PhotoHunt- Fluffy

This week's PhotoHunt theme is Fluffy.
Hey, wait a minute, who are you calling Fluffy?

That's just silly:)Tee hee, this was an easy one for us!

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Flashback Friday- Katie Day

Hello! I am Katie, and I am the star of Forever Foster's first Flashback Friday. I was fostered in May 2008. I was fostered when I was really little by my first foster family. They were unable to keep me until I reached my desexing weight, and that's when I went to stay at Fui and Suey's house. I was a bit of a runt, so my siblings went through desexing without me.

I am Suey's favourite ever foster kitty. I have terrific cat manners, and was good at giving her space. She usually steers clear of fosters, but Suey gave me nose kissies!

I am a real little snugglebunny, and loved having lots of lap time with my foster mum. I used my litterbox perfectly. And then of course, I'm as cute as a button!
I'm such a cutiepie that my foster mum kept me an extra week just so my foster dad could meet me, as he had been away! They found it very difficult to take me back.

It was no surprise to them that I was adopted almost immediately. I'm a superstar!:)

Happy Days!!!

Guess what guess what!
This is our friend Winnie.

And this is another friend, her brother Pasta. They also have a woofie brother, Reg. They are the kitties and woofie that we lived with when we were tiny babies, when our wonderful foster mum was taking care of us.

Their sister Lily is the baby bean who comes to stay with us sometimes. They have a new brother!!!!! Theodore was born safe and sound on Australia Day (January 26th).

This is the quilt we made for him. It hadn't been ironed yet, but it gives you the idea. The back had the family names on it, with these stars.

We are so excited to meet our new little friend. We wish our friends a long, happy healthy life together. Hip hip, hooray!

Wordless Wednesday

Hello there!

Right, that's it. It's high time we got some blog time around here! So I am taking it upon myself to tell you a little bit about us.We were brought in to the shelter with our mumcat when we were still in her tummy. Our mumcat is very sweet, so the shelter made the decision that she should be allowed to have the kittens, and then go through to adoption when we were ready to be seperated from her. As it was the busiest time of the year for the shelter, we were very lucky that our mum was such a lovebug, or it would have been a different story.

We stayed in a special area with our mumcat for several weeks after we were born. Then, on the day our foster-mum-to-be brought Odin and Thor in to be desexed, the shelter decided it was time to seperate us from our mumcat. We were driving her loopy, and had learned how to clean ourselves and use the litter box.

So we came home to meet our foster brother Fui and sister Suey (through the door, foster-mum is obsessively cautious after the Blossoms), and our new sisters Athena and Freja, and brothers Loki and Apollo. After a hiccup with super ear mites, we are settling in nicely.

This is my sister Sally. She is the biggest of our litter, but is also the biggest scaredy cat. When we first came to our foster home, she spent a lot of time hissing at shadows and growling at gusts of wind, but is getting better. She is getting better though, and even comes over to say hi to our foster mum when she comes into our room to visit. She likes playing rough and tumble with Apollo.

This is my sister Penny. She is the friendliest of the three of us, and loves to climb into laps. She has a monster purr, too! Her ears are pretty froot batty, don't you think?

We are getting along well with our two new sisters. This is me and Penny with Athena, who also loves to play games. We have learned that Freja is good for cuddles. Loki was the best big brother ever, he took such great care of us. He would even clean our faces after dinner!

It is great having brothers around, as we are a litter of just girls. We have fun with them. And since we're not related, I can say they are both pretty spunkalicious!

Loki and Thor will probably have his hoohaectomy at the same time as our mumcat, tomorrow. We are purring for them all to have speedy recoveries and find fabulous families.

I hope you are having a lovely week:)

From Polly Smitten-Kitten.

The Horror!

Our Mum has been seeing another kitty!!! This is Neville.Mum has been going to feed him and snuggle him every day for the last two weeks! This is where Neville likes to chill out during the hot day. He is friends with his neighbour, like we are with Cricket.

He's a little bit of a floofy hussy, in my humblest of opinions. Mum and Dad lived with him for 6 weeks when they first moved to Townsville. I don't think Nev forgot this, as he is a big fat floofy snugglepuss with Mum. We knew him when we were babies, but haven't seen him in a while.

