Mr. Pigeon is back to his normal, feisty self now. I tried yesterday to get some photos of his rear end, but it was after I had to de-matt him and he wasn’t in the mood for his “photo moment.” LOL  He looks a big miffed in the photo, but that is because I had to use a seam ripper to get out his mats that were around his old wound and I am sure the skin is still sensitive there.

Also. yesterday Salem had to visit the vet. She is a  short-hair black kitty who only wants to live under the shop and not in a house. We rescued her over nine years ago when I got a frantic call from a college student. Her boyfriend had bought her a kitten for her birthday and she was thrilled, that was until he started drinking and decided this kitten would be great food for his boa constrictor! She beaned him in the head and put him to bed and called me to come and rescue this kitten. I couldn’t get there fast enough. I don’t know what she hit him with- but he was still out when I got there.

Salem has been here ever since and yesterday when she showed up to eat- I could see discharge coming out of her mouth. Since she is semi-feral, there is no way she would let me open her mouth (without biting me first) But I did manage to scoop her up and put here into a waiting carrier. I ran her to the vet where they found her canines were jutting out at an odd angle and causing her great pain. Thankfully, they did not have to sedate her to remove them. They were loosey goosey and just a bit of wiggling, they came right out. She is fine, she had an antibiotic shot to prevent infection and when she saw me this morning, she ducked under the shop and didn’t come out until I went back in the house. LOL  Hopefully, in a few days she will forgive me and we will be friends again.

On Feb. 3, 2017, we received a phone call from a woman fit to be tied. She had a cat for about a year, but he wasn’t getting along with her small dog, or her other cat. Now, to make matters worse (according to her) he had the “nasties.” Some sort of skin infection and a gooey eye. She sounded like she was at the end of her rope with him- so out the door I went.

Her small “friendly” dog that this cat didn’t like, met me at the door and tried to bite my ankles! Some sort of terrier mix no obedience training, spoiled to the max. She showed me where she kept “the bad kitty.” he was living in a cage on the dresser- no food, no water, no litterpan, just newspapers spread out underneath the cage. I wanted to scream at the woman, but I didn’t. Instead, I just gathered this black kitty with the “nasty eye” into my carrier and we soon  on the way to the vets.

Turned out that Jet had not been neutered. He was suffering from a fungus infection underneath his belly and legs that was not ringworm. he had a bad UTI, URI, he was a mess. he was a year old. When they cleaned up his eye to see what was underneath, it was not good. His eye was shrunken down into his head- misshapen and he was blind in that eye. The vet said that either he was born that way or had been injured and not treated. They also detected a heart murmur but said it could be from stress and pain.

Later on, we would also find out he had giardia. They decided not to neuter him right away until some of his issues cleared and his fever went away. I brought him home.

As luck would have it, prior to his arrival, I had adopted out Hanna to a woman in Eugene. Her name is Robin. Hanna was not fitting into the family and Robin called asking if she could bring Hanna back to me. Because my time was so full of taking care of Jet-Eye, I agreed. Generally, I would pick up a cat that didn’t work out. That was just the rule, but God intervened because in that transfer back to me, Robin caught a glimpse of Jet-Eye and fell instantly in love. She adopted him a week later.

I received a letter yesterday, informing me that his young kitty had lost his battle to cancer and become anemic from the chemo treatments. Robin has let him go despite her strong love for him. In this case, she loved him enough to understand that his force was fading.

I am sorry that he is gone, and she has to cope with loss. But I am not sorry that he lived with her and he lived large. He lived loved, and she kept in touch with me faithfully every month, sending me updates.  I hope to still hear from her. I enjoy her letters when they arrive in the mail and I know her to be a no-nonsense type of woman with a huge heart.I am glad that through this adoption of the kitty with the gooey eye, that she and I found a friendship. And that Jet-Eye was allowed to be in her life along with her bull mastiff and her residence cat Clancy. He had quite the life!

Thank you all of you who helped us over this last hurdle. The cat food started arriving right away and it was so needed! There weren’t many slips in the boxes telling me who sent what- but please know, we are grateful for ALL here who helped either by sending monies or food. I haven’t smiled much in the last 12 days, but I am smiling now.

As a side note, should any of you find yourself fighting with oral Thrush and the antibiotics the doctors are giving you are making it worse- I am here to tell you that Kimchi is your best friend! I read about it on the Internet and thought it odd but figured, I had little to lose. I served up a helping of this fermented cabbage and the next morning when I woke up, I only had one blister left on my tongue! I guess something in fermenting process produces this wonderful effect. Just thought I would pass it along.

Thank you all of you so very much!

Hi Guys, if you are still around to read this from time-to-time.

I apologize for my absence recently. There has been a reason, I promise. first off, I know there is something wrong technically with this blog. I am working to resolve it but right now, the solution is a bit out of reach.

Right now, I am posting to ask for food for our sanctuary cats.We are  still getting weekly donations, but they are slim to none. I hear rumblings as to why, but can do nothing about the events that happen locally around here. So we are just grateful for whatever they throw our way. Right now, it is just scraps. We are in great need for canned food- Friskies (anything but beef) is fine. They seem to love Blue Mountain but the price is a bit spendy for us right now.  We need dry food Friskies, Whiskas desperately. This time last year, our supply cupboard was full. This time, we have three cans left and only six bags of food.

On May 3rd I was bit by a hobo spider. Before I could intervene (once I flung the spider that landed on my hand) on the floor- the cats pounced and made short work of the biter. But a few days later, the bite went rogue and I ended up in the ER where they gave me multiple ouchey shots of lidocaine and lanced it open. They found, staph, mrsa and cellulitus.

They wanted to put me in the hospital but there was NO ONE who could step in and care for all the cats here (let alone Kota) So I ended up getting 10 hours of a high-powered antibiotic IV. Then was sent home with this “superfly of antibiotics.” I was told to take them all. But then I developed oral thrush. I gotta tell you guys, if you want to bring on the pain- this bacteria will bring it! Nine days unable to talk, eat, swallow. My tongue blistered, the lining underneath my tongue shed itself like a snake. I’d wake up in the morning, so weak hardly able to get out of bed.

The cause of this disease is antibiotics. The cure is the same. Finally, I decided to heck with it and went holistic and only the other day was I able to eat a poached egg. Took me an hour, but I gotta tell ya, it tasted like Lobster Newburg! I’m getting better by stopping the antibiotics. My hand is finally healing- had it rechecked yesterday and the end results were positive.

But that is why I haven’t been blogging (although I am writing again). Trying to get a bit of extra money for the kitties. That’s why I popped on- to ask for donations of food- will update my wish list after I post this. No one here is sick (besides me) LOL

Pigeon is completely back to normal and sleeps on my chest every night, with his lovely paws wrapped around my neck. What a blessing that is-

Thanks for listening if you are still around. I do love all of you. I did try to update our wish list. I only pray it worked. Again, we need Friskies canned food and Fiskies/Whiska’s dry food if anyone can manage this we would be grateful. We may not be able to actively rescue right now, but we still have wonderful (mostly senior cats here) under our care.

I apologize, my attempt to update my wish list failed. I am clueless as to why? I hope this does not hamper our attempts to bring in some food for these beautiful kitties-

I