10th Blogoversary!

Hello everyone! It is actually our 10th Blogoversary! We sure haven't posted much over the last few years, but we try and stop by if we see that a kitty has crossed over and leave a few words on the blogs.

This is Smokey. He was a foster failure from 13 years ago, when we took in 4 foster kitties who were all very ill. They were about 9 months old when we took them in. It took a long time to get them over their horrible diarrhea, and get their Herpes-1 virus under control. They all had a messy eye on the right side, except for Obi. We are foster failures because we end up falling in love with the kitties and keeping them.

And we have another group of foster failures, where we have 4 more kitties who are now about 2 1/2 years old. We need to update our blog. It is on Maw's list of stuff to do.

Thanks for stopping by! Hugs to all of you!

All of us at Forty Paws.

Hissing is Diminished

Some of the hissing has diminished. Dorf and Smokey slept on the same bed last night. Don't know if Dorf knew that Smokey was on the bed. With all the problems that Dorf had when he had his teeth removed, and the many many many times that he went to see the V-E-Ts with all the problems, he probably is not at all impressed with the way that Smokey smells. Plus, Dorf can't see very well anymore and may not recognize who Smokey is either.

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Smokey is on the Catio

Smokey is lounging on the catio this morning.



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Easy Like Sunday

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Easy Like Sunday

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Easy Like Sunday

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Photo Hunt #54

This week's theme is lazy. How easy is that?






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Wordy Wednesday

Smokey went to the V-E-T yesterday because Maw was tired of hoping his nasty nose snot would go away. And he was scratching at his bad eye and it was going red on him. So he got 14 days worth of antibiotics and also a topical analgesic for his eye.

The counter top now looks like a collection of various shaped bottles and treats and syringes. Half of the cats here are on meds! The V-E-T tech said yesterday that they are all starting to get old, and she is correct. The youngest group is 6 years old now!


Smokey testing out Faith's Ham-Mick from earlier in the year. Maw placed a nice order from a certain fabric store online and it's almost been 2 weeks since she placed the order. Hopefully, the new fabrics will cause some poodins to anxiously ask their Mom's about new Ham-Micks!!! Or maybe a lufferly Xmas prezzie?

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Wordless Wednesday

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Tuesday Toes

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Easy Like Sunday

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Tuxie Tabby Tubby Tummy Toesie Tuesday

Reno, Smokey and Dorfington Fish Stanley sunning their bellies.



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Mancat Monday

For your viewing pleasure, a triple dose of Mancat. From top: Reno, Smokey, and Obi.



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Thursday Updates

Grey is home with his Mom & Dad. They had to get a baby bean playpen for him to stay in because it's softer than a cage or a kennel. He still doesn't have the use of his back legs. His Mom & Dad have to set him in his litter box so he can use it, then they have to clean him up. The V-E-T said that dissolving the clot would take 7-10 days, and this is the 7th day so efurrybody, PLEASE KEEP SENDING PURRS & PRAYERS TO GREY!!!!!
He has to take 8 pills and luckily, his Mom is able to hide them in his food and he is eating them just fine, so they must not be gross tasting. He is eating and drinking. His Mom is very worried about having to give him an enema if he doesn't poo, so let's hope that he feels the urge to do that on his own....

In other noos, Sally hissed and growled at the V-E-T and tried to be her most furrocious self. I was totally UNHAPPY to hear that she also has FORLs. Feline Odontoclastic Resorptive Lesions. I SO did not need to hear that. If any of you haven't read about Dorfington Fish Stanley's ordeal with FORLs yet, it's quite the story. Luckily, Sally's jaws didn't chatter while she was under anesthesia, so they aren't the excruciatingly painful ones, yet. We'll see how her bloodwork looks tomorrow, and decide how we want to proceed. This may explain her howling and also rubbing her face against anything and everything. I always thought she was just marking the wall corners and the furniture, but maybe she is trying to soothe her painful teeth. Don't you wish they could speak to us?????

As for Smokey, his x-ray shows a teeny bit of honeycombing in his lungs, which might be asthma, but his heart looks abnormal. And since both V-E-Ts heard his heart murmur loud and clear, the heart worries me. Apparently a murmur isn't too big a deal, but an abnormal shaped heart is. We might opt for a sonogram to see what's up with it. We're going to see what his bloodwork shows also.

