Author: Service Cats U.S.

I Audra, am the human behind Service Cats U.S. aka DezizWorld. I am disabled and use cats as service animals instead of dogs. They are just as capable and can perform duties other animals cannot. We started our online journey to bring awareness to the ability of cats and to help others understand the relationship between a service animal and their handler/person. We offer training tips and tricks that I have learned through the years along with other information on all things feline. We began this journey in 2014 with Lexi and Dezi. They have since gone on to heaven, but our journey continues. This blog is about our daily life from the kitty's point of view. I want this blog to be interactive and get to know all of you, so comment and visit often. I will also offer advice, training tips and education when possible. Copyright © 2014 - 2021 {Audra High via Deztinee High and RaenaBelle High} All Rights Reserved All personal content (story's, poetry, etc., videos and music) are the property of the human behind Deziz World, and may not be used, copied or otherwise re-published without prior written permission/consent from the author (A. High-the human behind Deziz World). We have an amazon.com wish list and a PayPal account if you would like to help/donate to us.

A Feral Conversatiion Pt. 1

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Mommy?

Yes Dezi.

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Why are there so many kitties on the streets named Feral? You member when our town was all in a huff cuz of da kitties in da neighborhood.

Yes Dezi, I remember. Well honey there’s no easy answer to that question. See, somewhere down the line, for a lot of those kitties, they once had a home.

Wiff a mommy like you, mommy?

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Maybe dear. But more likely not cause their mommy or daddy was able to give them up; and I could never let go of you and your sister.

We don’t want you to give us up mommy.

 

I know Dezi and I’m not going to, so don’t worry your pretty little head about that. Anyways, for whatever reason, maybe they got tired of their kitty, or it got sick or old, or started acting out, or they had a new baby, or got a new kitty; anyways, for whatever reason they decided they didn’t want the kitty they had and so they threw it out of their house. Of course it probably kept coming back around so they may have yelled at it or threw things at it so it would get scared and go away. And a lot of times these kind of people don’t spay or neuter their kitties so they suddenly find themselves without a home or food or water or warmth and have to learn to survive all by themselves.

Oh me mommy, me couldn’t survive wiffout you and sissy. Me can barely member havin’ to fight wiff meez littermates to get a meal afur you saved me. But me sure likes not havin’ to fight wiff any kitty anymore to eat.

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I know Dezi and you’ll never have to fight for your food ever again.

 

 

What happens to those kitties that get thrown out mommy? Do they find sumfin’ to eat?

Well sweety sum of them don’t and they die or get killed by cars, poison placed out by people, other animals and so on. And some of them find other kitties and form a colony. And for the most part they work together to find food and shelter and raise any kittens born into the colony. And they start learning to fear humans. Because all those kitties that weren’t spayed or neutered start having babies the colony grows and grows. And they teach those babies to be afraid of humans too and how to survive on the streets. And eventually there’s no trace of the kitty that once had a home, and all the new kitties born into that colony never knew a home. They’ve only ever known the streets. And so we call them “Feral” which means: a domesticated cat that has returned to the wild or the kittens of such a cat. They are different from a stray and most of them will never know what a home with a loving family is like.

 

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Oh mommy dat be so sad. How do they survive? What can we do to help them and stop peeps fwum fwoin’ their kitties away? And what’s da diffewence mommy?

Well my dear those are questions for another day okay?. Let’s go get you and sissy some treats and we’ll talk more about this later.

Treats? Okay mommy, fanks. Purrlease join us fur our Adopt a Shelter Cat mumff series.

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And till da next time…………………………Be Blest!!!

