11 Friday Nov 2011
I usually forget all about my about page, but I was reading someone else’s the other day and realised that mine was quite out of date, especially in the ol’ cat department. So now the new family member has been added, and I guess I should have updated that photo of Loki since he’s about three times that size now, but that’s one of my favourite kitteh pics and I couldn’t bear to take it down.
How often do you update your about page (if at all)?
31 Monday Oct 2011
Posted in animals & pets, cats, photos
When Raincoaster asked me for pleading kitteh pics the other day I was reminded of this LOLcat collage I made of Loki when he was a kitten and never sent in.
Waste not want not…
29 Saturday Oct 2011
Today’s Photohunt theme is “broken”.
Here you can see Azar’s broken front left paw, which is actually his lucky paw and is also why he is called “azar” (which means chance or happenstance in Spanish). When he was a tiny street kitten someone killed off all his five siblings but only managed to batter and bash his front leg, leaving it permanently bent and broken. At first I thought he was going to die of his injuries, but when he didn’t I realised I couldn’t leave him out in the street like that as he couldn’t fend for himself. And that’s how he came to live with me, which was pretty lucky. If not for the broken paw I don’t think I would have taken in a third cat at that time.
Azar will be 17 in April and is the love of my life.
28 Friday Oct 2011
Posted in animals & pets, cats, home
20 Thursday Oct 2011
Posted in animals & pets, cats, health & happiness
Those magic words that I always like to hear after a PET scan… just as important after a test for your pet. Luna’s test results for feline leukemia came back clearly negative this time, no smudgy doubts, and so she has been given the all-clear. What a relief!
Yolanda couldn’t believe how much Luna has grown, and she was as good as gold during the blood extraction and getting her vaccination jab. Also – unlike two other cats I know! – she didn’t make a peep there and back again. She just curled up at the back of the cat carrier and, well, looked kinda terrified. But what a difference it made not having to listen to all that heart-wrenching howling.
I have to take Luna back in a month for her follow-up vaccination, and was told that Loki is over-due for a booster shot, so I might try taking them both together in the big carrier to save on stress and taxi fare. By bizarre coincidence we got the same taxi driver both times today – what are the odds?
And so it’s a happy day over here at casa az. Luna has a clean bill of health, Azar is responding well to his meds, and Loki is just, well, huge and healthy. It has occurred to me that anyone just coming across my blog recently (since Luna’s arrival) would assume that this is primary a “cat blog”. I remember the same thing happening when Loki came to live here. Kitteh pics galore. Well, it’s not my fault they’re so cute! Perhaps regular programming will resume soon, if I can remember what that is.
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