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Autobiography of a Former Shelter Cat

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I GOT AN AWARD…Wellllll…Kind’a…

Okay…so my blog friend Sammy from OneSpoiledCat

and his Mom offered us this Award if we could accept the challenge of identifying 26 characteristics of each of us based on the English Alphabet.    So we accepted that challenge ‘cuz we totally want this award!  Check out our work…

Savannah                             MOM

A    Anxious: (yep…always nervous )   Anxious: (yep…we belong together)

B   Beautiful (I am lovely Russian Blue)  Bodacious (willing to go where Angels fear to tred)

C  Cautious (kind’a leery of new things) CAL GRAD (the 60″s rock on!)

D   Determined (Dad says I walk with intent)  Dedicated (to undercats!)

E   Explorer(I like to find new things in our house…like the kitchen sink and dining table top…who knew!!) Extrovert (gotta talk out loud before I even know what I am thinking!)

F   Fitness Freak (totally determined to get my body toned up from all that cat shelter night grazing!)   Fitness Hopeful (have to try to keep the fat parts as fit as possible LOL)

G   Gentle (I never use my claws when I have to discipline Mom and Dad!)  Grounded   (I know who I am…anipal for life)

H   Home security guard (my pawsome YOWL keeps outdoor limbo cats away!)   Happy (love my life!)

I   Introverted (I have to think before I talk to Dad and Mom…spend lots of time on it)  Insightful (…like seeing so much more in Savannah than just a frightened cat)

J   Jock (YEAH! baby!…Dad says I walk with a swagger!)  Jinormous animal lover (how can anyone not be amazed by all animals!)

K   Kat (in case ya didn’t know…I am a cool kat!)  Klassy (so I like my mani pedi days…just sayin…!)

L   Loveable (Dad picked that out…isn’t he just the sweetest!?)   Liberated Female (yeah yeah…I went to CAL in the 60’s…go figure!)

M   Momma’s Girl  (yeah…Dad picked that out too…but it’s true)   Mom (to our 4 legged kids…Barney, Squeeky, Ixy, Mischa, Crusty, Rose, Ace, Boris, Tasha, Popcorn, Bright Eyes, Mister and now Savannah…who needed 2 legged kids (:)

N   Natural Gray color (no dye job here!)  Natural blonde (Dad says “in her dreams”!!!!)

O   Onery (OK OK..Dad picked that one too…maybe he isn’t such a sweetie after all…hhmmm??)  Over the Hill (yep!  I am 65))

P   Pawsome (bet’cha knew that was coming…huh??!!)   Pig Headed (guess I really do always think I am right…sigh…one of life’s lessons still unlearned!)

Q   Quirky  (now that was Mom!!  She says I kind’a jump funny when I play!  harumph!)  Querious (like “curious” only with a “Q”…yuk,yuk!!)

Rambunctious (especially at 2AM on days no one plays with me!)   Real (good, bad or indifferent…what you see is what I am…hmmmm, that’s good, right?)

S   Scared  (I just wish I knew why I was treated like I was before I was dumped at the shelter…was I a bad cat?   sigh))  Shy (thank goodness for blogging, Twitter, email and Facebook)

T   Thinker  (yep…that’s me…deep thoughts too)  Traveler (one foot out the door every morning when I wake up…makes my spouse crazy!)

U   Upscale (I like the very best of water fountains, dry food-prescription only, toys, cat towers…)  Urban (not a rural gal…love to visit…don’t want to live there)

V   Valiant (Mom and Dad say even with all I have been through, I am really brave to step forward to trust and be touched again…blushing!)  Vocalist (who knew!  Savannah loves me singing to her…and Oh My Cat!…I have a lousy voice!)

W   Watchful (like I totally watch TV…and I watch everything going on in the house, except of course during naps)  Worrier (you name it…I will take it on for you and fret forever!)

Xtraordinary (that’s me!)   Xtravagant  (yep…I always over do…from shoes, to cat toys to you name it!)

Y   Young At Heart (I may be 5 years old…but I will play like a kitten all the days of my life!)  Youthful Spirit (again…Savannah and Mom kind’a mirror each other on this one)

Z   Zaney (I just do strange things sometimes…like jump on my Mom’s covers at night because I just know we have are mice in our bed…)  Zleeper (not in dictinoary yet…will be once we boomers get hold of wikipedia!)

