Birthdays Come so Quickly!

I can't believe it's my birthday today and now I'm eight years old!

Maybe Dad will bring me a present when he's home from work. Otherwise he was wishing me a Happy Birthday after midnight already and this morning too!

This must be a special day or something!

Thank you all for the gifties and congratulation notes you have sent!

Tyson had a birthday May 7 and has to send out Thank Yous and now I have to send some too. And I see Tyson is "Diary of the Day" today. He has more thank yous to send!

We'll have to hire a full time secretary!

Love to All!
Ginger xo

The Fridge

I like to check out what's in the refrigerator but my Dad never lets me get too far inside and he does not hold the door open very long!

But yesterday I did. He did not want to close the door since I was standing at the open door, investigating this cool environment.

I smelled around everything and began pawing at a tangerine, on the lower shelf, what was that!

That was all my Dad would let me do and he closed the door and petted me and he said "oh you're cool like you've been outside".

Luckily we never go outside!

This morning I had my last syringe of the pain medication for having teeth pulled. That stuff smelled worse today than yesterday! But I don't think I was in pain at all, I wanted to be fed and lean up on my dad's leg so that he'd be sure to feed us; acting just as normal as can be!

Love Ginger xo

I Had Teeth Pulled Too!

I just returned from having 4 teeth pulled today. The funny thing is my pupils are still big and black; but that will wear off by morning. That is what usually happens, because I was 'cat-napping' so to speak, while the Vet did the surgery.

The Vet said I had lots of little teeth missing; where did they go!? They said that can happen sometimes too; and not to worry. Maybe that's why I got these little coughs sometimes, if I had swallowed a teeny tiny tooth. I don't know why my teeth would wanna fall out & leave me!

I sure was hungry when I got home awhile ago. That was because I could not eat anything after 12 midnight. But my Dad was lenient and fed all of us at 12:40 am last night! Well really, he was behind in getting all his things done! He wanted to be sure I ate around midnight since it would be awhile until I'd eat again.

In the morning I will be given a syringe of pain medication and again the next morning too; but they said I have to eat before getting the medicine.

Probably I will be sleepy most of this evening; ahh yawn...

Before I fall asleep:

Happy Easter to all of you!

Love Ginger xo

Margo R.K.N.'s Mom's Birthday!

Today September 9, 2012 is Laura-Lynne's Birthday. She is the Mom of the kitty named "Margo R.K.N." who used to be on Catster, and was very popular!

Remember how Margo loves the color poople! She also loved to sneak some food if her Mom went to Booger King!

If you've been emailing Laura-Lynne since they left, then don't forget her Birthday today!

They have a blog too which you can read:

http://margosmewsings.blogspot.ca/

We could never figure out how to join her blog, so if you know how, tell us how!

Love, Ginger, xo

Your Catster LOVE Gets SHINING Thanks!

Hi everyone, this is the same as my sister Elsa's diary, but we wanted to let many of you know this happy news!

You’ve ALL made Julie so happy!

Lots of you wrote to me (and to Elsa, Felix & Tabatha) last March/April allowing us to write your names in a "Happy Spring" card and "Welcome to Your New Home Card" which we sent to Julie, when she had to give up 6 of her kitties. My diaries last March/April tells what had happened to her.

After Julie received the "Happy Spring Card" you can see how happy she is where she posted in the Catster Forum on April 4/12:

From JULIE:

You Guys Are Amazing!! (Tiny, Squint, Autumn & Fuzz) -

What I love about Catster is that there are true, blue people here that really, truly and authentically care about others in distress about their cats.

I want to thank all those who have offered support, gave donations to the shelter in the name of my cats... that's a big one - they are still awaiting adoption - and my gratefulness and thankfulness, joy and comfort from Catster people is none that I ever remember experiencing in my life.

Thank you deeply,

Tiny Dancer, Fuzz Black-Toe, Squint-Delicious, and Autumn Sits-With-Tiny-Paws (and Julie O')

p.s. I'll be offline starting tomorrow afternoon for maybe a week because of my move into the smaller place.

