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Coloration: Blue
Likes: She loves to be petted, brushed or combed: she looks up adoringly. She loves belly rubs: she flops over on her back and invites us to rub her belly. She loves taking her morning "bath" in the sunny front windows. She loves people -- everyone!!
Pet-Peeves: No lap available!
Favorite Toy: She LOVES a purple and blue feather fishing lure, on a wand. It was a gift from Louis and Ethan to Scooter for her 20th birthday, but Scooter didn't get to play with it much, so Lola is making sure it's well-loved and appreciated.
Favorite Nap Spot: A lap - any lap!! Is yours available?
Favorite Food: Innova Cat and Kitten (canned)
Skills: Disappearing!
Dwells:
indoors
Arrival Story: It was destined! After the loss of our beloved Scooter on Feb. 5, 2009, we knew we wanted another cat -- ideally, two -- but I was still trying to get past the initial grief. My husband asked when we could get another cat, though, so I started looking online, still not ready to look in person. The cats who fit our 'wish list' were too far away. Eventually, I felt brave enough to look at real live cats, so we went to the Petco and PetSmart adoptions one Saturday. We didn't find the cat for us, but it felt good to hold and pet a cat again. We talked with a rescue group volunteer at Petco and took home a brochure and adoption application. Back home, I looked online again. As I scrolled down Petfinder's list of breeds, I clicked on Burmese. When I'd checked it before, there were no possibilities for us, but this time, there she was: small, senior female, very friendly and social, and she was in our area -- exactly what we were looking for! The same rescue group, at Petco, had her listed. I went back to Petco, the volunteer called the foster mom and we arranged to meet "Luna" at Petco the next day at noon. Before we met her, I filled out the adoption application, just in case. We met, we loved, we brought her home immediately, on March 15, 2009. Lola (renamed from Luna) is home with us now, to stay! We feel we were destined and perfect for each other: she's the right kitty to help fill some big holes in our hearts as well as find a special place of her own (she already has), and we're committed to giving her the love and care she deserves.
Bio: Lola originally belonged to a breeder here in Albuquerque. When the breeder died in late 2005, Lola and the breeder's other cats were taken to the city shelter and kept there for 3 months while the court decided what to do with them. Lola was estimated to be 10 years old at that time. Released to a rescue group in March 2006, she was spayed and treated for some illnesses, then adopted in May 2006. That person returned her to the rescue group on March 8, 2009, apparently because she was throwing up. When we adopted her on March 15, 2009, she had some obvious health issues but throwing up isn't one of them. All her teeth were extracted on March 27, 2009 due to severe periodontal disease. Blood tests show she has stage 2 kidney disease. She may have chronic upper respiratory infections, too, but we hope that will be helped by taking care of her dental problems. Lola's such a sweet, lovable lap cat, very social and friendly -- a real love -- and we feel fortunate and blessed to have her with us. ******************************* Lola blessed our lives with her beautiful, loving soul and indomitable spirit for only 8 months and 1 day, but she'll remain in our hearts forever. A rapid decline in her health led her vet and another vet to believe she had lymphoma. Lola was too weak to endure testing and treatments ~ we just couldn't ask it of her. We let her go in peace. On November 16, 2009, with the loving assistance of her vet and as I cradled her in my lap, she very peacefully began her journey to the Bridge, where she'll always be our sweet . . . *******************************LOLA ~ Our Good Girl, forever.*******************************
Forums Motto: I came, I purred, I conquered... Catster Local Spots I've Marked: Albuquerque Cat Clinic, Wags & Whiskers, Long Leash on Life Coco's the reason I have my new home: Coco's mom told my mom how sweet Burmese cats are. When Mom looked on Petfinder again for a cat to adopt, she didn't intend to look for Burmese. She had checked Burmese before and there were none right for her and Dad. On her way to check on some other cats, she saw the Burmese category, and something made her click on it again... and there I was! Thank you, Coco's mom, for planting the thought in her head.
How Mom and Dad became attached to me: When my foster mom took me out of my carrier and put me in my future Dad's arms, I clung to him with everything I had, purring and kneading furiously. No one had trimmed my claws for a long time so they got stuck in his clothes. My future Mom helped pry them out, then she held me. I got stuck in her tee shirt, too. Since we were all "attached" by then, they had to take me home!
Credits: Scooter designed my page. She couldn't do it without instructions, though, so credit and thanks go to Pawsome Pages' Callie Jean for great instructions and creative ideas (Scooter "borrowed" one of her creative ideas), and big thanks also to Jake for great instructions and for getting Scooter started. Thanks Callie Jean and Jake!
I was always a busy girl and a good girl, and I still am, even though I'm an angel now.
After I came to the Bridge, I got busy trying to find the right cats for Mom and Dad. With a little help from some friends, it didn't take me long to guide them to two cats who needed a good retirement home. Mom and Dad knew they were meant to adopt those two cats, but it took a while for them to be ready for it. Then it took a while longer to get the details worked out.
