Well, I have been so bummed that Mom has been gone now for about a million hours and a bazillion days…I just could not get up to much frolickin’…na’mean???
So, here is the video of Mom’s last visit with The Rat Pack kittens…they sure have grown…
Once again…it is a Thankful Thursday…and I send many APAWS!! APAWS!!! to my furriend Pepi Smart Dog for hosting this PAWSOME Blog Hop…just click on the badge to find other great Thankful Posts. 
So for my very , very THANKFUL THURSDAY…can anyone guess what my focus will be????…naw, you guys can’t imagine what’s on my mind…RIGHT??? 
…WHAT?? You think you know???….yeah, yeah…Ok, Ok…it’s “another Leo Thankful Update”…who knew…I really fear like my Foster Brofur Leo…especially ‘cuz he doesn’t stay here right now…(just kidding…ummmm…well, maybe not…who knows??) Here are some photos of Leo…from this week at our PAWSOME INCREDIBLE VET CLINIC...CIVIC FELINE CLINIC… and yup…Dr Ellis totally “rocks”…she is so totally in communication with Leo’s vibes…
Leo is taking his tube feeding like a champ. He purrrs the whole time…never, ever fusses…no hisses…no growls…just want head scritches, ear rubs and head bumps…what a guy!!
…here is a look at all the resident kitties at Civic Feline Clinic…this vet care service totally luvluvluvs us kittehs!! I am embarrassed I do not know all their names…but next time…I surely will…
More Thankfulness…so many of my furriends from around this whole world have been so kind in their thoughts, prayers, purrs and parting with hard to find green papers…you have all made such a difference. We will have a very accurate accounting after Mom returns from Blog Paws… between the donations coming to Contra Costa Humane Society and to Mom Linda’s Paypal account…we have received $1,175 USD toward Leo’s medical care. Our blog paws community is so pawsome…
Leo’s care, already paid, is $2,300 and my personal vet has anticipated about another $1, 000 USD going forward. Leo remains in her care at her clinic. She is discounting regular fees because Leo is an adult shelter rescue cat. He will need at least one more ultrasound, maybe two. He still is NOT EATING ON HIS OWN…this is a critical turning point…keep those purrrs, arwwoooos, woofs, and paws crossed coming…(humble ears)
…And being the multi-tasking cat I am…here is my Thursday Society of Feline Gardeners Report for my good furriend and Emeritus Founder of our Society…Jonesie… 
Not a lot to report…but some lovely new growth…hope you all enjoy it…(and help us identify what they are!!)
That is my Thankful Thursday and my Society of Feline Gardeners Report… Hope you all enjoyed it and hope you follow my Foster Brofur Leo’s Story…
…What shadow?
…Cat?…No cat here…
…I can’t see you…so you can’t see me…
Yoo Hoo!!! Hellooooooo….!!!….anybody still out there??????…..
MOUSES!!! I told Mom and Dad I needed the iPad at least to try to visit my furriends…but nooooooooo…they were too bizzy, bizzy…sigh…ok, ok….gotta admit…they were mostly spending their time at a bazillion vets and vet hospitals trying like the dickens to save Leo’s life…
Yup…I was a good foster sisfur to Leo and even though Mom and Dad were gone a lot…I still snuggled every night with them and I came straight to the couch to watch TV next to Mom and I even let Dad do a special petting and brushing session with me on my step where I usually only allow Mom to give me attention. Dad smiled all day!
Let me give you the UPDATE ON OPERATION SAVE MY FOSTER BROFUR LEO…I last left you HERE…Leo was in hospital having a feeding tube inserted into his neck to go into his throat so he could be fed and receive meds to save his life…that procedure was done Wednesday May 8th…and Dad and Mom went to bring him home Thursday May 9…Leo did not come home that day…
Here is Leo…as he left the vet specialist hospital…OMC!!…was he ready to go…
Last Thursday I made a request for any help my furriends might give to Mom and Dad who have been paying for Leo’s medical costs…they have already paid $2,300 USD. And I asked that you donate to Mom’s paypal account. I am humbled that the very first donation came from a furriend as far away as Europe…it does take a Global Village to save some of our pawsome adult cat and dog shelter rescues.
Now, CCHS, Leo’s shelter rescue group, has set up a special fund raising on their site for Leo’s Medical Costs.
At least for those of my furriends who live in the USA, PURRlease donate here…Contra Costa Humane Society Donate page CLICK HERE…when you see this option…
“Please select the program or fundraiser to which your donation should be applied”
..scroll the “options” and click “Leo’s Medical Care”…CCHS is a 501 3c organization in the USA and all USA donations will be tax deductible when submitted through here.
CCHS will then reimburse Mom Linda and Dad Peter as much as they can. But honestly, we would sell our house if we still had one to help Leo out. He clearly wants very much to live. He is so tolerant when he gets his meds and gets fed through his tube. What a trooper!!