I love you guys!
Julie
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See how you've all made Julie feel so wonderful & cared for! Here is the link to that:

http://www.catster.com/forums/What_I_Love_About_Cat ster/thread/741176

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After Julie received the "New Home" card with your names written in, she posted in this Catster Forum on May 7/12:

FROM Julie:

How can a group of people be so authentically caring and nice? -

Thank you soooo much for my "Happy New Home" card, what a special card and it's the only one I got, too!

Thank...............you...............guys so, so much, we all love you here, myself, Tiny Dancer, Squint Delicious, Autumn Sits-With-Tiny-Paws and Fuz Black-Toe.

You all make mine and my kitties' lives better.
Much, much thanks again!!

Love,

Julie O', and the gang 'o pudsta's

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Once again you've made Julie feel so much better! That one is linked at:

http://www.catster.com/forums/What_I_Love_About_Catst er/thread/744087

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From Me: The update on Julie's kitties today is that of the 6 she had to give away, 5 are now adopted (including Graciela adopted out to a family that wanted a special needs cat)!! So now, only loveable Marilia is waiting to be adopted (if ANYONE is interested...).

She's at http://www.woodshumane.org
and they now have her biography posted and while reading it you can see she would be a Loving Kitty.

About 2 weeks ago, my Dad got a THANK YOU card in the MAIL from Julie and she wrote LOVINGLY about ALL of you!! Here is what she wrote in the card:


Mike,

Thank you and everyone SO much for emotionally carrying me through a hard time!

You guys are all amazing, compassionate, caring people which I was of the mind didn't exist anymore, so thank you also for restoring my faith that there really are wonderful people out there.

You are awesome and I feel blessed to know you, Heather, and everybody that's written.

Reading the cards has filled me with such joy and I become touched to tears. THANK YOU!!!!

Much love and warmth to all of you and your families.

Julie

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Heather is a friend of Julie's and she is Mom to Art Blakey on Catster. She had written in Art's diary about Julie too. Heather especially helped us all to make Julie's unfortunate changes in her life go a little smoother.

Again, “Thanks” my Catster friends for letting me put your names in the cards for Julie. You are all caring Catster Families and I'm clapping my paws together and giving you all a standing ovation for your caring words & thoughts for Julie!

This will greatly help her continue on with just the 4 kitties she has now (Tiny Dancer, Squint, Autumn and Fuzz who are all Catster kitties). You've helped her to not feel so alone in what she's had to endure!

Thank YOU!

Love,
Ginger, xo

Panda a Daily Diary Pick Today

Did you all read about Panda, one of the Diary Picks today? Her mom Becky sounds like a very sweet lady who needs help getting a service dog. Panda is very cute!

I think Catster must agree this lady has a worthy cause, as written in Panda, her kitty's diary, since they've chosen Panda as a Diary Pick today!

Our family is going to donate a little to her which is in the link in her diary; it looks like all of us Catster families can donate too - as little as $5.00.

Becky is pictured with her dog Takkera which you can see at "Meet My Family".

Panda, one of today's Diary Picks is at:

http://www.catster.com/cats/1248821

I hope you all agree. Poor Becky, no wonder Panda's diary mentions she's so sad. We can give a little hope. Thanks to all of you!

Love Ginger xo

Birthday Preparations

Dad, have the guests all arrived? I have set up my Catster page with photos where you can see I’m sitting by all my cans of Fancy Feast, and my bowl of dry food – all prepared especially for my Birthday Party tonight!

And in that one picture where I look just exhausted – well that’s how I feel right now after all my party preparations! Whoosh, I never had to work so hard! Being 7 years old today I have just never set a Birthday table before.

I have to get my nails done too. So I will do what I usually do: scratch on all the cardboard boxes I can find in the house. My favorite box right now is near the front door; oooooh it makes my nails so nice and sharp – just purrfect for going out on a date (if your date is a real wolf)!

My makeup has to be just right too. I like my little beauty mark to be beside my nose, a little orange dot right by my nose. I try to line my brows purrfectly; sometimes I forget that I have two eye brows and just make one, with my favorite orange eye brow pencil!

