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27 Apr 2020

Katie’s First Art Project

HIYA!! SAVANNAH HERE!!!

First I am so sorry I didn’t post my Friday Memes for Friday Smiles. Mom L injured her right index finger and could not type for me. She is lots better, but if you find silly typos in this post, please ignore, Ok?!

Right! Moving on to the amazing start of a potential artist in our furramily.

Our Sunday morning started off pretty much as usual, kitties snoozing in our unmade bed.

Mom L thought Katie looked bored so’s she opened up a cat game on her iPad to see if Katie might enjoy it. I know I sure did the first time I tried it. That squeekie mousie is really fast on that screen.

Examining her palette

I am sharing a couple of her photos from her first experience, but if you are in a hurry, just skip forward to the slideshow to view all her actions captured by Mom L.

Hmmm…I can see that I need more paw whacks in the top

You see every times Katie paw whacks that schmousie running around the screen, she makes a random color splatter.

Hmmm… maybe just a touch down here will add to the interest of my color palette

Here is the entire art project in a short slide show.

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And here is Katie’s final product. Isn’t it beautiful?

PAW PATS, SAVANNAH

Posted in Katie's Life Experiences and tagged CAT GAME, cat humor, CAT PLAY

20 Apr 2020

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Real Rescue Cats Are Talking

HIYA!! SAVANNAH HERE!!!

Hey guys!! Remember when I was doing my interviews with “Real Rescue Cats and Dogs” in like 2013??

Well I have a new one for you that I just know you are gonna luvluvluv!

Meet “Sweet Baby Girl”!

Sadly this is the only photo I have right now. I purromised to share her rescue story with you last week and here it is.

“Sweet Baby Girl” aka “Baby Girl” wandered into one of Miss Kandi’s feeding areas about six to eight months ago. Miss Kandi is one of several volunteers who work with Mom L and Dad P on our Project Delta View Cats (PDVC) program.

Baby Girl showed up one night under the bushes where Miss Kandi feeds about eights cats. She was immediately friendly and gave head bumps and purred.

Miss Kandi tried once to pick up Baby Girl and put her in top loading carrier, but Baby Girl freaked out and really scratched Miss Kandi to the point of bruising etc. So we waited until Baby Girl calmed down over several weeks.

Then Miss Kandi saw that she was getting far too fat around her baby making area on her body. Now the clock to trap/catch her starter to really tick loudly! Was she eating too much? Or was she pregnant?? And then Miss Kandi noticed that Baby Girl was seriously favoring her right front let.

Miss Kandi feeds mostly in the early to mid evening because of her job.

She watches over her kitties and always knows when one is missing or injured. We have helped her get four of her community cats adopted since 2017 and have made sure any new kitty is always spayed/neutered.

About Baby Girl—long story short—Miss Kandi was able to pick her up, purring, and place her in a top loading carrier. Miss Kandi brought Baby Girl to my castle where she would receive medical care for the apparent injury to her right front leg. Not only pregnant, but now injured.

We got our wonderful caring Contra Costa Animal Services (CCAS)who partner with PDVC to accept Baby Girl due to her injury. We already had an appointment at our other partner’s clinic, Community Concern For Cats . (CC4C)

So we hoped that CCAS would tell us if Baby Girl had a broken leg, and could they treat her. We knew that they were not doing any spay/neuter surgeries given the current COVID 19 restrictions.

Bottom line!!

Baby Girl did indeed have a broken humorous. Likely from being hit by a car from one of the many stoopid humans who do those “dough nut” things on the street right where Miss Kandi feeds.

And yes, Baby Girl was VERY pregnant. How many kittens do you see??

And here is her broken front leg.

CCAS Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Mills, came to the lobby to talk with Mom L and Dad P about what some of her options might be. We knew amputation was possible and that she would be spayed and her unborn kittens euthanized. BUT that is not what Dr. Mills wanted to do. She said Baby Girl was just darling, purring, giving head bumps and she thought she could find a positive outcome for Baby Girl if we would give her a day. Of course we agreed!!

Now the bottom, bottom line—Baby Girl was transferred to The Orphan Kitten Project run by Vet Med students at the University of California, Davis Vet Med School. They are only about and hour drive from where we are. Baby Girl’s foster is the student who runs the project and Baby Girl would have her kittens, the students will socialize them and get them adopted. Baby Girl’s broken leg will be cared for and allowed to heal on its own as she will be confined caring for her kittens. She will eventually be spayed and they will find her the bestest home ever!!

A HAPPY TAILS ENDING FOR BABY GIRL!!!

I am late posting today because I was waiting for this marvelous video of Baby Girl having just delivered three of her four kittens LAST NIGHT!!! TURN UP YOUR SOUND TO HEAR BABY GIRL PURRING AWAY!!

In these harsh times, fraught with fear and worry about COVID 19 and all the death it has brought to humans, Baby Girl’s story shows that there is also new life. My Paw It Forward work continues even now through our Project Delta View Cats all volunteer little group. Because we partner and collaborate with our city, county animal services and Community Concern For Cats, we were able to bring a village to help Baby Girl.

PAW PATS, SAVANNAH

Posted in Adult Animal Rescue Stories, Community Cats, happy tails endings, Project Delta View Cats and tagged paw it forward, Project Delta View Cats, real rescue stories

17 Apr 2020

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Friday Memes for your Friday smiles

HIYA!! SAVANNAH HERE!!!

I am sure all of you are having some of the same challenges TKS, Katie and I are having with all this human “shelter in place” stuff. Don’t get us wrong, we get it that they need to keep themselves safe and healthy ‘cuz we love them and of course, want our meals served on time and whatnot.

But after a month of this, we are starting to want them to build a catio so THEY can go outside and play and leave us alone in a nice quiet house.

Katie is having a tough time getting her rest ‘cuz Mom L and Dad P are always asking her if she wants to play. She can’t figure out what it means unless it means that they don’t have anything else to do with their time. Seriously, they outta be able to use their imaginations and let the poor kid sleep, right?

As for TKS, she is starting to roam the house looking for furs she has dropped so’s she can stick them back onto her just to give Dad P enough fur to brush again and again and again!! I swear she is looking mighty thin in some spots.

As for me, I am having to fight for my napping spot on the couch because Mom L is binge watching TV shows! Honestly, I finally started sitting on her spot hoping she wouldn’t like sitting on my spot. But nooooooo, she doesn’t care where she sits for hours on hours on the couch. I never bargained for this, nope, no siree!

How are all of you doing with your humans around and so much time on their paws?