peggy's place: November 2008

November 29, 2008

Goose bumps and not from the cold.

This just blows me away.

November 28, 2008

November 27, 2008

Happy Thanksgiving

We hope everyone has a very Happy Turkey Day.

November 25, 2008

November 21, 2008

November 18, 2008

Isis under her Gizzy

here's her nose and ear

Find Isis - Look for her ear :)

Here she has her nose sticking out.

Cold Boring night in Florida

Babe on back of couch

Bob in the box

Isis on tower

Bob's tail :)

Isis under cover

November 17, 2008

Babe's once a month check up was this morning. Dr. Vet kept saying "she's doing very good". He must have said it 4 or 5 times. He's doing an in-house blood test, just checking her creatinine and BUN. He's calling later to let me know her numbers.

She was very vocal today. She meowed real loud all the way to the vet, the whole time we were in the waiting room, and the whole time they had her in the back (stealing blood) and then the whole time back home. Phew, Very Loud. She never says much around the house.

Oh, and they have a beautiful all black kitten in the waiting room, he's so cute. I was tempted. Anyone in the Tampa Bay area want a cute little kitten???

OK - Dr. Vet just called. Her blood work was the same as a month ago. Don't need to take her back for 2 months.
YEA

November 16, 2008

eeeeuuuwwww

Bob just ate a lizard. He crunched it down real fast when he saw me coming to take it from him. *gag*

November 15, 2008

Cold Front = Crazy Cats

Here in Florida, we are getting a nice little cold front coming through tonight. The cool air with the wind gusts has made the young ones crazy. They are taking turns chasing each other around the house. Fun times! They are too fast for me to get a photo......

Moki needs your purrs

We just went to visit Moki's blog. He's not doing very well. Lets all send lots of purrs to him and his mom.

November 14, 2008

Formerly Feral Friday

My two old girls here for Formerly Feral Friday.

OOOH! a night out for mom

Mom's all excited cause she's going out tonight. She doesn't do that very often, she's a "homebody" - whatever. A bunch of neighbor friends are going to a concert. Mom says she hasn't been to a concert since Pat Benatar passed out on stage in 1980something. This will be very different and civilized. She's seeing "The Trans-Siberian Orchestra". Cool huh? She loves their music.

November 13, 2008

Lux is home

Lux can relax and so can his mom. He'll get better faster at home I bet.

Lux and Elaine are hurting

Poor Lux had bunches of his teeth pulled and now has a very hurtie mouth. His mom, Elaine, is hurting because her boy is hurting. We know kitties feel better faster than their humans, we hope Lux will feel better super fast. And his mom too.

November 12, 2008

Bob and Babe

Bob in Babe's room again. He's such a sneak.

Babe sitting at the entrance of her hiding place, is the coast clear? Where's Bob?

November 11, 2008

Here's Pleco

November 10, 2008

FISH!!

can you find the giant pleco?

Look who thinks he's brave

Romeo sure is taking his chances, he won't be there long. Isis is sure to put him in his place - which is NOT on her Gizzy Quilt.

November 8, 2008

Isis has claimed the Gizzy Quilt

Bob walked on it today, thought about it, and moved on.

Open Window :)

November 4, 2008

TGIT

Thank goodness it's Tuesday! No more nasty *vote for me* commercials. I'm so over it.

November 1, 2008

Cat bloggers are the best

Whimpurrswhim fixed my too small photo of Isis. Thank you oh so much. It probably took you just a few minutes, where as I played with it for more than 2 hours and got nowhere! Headbutts to you from Babe.

Sophie's story

It all started with a normal trip to Petsmart. I try to hurry past the kitties up for adoption, but yesterday I peeked in. There was a beautiful long hair tuxie girl that was 6 1/2 yo. She was so sweet and loving. I stayed in there way too long. All the way home I thought about her. All night long I thought about her. I even gave her a name. Marlo. So I go back today to get her. I know, I need another cat like I need a mole with hair on my nose. BUT, she's gone!! I missed her by 45 minutes. Not meant to be. So I start scritching a pretty calico girl and one employee after another comes in and tells me her story. She's been in that cage 2 months, she's affectionate and a beauty. SOLD. Her name is Sophie, she's 1 yo and she's a leaner. She rubs and leans against my legs. She has beautiful gold eyes, but she manages to blink with the camera flash...

Jeannie's story

Jeannie joined our family on February 3, 2009. I was looking at all the kitties in our area that needed forever homes. Something about her sweet little face made me keep going back to look at her again and again. I still don't know why, but I sent off an email asking about her. I told myself if it was meant to be, then what's one more furkid? I received an answer to my email saying she was a feral kitty and had been asked about many times, but since she wasn't a lap cat, nobody wanted her. Well we've been down that road many times and I was able to adopt her. Jeannie had been living on a golf course and had at least 2 litters of babies. All her babies were caught and have forever homes. She is about 5 years old, and is a very tiny, delicate girl.

Babe's story

Babe is one of the feral cats my Mom caught. She was Mom's cat along with her other two. After Mom passed, I took care of all three of her cats. Her two original cats went to the rainbow bridge very shortly after Mom died. She had Babe for eight years and I've had her now for nine more years. Babe is my CRF girl. When she was first diagnosed with CRF I thought I'd only have her for a few more weeks, but she has surprised both me and the vet and is doing great with only sub-q fluids three times a week.
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Romeo's story

I found Romeo online. I received an email from a friend about him. His Mom was in a nursing home and not coming back (she didn't know she was staying there forever). So her family was trying to find a home for Romeo. She had an attorney that was to find a good home for Romeo if anything ever happened to her. I had to actually apply to get him. References and essay about me. Once her family had me checked out I was able to pick him up at the attorneys office. I had only been told he was 5 years old and very fluffy. Turned out he's a pure himalayan. I don't think he had ever seen another cat until I brought him home. He's very friendly and is best friends with Bob and Jeannie.

Isis's story

Bob's story

Bob's adoption was totally a spur of the moment thing. I was in the dentist's office for a cleaning and I was telling my dental hygienist about adopting Isis and that I had never had an orange cat. Then she tells me her vets office has a little orange cat up for adoption. I went home and called to make sure the cat was still there, then grabbed a PTU and headed off to go get him. When I got there all I could see was a little bit of orange fur poking out from under his bed. Then we got him out of his cage and he was HUGE. Turned out he was 5 years old and his original family just didn't want him anymore. So off I went to fill out the paper work while the vet gave him one last check over. When we put him in the PTU he almost didn't fit. He is a wonderful boy but very scared all the time. He ducks his head every time I reach down to pet him, like he thinks I'm going to hit him. He doesn't know how to play with toys and once I got one of those toys with a fuzzy hanging from a stick and he was so afraid of the stick he ran and hid for hours. Now we only have the fuzzy part, the stick I trashed. Thank goodness he and Romeo are such good buds, it's the only time he really plays.