Leo as he arrived at Civic Feline Clinic…he was so much more relaxed…but these photos also show you the pawful physical images of his hepatic Lipidosis syndrome…Leo is NOT OUT OF THE WOODS…until he willingly eats on his own…please send him your healing purrrs..
I know this was such a long post…but I had so much news…and Leo’s story is so impawtant…his Hepatic Lipidosis Syndrome is something many kittty Guardians may not know about and even some rescues may never have seen it. We are learning more and more about how Leo’s syndrome may have been triggered and I will share that with all my furriends soon.
Mouses! What a week since last Thankful Thursday and my Thursday Garden Report for Jonesie’s Society of Feline Gardeners.
But firstest…I want to apologize for being absent from all of my furriends’ blog comment queues…but my Mom , who takes my dictation and does my typing…well….ummm…ahhh…yup…she has been helping with hourly feedings for the house introoder guest…Leo…purrlease accept both of our apologies.
Anywho…moving on…
Lots of new stuff growin’ in my garden…outdoors AND indoors…heh…heh…yup…I now have a teeny little indoor garden JUST FOR ME!!
…here is a look at my indoor garden growing…
Haven’t sampled it yet… but maybe tonight.
But, let me talk about being thankful first. Most of you met my introoder guest feline Leo on my Monday Meowsie News post. If you did not, then click HERE to read all about him…
All of you kittehs and woofies know that being without a furrever home is…well..hmmm…what is it like??? Lemme think on that…(paw taps up, down, up, down…)
Ok…I think it is a lot like being what Leader Otis calls “Limbo Kitties“…my definition is a bit different than Leader O’s…but both are relevant to what I am thankful for today…here is what I think of as limbo kitties…and yes…limbo woofies too…
“a place where kitties/woofies are cast aside, forgotten“…
I know lots of my furriends are familiar with this place…same as me…same as my introoder guest Leo…
So tired
Mom and Dad did not know about it, and it surprised Leo’s caretakers at my former shelter. It is so impawtant for all of us to learn from Leo’s illness.Thank Ceiling Cat that Leo now has the complete vet care he requires and that he has a chance to come through and find his furrever home at last…where his intense need to share his affection will be appreciated.
I am thankful, thankful that Dad and Mom and my former shelter Kitty Corner have stepped up to save Leo if they can.So purrlease join Pepi Smart Dog’s “Thankful Thursday” Blog Hop…click on the badge to go visit some great Thankful Thursday posts…
Today I have another interview for my series…
Now this guest will not be known to lots of you. Mouses! I never knew her before myself. But I was so purrleased when she quietly volunteered to share her rescue story with me. She is shy and a bit timid sometimes around other furriends but I know you will all help me give our most warm welcome to her…
Without any more introduction…
Her furramily has a blog called The Misadventures of Me…they are still working on their Mom to let them blog more often…but the kibble has to be brought home somehow so she needs to keep focused on her new business.
Let’s get started…
Savannah: Hiya Mooch. Thanks lots for stopping by and having a meow with me today. How are you feeling?
Mooch: Hi Savannah – I’m a bit nervous.
Savannah: (reaches paw out to Mooch and gives her a little soft paw pat)…don’t you worry Mooch. All my readers are the nicest furriends and very kind and understanding. You just meow at your own pace.
Mooch: Funny story really–the other set of beans saw me first as I was mooching food off of stray kitteh CoCo’s plate. I was hungry so I chased her off to eat. I guess this is what a mooch is – me!
Savannah: Oh Cat! How do the humans ever come up with these silly words? You were just makin’ sure you got some noms…what’s the big deal??
Anywho, we would all like to hear about how you came to your furrever home. Could you give us some meows about that?
Mooch: Four years ago, I was homeless; I dun remember how I got that way. My blonde lady mom would feed the stray kittehs. I would come and eat when she would put food out.
Then one day, I was suddenly scooped up while I was outside, I didn’t mind so much as it was really cold and snowy. When I first came indoors, I ran to da dark area, the blonde lady mom calls it the basement. She would come to visit several times a day, to feed me and spend time wif me.
I know that at one time I was loved acuz I had a lady-ectomy already and I liked peoples but was a bit shy. The blonde lady mom thinks I am about 12 years old but I dun know really. So I was probably 8 years old when I first came to her house looking for foods.
Savannah: Oh noes Mooch. How awful to not know where you came from. I don’t know either and wish I did.
What have been the toughest things you have had to change so you can let your blonde lady Mom know you more as your REAL SELF?
Mooch: Well I dun trust jus any peoples. I’m specially ascaird of littler peoples. I tend to be more alone than most of the kittehs here, the blonde lady mom calls me a vampire cat acuz I come out mainly at night.