TA DA!!!!!!!! DONE!!!!!   WHEW….

Oh Cat…that was soooo hard.  But hope I get to keep the ABC AWARD…now we have to think of some one to pass it along to….hmmmmm

OH YEAHHHH…For my Cat Pal Sammy

MY SECOND NAME IS…..drum roll please……badda bing badda boom…..

SAVANNAHNANAMO

Official Member

 Whiskas Liberation Front #wlf

Pretty cool huh?!  Love it and it is mine and only  mine forever…

Hey Sammy…what’s your Second Name…remember Mr. Eliot’s poem???

That’s it for today all…catch’ya later, TTFN Savannah

No Play No Sleep…Training 101

CAN YOU BELIEVE…NO PLAY YESTERDAY!!!
BUSY BUSY BUSY…AND NOW TODAY SAME…HARRRRUUMMPH!

Okay Okay Okay…I know….huMom and huDad are “bbbbzzzzzyyyy!”  yeah yeah!  Wellll….me to!  I have lots to say…lots to do…and NO ONE  around so I can chanel my thoughts and have MY BLOG kept updated!!! Seriously!!!

Yep, ya got it…I got back last night!  Hmmmmmmm….they want to sleep…hmmmmm I want to play (‘cuz no one played with me all day yesterday)…sssseeeewwwwwww…I wanted it, now they got it!  I’m Playin’ and it is not daylight out…no sireeeeeee…….

2 AM last night…(I  know the time ‘cuz Mom told Dad”…I decided enuff is enuff…I wanted to play….so here’s my action:

  1. run down wood hallway, through family room, kitchen, dining room , living room…pounding my paws as hard as I can (remember I have the big butt thingy going on) to make lots of noise
  2. repeat about 7 times
  3. now…do same…only go into entry way, up stairs in to Mom’s office (more wood) then back down
  4. repeat 3 times
  5. now…do steps 1 and 3 combined…sort of like “catlympics” Mr Otis http://cultofotis.wordpress.com/ ( talks about…ONLY ADD…YOU GOT IT…run into our bedroom…across Dad and Mom then do the wheely thingy and go back out…
  6. chasing the hard pink jingle ball down the wood hallway allllllll the way into the family room
  7. repeat once
  8. WHEW!  DONE!  Hop into bed, snuggle up tight and close to Mom…hmmmmm…why is the bed moving….hmmmmmm…is she laughing?…..NO WAY…SERIOUSLY…NAW…she’s too old too tired to be anything other than commatose at this hour….RIGHT??!!

Ahhhh…a good night’s work…and…

…more of the same tonight ‘cuz everybody was way to bbbbeeeezzzzyyy today for ME!

JUST SAYIN’….more tomorrow

PS…at least they feed me…sigh…tears…pout…snnnnoorre…ppuurrr…

Savannah

Teensy Tiny Steps…My Recovery

So, frankly…my recovery is going to take a long time…I love my Dad and Mom…my forever home…buttttt

I only have 5 places in the whole house I will allow them to pet me, touch me…in our bedroom, on my white chair in the living room, in my cat tower (only sometimes) in my special bed on my Mom’s office counter by the window, and well…I used to visit every night on the couch in the family room when they watch TV…we would all watch together…but lately…I have had a little regression…and I don’t come out much at night to the family room couch…but that was my 5th place.

And tonight…BREAK THROUGH…..

I let my Mom pet me and we had wonderful ear rubs, chin scratches…on the top of the stairs outside her office…first time ever…and I DID NOT RUN!!!   I am so PURRRFECTLY PAWSOMELY PROUD…of ME!!! And of course, Mom is totally over the moon and Dad just had to take the photo…here it is….

We all have more hope now…and we know I will be in a lap some day…as I said…Teensy Tiny Steps…I Continue to Recover…

High Paws to All My Recovery CatPals and Their Guardians…
Tomorrow…my Second Name…Only One Cat…ME…will Ever Have…Revealed
Big Paw Pats, Savannah 

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