 

Luv and Hugs and Kitty Kisses  

 

Dezi and Lexi

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Blest Sunday

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Meowllo everypawdy!!! It’s Blest Sunday, our favowit posty. And OMC awe we ever blest. We have a lot of good fings comin’ up fur da bloggy and fur all of you. We can’t tell ya’ yet, so be lookin’. We stawrted out yesfurday wiff da bootyful sunshine and a little wind. Typical wedder of this time of year. Afur da day was over, da skies turned black and opened up and we had funner and lightnin’ and rain. Yep, more rain, we had a lot of it. Da stowrm kept knockin’ us off da puter. But it did let up long enuff fur me to head over to Cat Scouts fur da purrmotion ceremonies. We had a lot of gweat kitties get purrmoted. Me was so purroud of all meez fellow scouts and furiends. And then meez name was called. Me was purrmoted to da rank of LION. Wow can you believe it? Little ole me is a Lion. WooHoo Course dat means a lot more wesponsibility on meez shoulders. Me has to be a good example to da kit scouts and all da udder scouts as well. But me finks meez up to da task.

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See us scouts look out fur one anudder and help each udder when we can, in any way we can. Sumtimes all me can do to help is to cheer anudder scout on. But sumtimes dat’s all they need. Weez have a lot of activities at Cat Scouts to help us rise in rank. And we have sum activities dat allow us to help udders who be less furtunate than us. We have a service purroject where we send cawds to peeps dat be in nursin’ homes and da like. Meez only been able to do dat once so faw, but me hopes to do it more in da future. We also have a lot of fun. We celebwate Meowdays every mumff wiff a pawrty, we take twips to faw away places, and we have adventures galore. So what awe you waitin’ on, you know you wanna join. Paw wight here to be twansported to da Cat Scouts site and get yous selff signed up. Today be flag day, so weez all celebwatin’ wiff pawsum fotos. And me bets there’ll be sum gweat noms wound da campfire. Me hasn’t had a chance to get meez new badge put on meez unifurm yet, but me can’t wait.

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And we awe so blest to have bwought back all those wunnewful Weruva noms fwum BlogPaws. We haven’t opened a can or pouch yet dat sissy hasn’t luvved. And quite furankly mommy luvs ‘em too. They be good fur Lexi and just outwight good. Da food inside da cans and packets looks just like stuff she wuld put on hers plate. Weez hopin’ to work out a little sumpin’ sumpin’ wiff ‘em fur all of you too. Weez keepin’ our paws cwossed on dat one.

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Anyways, weez also showin’ off sum selfies today and joinin’ up wiff or furiends over at The Cat On My Head. fur their Sunday Selfie blog hop. So weez cuttin’ in short today so we can go enjoy sum of our blessings. Member, you awe blest and we luv each and every one of you and awe so gwateful yous in our lives.

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Till da next time………………..Be Blest!!!

 

 

Luv and Hugs and Kitty Kisses 

Dezi and Lexi

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Perfect Portions

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Happy Caturday to you all. Weez got sunshine and wind, and…a FLASH FLOOD Warnin’. OMC Can yous believe it? And here we fawt da rain was gone fur da summer. MOL Summer in da Souff means unexpected wedder changes tho’ so weez just gunna enjoy da sun while it be here. Course weez been readin’ sum of our furiends posties fwum udder places and they be havin’ un-seasonal wedder too. So whose to say what be normal anymore. Anyways, enuff ‘bout da wedder weez got a yummy to share wiff ya’ today.

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Wha’cha’ got there mommy?

You know we luv our Chewy and we just got our auto-delivery fwum them a kupple days ago, so we have a gweat box fur boxin’ day. And we got our review box fur da mumff too. Yep 2 boxes at one time. You know how much us kitties luv boxes. Anyways weez gunna be tellin’ ya’ ‘bout da Nutro Perfect Portions today. Nutro be pawt of da Mars Pet Furmily. We met a lot of da Mars peeps at BlogPaws and got sum samples too. Mommy even got a teeshirt. These Perfect Portions meals are da size of one of da small cans they just be divided into separate containers so dat yous not have to put any in da fwidge ifin yous kitty not be able to eat da whole 3 ounces at one time. You can give one Perfect Portion and when kitty finishes and wants more you can give da udder half and it’s still furesh cuz it’s never been opened.

