Savannah's Paw Tracks

27 Sep 2015

Selfie Retrospective: Introduction to a six part series

HIYA!! SAVANNAH HERE!!!

I asked Mom L to dig around and find a sort of ‘selfie’ from when I first arrived here, in my forever castle. I thought it would be a great set up for the start of my once a month PAW IT FORWARD project starting on Monday, September 28th.

Me…on day 3 of being ‘fostered’…barely sitting on Mom’s feet

Yup, being a ‘foster’ cat still means no ‘home’. Yeah, yeah…we all hope the fostership will fail…but you never know. Thankfully, mine did, and here I am…the Queen of my very own castle and even a blog, a Face Book Fan Page, a Twitter ID and more.

But…you all knew there was gonna be a ‘but’, right?…there are so many more cats that go into ‘foster’ and never leave, no matter how hard they wish, dream and pray for a real forever castle. Therefore, I am starting a once a month feature blog post tomorrow, Monday, September 28th, to bring to my readers the hopes and dreams of HOMELESS FOSTER CATS currently in foster with Community Concern 4 Cats. This post is my INTRODUCTION to this SIX part series, which will conclude in January 2016.

My regular readers, at least those who have stuck with me even though my typist is lousy at commenting… will recognize this rescue that tries very hard to TNR as many cats in my county as they can AND they try to take as many of the adult cats (meaning over the age of 6 months) into foster hoping to socialize them to become adoptable. I often report on Mom L volunteering in their weekly cat clinic, held in the kitchen of the organization’s President, Ms Gemma…(click here; click here).

My first post was about two tiny bottle kittens…

Tiny lives…fostered by a CC4C member

And my most recent was about the CC4C clinic in Ms Gemma’s kitchen with Doc Josie…helping Ozzie…

Ms Ozzie found almost dead on a local bike path

It took no paw struggle to get CC4C to be willing to tell the real deal about all rescues who work with the neighborhood free roaming cat population across this country…meaning the US of A. So many of these precious cats are adults, and even though some are very willing to be adopted and even pray to Ceiling Cat that they will have their very own forever castle at last…alas…when it comes to human adoption events, such as those at local pet food stores etc., humans most likely gravitate to the youngsters…not realizing that they have likely passed over the very cat they have always longed for just because that cat is an adult and/or black.

Please join me tomorrow to hear Coco and Chanel, two sisters, 20 months old, who are Homeless Foster Cats, share their story and their hopes and dreams of their Forever Homes. Introduction: We Are Adult Homeless Foster Cats…Revealing Hopes and Dreams with Savannah

I am joining my pals, from The Cat On My Head for their Sunday Selfie Blog Hop…just click on the badge below to jump over to find lots of other fabulous selfies from cats, woofies, and who knows what!!

PAW PATS, SAVANNAH

Posted in Adult Cat Rescue and tagged CC4C, homeless foster cats, paw it forward

25 Sep 2015

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There’s More Than One Turtle Around Here

HIYA!! SAVANNAH HERE!!!

The Kid Sage is always showing off her famous ‘turtle moves‘ and what not. I decided it was time to let everyone know that I also know how to create my very own turtle shell. So “pffffttt” to my roomie TKS!!

Of course, I did not expect to be captured on digital camera nor a smart phone either. Just what in MOUSES ‘is’ a smart phone after all? Does it walk? Talk? Feed me?

I think I’m safe…no one around to see me

Alas, my first thoughts were not to be proven as true.

NOOO!!! Caught with my turtle shell on!

But then what the heck, right? Nothing to be embarrassed about. Nope, not a thing. I was just trying this Nip N Nap mat on for size. What did you say? Are you asking if there was perhaps a ‘peacock feather’ involved? Seriously? Me?

The truth is out; I chase a peacock feather wherever it takes me

Do any of you have secret ways you like to play by yourself? Come on, you know you all do…give it to me…share in comments…what are the crazypants things you do when you think no one is watching????

PAW PATS, SAVANNAH

peeEss…I truly hope my readers will visit me on Monday when I launch my next PAW IT FORWARD PROJECT. This will be focused on Adult Homeless Foster Cats. I will be interviewing adult homeless foster cats from Community Concern 4 Cats. There will be one interview per month for September, October, November and December in my effort to bring light on the challenges of all rescues who foster adult cats…when even though they are healthy, no human seems to want them…and so the foster humans are forced into becoming unsanctioned ‘sanctuaries’…especially for those adult and senior felines who have special needs. I want to shine a light on the courageous efforts of these fosters who are often these felines last hope of living a life other than feral.

Posted in Savannah's Life Experiences and tagged CAT PLAY, cat recovery, Savannahs progress

23 Sep 2015

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Morning Routines Are Important

HIYA!! SAVANNAH HERE!!!

I know I have shared the miraculous ‘Treat Pillow’ with you before… here and here. And it is a very important part of a routine Mom L and Dad P started to bring Sage aka TKS and I together. You see, we only get access to the ‘Treat Pillow’ if we are both considerate of one another’s space when we share the bed with Mom L during our morning routine of hanging out with her and Dad P while they watch the AM news on TV, read their iPad newspapers, and whatnot.

This has become so much of a routine expectation for both Sage and me that I now anticipate when Sage will make her move to get to the treats UNDER the Treat Pillow.