Cat Saturday #12 - Canuck Kitties
Quote de jour
"All cats are magical....the more you pet them, the longer you both live."
Cat of the Week
Meet Tabitha, a gorgeous kitty from New Brunswick, Canada. She has the most luxuriant tale I've seen in ages. It's always a joy to see a healthy,happy cat swishing their tail upright with confidence.
It's a case of the haves and have-nots in the feline world too. My feral cat Domino had a rough week. The temperature plummeted to freezing. He huddled in the nest of blankets on the covered porch without the electric blanket he enjoyed last year. It exploded. Don't ask. He endured a tick, the size of a Humvee, all week on his head. Here's a photo of Domino looking miserable. I desperately wanted to remove the tick but I valued the use of my limbs more.
Meanwhile, my spoiled Siamese babies, Merlin and Coco, enjoy a pampered existence indoors. They loll about on silken pillows like 18th century courtesans. Here they are lounging on a temperpedic pillow on their favorite hot spot above a radiator. Their only problem? Jostling for an imaginary primo spot while posing (begrudgingly) for the camera. They even agreed to wear jewelry.
They are the lucky ones. For every cat with a good home there are countless others who don't. Every shelter is over-flowing, many waiting on death row, The no-kill shelters aren't much better. What cat wants to live in a tiny cage for years? Then there are the strays and ferals, hungry and alone, scrounging for a meal and place to curl up to sleep with one eye open. In these difficult economic times, more and more cats and dogs are being abandoned. If there is something you can do to help, no matter how small, do it. Every shelter and rescue group needs money and/or volunteers, supplies, foster care providers. If you google 'cat rescue' and the name of your town, you'll find the right one for you.
I'd like to begin featuring photos of cats who need homes and maybe a link to a different cat rescue group every week. If you have any thoughts, suggestions please email me Layla@laylamorganwilde.com
Here's a link to The Annex Cat Rescue, a Canadian cat rescue group, I founded in 1997. http://www.annextcatrescue.ca/
"All cats are magical....the more you pet them, the longer you both live."
Cat of the Week
Meet Tabitha, a gorgeous kitty from New Brunswick, Canada. She has the most luxuriant tale I've seen in ages. It's always a joy to see a healthy,happy cat swishing their tail upright with confidence.
It's a case of the haves and have-nots in the feline world too. My feral cat Domino had a rough week. The temperature plummeted to freezing. He huddled in the nest of blankets on the covered porch without the electric blanket he enjoyed last year. It exploded. Don't ask. He endured a tick, the size of a Humvee, all week on his head. Here's a photo of Domino looking miserable. I desperately wanted to remove the tick but I valued the use of my limbs more.
Meanwhile, my spoiled Siamese babies, Merlin and Coco, enjoy a pampered existence indoors. They loll about on silken pillows like 18th century courtesans. Here they are lounging on a temperpedic pillow on their favorite hot spot above a radiator. Their only problem? Jostling for an imaginary primo spot while posing (begrudgingly) for the camera. They even agreed to wear jewelry.
They are the lucky ones. For every cat with a good home there are countless others who don't. Every shelter is over-flowing, many waiting on death row, The no-kill shelters aren't much better. What cat wants to live in a tiny cage for years? Then there are the strays and ferals, hungry and alone, scrounging for a meal and place to curl up to sleep with one eye open. In these difficult economic times, more and more cats and dogs are being abandoned. If there is something you can do to help, no matter how small, do it. Every shelter and rescue group needs money and/or volunteers, supplies, foster care providers. If you google 'cat rescue' and the name of your town, you'll find the right one for you.
I'd like to begin featuring photos of cats who need homes and maybe a link to a different cat rescue group every week. If you have any thoughts, suggestions please email me Layla@laylamorganwilde.com
Here's a link to The Annex Cat Rescue, a Canadian cat rescue group, I founded in 1997. http://www.annextcatrescue.ca/
Poor Domino does indeed look miserable. He has decided to try indoors yet, eh? That's too bad, but he still can change his mind.
Love the photos of "the kids" lolling about in their bling-bling.
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Oops! I forgot to mention what a stunningly photogenic cat Tabitha is. I just ran across her picture on Gather a week or so ago. That tail is monumental.
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Tabitha is a delight, so pretty. What do I need to do? Send pix of my boys?
Your Coco and Merlin love each other very much. You know how I love Siamese. I had a Siamese boy when I was a child. He was in my top 2.
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What a lovely tail Tabitha has! Poor Domino does look pretty miserable; even so, he's a handsome guy. I love thephotos of Coco and Merlin in all their finery. What a gorgeous pair of cats they are.
Excellent idea to feature cats who need homes and different cat rescue groups. Just last week, I delivered a sweet little calico I had been fostering to her new home. I adored her and would have loved to have kept her for my own, but Calypso just wouldn't have it. But, she found a new home where she'll have the pampered life every cat deserves. I wish every abandoned kitty had such a happy tale to tell.
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My Lilly's a cat but definately female. Dozens of spps, spps, spps to get her to bed, but once there playful under the covers and a rubbed nose when I want to sleep. Curled up content when I have things to do in the morning, but claws if she feels it's breakfast time.
But she loves me...
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