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03 Jun 2013

Monday Meowsie News…You Are Going To Luvluvluv This!

HIYA!! SAVANNAH HERE!!!

Oh My Cat!!! I have some really SPECTACULAR news to share…no, no…Leo has NOT started eating well…wish I could say it’s so; but it isn’t…but I will save my PAWSOME SURPRISE news for last…of course…so start trying to guess what it might be???

…and no, it is not just another photo of Mom holding my tail!…heh…heh

Something you never ever thought you would see a photo of on my bloggy…just sayin’…

Now first, many of you know I am Auntie Savvy to Little Miss Satchie, from Satchmo The Cat; and of course, I am a very good pal to Jay, her older brofur…he has his own bloggy as well, Jazz Cat Jay. Well, they live in Ottawa, Canada…so probably we won’t ever get to meet up.

BUT…their Mom, Miss Claudia came to a town RIGHT NEXT TO ME!!! So she came to my house and met ME and my Mom…ahem, ahhhh…well…no, no…there is no photo of her actually touching me…but she did…but there is a photo of her and Mom Linda!! Who would have thunk this could happen?!

Now Leo is feeling just fine…he is playing with some of my toys I told Mom I would share with him…and he is chill-axing in his hotel suite…but he does caterwaul a bit as I suspect he would like more freedom. But that dude is STILL NOT EATING enough on his own…sigh (click on a photo to bigify…especially the ones of Leo chill-axing!)

Not the Flashy Box Again!

What? What’s up there?

Fev-vers!

Just hanging…

What? No, no…I can’t eat yet

I know you will want a little update on The Rat Pack…remember those scrawny little bottle kittens my Mom and Miss Josie ~~forced~~ introduced me to?? Well, they are growing up fast…they went to their very first Petsmart Adoption Day this past weekend…

Yawn!…time to play!

Wild Flower grabbing the camera strap

Ahhh..needed that stretch

Hey, where’s Sammy?

Mine!…No, Mine…

Hey Sammy, come play with us

So that’s what’s happening in my home these days…

What?…oh, did some of you wanna hear my SPECTACULAR PAWSOME SURPRISE NEWS???…oh gosh…it seems so teeny now, I almost forgot.

For those of you who have known me since I started sharing my rescue story and my recovery from trauma progress…you will know how big my news truly is. There are many of you who have been with me almost every step of the way…but there are three who I know for sure will luvluvluv seeing my photos of what I did this weekend.

Miss Annie from Animal Couriers always told me this would just happen one day without anyone suspecting it. And for sure Miss Trish from Katnip Lounge has been waiting, waiting, waiting patiently…cuz she just always knew I had it in me…and of course, my mentor and one of my very first blog furriends, Sammy and his Mom Miss Pam from One Spoiled Cat told me I would do this one day.

Hmmm…nice a soft

Nice scritches Mom

I’m likin’ this lap thing

SQUEEE!! YES!!! I just hopped up onto Mom’s sort of lap…while she was reclined on the couch…she and Dad were havin’ a furramily meetin’ and I just KNEW they were talkin’ about Leo. I just had to get closer to snoopervise. But Mom was reclined on MY end of the couch and Dad was sitting right there where Mom always sits…hmmm…where was I gonna be able to fit??

I did one drive by…put my dainty front paws on the couch just to check out the space…then I walked off to consider just where I would be best able to snoopervise…so I did another drive by to do some sniffin’…then on my final pass…I decided I needed to be ON TOP of Mom to do my best snoopervisin’…

So I just hopped right up…walked onto her lap/tummy and made myself to home!! Mom and Dad did not breathe for at least 5 minutes…no idea what the big deal was…heh…heh

Finally Dad took the risk of getting up and as he did he picked up Mom’s iPhone…so we have photo proof…I have now been on Mom’s lap…I stayed there for about a half hour…just purring away…no big deal!

Not nappin’, I’m listenin’

Don’t move too much Mom

Dad, good point…

Seriously, what’s the big deal?

Paw Pats, Savannah

31 May 2013

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Friday Frolics and Other Things

HIYA!! SAVANNAH HERE!!!

Thank you all who came by to visit, read, leave comments…on my post on Thankful Thursday. It was a very special post for me…

…even though I am not especially happy about Foster Brofur Leo being in MY home…I am truly purrleased he is starting to make a turn around…THANK CEILING CAT!!!