When I found out where Mum had been disappearing to, I tried a dramatic Hollywood swoon.
She just laughed at me.

The shame.

The horror.

The

Eeeewwwww!

I heard something very funny! Really really very funny! Before my foster daddy went away, he and my foster mum went to a place called the Hervey's Range Heritage Tea Rooms. It is about an hours drive from where we are living. It's quite a pretty place.

This is my foster daddy making friends with their horse. He was an old boy, and very friendly.

But that's not the funny thing. Do you know what the Tea Room specialty is? It is a drink called
Kopi Luwak. See this animal? It is a Civet Cat.See this? It is a preserved Civet Cat poop.

Do you know what that is in the poop? Coffee beans!!!

Civet Cats eat coffee berries as part of their natural diet. The beans pass through their system undigested. These beans are then harvested, and made into coffee!! And it's expensive coffee, too. One cup at the Tea Rooms was AU$50 (US$32.83 as of Saturday night). It is thought that the digestive enzymes break down some of the proteins in the bean, making it less bitter. If you or your humans saw The Bucket List, you would have seen that they had trying a cup on their list of things to do.

Did you read that!? People pay to drink pooped out coffee beans! Humans are bananas, kitties. Bananas! The tea rooms sell 4 cups a week!

By the way, my foster mum had a strawberry milkshake, and my foster dad had a chocolate milkshake. They are not brave:)

My big ginger foster brother Odin has found his Forever Home!!!! He found his yesterday. Thor was held back last week, and will be desexed this Wednesday. Loki went back today, and will also be desexed on Wednesday. Hooray for the Big Litter Boys!:)

LOLed at you by Athena the pretty kitten (see how pretty I'm getting now that my face is filling out?).

PhotoHunt- Chipped

The theme for today's PhotoHunt is 'Chipped'. We think this is a good theme, because it brings up something very important to us- Microchips. We both have Microchips, we got them when we were little bitty kitties.

I know it sounds a little bit robotic, but it's not really. My eyes are laser-y and bright because I am a cat, not because I have robot parts.

Microchips are especially important to us for a few reasons.

• We are allowed outside during the day, and if something ever happens, any vet or shelter in our city can find out who we are with a simple swish of a scanner, even if we lose our collar. Our insurance information is linked to the microchip information.
• We live in a cyclone area. If we need to be evacuated, we have proof that we are the cat on our vaccination and desexing records. It is also another safeguard in case of seperation (over Mum's dead body).
• We have been vaccinated against FIV. This vaccination means we will test positive on a snap test. If we ever end up in our local shelter, which is a kill shelter, we will be safer than if we were seen as a stray with FIV.
• Mum volunteers at the shelter, and has seen the difference in time between reclamation times of microchipped cats, compared to cats with just a collar, or who are missing a collar. Sometimes you can see the impression on the furs from collars on some of those cats, but they've lost their id. It makes it very difficult for the shelter to contact anyone. Sometimes people come to the shelter to look for their kitty when it is too late.
• Our microchip company has a facility where a second emergency contact can be listed on our account. If anything happens to Mum and Dad and we end up in a shelter or lost, the shelter or vet is able to get straight on to someone Mum and Dad trust, and someone who loves us, through the chip company.

All of our fosters are microchipped when they are desexed at approximately 1kg in weight. Mum thinks it is one of the best things you can do for any kitty, and an essential thing for any kitty who goes outside at all. We are clever, and are good at escaping!

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All the Newness

I've seen that it is important for us to have some of Daddy's smells around while he is away (by the way, thanks Whicky. Because of you we have Daddy's t-shirts marinating in ziplock bags with undies and socks! MOL! Ewwww!). Well, I thought it was just as important for Daddy to have some of my smells around him. Inspired by Sweet Praline's pretty pillows, I enlisted Mum's help to make a pillowcase with my mug on it. That way, Daddy can cuddle me as he sleeps.

Because we have to stick together at a time like this, I let Suey join in the fun.

Mum helped her stitch a secret message into the lining, so Daddy can remember her thoughts as he goes to sleep.We think it will help him adjust to his away place. And you know what else? There is nothing Army Green about it! Hahahahaha! We're rebels, yo'.

In my other piece of important news, I have a new neighbour. He came to my driveway!!!!

