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Coloration: Flame Point
Likes: He likes to lounge in the backyard, and he likes dark colors. If you're wearing dark clothing, that's when he wants to be on your lap
Pet-Peeves: foster kittens, his nails clipped, touching his fur when he didn't invite you to :)
Favorite Toy: laser, fleece on a stick
Favorite Nap Spot: couch in family room or on a bed
Favorite Food: Natural Balance dry & a variety of wet food treats
Skills: We can tell him 'fish lips' and he'll just move his mouth without making a sound. Comes in handy when he's not getting his way and annoying us with his Siamese meow. Hee, hee! :)
Dwells:
indoors
Arrival Story: I was restricted to bed after having surgery so I wore out the TV flipping through the channels. I came across a show that had Sampson on as a guest. They said that this was his last plea for a home because the shelter he was at was going to have him PTS the next morning. When my husband arrived home from work I told him about Sam. We called and nobody had adopted him, so we gladly did. That's the one thing that I am grateful for about that time being stuck in bed ...... if not for that, we would not have known to go adopt this precious, silly little spirit!
Bio: We had one other cat at the time named Chauncey. Shortly after we adopted Sam, my doctor gave us a cat that somebody had dumped out of their car in front of her home. We named him Sebastian and all three cats got along very well. Chauncey passed on, and Sampson and Sebastian were the best of buddies for several years. We never found out what happened, but Sebastain mysteriously vanished one day. Neither cats were allowed to go outside at that time, and neither of them ever tried. We ran ads and hung up posters, knocked door to door with no luck. Our Wal-Mart even let us post a big 'missing photo' on their front lobby doors. Sam took up camping by our window in the family room. He stared out that window solid for weeks, we couldn't get him to eat much, he was so depressed. Then one day he retreated to the master bedroom and he remained in there for several months. He lost weight, and slept all of the time. Although we were heartbroken too, we tried everything with no luck to bring him back around. Then we decided to adopt Chico along with another cat we named Hollywood, and Sampson came back to life. Not that easy, as Sam smacked me and bit me three times when he figured out there were two new kitties in the spare bedroom. :) Sam is quite a different kitty. His personality can amuse anyone because he's such a silly character. He does not appreciate being pet on unless he asks you to. He will stomp off and give himself a bath if you dare try. But then all of a sudden there he will be on your lap and demanding to be pet all over. This is usually when you are dressed up in dark clothing and ready to leave the house. So is he showing affection or is he cracking himself up by covering his human in hair? Ha! His silly character leans me towards that he's amusing himself! Hee, hee! He does like to give kisses, lots of them, and he'll repeatedly grab your hand, lick it and use it to wash his face. :) Sampson really is a beautiful, gentle spirit. We love him more than words can express. We couldn't imagine life without our silly Sam.
Lives Remaining: 8 of 9
This mighty hunter has returned to the outback! *puffs up chest* Yep, mom’s been having to spend every evening out there watering our hunting grounds because of a broken water pipe of an extreme drought. After the wicked widow tried to take down Armani late last fall, no one has been allowed to return to the treacherous outback. But now, 8 months later, mom has been allowing us to once again follow her out and romp around in our outdoor territory.
Things are not the same in our outback. The drought has almost killed our green lawns and shrubs hunting grounds. Most of the critters have packed their bags and left in search of the nearby neighboring wetlands, however some have chosen to stick it out and little do they know that I have them in my sights and that they are all mine!
I once again can look forward to my evening romps in the outback! Hurray! Nakita and Armani have one end of the jungle to tend to and the other end is all mine! *sheepishly grins* Muppet is always welcome to join me, however her main quest is to drive mom completely nuts by always trying to escape to the forbidden outlying jungle areas! *sighs for Muppet as she always quickly gets captured and has to return to the indoors*
Purrs and Prayers for all of the ill kitties and doggies, for the families who have had to say goodbye to a beloved fur friend, and to the ones roaming around lost.