Well, I guess I’ll see what’s in the mail today. OH! A Birthday Card from Pet Smart! I like to pose in photos and point out just how nice the card is.

May I check my Catster page? Oh my goodness I’m so overwhelmed! Thank you every Catster friend for your best wishes! You are making my special day a great celebration with your special stars and rosettes!

There’s some paw mail too. Wow!! Thank you my furriends, for the special paw mails!

Thank you Rory, Tundra, Manytoes & Lynzee and also Pipo & Minko for making me photos! I’m putting them on my page too.

I’m going to set out my pretty ‘Calico Kitty’ ornament for all to see, with thanks to Pipo and Minko for sending it to me!

Dad, may I log in and check emails too? Oh Meow Goodness! I see many emails showing comments on my pictures and yesterday’s diary! Thanks for your comments my Furriends!

I wish you all didn’t live so far away because you could come to my birthday party too, and have Fancy Feast, Whiskas Seafood, Science Diet Light and Catnip Birthday Cake.

The table is set with tulips and red roses, and a beautiful diamond centerpiece. I’ve invited some pretty little blue birds to come and make a musical presentation in song. Some ladybugs and a grey mouse might also stop by and there’s going to be an hour of recreation where the boys will be throwing baseballs as they get ready for the upcoming season! Oh I wish you could come!

Thank you all Very Much!

Love Ginger xo

Tyson had a Birthday, Do I Get One Too?

Tyson had a birthday yesterday, and Dad kept thinking it was my birthday yesterday, so I’m going to get ready today in case I have a birthday coming up soon! I’m getting ready for it now, while I have a bit of time, because a bird in the hand is worth more than two in the bush. A bird to a cat is.…they are fun to watch!

We decided I don’t have enough new pictures on my Catster page so we found some from 2007, 2009 and 2011. I wonder if our camera was broke in those even years of 2008 and 2010!

Last night I scared my Dad a little bit. Every time he comes home from work, I am always either sleeping right at the door, so that he won’t miss me, or if I’m upstairs I come running down because I know we’ll be fed. Last night I was no where to be found when Tyson, Elsa and Tabatha ran into the kitchen when he got home. He did a few things around the house, and still, I had not come to the kitchen.

I do have a favorite spot to sleep on upstairs on a box, but I never usually stay there when he gets home. So he went upstairs and there I was on the box, alert and bright like nothing was wrong! (I wanted him to think just because Tyson has a birthday, I need attention paid to me on his birthday too!).

Lately when he goes in the bathroom at bedtime, I go in with him and jump on the chair because my new favorite thing is to have him brush me in the bathroom. So he brushes me and it’s a lot of fun; and every night I continue going in with him because I know he’ll have to brush me!

Also I have this other new thing of walking in slow motion! This happens because Elsa is learning bad habits from Tabatha. Just because Tabatha growls at Elsa, it does not mean Elsa has to turn around and slap me if I’m nearby! So sometimes when Elsa is in my way, especially heading into the kitchen for food, I walk V-E-R-Y S-L-O-W-L-Y past her.

I guess I think she won’t actually SEE me if I walk almost motionless and tip toe past her. Most of the time it works!

Other times, though, Elsa is sweet as pie to me. We were thick as thieves when we first came here together in 2007. She’s OK, I don’t mind, she’s being a cat! She still comes to lie beside me from time to time, deliberately and on purpose, knowing that I’ll wash her face and clean her off.

So I must go and pretend I don’t know my birthday is coming up (but I'll leave some hints) and try not to think about the nice presents Dad has undoubtedly bought me! If I had a pitch pipe, I could meow “Happy Birthday” in tune, as a hint!

Love, Ginger xo

VOTE to HELP the ANIMALS for 3 MORE Days

Further to my past diary, would you like to help the very worthy Woods Humane Society (where Julie’s kitties were taken) save more lives, and win $100,000? Once a day, up until this coming Monday APRIL 16 you can vote.

Easily, you can go to votetosavelives.org

This is the ASPCA’s $100K Challenge. Please help Woods Humane, & save more animals, by voting!