And he got head skritches from my Mum!!! His name is Kramer. Isn't that funny?! Mum and Dad were going to call one of our foster brothers Kramer just last week, then a grown up one moves in next door.

He was such a fan of elevator butt skritches that he face planted into the driveway trying to get his butt as high as he could.

So far, I am tolerating him. He has a cat tree outside his front door, so he peers at me in my garden, and I peer right back at him. Here we are in my driveway. I think maybe we might become friends. So far, we haven't been fighting. There was a little bit of hissing, but I'm an easy going dude, so peace has reigned in my neighbourhood.

I hope your weekend is neat-o!

Sadness

It is with heavy hearts that we write that our dear friend Elvira crossed to the Bridge.

Her mum was with her as she passed, so she was not alone. She was surrounded by the love of a family who cherished her dearly.

Elvira will now be free from pain and sickness at the Bridge with her babies, Hally, Hawthorne, Treats and Little Angel, who passed while young kittens. We hope you enjoy the time to be a momma kitty that you weren't allowed on Earth, and that your kittens love seeing what a wonderful soul their mum has. Seamus, Jimmy, Poppy and Holly are there to meet you, sweet girl.

Alexis, Samhain, Noel, Shadow, Salem, Nanook and Indiana, we are purring for you and your family.

Rest in Peace, Elvira.

Wet Wednesday

Golly gosh it has been wet lately. We've been soaking and housebound. This is our street. It was flooded when mum took this photo. We were lucky though, and our house didn't get any water in it.To help keep us occupied, dad helped me set up a trick on Fui. We got out on a sheet, and I hid under it. Fui couldn't see me anywhere!

Hahaha, even when he was right on top of me, he had no idea where I was. (Can you see mum's washing outside? She forgot to get it before the rain started, and it spent 3 days being drowned! Hahaha! It's falling off the line!!!).

I think I deserve the prize for best hider ever. I'm nearly invisible, which is a cool feeling:)

Sheets are a super fun way to play, even when you're not helping make the bed.

They also look a little bit fashionable.

I Can See You:)

Hello Everykitty!
Thankyou for your helpful advice yesterday. We were particularly appreciative to see that mum should not try to comfort us too much, or we would think something was wrong. We didn't know that. So she will do her best to try and keep things normal. Whicky, you are a very clever kitty:)



My friend Goldie asked how my eye is, and this is mum's report:
"Great! He is not blinking or squinting, and it all seems to have cleared up on it's own! The vet is mystified as to what went on, as are we. Looks like Fui is even weirder than we first thou-".

That's quite enough from you, thanks mum!
This morning mum and dad took Odin and Thor back for their hoohaectomies. They bought three little girl kittens home with them! They had horrible ears, so mum took them right back. They had one of the worst cases of ear mites the shelter people had seen, and spent aaaaaages getting all cleaned out. Hopefully they are more comfortable now, and can get forward with the business of being a kitten.

Without further ado, I would like to introduce:
Miss Polly Smitten-Kitten, a cute little floofball.
Miss Sally Smitten-Kitten, a lovely little tabby (like me, except I'm not little).

and Miss Penny Smitten-Kitten, a little tabby and white cutie pie.

The girls are about the same size as Freja, Apollo and Athena. Loki has taken on the role of kitten sitter, and seems to be really enjoying it.

Apollo is coming along in leaps and bounds. When they first came home, mum was a bit worried about him, as he was very lethargic, and not too interested in food. With some TLC, and some special attention from Loki (he is such a good kitten sibling!), he is now thriving. He is very funny, too. When the Smitten-Kittens first got here, they were pretty nervous and hissy. One of them was lying on the floor by Apollo, and she hissed at mum. Then Apollo looked at mum and gave a little half hearted hiss. Mum told him he was a silly billy, and reached forward to give him head rubs. At that point, he started purring his head off. He's a funny kitten head:)

I'm staying up tonight to watch the Inauguration with mum. We have to stay up till 3am before it starts! After seeing what I looked like in my Obamicon picture yesterday, I have Presidential aspirations.

(Fui, Australia doesn't have a President. We have a Prime Minister).

Yes but mum, I didn't want to leak my desire to be World Overlord too soon! So shush! Anyway, we hope everyone is having a happy week so far:)