a rescue. Prior to me she shared her home with another aby that she absolutely adored. He was also a rescue. She also had October and she was a rescue. She had a choice to make when she moved across the country to either leave them behind or bring them with her to California. She wasn’t going to leave them behind. That’s part of her older brother’s teachings “leave no man behind”. I guess that’s where she gets that about cats and children and elderly and anyone in general leave no man behind. She doesn’t seem to understand that the rest of the world doesn’t share her vision of respect of life. I am glad that she does. I know that she won’t leave me or my friend Lardo behind and that she always will think about a home for all of us to be together in. So I guess I write this for all the cats, dogs, and animals that have been left behind and cast off. She wishes that for every cat that had an owner or for every cat that owned a human that they find their happy place again. The thing that troubles her most is that most do not. But for the ones that are lucky to know love again she remains optimistic that maybe someday someone will pay it forward and keep paying it forward till we have the pet population under control. I guess you can say my mom’s a dreamer. I would say so. I get to sleep every night with my resting on that big heart of hers purring with contentment. Speaking of contentment it’s time for my afternoon-pre-dinner nap.

Wishing nothing but the best to all my animal friends

Leo the Lion hearted

All settled in...

My Meowmy has me all settled in and on a routine for feeding and grooming. I love my new meowmy everyday I wake up next to her and she pets me for about 15 minutes before she moves me so she can get ready to leave so she can make this money thing and buy me more snacks and wet food. She often tells me that money doesn't grown on trees or it can't be found by digging in the cat box for hidden treasure. I do that you know I like to dig and root in everything. My instinctual curiosity has the best of me at times and I don't realize that I can get myself trapped. I get to spend my days lounging with my friend Lardo and my dad. My dad doesn't like me or at least he pretends when my mom is home. I know that secretly he loves me. He plays with me and pets me a lot. I also in turn help with his computer work. My dad is a designer and works from home. While my mom toils in the office My dad gets all the day time with the furry kids. I am a happy kitty who wouldn't be with an 8 ft cat tree to climb on food at my leisure fresh water a clean cat box and a human that devotes 2 hours a day to petting me and grooming me. She tells me she loves me and that she is happy to see me. I am home. I found my humans. I found my furry brother that loves me and wrestles with me and cleans my big ears. Sometimes I wonder how I got so lucky with my humans. My humans will never ever abandon me to the elements. I am very well fed. I get plenty of exercise. I am even learning to play fetch. My mom tells me that I am one in a million cats that are lucky to have a warm home a loving family. But I am young and do not understand. I know that my mom has been seeing other cats I can smell them on her. I know she sees Dogs. I knew it when I met her that this human was raised with animals. She knew just how to pick me up. Just how to hold me and she knew my sweet spot. I am still trying to figure out how she knows my sweet spot. She bought me a bed. I have a everything that money can buy I even have things money can't Love Patience understanding. I am a lucky boy. For those that don't know much about me. I am a rescue. My meowmy and daddy drove every weekend for a month to visit with me after she adopted me and I had ring worm.

With that I wanted to send a special meow out to my friends that I wish could find more permanent homes:
Cami
Sueder
Flopsy
Shari
Darby
Bob in San Diego http://www.catster.com/cats/710050
Cotton in Austin
Ally
Need a Home http://www.catster.com/cats/767017

I also wanted to say Thank you to everyone that has ever stopped to help an animal whether it be human dog or any animals. Just stopping to help means more than you will ever know.

Leo
The Lion Hearted