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Leo the Lion's Roar

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

My new Mom

My mom came and visited me. She played with me for 3 hours. I still can't go home yet. But the promise was that Next weekend I can go home with her. She is going to make an appointment with Vet so I can get introduced to her friend the V-E-T. I love my mom. I have to say that because she pets me and plays with me for a long time. She wishes she could take another one of my friends home with her so she can have two of us at the same time. She just doesn't have the room. I know that she would love to have two of us. I have a friend there Sueder. He came over and visited with me. I know that I am going home next weekend. My mom is preparing the house for me to come home to. She told me that she is gutting the inside and getting rid of a lot of things that she no longer needs. She said she wants to de-clutter her home.
I think she is going to start making Cat blankets. For all the foster kitties at the rescue group. She tells me that she can sew just about anything. She needs the room. She also is thinking about having a rummage sale for all the things that she no longer desires. She left early yesterday. She told me that she was hungry and that she was sorry that she couldn't stay longer. I know she was excited to hear that I was coming home next weekend. She has been spoiling Lardo because he's been an only cat. I know that she will make sure that he's on his best behavior with me. My mom says she prepared the bathroom for my arrival. WHAT? another bathroom? She told me it was so I could be properly introduced to the older cat. She didn't want for him to reject me. Reject me? Are you kidding me he would be only so lucky that I would pay him any attention. Did I tell you all that I love the smell of flowers? My mom wears these exotic perfumes. I examine her wrists her ears her neck. I don't sneeze but Boy does she smell good. I also like to nest in her hair. My mom calls me a parrot cat. I can perch on her shoulder like a well balanced bird. I told her I was a cat. I go home soon. Have I told you that I am excited? I can't wait.

Leo the Lionhearted