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Come on mommy, open it up and letz see what weez got.

This is weally nice fur sissy wight now cuz hers been eatin’ gweat since BlogPaws, but it takes her a little longer to eat now. Sissy will eat ‘bout da whole 1.3 ounces and then take a bweak and get a dwink of water or go to da pawdee box and take a 30 minute nap and then she’s back wantin’ more. Course this makes mommy and me happy campers (weez not campin’ so don’t know why we say dat, but…) and mommy gladly gives hers more. So, what about these Nutro Perfect Portions? Duz sissy like ‘em? Duz me like ‘em? And is mommy happy wiff ‘em? And just what be in ‘em? Those awe all da fings yous wantin’ to know huh?

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Well let me tell ya’. We got da Nutro Perfect Portions Turkey Recipe Dinner. They come in 8 different flavors/meats, and mommy chose da turkey lurkey fur us to twy. But you can also get: Salmon and chicken, chicken and liver, turkey and liver, chicken, liver and shrimp, salmon and tuna, chicken and shrimp and just chicken. They come in a case of 24 2.65 ounces fur $31.99. So what is in the package? Well it’s a pate style wiff:

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Kin I’z habz one now mommy? Lookz purretty good.

Turkey, Turkey Broth, Chicken Liver, Pork Broth, Natural Flavors, Guar Gum, Minerals (Potassium Chloride, Magnesium Sulfate, Zinc Sulfate, Iron Sulfate, Manganese Sulfate, Potassium Iodide, Copper Sulfate), Sodium Phosphate, Fish Oil (preserved with mixed Tocopherols), Vitamins (Choline Chloride, Thiamine Mononitrate [Vitamin B1], Vitamin E Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride [Vitamin B6], Vitamin D3 Supplement, Folic Acid, Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex), Salt, Taurine.

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Notice there be NO carageenan. You hoomans awe weally concerned ‘bout dat and so is mommy, so we was weally glad to see it had been excluded. And mommy likes dat da top ingwedients awe da meats. Dat means most of what’s in there be meat fur hers little carnivores. So mommy’s purretty happy wiff ‘em, and dat means dat kitty might not be. You know da ole it’s good fur ya’ so we don’t want it fing? So fingers cwossed mommy gave us each our own side of da Perfect Portion and stood back. Was this gunna be a winner or not.

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Yep, sissy went to town and ate all hers side and wanted more. WooHoo All paws up fwum Lexi and a happy mommy. Next was to see how me liked it. Well me went in to smell da blob on meez plate and…me walked away. Me dusn’t weally like da pate’s so mommy wasn’t like shocked dat me didn’t wanna eat it, but she had hoped me wuld at least twy it. So she doctored it a bit wiff sum nip and…No joy, me walked away again. So paws down fwum me. But mommy sez dat’s okay havin’ sumfin’ good fur Lexi dat she will eat and enjoy is enuff to counter meez down paws. Now what about dat guaranteed analysis? Is it good fur sissy to eat wiff hers CKD?

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Well da phosphorous not be listed on da chewy website or da Nutro web site, so mommy picked up da fone and gave ’em a call. She spoke wiff a very nice and knowledgeable Michael and he was more than happy to answer any of mommys questions. Hims did sum calculatin’ and gave mommy da DMA (dry matter analysis) of all da Perfect Portions meals. And da turkey we had has a DMA phosphorous of 14.5% or .65. So dat’s better than good fur sissy. And all da Puerfect Portions have similar nummers, so any of them wuld be okay to put on a plate fur Lexi. So 2 fumms up fwum mommy too. So you can head on over to Chewy wight now and gwab you a case. And member, yous not stuck wiff a case of noms ifin yous furry dusn’t like it. Chewy offers a 100% money back guarantee. And they have da bestest customer service agents ever, dat be available 24/7/365. And while yous there check out all da udder pawsum fings Chewy carries. Member they have a flat rate shippin’ chawge of $4.95 or furee ifin yous order is $49.00 or more. And they ship wiff Fed Ex, so yous get it weally fast; even on Caturdays. and speakin’ of Caturday, meez also joinin’ Athena fur Caturday Art.