It must have been on Scootie's watch Sunday morning that all the power went out at the Cleveland airport. I didn't do it -- I'm still a good girl. The airport was completely shut down, all day, and Mom and Dad were supposed to be flying home in the afternoon with Beepers and Ashlynne.
Luckily, they had more help from a friend. The mom of PJ, Callie Jean, Velvet and Katrina, drove them over 100 miles from Cleveland to Toledo so the retired Burmese show cats Beepers and Ashlynne and Mom and Dad could get a plane from Toledo to Chicago, then back home. We ALL were on watch as they flew home Sunday night and everything went great then, too.
Beepers and Ashlynne are settling into their new home now. Mom hopes to start Catster pages for them today while they are napping. They're just settling down for a nap together now, in the baby buggy that SooLing, then Scooter, and then I used before them. Whenever Beepers and Ashlynne are awake, Mom and Dad are concentrating on making them feel at home and feel loved, and there hasn't been much time for computers.
If you're a friend on Mom's Facebook page, she added a few photos there yesterday, if you wish to see them before their Catster pages are completed.
I only sent thanks to about half of those who sent gifts and congratulations for the World's Coolest Contest, but I still have that on my "good girl" list to complete. An unfortunate incident a couple weeks ago kept Mom from being able to help me complete sending those thank you's after I just got started, but as soon as Mom gets the pages for Beepers and Ashlynne completed, I hope I can get back to sending thank you's.
A small clowder is gathering 'round me, awaiting the opening of our Cloud 9. I could get squished if I weren't so good about jumping out of the way.
There's a whole lot of Siamese here: Simon, Samson, Sissy and Sassy, Suzuki (Suzi), SooLing, and Scooter! They are loud!!
There's an orange tabby who looks a little bit like Calvin. His name is Rusty. And a cute, mostly-black kitty with a white spot on his chin, named Milky!
We think Cloud 9 over our house will be open soon. We can't wait to see our family!
Happy Holidays to all my Catster friends -- and my two official Dogster pals, too. (That Webster sure is one smart doggie, just like Scooter said. He made all 3 of us Catster kitties -- Scooter, SooLing and me -- official friends with him and his doggie brother!)
This morning, Scooter was checking Diary Central and happened to see a familiar doggie face shown down in Dogster Diary Central. It was her friend Webster, one of the smart doggies who help out in the Pawsome Pages group. She clicked on the link to Webster's diary.
Scooter laughed about Webster's most recent diary entry and wanted to leave a comment, but wasn't logged in to Dogster. She logged in, then expected to have an option to leave a comment with her name and link, just like on Catster. Instead, she saw this message:
Comment as a pet author:
NOTE: You have no active dogs and therefore cannot post to forums. In order to post you can either: add a dog now or if you wish to post without a pet author you may apply for guest privileges. You may not be able to post because one or more of your pets has been flagged for review.
Did you see that last sentence? You may not be able to post because one or more of your pets has been flagged for review.
Scooter looked at me.
"Huh-uh! It's not me. I'm a good girl! I even told HQ they gave me too many zealies for my contest prize!"
Scooter checked all our pages, then checked "My Account" and we seemed to be in the clear on that one. None of us is flagged for review.
So she looked at the other options:
>>add a dog now -- Mom and Dad don't have any dogs, so she couldn't add a dog.
>>apply for guest privileges -- It's Sunday, who is there to approve it? She didn't want to wait, anyway, she wanted to comment NOW.
Don't tell a Siamese they can't do something! Scooter fiddled around with some stuff -- I don't know what she was doing. I'm a good girl. I didn't look. Pretty soon, up pops the little orange box that says "pick your author!" Sure enough, there were options for any of us 3 to comment.
So Scooter commented -- take a look here. It says she "Barked" a comment. MOL! She IS Siamese and LOUD! It shows her name and a link to her page, but her photo doesn't show up. Scooter says she can fiddle around like that in the forums on Dogster and her photo will show up there when she posts, but it didn't show up in diary comments.
I'm a good girl. It says we "cannot post to forums" on Dogster, so I wouldn't do it, but Scooter has. She's Siamese.
By the way, if you ever get that message about applying for guest privileges, don't click on that link. Scooter clicked on it, thinking it would be an application to fill out and she wanted to see what it asked. Instead it said:
Application Submitted
Your application to post on the forums has been submitted. Your application will be processed within the next 24 hours. You will receive an email when your application has been approved. Thanks!
Uh-oh! Scooter didn't mean to submit an application! I didn't do it. I'm a good girl.
Some friends of Scooter's and mine who are definitely not in doggie doodoo are Alex, Annie and Bugsy. THANK YOU (and your mommy) for the Christmas card and message to Mom and Dad.
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