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Autobiography of a Former Shelter Cat

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Monday Meowsie News…

HIYA!!   SAVANNAH HERE!!!

My first, really, really BIG news…has no photo proof…you are all gonna have to trust me on this one…because it is BIG…no, no…seriously…I am TALKIN’ BIG!!!

Last Wednesday, I was in our office meowing some instructions to Mom, and when I started to leave her to her work, she walked over to me and…

…scooped me up into her arms!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

…AND I LET HER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I got kind’a tense, but did not struggle, Mom held me close to her and softly scratched my neck and talked softly and encouraged me…then she sat down in the chair we have in the office…and kept me close to her shoulder a bit more, then she let me rest a bit on her lap…at that time I started to get a bit more anxious…so Mom, still with her hands around my middle, let me slide easily off her lap onto the floor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

…NEXT…

I did not run away, I just went about 2 feet away, then looked back at her and she followed me…I meowed to her, stopped, she pet me, then I walked toward the patio door in the living room, all the time with Mom right next to me and petting me as I walked and meowed along…at the patio door, I just sort of threw myself down on the floor, Mom got down with me…and was petting me…

I figured, what the heck…and I LET HER STROKE MY TUMMY AGAIN!!!  Then Mom gave me some treats and I gobbled them right up! As most of you know, I don’t care much for treats, but these are Friskies Party Mix, chic-hen, turkey and liver…yummm.  She did like she learned from Mom Janey at The Real Maple Syrup Mob when I interviewed Heathcliff (click HERE if you missed his interview)…so see, we are using what we learn from my Real Rescue Cats and Dogs Are Talking interviews.

So sorry no photos…but hope you are as purrleased with me as I am of myself…Mom was of course, ECSTATIC!! paw (peeEss…Mom just picked me up again today, Sunday…and I got some more treats for letting her…heh…heh..)

But I do have photos of my NEW TENT SPACE!!…hey Sammy, hear that??? Another TENT! All thanks to your great ideas Sam my man!!

Check this out…Mom used one of my two ham-miks…I like to keep one in our master bath…remember…it has the radiant heated tile floors and that keeps it nice a warm…

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…here’s a better one photo…Mom made the tent, and I just sniffed it a bit and climbed right into it…even stayed there long enough for her to grab her iPad to get some” proof of tent use” photos…

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…the other thing going on is Mom and Dad are starting to pack up for their next get away. They will be gone a whole week again. Now, don’t fret, Auntie Shannon will be here with me…she even does sleep overs so I always have a nice peep body to snuggle with at night.  Mom and Dad are leaving this coming Friday.

I can tell they are gonna go…so I am making good use of the time I have with Mom in the mornings…we had a very special snuggle on Sunday morning…this is after I had a really long brushing time with her…

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…see how tight I am against her leg there on my right??…and the sun was starting to come into our bedroom…

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…I stayed in bed a while after she got up to make breakfast for her and Dad…she came back in and grabbed Dad’s iPhone for the next couple of shots…

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…even got a close up…

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That’s what’s happening around here…Mom can’t help me visit much this week because I am dictating all my posts for when she is gone.  She will schedule them and I will just use my iPad to hit publish with my paw, I can do that much at least.

Don’t forget the Valentine Ball being hosted by Mollie and Ranger…I am going to be with my good furriend Spitty…wonder if he will bring the FURRari??? Naw, probably not…nice thought though….

Have a great start to your week

Paw Pats, Savannah

Washing Up…

HIYA!!   SAVANNAH HERE!!!

It is so impawtant to get oneselfpaw_15px.jpg all tidy and nice before taking your Sunday Easy…

…first…get the hind toesies…

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…next the front ones…slurp, slurp…

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…now behind the ears…uummmppfff…

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…now the all impawtant tummy…lickity. lickity, snurffle…

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…make like a cinnamon bun…and get your Sunday Easy goin’…and that’s how it’s done at my house…zzzzzzzzzzzzzz…

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Paw Pats, Savannah

Love Is In The Air

HIYA!!   SAVANNAH  HERE!!!