Headbonks & Purrs,
Sampson
*the mighty hunter once again*
My sissy C has finally solved the 16 year old mystery of what huge creature snuck up on mom from behind and wrapped it’s front tentacles around her bare ankle!! Since we live next to the infamous Area 51, odd things that can’t be explained always get blamed on that test site! *giggles* But now we have an answer. Hurray!*
Mom and her friend had stopped by Uncle G’s house to check on his cat, Eric, because he was out of town for a few days. They were standing out on the front porch letting Eric romp around the yard when simultaneously mom felt something tickling her ankle and her friend’s eyes completely bugged out of his head! She looked down at her ankle to see what it was to find something BIG (6 to 8 inches long) with hairy front legs wrapped around both sides of her ankle like it was either hugging her or getting ready to bite her!! She shot straight up in the air screaming and the creature shot off with lightning speed in the other direction! She asked her friend if he knew what that was and ,with his mouth still dropped open, shook his head no. All mom could say was that it must have not been aggressive because the way she flipped out it would have bit her if it was. When Uncle G returned and mom asked him about the mysterious thing, he reported having a few sightings of them and he had no idea what they were either.
Sissy C came home the other day and told mom that a co-worker had discovered a large and strange creature in her yard. She had a photo of it and was asking people if they could help tell her what it was and if it was poisonous. Sissy C said that it fit the description of what mom and her friend had been describing for the past 16 years! She was right, it’s a CAMEL SPIDER! Reading up on them, mom was glad to find out that they are not aggressive unless provoked and non poisonous. They can move at speeds of 10 miles an hour, which is very fast. They live wherever there is desert and the hotter their atmosphere is, the larger they get. In Iraq they claim that they’re as large as a dinner plate!!
Wow! It took 16 years to finally find out that the spider just came up and gave mom a friendly hug! *giggles* People keep these spiders as pets! OMC!!! I hope that I never encounter one of these icky things! Thanks for reading about mom’s mystery hugger!
Headbonks & Purrs,
Sampson
* It’s 10 pm here and 93 degrees outside. I’m going to go find a cool spot to take a nap. I hope that I don't dream about monster spiders! :)*
We had company! I love company! My Aunti M was in town so mom made a big dinner Thursday and Auntie M, Auntie P, and grammy came over. I couldn’t choose which lap I wanted to sit in so I honored them and let them all have turns. I don’t know what was up with Lil’ Mupp but miss social butterfly hightailed it and hid when she saw Auntie M?? She did not come out until after she left.
I had all of the attention until Armani decided to bravely come out and steal the show! Just because his suit is marked so gorgeous doesn’t mean people have to swoon all over him about it! Humph! I had already left my little gifts of white fur on all of the company anyways, so I guess it was no big deal to share the attention.
After everybody left and I was helping mom to do the dishes at the sink, I spotted something interesting out the kitchen window. We have neighborhood watch duty on our next door neighbor’s house until they return from their vacation. Since this window faces their house, Mom started looking out the window to see what I was so curious about. Something didn’t look right about their above ground pool but mom couldn’t figure it out. She finally got at the angle I was sitting at and then she saw the nightmare!
Water was guzzling and shooting out at a huge rate from the overflow unit! Then it sunk into mom’s head that the pool was full to the rim, that‘s what had not looked right about it! She discovered that the neighbors had left a hose in the pool turned on! Chico, Armani and I all watched out the window as two neighbors and mom tried until it was pitch dark outside to stop the flooding. The overflow unit, which was a good foot below the rim, was not going to stop guzzling until the pool water was below it. The back yard was already flooded and had turned into a muddy sink hole around the pool. A couple of gallons a minute were coming out and it still had a zillion gallons to go. We watched as they tried in vein to come up with every possible solution to plug up the overflow unit or find a way to hook a hose up to it. We also watched as the flooding had now reached our fence line!
Mom called the sheriff’s office and asked if the fire department could come suck the water out. She explained how this had already done a lot of damage to the neighbor’s yard and now it was heading for our yard. A tremendous amount of water needed to be removed and quickly. They said that the fire dept. couldn’t respond to water overflowing out of a pool! Humph!
Finally the neighbors and mom were able to get the overflow unit plugged up with towels and a brick. Now we are all just praying that the pool can withstand that much pressure as the water is still only three inches from the rim. Three inches did that much damage…… it’s a huge pool! And we are praying hard that their pool does not burst and turn our yard into a moat! Camille and Jay and their doggies are being happy campers right now up at their cabin ..... with no cell phone service. They are not going to be happy campers when they return home tomorrow evening! *feels bad for them*
So that was our excitement. Company and a muddy pool party! *giggles*
Purrs for all of the ill kitties and to the families of those who have recently had a sad loss. Extra prayers for TONY and his sweet family. We love you Tony!
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