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Me had to make a little Caturday awt foto.

Till da next time……………………..Be Blest!!!

 

 

Disclaimer: We received a case of the Nutro Perfect Portions fur furee to twy and give our honest opinion of. We didn’t weceive and gween papers and nopawdy but us be responsible fur our opinions. They not be fur sale. We only bwing you fings we use or have twied ourselves and dat we fink yous might be innewested in.

 

 

Luv and Hugs and Kitty Kisses 

Dezi and Lexi

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Through The Eyes of a Stranger

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Me wanted to share sumfin’ special wiff yous all today. We have a facebook awnty who is also a poet. Afur we met her online she was just anudder stwanger to us. But like so many of our pawsum innewnet furiends, today she is pawrt of our furmily. She lives “over da pond”. Fur those of ya’ dat not have a clue what we mean, she lives in Europe. She’s originally fwum Afwica. And she’s not had a easy life. She be an Agoraphobic. Now yous all askin’ yous selff what dat means awen’t ya’? She’s fwaid to go outside and be in da public. She be getting’ help now wiff hers fears and all, and weez purray fur hers daily, but she writes as a method of coping and expwessin’ hers emotions.

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Well she sent us her book last year and mommy wuld read us a poem or two every night. Then a while back she decided to write anudder poetwy book and she included a poem fwum/about Lexi and me dat she wrote fur mommy. Sumhow pawently sum peeps kuld get access to it via a web linky, but not us. We don’t know ifin it didn’t work or ifin mommy was just too tech challenged to unnewstand how it worked. Anyways, she sent us da new book. We got it wight afur BlogPaws so we hadn’t had a chance to look at it till this week. Mommy sez it was so stwange to see our names written in a book. But this won’t be da last time, cuz mommy be workin’ on our very own book. We awe honored she wrote a poem fur us. So today me wants to share it wiff you all. And we wanna say Fank you awnty Petal, yous just pawsum.

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Lexi and Dezi

 

Two service cats are we

Called Lexi and Deztinee

We did our very best

We passed the hard test

Things that we can do

Will surely amaze you

Dezi immediately detects

Low sugar and other effects

When she dances on her toes

Then Mummy surely knows

That down she really must sit

For kitty’s certain she’s not fit

Mummy is never to be left alone

And if she can’t reach the phone

We know how to answer the call

It’s not a problem for us at all

We’re able to bring her the chair

Driving it with extreme care

By holding on to the joystick

The chair moves nippity quick

In the case of dire emergency

911 is dialed by my sister, Dezi

Mummy always makes a fuss

Cuddles and belly rubs over us

Each one of us a rescued cat

We can never fully repay that

But Dezi and I will always try

Never to let our mummy cry

Because she is the best mummy

there could ever, ever, ever be

This comes with all our love

From Dezi and Lexi (that’s me)

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This book is a compilation of poems she wrote fur furiends and furries of Facebook. Now awnty Petal gave us (well mommy) da wights to our poem, but weez want her to have da cwedit fur writin’ it, so we have put hers name there. Ifin you wuld like to purchase yous own copy you can do so on amazon, xlibris.co.uk, Barnes and Noble or check wiff yous local book store. It’s called ©Soulful Beings.

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Well we hope yous enjoyed readin’ ‘bout how one of our facebook awnties sees us. We fink she did a gweat job pointing out all we do fur mommy in a short one page poem. Specially since we be so long winded. MOL So weez hope yous enjoy yous Furiday. And OMC me almost furgot. Weez joinin’ wiff Rascal and Rocco fur da Pet Pawade.

Do you have innernet furiends dat have become like furmily?

 

Till da next time…………………………….Be Blest!!!

Luv and Hugs and Kitty Kisses 

Dezi and Lexi

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