Okey dokey…I have some stuff to share…so here goes…

First…I know that Valentine’s Day is fast approaching…that always gets all of us furrAmily and huAmily thinkin’ about “LOVE”…fine, fine…Ok…I get it…

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Sorry, so sorry…I just digressed…

Back on track now…my VERY VERY GOOD FURRIEND NERISSA…yes, HIS NAME is NERISSA!!!…has given me yet another FANTABULOUSpaw AWARD…designed by none-other than his PEEP!!

APAWS!!!   APAWS!!! FOR NERISSA’S PEEP!!!!!

Nissy, yes…he allows me to refer to his preferred name…”Nissy“…ahem…anyways…he passed this award to me and several other pawsome blogs… he named the award  “WHY I LOVE THEE“…

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The “RULES” are rather simple…link to the original giver of the award…DONE

Nissy said “you’ve gotta tell us why you love somebody ’cause this award is all about the love.  And last, but not least, you need to pass the award along.  You can pass it along to one blog or fifteen blogs or any number of blogs in-between.  Pretty easy stuff, right?  Yeah…  easy peasy.”

This my WHY I LOVE THEE…to my Dad…

I languished in two shelters for over 14 months…my second shelter, Thank Ceiling Cat!…was a no kill private shelter…Kitty Corner, owned by Contra Costa Humane Society.  My Dad found this shelter in the newspaper, and Mom visited. Then Mom brought Dad…and the VERY FIRST cat Dad said Hello to was ME!  Yup, one of the volunteers told Dad about this “very depressed cat, no one ever sees…her name is Savannah”.  And Dad looked for me, and found me in my hidedy cubby bed…and he got right down on the floor and reached in and offered ME his loving soft pet.  That’s MY DAD!!  He found me, he loves me with his whole heart and he brought me here to my furrever home…of course, Mom had something to do with it all…BUT…This is why I luvluvluv MY DAD…even tho’  I am afraid of men, I am now sleeping at Dad’s footsies; I snuggle with him at night and solicit his special pets…he is MY DAD…and I just luvluvluv him to pieces.  In the shelter, when he started volunteering with Mom on Thursday Morning cleaning duty, I was the first cat he said ‘hello’ to and the last cat he said ‘good-bye’ to for each shift.  And NOW…I am HIS PRINCESS!!.

So I have a 3 blogs that I really think show lots of love…and I pass this award to them…

  • Filled with lots of love…my good furriends at Some Cats Herd You…always a great read…and Ashton is trying so hard to show some luv to Pierre and Newton.
  • And how could I not pass this Why I Love Thee award to my Champion…Jetty, Hey It’s Jet Here!! My honor champion…he always makes me feel loved and safe. I know Miss Lori is not posting every day now, but I want Jet to feel our love!
  • I also want to honor one of my newest furriends…Jessie and Janey…from Australia…I have such luvluvluv for them..purrlease visit it you don’t know them.

Onward!! One more great thing about “Love Is In The Air”…

I entered a contest over at my bestest furriend Texas’s site…it was all about love…Texas had a give-away for calendars created by one of my very first furriends…Miss Bernadette…and her lovely Tortie cats Cookie and Kelly…at The Creative Cat…and I WON the Kitchen Calendar featuring Cookie…Pawsome!!!

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You may ask “why is this about love”…and I will answer you…both Cookie and Kelly lived such wonderful long lives under the Guardianship of Miss Bernadette…and both these lovely ladycats were so like Mom’s “before me” sweet kitty Tasha…

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This calendar is completely and totally about LOVE!!!

I hope all of you are feeling LOVE IS IN THE AIR…as we approach the BIG day….Valentine’s Day Ball…hosted by none other than Mollie and Alfie and Ranger…hope to see you all there

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Paw Pats, Savannah

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