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04 Nov 2015

Dona Nobis Pacem

GREETINGS!! SAVANNAH HERE!!!

This is my most favorite blog post of the year. The Blog Blast For Peace. My humble gratitude to Miss Mimi for starting this movement in 2006. Click here to visit her blog post about the beginning of this movememtn.

This is OUR world; all flora (meaning plant life) and fauna (meaning all animal life, both domestic and wildlife) and humans. And yet most humans still prefer to see this as ‘their’ world. This means that the flora and fauna are ‘less than’ and humans feel free to determine what species, other than themselves, may live or die.

Does this mean that no flora or fauna kill one another; of course not. But all of us, the flora and fauna, know how to maintain the balance, if only the humans would stop intervening.

Look at the habitat loss for so many of our avian roomies. My community cat (feral) extended family members are blamed because the humans refuse to point their finger of accountability squarely upon themselves. Yet these humans who point their one finger to all cats who live, most without choice, outside, accuse us of destroying avian and mammal species to the point of extinction.

*rolls eyes*…seriously??*

My dream for peace for ‘our’ world is that humans will one day open up their ‘adopted beliefs’ about species with whom they have little to no experience or understanding. Humans will acknowledge that they have much to learn from all ‘fauna’ in general and from all community cats specifically.

These cats, small and large, are all from a ‘feral’ living environment. None of them asked “Please let me be a feral cat”. Humans dumped, abandoned and discarded them as though they have no right to live on this globe we call “Home Earth”. And yet, here they are, through no fault of their own, attempting to reconnect with the human species. Please hear their silent voices in this following slideshow.

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Humans are the all-powerful on our shared Home Earth. They control the ability to make change, to make peace and acceptance of others different from themselves, a reality.

I am Savannah, The Cat, and I Am A Peace Blogger. Follow my paw tracks toward peace.

NAMASTE, SAVANNAH

26 Aug 2015

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A Former Shelter Cat Learning to Trust

HIYA!! SAVANNAH HERE!!!

Most of you who have known me since I started my blog in 2012, know that I was afraid of people and other cats even at five years old. I won’t ever know what happened to me before being dropped in the night drop box at the county kill shelter. All I know is that I feared humans and other cats. Fortunately, I was pulled at the last minute by someone who fostered me and then I was admitted to a no kill rescue.

Dad P noticed me right away when he and Mom L started volunteering in December 2011 at Contra Costa Humane Society’s Kitty Corner. And I have been with them since then. My recovery progress from former trauma has been slow but steady. And I am proud to share a little bit of another step forward.

We have just moved to a different home, but I have settled in really easily. Unlike the last time we had to move. Progress.

I always share the couch with Mom L at night and I usually lie at one end and she sits on the other. Just a couple of nights ago I changed around…and moved close enough to her, and facing her, to encourage her to give my head and face a little massage.

ahhh…that’s perfect Mom L

Next thing I knew…I had completely relaxed my whole head and fell asleep with her holding my head.

zzzzzzzzzzzzz

Of course Mom L saw a ‘photo opportunity’…and when she removed her hand from my head…I never even moved…

Safely snoozing away

Mom L just could not help herself. The next day was gonna be my time to join Sunday Selfies Blog Hop over at my pals from The Cat On My Head. And, I had not yet taken my ‘selfie’ for the blog post. Normally, what Mom L did next would have driven me immediately from the couch out of fear of being hurt or scared…but instead I hung in and let her take several ‘selfie’ photos of me with our iPhone.

It’s OK Mom L, click away…I trust you

And that is my small but important recovery progress I want to share with you, my caring readers. I just went back to sleep.

Trust…a wonderful feeling.

PAW PATS, SAVANNAH

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07 Aug 2015

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Hellooooo!! Anyone Out There?

HIYA! SAVANNAH HERE!!

~~FINALLY!~~ ~~AT LAST!!~~ AS PLANNED…

Guess you already know that Mom L and I had a bit of difference on just ‘how’ I ought to start off my first blog post since…ummm…well…like ~~FOREVER!!!~~ Well…since July 2, 2015.

I am so hoping some of my pals are still out there…and that I will hear from you to learn that I have not been forgotten. Mom L, Dad P, Sage (AKA TKS) and I have been in a very long and hurried process of being forced to move unexpectedly. Of course, as with every ‘drama’ …there is lots more but who cares now, right?

We are moved…and we are all together and healthy. Not much else counts to us. TKS (The Kid Sage) and I missed Mom L and Dad P while they were gone for 3 weeks…but our new house/pet sitters were totally AWESOME!! And I did not toss up my food ONCE!! Not once while they were gone…I saved up for after we moved and they placed an area rug in the dining room which they have not used for like 7 years…now THAT was a great upchuck if I do say so myself…heh…heh…

Sorry…I digressed a bit.

Back to our move.

Amazing to me, but I really have found some comfort in having TKS along with me for all this stress and turmoil. And, she has very much stuck to my back furs like…well…like velcro!…Seems I give her confidence and a feeling of safety as well.

Mom L and Dad P only had to confine us in the old house for about 6 hours…and then only 24 hours in the new house. After that…they opened the door to our Master Bedroom…and TKS and I went exploring.

As a testament to my recovery from trauma…I actually LED the way!

Whoa! This is a really slick floor!

I had to check out upstairs first…

Ok TKS…this room is ‘clear’…nothing dangerous

Once I found the stairs…and there are like a TON of them…I carefully descended. (remember…hover over photo to read captions!!)

YEOWZER! That is a long way down

Stay close Sage…going down

TKS was conflicted…should she follow MY lead…or ask Ceiling Cat to make this move go away…

Savvy?? I’m scared! Are you down there?

Finally, before we left upstairs, we talked and agreed… lots of stuff smelled like us…ya know…like ‘home’…

It’s OK Sage…this is all our stuff

And then I went downstairs…and my dearest friend Nanuk was just where he ought to be…waiting for me…I knew then that we were home.

Luvluvluv ya buddy!

I cannot promise I will be visiting AND commenting immediately…but we have never stopped visiting and keeping in touch. Thank you all who are now reading and hopefully leaving comments…for hanging in with me during this chaotic time.

I am trying to get back to my regular post schedule…Monday, Wednesday and Friday and as many Sunday Selfies as I can join with my very good pals at The Cat On My Head.

You are all so very important to me. If you don’t realize that…please tell me in comments…and I will work to make amends if needed.