Nice…

UPDATE: Foster brofur Leo had to got the vet place again yesterday…Mom and Dad messed up a teeny bit and got some air bubbles caught in his feeding tube giving him his meds…but he is all sorted out again…and well…still being stubborn about eating on his own. But…we know he can do it…he may just have forgotten how…my personal vet, Dr Ellis, she knows all about this stuff…she will help us move Leo through his turn around…paws crossed.

So here is a bit of Friday Frolics…just a little bitty sound video of Foster Brofur Leo on his way to his vet check-up…he HATES being in the car when it moves…heh…heh…you must have volume up loud to hear his voice…

And for even more FROLICS…Starring ME of course…

Finally…I thought my post yesterday was like…well…according to “best blog writing protocol”…ummm…way too long…so I left out a very impawtant story about a donation made from a very special furriend of Savannah’s Paw Tracks…unknown to me until he reached out and helped my foster brofur Leo…

As all of you know…we all have many RWB (Readers Without Blogs)…such as Mistletoe and Hitch and my special furriend Dinah…they visit us every day they can…they read…sometimes leave comments…or they just read and move on…’cuz they don’t have blogs themselves or whatnot…

When I very first mentioned Foster brofur Leo…and his illness…and humbly asked if my furriends could spare some sofa/pocket change to help his medical costs…one unknown furriend contacted me and Mom Linda…his name is “Boots”…and he has been reading my bloggy for sometime I guess…

Anywho…here is what Boots had his staff write to me and Mom Linda…

“…Hi, I am Boots, the Household Tiger and I live in St. Louis, MO. I discovered Ms Savvy Do Savannah while doing a Google search on “grey cats” during lunch one day. I (Boots Mom) was so charmed by her/your blog that I started following it on a regular basis. The story of Leo is near and dear to my heart as I lost my( Boot’s Mom’s Dad) father’s cat Pillsbury to the same issue, just a couple of months after my Dad passed away. I don’t want anyone else to go through through what we through with Pillsy.”

In Boots honor, his Mom and Dad made a donation to Leo’s Med costs at CC Humane Society. So…isn’t it amazing that all of us have followers, RWB (Readers Without Blogs) who read, love us, most often don’t comment as they do not have a paw blog, or Face Book page or a Twitter handle…but they read our posts and love our anipal/paw blog community as much as all of us active members do. Boots and his Guardians are those RWB readers; just like Mistletoe and Hitch and Dinah…who help us out in our efforts to rescue animals and improve animal welfare.

So to acknowledge Boots and his contribution to Leo’s medical costs…let me introduce you to him…don’t you think we must be related???

Photo One

Photo Two

Photo Three

…now the next set of three photos…

Photo Number Four

Photo Number Five

Photo Number Six

Last but surely not least…let me remind you all that our very good furriend Chancy and Baby Boy and the kitties have moved…here is their new address..be sure to follow them…

What’s Going On At Mumsy’s blog, formerly Chancy the Gardener and two other blogs rolled into one…PURRFECT!

Thank you all for your pawsome support in my chaotic time…I am trying so hard to come back to all of you in your comment queues and Twitter and FB comments.

Paw Pats, Savannah

Posted in Fitness Recovery, Mental Recovery, Savannah's Life Experiences and tagged adopt adult cat, cat recovery, scared cat, shelter rescue cat, special need cat rescue, trust

30 May 2013

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What A Thankful Thursday

HIYA!! SAVANNAH HERE!!!

This is gonna be like a really long post…so you might want to grab some noms and a fave beverage and pull up a soft blankie and sit a while…

SERIOUSLY…I know “great” blogs are short…but you are really gonna wanna read this WHOLE BOOK…’cuz you are ALL the main characters…JUST SAYIN’…

That’s why I am sittin’ here in this chair…

I just have a ton of things to be thankful for…and so much of those things are all about the treasure of having furriends who pitch in to help even without being asked…and when asked…they do it with their whole heart.

PAWSOME!

