In short: he was a stray in a bad way, they think he got caught in the fan belt of an engine. They kept him comfy for a couple of days whilst trying to locate his owners, but nobody came forward. He ended up having to have two legs and most of his tail amputated. He has recovered amazingly and is getting around well on his remaining two legs. The cost of his surgery has been completely covered by public donations, and there is a loooooooooong list of people hoping to adopt him once he's completely recovered!
- Headless Gnad Kicker
I got to meet him last week when I was at the surgery, and as well as being absolutely gorgeous, he is such a sweet, smoochy boy who didn't seem phased at all by his lack of limbs. He just wanted the scritches and cuddles to keep coming. <3
- Headless Gnad Kicker
PS. Noah makes an appearance on the page also at Kitten Kinder last week ;o)
- Headless Gnad Kicker
Oh my sweet baby kitten. Rachel, you capture the essence of all your fosters with your photography skills. I would love for you to make a foster calendar because 2014 needs one and so do I!
- Janet:#TeamMonique
LOL Janet. I will think about it. Most of these are just iPhone photos, I don't know if they get big enough for printing. I need to get good photos for these guys. I've been working so hard keeping this little guy healthy, the extra photography hasn't been a top priority. This photo is so Slater though.
- Rachel Lea Fox
That reminds me that I need to order a new glow ball for Plum and Sophie's track set. Not that they don't play with it anyway, but it was cool.
- Katy S
"Tuesday marks the close of National Poetry Month, a 30-day celebration of all things versified and all people versifying. And in tangentially related news, for more than eight months, a book of cat-themed poetry — I Could Pee On This — has perched on the NPR best-seller lists. There it sits, insouciantly swishing its tail amid self-help books and memoirs, the poetry world's sole representative on the list. Gazing at this collection of "poems by cats" week after week, I wondered: What is it about cats and poetry? Poets gaze out rain-streaked windows, write with fountain pens, drink tea, : So goes the stereotype."
- Russian Space Lizard
from Bookmarklet
While reading something on Facebook, I followed a link to a Discovery program with a cat therapist. The situation was two cats that used to get a long great but one day it all changed and the one started going after the other. He was saying that it was a sort of displacement of a threat the cat couldn't go after...it would "blame" the cat it was with at the time it felt threatened even...
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- Spidra Webster
Plum normally starts growling after she sniffs Sophie. I suspect that the eardrops the vet gave Sophie are the culprit, and it isn't as bad as it was, but I can't really clean out the insides of her ears. I've washed the fur all around her ears and the rest of her, but that isn't enough, apparently.
- Katy S
I just watched the beginning of the video. It really isn't close to that bad. Plum actually goes over to her and keeps sniffing her, but then something smells bad to her and she growls and goes away. She hisses if Sophie comes closer to her, but she hasn't attacked yet.
- Katy S
I'm glad it's not that bad. I just mentioned it because you said that reaction had never lasted this long before.
- Spidra Webster
It's never happened at all before this. Normally when they return from the vet the find a quiet place and curl up together. The only thing Sophie had different was the eardrops, so I assume that's the problem.
- Katy S
Poor Sophie. :-( I'm sure she will trust you again after time.
- Russian Space Lizard
Oh, Sophie came over a bit ago and sat on my lap. Plum was already there. She started growling and left.
- Katy S
"Cats doing aerobics? DDB Chicago's amusing new video for Temptations cat treats is likely to blow up the Internet. No wonder Temptations-eating felines have the leg muscles to be able to cling so ardently to their owners. Check out the Work It Kitty website, where you can download the song ("I Don't Wanna Dance," recorded by Alex Gaudino, featuring Taboo) and learn more about the cats in the video. Ask your veterinarian if you're healthy enough for the Work It Kitty workout. Not recommended if you're on drugs, like those fools in JWT's Litter Genie spots. Credits below."
- Jessie
from Bookmarklet
"The rediscovery of a mystery animal in a museum's underground storeroom proves that a non-native 'big cat' prowled the British countryside at the turn of the last century. The animal's skeleton and mounted skin was analysed by a multi-disciplinary team of Durham University scientists and fellow researchers at Bristol, Southampton and Aberystwyth universities and found to be a Canadian lynx -- a carnivorous predator more than twice the size of a domestic cat."
- Jessie
from Bookmarklet
"The research team say this provides further evidence for debunking a popular hypothesis that wild cats entered the British countryside following the introduction of the 1976 Wild Animals Act. The Act was introduced to deal with an increasing fashion for exotic -- and potentially dangerous -- pets."
- Jessie
"Co-author Dr Darren Naish, from the University of Southampton, added: "There have been enough sightings of exotic big cats which substantially pre-date 1976 to cast doubt on the idea that one piece of legislation made in 1976 explains all releases of these animals in the UK. "It seems more likely that escapes and releases have occurred throughout history, and that this continual presence of aliens explains the 'British big cat' phenomenon.""
- Jessie
"Dr Greger Larson, a member of the research team from Durham University and an expert in the migration of animals, said: "Every few years there is another claim that big cats are living wild in Britain, but none of these claims have been substantiated. It seems that big cats are to England what the Loch Ness Monster is to Scotland. "By applying a robust scientific methodology, this...
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- Jessie
ahhh, you beat me to it, lol. I was actually thinking of adding you when I posted this, but wasn't sure as I already added a few groups, so didn't want you to get bombarded. ;-)
- Halil
LOLOL no worries Halil, I should have copied you on the original post. This popped up in a science blog yesterday and I thought it was a really interesting story.
- Jessie
"In a third-floor apartment on Taipei’s Chengde Road, cats of all sizes and colors stalk or laze about in a 30 ping (99m2) area devoted to them. Completely unafraid of strangers, the felines give visitors only a cursory glance before returning to sunning on the floor or sleeping in their specially made beds. Despite this seemingly idyllic existence, all the residents of this cat paradise are disabled in some way. The owner of the house, a woman who prefers to be known only as Lisa, is known among a small clique of animal lovers for her rather unorthodox methods in carrying out the city government’s Trap-Neuter-Release (TNR) program for stray cats."
- Jessie
from Bookmarklet
"Stumbling over a chubby kitty, Lisa smiled and said the cat was named Chen Da-fu (陳大福) and had been a stray near National Taipei University on Minsheng E Road. The area around the university has a lot of restaurants and since Chen has a passion for food, it had grown increasingly fat from the leftovers it got from customers at the restaurants, Lisa said."
- Jessie
"Picking up another cat named Jean Valjean, after the main character in Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables, Lisa said Jean had once belonged to the owner of a cafe near Hejiang Street that later went out of business. Jean stayed by the closed cafe’s doors for half a year, waiting for its owner to come back until Lisa rescued him."
- Jessie
"“I still hope that I can find these cats a new owner and home. I’m only giving them a chance to live out their lives because even healthy cats have trouble finding new owners these days, much less sick, crippled or wounded cats,” Lisa said."
- Jessie
I started doing it with my cat Darcy. There's a collection of his whiskers in his box of ashes. Same with Stormy's! I haven't found any of Noah's dropped whiskers yet though. Am I weird?
- Headless Gnad Kicker