So, yes, the saga of the special needs kitties here at the Forty Paws continues. Just another day in the life...

We're going to need to raffle off a kitty Ham-mick for the Forty Paws.

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Wordy Wednesday

It's amazing how much more quiet the house is with 2 poodins missing overnight. With Sally and Smokey boarding overnight at the V-E-T, there were only 8 poodins to count when it came time to close the cat flap to the enclosure. Only 8 poodins worth of output to scoop from the litterboxes this morning. Of course they were missed. Without Sgt. Sally's howling, it was eerily quiet last evening. And without Smokey to wrassle Dorf and Reno, there wasn't much fur flying in the hallway.

During their health checks yesterday, it was determined that Smokey really didn't need his teeth cleaned. Yay! But, he does have a heart murmur, and we wanted his heavy breathing checked out. When he's lying down, we can hear him breathe from across the room. I don't know if it's because of his Herpes virus, or if he has asthma, or if it's his weight. He only weighs 15 lbs., which isn't overly large in this house. So, he stayed overnight with Sally and will have x-rays and blood tests done this morning.

Sally was throwing a hissy fit at the V-E-T. She was not happy at all. She used to get that way when I would take her to the PetsMart Adopt-a-Pet center. One hour in the cage and she was spitting and hissing and wanting to rip the arm off anyone who came near her. That's how we ended up keeping her. It was just too difficult to try and find her a home. I assume it's because she was kept in a cage for the first 10 months of her life at the Crazy Cat Lady's garage.

I will say this 100 times over on this blog. Anyone who believes they are fostering by keeping cats in cages are doing a disservice to that cat. Yes, shelters keep cats in cages because they have little choice. Most are publicly funded and way down on the community's priority list. But an individual who performs "rescue" should not need to confine the animals. They might be saving the life of that animal, but at what psychological cost to it?

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Tuesday Noosday

Bow went in last week to have some more blood work done. His blood glucose level was down to 164 from 245 so he was doing much better since we had stopped his massive treats intake and took him off the prednisolone and put him on Budesonide. Problem was, he was a bit dehydrated and he had lost 1.25 lbs. over 3 weeks. The pred increases appetite and water consumption. So we also had the fructosamine test run which tells us the number of blood glucose molecules linked to protein molecules in the blood. The test provides information on the average blood glucose level for the past 3 weeks in humans, usually over 1-2 weeks in felines. This reading was back in the normal range. So Bow received some sub-q fluids for his dehydration and we have put him back on the pred so that his appetite returns. Then he'll go back in for another blood test in 1 month. He turns 18 in one month.

Sally and Smokey will be going in for a checkup this afternoon, and then staying overnight at the V-E-T in preparation for their dentals and vaccinations tomorrow. They are way overdue. Everything got off schedule when Dorf kept having to have dental extractions.

We board the poodins overnight who are getting surgery. We don't attempt to take up food or water here at the Forty Paws because it makes for a grumpy bunch of 10 cats and no one gets any sleep.

We'll let you know how Grey is doing once we hear some noos.

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Thursday Schmursday

Toosday

Annie & Smokey watching Catnip Video.

We had furry big thunder boomers wid lightning flashies last night. It was furry skeery. So Bow yakked, an lotz ov us hid in da big closet.

Fur doze ov u wonnerin bowt formulating Bow's medicine, Budesonide ist a hyooman drug an it comes in a 3 mg capsule or in an inhaler version. So, da 3 mg capsule must be broken down into 1 mg capsules. Dat ist called "formulating". Not all pharmacies are formulating pharmacies. Dey hast to haf speshul ekwipment to do dat. Dey kin also make flavored medicines. Bow used to git tuna flavored liquid prelone a long tyme ago. G.T. used to git triple-fish flavored prelone afore he started gittin his allergy shots. Der ist an online formulatin farmacy fur animules dat has all sorts of flavors to make med-sins taste way bedder. Int dat kool?

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Mancat Monday Quality Testing

Smokey performed the QA testing of China Cat's Secret Paw present. China Cat told us her favorite color is bloo, so that is why the bed is bloo. Smokey said the bed passed all tests, so Maw gave it to the guy in the bloo shorts. Well, he might be wearing bloo long-johns now, and he took the bloo bed to China Cat's house. You can see China Cat testing out the bed over at her own bloggie.



Merry Krissymouse Eve Efurrycat!

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