First, I think most of you remember I have a foster brofur, Leo, who has been in my our care for a month now. He has hepatic lipidosis or commonly called fatty liver syndrome. You can read about it here in one of my posts…or visit this LINK HERE to learn from Sparkle…

It was in that post, May 9, that I asked if anyone had some spare green papers, silver coins, lying around unused, that Mom and Dad could use a bit of help as Leo’s medical costs, which they fully committed to paying cuz his shelter, Contra Costa Humane Society is not very big and their vet care fund is always so stretched rescuin’ lots of adult cats and woofies. Mom and Dad had paid $2,285 USD for Leo’s two night stay in animal hospital, blood work, ultrasound and feeding tube operation.

Anywho, I asked that one time…and guess what happened?

Several of my furriends immediately jumped to action and Mom found $245 USD in her paypal account in a few days!! Unbelievable…and over half of those who responded at that time were from out of USA…our global paw blog community so totally ROCKS!!!

Next I got the surprise of my life…my blue eyed mancat furriend and his blonde bombshell side kick…yes, I mean Alfie and Mollie!…they asked, well, actually I guess Mum Stella asked “can I help?” We said sure and that was it for then.

An email from Mum Stella truly shocked me and Mom Linda to the core…they were gonna do not only a raffle but an AUCTION to help raise funds for Leo!!!

Mollie and Alfie and Mum Stella outdid themselves, on May 20th they had not only the AUCTION but the RAFFLE up and running…click HERE to read the post about the Auction.

…Alfie…(Mr Blue Eyes himself…purrrs…)

…Mollie…

Of course, they needed more staff, so their good pal Miss Misaki jumped in with all four paws to assist with sorting the Raffle tickets, numbers etc…Misaki even took time out from eating her ice cream cone to make sure efurryone remembered to get their raffle tickets and to make bids at the auction…click HERE to read her post.

Now you ask “how could just those two bloggers get the word out and about and ~~beg~~ solicit furriends to donate items to the auction????….well of course there were even MORE of my furriends who helped…my mentor Sammy was cat on the spot getting the word out on every one of his posts once Mollie and Alfie got the ~~ball ,nip mouse~~ event rolling…click HERE to read one of Sammy’s post about the auction/raffle.

And…of course my furry good furriends, My Three Moggies, were right in there helping ~~strong arm~~ encourage furriends to donate auction items and then to ~~bully~~ motivate them to make bids and buy raffles tickets…AND GUESS WHAT ELSE THEY DID?????….

My Three Moggies donated a PAWSOME Raffle First Prize…£50/$75 voucher for pet toys and products on Amazon…click HERE to read their announcement.

Of course the Second Place Raffle Prize was also super duper special…it was donated from Mollie and Alfie’s shop…it was one of Mum Stella’s very special hand drawn cartooned mouse pads…check out the two she did for ME a while ago…

And one more GREAT BIG THANK YOU to the WINNERS of the First Grand Prize from the Raffle…da’ Tabbies-O-Trout Towne…they gave LEO their Amazon voucher for $75 USD to spend on what ever he needs or to give to his shelter roomies at Kitty Corner.

WHAT YOU ALL ACCOMPLISHED ON BEHALF OF LEO

AUCTION/RAFFLE/DONATIONS MADE DURING EVENT
TOTAL RAISED: $919.91

DONATIONS MADE TO CONTRA COSTA HUMANE SOCIETY DIRECTLY DUE TO YOUR RESPONSE TO MY ASK and/or as part of the AUCTION/RAFFLE EVENT
Approximately $1,000.00 USD

GRAND TOTAL…RAISED FOR LEO IN ONLY TEN DAYS
$1,919.91

I am so respectful of all that so many have done for Leo, whom none of you have met. Trust me…he is worth it…and Dr. Ellis, his very special personal Vet (mine too…heh…heh) is totally his head cheerleader!! Dr Ellis owns and loves her Civic Feline Clinic vet practice. Without her and her PAWSOME staff, Leo would not be with us right now…IMHFO (in my humble feline opinion)…I mean seriously, what Vet ever gives the peeps a personal mobile number over a long weekend in case they need help for Leo????!!!

Purrlease, visit their Face Book page and give them a great big “LIKE“…Civic Feline Face Book Page

Okey dokey…here are the photos you will so enjoy…

…Leo’s last feeding at Civic Feline Clinic with Mom Linda the very day she returned from her trip to Blog Paws..