The background info about Julie is further down if you have not read about Julie.

Unfortunately the Woods Humane Society is about #54 on the list so as many votes as you can by you, your family and friends, (if you have several email addresses that might work too) can help push Woods Humane closer to #1. Especially since they’ve been such a help to Julie, particularly in that they don’t euthanize, thank goodness.

We sent a ‘Happy Spring’ card to Julie, with your names in it if you sent us a paw mail to include your names. We’re soon going to send her a “Welcome to your New Home” card with your names in it (and anyone new who’d like to be added, just Paw mail me and we’ll add your names to the card and we will all be listed as “Your Catster Friends”).

Julie had to give up six of her ten kitties when she was forced to move because of her landlord. Five of her kitties went to WOODS Humane Society.

One of her kitties, Beijo, was recently adopted!
Two of Julie’s kitties are still at Woods Humane, waiting to be adopted, and they are pictured there: Marilia and Jules-Verne.

Anyone here in Catster can adopt them too!

You should go see how beautiful they are:

http://www.woodshumanesociety.org/

Graciela is now safely at a no-kill shelter called “Befriended Felines”. They will provide medication and sanctuary for Graciela for life.
Chief Red Cloud was quickly adopted (he’s so cute!)
Chief Joseph was adopted right before Julie’s eyes, at the time she was bringing in a couple of her kitties.

Julie now has only 4 kitties: Fuzz (16 yr. old), Autumn, Tiny Dancer and Squint.
Here is Squint’s Catster page. She is disabled and adorable:
http://www.catster.com/cats/1195127

We’re all hoping you can vote for Woods Humane Society to help move them up to #1!

Feel free to post this in your diary too so more votes can be given!

Thank you!

Love You All,
Ginger, xo

Thanks For Diary Pick Honor March 19, 2012!

Thank you my friends for surprising me with gifties, pawmails, comments and photos for my Daily Diary Pick! I was surprised to be chosen! On the other hand, it was a sad evening when I found out that our friend Boo Boo went to the Bridge yesterday too (http://www.catster.com/cats/1169201 ). Her sister was Moma Ivey who also went to the Bridge so recently, on January 9. I know their Mommy is holding all your hugs near to her heart right now with losing 2 kitties so close together.

I have a little update to Julie’s kitties she had to depart with, which I wrote about in my last diary. I previously thought her kitty Marilia was adopted because she was not listed on the Woods Humane Society Website, but she is there now. So 3 of Julie’s kitties are at Woods Humane, waiting to be adopted, and they are all pictured there now.
The cute thing is Marilia has made a friend already! One of her photos features her with Xavier, a black and white kitty; they look so cute snuggling together.


Beijo and Jules-Verne have photos now too. Jules-Verne has such blue eyes, he’d be a dream to have at home! I’ll bet Julie would be happy if anyone in Catster adopted any of her 3 kitties and gave them a good Catster home! They had a home to roam around in once; and now they are forced to live in a smaller space. I bet it is a lonely adjustment for them. You should go see how beautiful they are:

http://www.woodshumanesociety.org/

If you still would like your name & your Mom and Dad’s names written in a “Happy Spring” card and “Welcome to Your New Home” card for Julie, pawmail me your names by the end of March 22. We will write all the names in a card for her. We want Julie to feel a little less lonely now that she has had to give up some of her kitties, due to a careless landlord and the apartment building being foreclosed.

My last diary was long, but it has all the details about what happened to her & the kitties. Here is one of her Catster kitties, and from there you can see her others. In her family there is also the link to her dog, Beau, with a sad story too. But there is a nice picture of Julie with Beau. Here’s her kitty Tiny Dancer and from there you can see the rest:

http://www.catster.com/cats/1192923

Congratulations to the 4 other kitties who shared Diary Pick honors with me yesterday: Punkin (#1237909), Nikita (#945025), Mietz O’Maui (#937054)(who was also, as of yesterday, Cat of the WEEK), and Bentley Angel (#280901)(who was Diary of the Day)! I hope you all got treats and hugs and kisses all DAY!

Love, Ginger xo