Mooch in her daytime hidey place
I do love the big guy and the blonde lady mom, I likes to sit and nap wif them at night. I even roll around and flash my belleh at them to touch. I really likes that a lot!
I have trouble getting along wif Shadow and Molly. Dey has been here like furever and they dun really like me. So when they hiss at me I go at them and I usually win. The blonde lady mom says NO to both of us when it happens, sometimes she plays herding kittehs. Herding kittehs is when she guides one of us back to our safe spot with her legs.
I’m still tryin’ to like different peoples but I’m not sure of it. I dun know how to extend myself to them, so I hide; I guess I need to work on dat still.
Savannah: That sounds scary to come to a furrever home with other kittehs who don’t want you to be there. You are very, very brave Mooch.
Can you meow more about ways blonde lady mom and the big guy try to help you get past your fears?
Mooch: I didn’t play much then and it took her a squillion minutes to coax me out from my hiding spot down there. It took like a million days fer me to let her pick me up—dats when she dragged, er, brought me up to the brighter area of the house.
The peoples first fed me in the area I hid in, then they moved it further away so I had to come out. I was coming out acuz I had to find the litter box somehow, ya know? I surprised them though; I knew all along where the box was yoo see, I’m smart like that!
I trust the big guy a lot now; he can pick me up and roll me around the bed like a puppy he said. I just like that he loves me a lot so I show him my belleh and meow at him.
I has been asked if I was a clean kitty when the blonde lady mom found me. Well, I really wasn’t acuz being outside in all, yoo has to find a place to sleep, which may be in the dirt. My furs was covered with dirt but the blonde lady mom said it started to shine after I came in to the bright part of da house.
While I was in the basement I was really nervous so my coat had white flakes everywhere, I couldnt help it!
I has heard a lot about a ptu and v-e-t person from Toot, my blind sisfur kitty but I’m sure I don’t want to go. The blonde lady mom has promised that she won’t take me as long as I stay healthy.
I’m just so nervous when I’m picked up or in a closed in space that it would do me more harm than good at this point to bring me there it was told to her
Savannah:..Oh Cat Mooch! You really had a tough time living out in the cold like that. And then to be so scared you stayed in the basement for like a whole year! I can so relate to that fear thing…I am scared of my own shadow!
Now, can you give us some idea of how much progress you think you have made trying to be more and more of your REAL SELF? Are things different four years after you first hid in the basement?
Mooch: The blonde lady mom says I am a work in progress. I fink she means I needs a bit more help but what the best fing is—they has all accepted me fer who I am and what I do!
I suppose I need to work on coming out more during the day. Oh and being more friendly to the other kittehs. I did sleep next to a foster kitten the other day where I usually hiss and swat at them!
Savannah: oh Mooch! That’s progress for sure! Good for you! Give me a high Paw Pat…(whappity, whap, whap)…YES!
Ok, last question, can you offer any advice to our readers to help them support their adult rescue cat, or one they may be thinkin’ about bringing into their home, through its recovery process?
Mooch: A new person that takes yoo in has to understand that we need our space and time too. We is confused and sad and sometimes so scared we seem angry (but we really aren’t… ya see cats don’t feel ‘anger’…that’s a peep thing) when we are lost/abandoned or left on our own.
We won’t behave like yoo want us to, and we may even hide for a week, two weeks or a year or more. We has to learn to trust yoo as much as yoo has to learn our ways. I found the right place acuz my family accepts me fer who and what I am but I has also learned that they are good fer me. Time and patience and even getting down to my level (like the blonde lady mom did) helped me.
Savannah: Mooch, you have been so very brave to stick around this long and meow with me about your life and how you found your furrever home. This was great!
Any last thought or words of wisdom you want to share?
Mooch: Sometimes learning to love and trust is furry hard on us kittehs and the right person will know how to see yoo through it all!
Mooch & Blonde Lady Mom
A purrfect last comment Mooch! Right on!! We can do anything when our peeps trust US to show them our REAL SELF as much as we can. And like with you Mooch, we may take a really long time to trust them enough to come into their presence and light. Here, let me give you a paw hug…ummmppff!…Thank you so much!
Hope you all enjoyed meeting Mooch. I sure have had a great time getting to know her.
You know that Mom Linda has been helping our good friend Miss Josie with her foster bottle kittens…not that I approve, mind you…
…but I know that every kitten deserves a loving beginning into this world…and I am proud that Mom and I have had a teeny paw in helping these 3 kittens grow up and thrive and be ready to move on to being adopted into their furrever homes….of course their foster Mom Miss Josie…well…she did all the work…and we just luvluvluv her and her Kitty Platoon.
