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Autobiography of a Former Shelter Cat

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A Day Well Spent…For Rescue Cats and Dogs…

Hiya Everybody! Savannah here…and happy Sunday!

You know my Dad and Mom spent all day yesterday volunteering for an event to help the rescue organization that saved me…the  Contra Costa Humane Society (CCHS).

Pet Food Express, a local pet supply chain, has a great self serve doggie wash area in their stores, complete with soap and blow dryers!

Once a year, CCHS receives all proceeds from the doggie wash tokens sold at 9 stores located in our county. So, CCHS always has representatives at each of those stores to talk to customers about our organization and to show our appreciation for any contributions they may make, besides purchasing doggie wash tokens.

As you can imagine, this is a great fund raising opportunity for CCHS, who also runs the cat shelter where Mom and Dad found me, called Kitty Corner.

Pet Food Express has 43 stores located throughout  the Greater San Francisco Bay Area, Carmel and Sacramento. Their corporate offices, Pet Food University, and distribution center are all located in Oakland, California.

Check out how cool their stores are!…oh, and that is just a plush doggie, not real…they do not sell any live animals, reptiles, etc. at their stores…

Pet Food Express displays all around the top of their stores huge pictures of rescued animals…it shows the animal’s name and the rescue group who saved them…

…not just dogs and cats either…isn’t the birdie yummy beautiful!…

…a good looking doggie and kitty…

…and check out this great doggie bath setup!!…

…the first doggie in yesterday morning, a Rhodesian Ridgeback, had a little problem so Mom did not get too close…the Ridgeback had been skunked the night before!!!!!…

…and this pretty Chow looked so poofy after her blow dry!…

..this big guy had a little bro’ waiting for him…a little Chihuahua…what a pair they make!…whoa, now you have to stay in there big boy!!!…

…be sure to get your doggie nice and sudsy!!…

…what a brave person…2 big black labs at once!!…

…smile nicely for Mom’s FLASH and CLICK!…

…the doggie above has two cute little girls for Guardians, and they were drying off his brother when they noticed Mom with her FLASH and CLICK…cute, huh?…

…Dad and Mom bought a treat for this cute doggie…yesterday was his GOT’CHA day!!!…he was getting his first bath by his new Mom and Dad before they took him home to meet his new brother!…Mom thinks he has lots of Berger Picard breed in him…very big floopy ears! He had just been rescued yesterday…

…and what luck!! Yesterday was also adoption day for kitties! These are some kitties brought in by another rescue group…

…look at this pretty gray pile of fur!  MOL…

…and this was my reward for having been such a good girl while Mom and Dad were out helping raise money to rescue more cats like me, and doggies too of course…

…a bit  more to the left Mom….

Mom and Dad said CCHS will receive $410 from the store where they worked yesterday…we still don’t know how much from the other 8 stores, but I will tell you once I know…

A great fund raising day for rescue cats and dogs…

Paw pats, Savannah

All Alone Am I Today…

Hiya Everyone, Savannah here…sort’a..

This morning, Dad and Mom told me they will be gone alllllllll day!…I couldn’t believe my ears…I stared at them….say what???…gone???…what about me???…my play time???…my mid day snacks….my din din???…..

…then they told me they were volunteering to help my former shelter organization, Contra Costa Humane Society (CCHS)…at en event to raise money for all the doggies and cats that they save from the county shelter…It is called Dunkin’ Doggies.

All the money that Pet Food Express takes in today, from 9 locations in our county, will be given to CCHS….pretty cool, huh?!…this is their sign…

…had to do it in two photos so you could read some of it…

…I guess I will prolly take a morning nap in my Bird Watching Tower…third level of course…

…then I guess I will try to amuse myself and get some exercise chasing one of my balls….

…then prolly afternoon I will start watching for them to come home…

…I suppose I will end up waiting in our bedroom in the late afternoon trying to get some sun puddle time…sigh…all day is a very long time…….

That’s  how my day is prolly gonna go…sigh…places head on paws…

Paw Pats, Savannah

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Frivolous Friday…I Got New Swag!!!

Hiya Savannah here!!!

Well I call it my SWAG…some may call it TOYS…I call it my SWAG ‘cuz it didn’t cost me a nickle (what ever that is??)

Of course, it may have cost Mom some bucks (not sure what that is either)…and may have cost Dad some acid reflux ‘cuz of the ‘bucks’ Mom used to get my SWAG…but for me…no cost what so ever…all just because Mom worries I may get bored…MOL

…and of course, because I am an only cat and dotted upon…sigh…tough life, but some cat has to put up with it…although, I wish I could share some of my SWAG with Patches, Pooh and Snookums over at Chancy, The Gardner.  Ya see, they whispered to me in a comment on my post that Chancy gets all the toys…they don’t get hardly anything and have to take Chancy’s leftovers…no, no…I swear this is true!!!…the guys whispered behind Chancy and his Mum’s backs while they were doing Chancy’s blog.  Those purr kitties don’t get anything and no attention and they almost NEVER get to be seen or heard on the bloggy….wiping leaky eyes with paws…

But, I don’t know their address so I won’t be sending them any of my new SWAG!…not that I don’t wanna share…just, well. ya know…I am an only cat and not sure how to do that….MOL

Mom came home a couple of days ago with a whole shopping bag full of SWAG just for me! First, you need to remember I don’t much respond to nip, silver vine or any other cat treat…but good ole’ Mom…she keeps trying to get me hooked on something (whispers behind paw…I think she wants to have something she can use to manipulate me!!!)…so here are the new organic nip toys, one is a cigar! The other is a mousey looking thingy…I kind’a like the cigar…but no photos yet…

…here’s the new wand SWAG!!…woo hoo!!…one is the Kragon Dragon Fly my good furriend Texas has

First, I look at her and say “yeah? What new toys???”…(can’t let her think I am too interested…)

…whoa!! what is that thing??…looks kind’a like a cockroach to me….ick…

…oh cod!…it is running for my tummy….!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

…aiiieeeeyiyiyi…it flies!!!…gotta get my left hook ready to smack it down….

…oh, where did it go??…what the COD is that??!!….it is huge…and look at those feathers…be very cautious….

…now another one…hmmmm…nice leather tail stuff and looks like furry something….

…maybe just a quick taste…

…uummmpphh…missed…must keep legs under me…only move head…grab for it!!..

…OMC!..it moved the other way…sneaky…still must keep feet under me…move only head…go for another taste…

…MISSED AGAIN!!!…this one is pretty interesting…requires some leg and foot engagement after all..swipe…

…overhead reach…MISSED AGAIN!….

hhhmmmmmm….I think I pretty much like SOME of my SWAG…and some of it is just not quite tested yet…

I’ll let ya know when I get it all tested and give a more full report…

Paw pats, Savannah

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