…Sammy, the runt of a litter and his ginger sisfur Ginger… (YES!! a female ginger kitty only found in less than 1% of ginger kitties!)…were trapped by Community Concern For Cats (CC4C)…their Momma cat had moved all her other kittens, so they left her with them and were able to bring Ginger and Sammy into a foster home…my former Vet…Miss Josie.
…and then there is Flower, who is probably a couple of weeks older…she is a “pistol” according to Mom Linda…Flower is so rambunctious and playful!!…
Here is a video Miss Josie created to help these precious kittens find their furrever homes…purrlease share this video and the link to CC4C in case someone in this world would love to bring these sweet kittens into their home furrever…as we know in this virtual paw blog/twitter/Facebook community…miracles happen efuryday…
Mom Linda said good-bye to these kittens Wednesday, May 1rst, and we may have a video of their last play session next week. But for now…here are some photos of their last play session.. purrlease send your woos, woofs, purrs, squeeks, quacks, neighs…to speed them along to furrever homes…
I always feel really great doing my Thursday post…I get to be “Thankful” and I get to share my garden and even sometimes…I get to share the pretty places Mom and Dad go on their little “Get-a-Way”.
Totally one of my most favorite posts of the week!
I want to thank all of you who stopped by yesterday to leave your comments and let me and my furriend Nissy know you were sending him your very bestest healing purrs, wheeks, neighs, woofs, quacks, woos and all…Nissy heard them and he came through his surgery Ok so far. Thanks so much for all your healing energy for Nerissa.
Now I get to acknowledge him again as a most wonderful furriend. Just before Nerissa had his accident, he passed an award to me…
What makes a good acceptance speech?
-Gratitude. Thank the people who helped you along the way
-Humor. Keep us entertained and smiling
-Inspiration. Make your story touch our lives
Ahem…koff, koff…ahhhh…so, like I have never ever done this acceptance meow before…not sure I really know how. But here is the best I can come up with…
(mee,mee,mee…purrr, purrrr…ahem, ahem...)…Ok…here it is…
“It is my honor and privilege to know all of you; you are a daily inspiration to me; without all of you I would not be the cat I am today…I keep moving forward because of all of you…one paw at a time…thanks”
(hope that was ok…whew…wipes sweat from brow with paw)
Here is my list of new furriends I am passing this award along to…
Ashton, Pierre and Newton from Sometimes Cats Herd You…
Brooch from The Broochverse…
RA, Nanuk and Isis from RA Husky
Phantom, Thunder, Ciara and Lightning from The Chronicle of Woos
Jack and Moo from Cyber Sibes
Moving on…I am joining Pepi Smart Dogs Thankful Thursday Blog Hop…click the badge to go visit other great Thankful Thursday blog posts…
And of course I am ever so thankful for Nerissa coming through his surgery in “A” “OK” shape so far. I am also very thankful that Mom and Dad came back to me safe and sound from a little overnight get-a-way. It was a belated celebration of their 36th Anniversary. So I was totally fine with them going away for a night down to the coast.
Here are a few photos to share their get-a-way…
Of course I can’t forget to add my Thursday Garden Report for Jonesie’s Society of Feline Gardeners…
These are some of our blooming plants on display this week…and I apologize if I already posted these…but my staff (glares at Mom) has been slow in taking new photos for my garden report…so humiliating…
Hope you had a good time visiting me today…
I am wringing my paws with worry for my furriend Nerissa…he and I are great Face book pals and Twitter pals and blogging buddies. I even interviewed his sisfur Tobias as part of my Real Rescue Cats Are Talking: Life Changing Interviews with Savannah…click HERE to read the interview. Nerissa suggested I should have a meow with her and he knows a good story when he sees one.
Nissy, his nick name you know…well…he has had a terrible accident and is having orthopedic surgery this VERY DAY! Yes, I mean TODAY…this is to save his hind leg cuz he tore all the ligaments that hold his knee cap on.
If you don’t already know Nissy, you really must go over to visit him. He is just about the most entertaining paw blog writer and always has lots of interesting thought provoking stuff to get you to thinkin’ about. In fact…he is a finalist for our very own Blog Paws Nose-to-Nose Award for “Best Blog Writing”.
My request of all my furriends is that you send all your very best purrs, woos, play bows, woofs, squeeks, quacks, neighs or anything else you can to Nissy…let’s get him through this surgery and HOME to heal and be back runnin’ around on all fours…
I am keepin’ the great badge Miss Ann from Zoolatry made for Nissy on my side bar until he is chasing squirrels and feeling purrfect again. Here it is…go on…grab it…post it for Nissy.
And my special message for Nissy…just so’s he knows how very much I luvluvluv him…
All I could find with me getting my zoom on…
Click HERE to visit other great blogs…this is a blog hop!! Thank you to Life with Dogs for hosting this pet blog hop.
