Well is Munday and meez suwe hopes wees gets sum sun. Yesfuwday wus gway and wainy hewe. But hot and stuffy. Da humidity of summew is upon us. Dat bein’ sed, a child died last week in a town ’bout 30 miiles fwum us aftew bein’ left in da caw at 7 a.m. fuw only a showt time. So Purrlease Don’t leave yous fuw babys or childwen locked in yous caws. Yous shuldn’t be locked in ’em eevew.
Mommy’s a bit bettew and gettin’ stwongew evew day. So wees awe twyin’ tu visit yous all and get caught up a bit. As wees wus visitin’ dis weekend wees noticed lots of ow furiends be sick and/or havin’ twubbles. Purrlease know wees purrayin’ fuw all of yous. Wees wish dat all da sickness and woes kuld just vanish but dat’s not da way of da world. Mommy sez purrayer can change fings. And dat good purrs and luv awe da bestest medicine. 🙂 Altho’ wees must say dat ifin yous need medical attention, purrlease seek it out. Meez mommy be at da specialist tuday, so altho’ wees believe in purrayer wees also believe that God gav us doctows.
Wees goin’ tu da doctow and wees gunna get mommy bettew.
And da Cat Scouts site is finally up and wunnin’ again, and bettew den evew. YAY!!! So ifin yous lookin’ fuw a bit of adventuw paw on ovew and join up. It’s lots of fun and evewpawdy is welkumin’ and furiendly and helpful. It’s just full of a gweat bunch of cats. Meez iis so honored tu be a pawt of sumfin’ so special. Ifin yous need help joinin’ email us and wees will make suwe yous get in.
Don’t meez look official in meez beautiful new unifowm?? Meez be so purroud.
As yous know sis Lexi and meez went tu da VET. And what a twip it was. Now mind yous sis Lexi was a furrocious Tigwess in hers day, and shes sumtimes still is. Ifin yous wead how shes ended up wiff mommy den yous know shes put fear in da heawts of hers 2 big bwofuws (not littermates). And woe be untu anypawdy dat innew-wupts hers nap. And shes twied tu splat me when meez came hewe tu liv. So natuwally yous know hers gunna giv Dr. C what fuw. Wight?? Well…..NO!!! Hewe shes was all cooin’ and purrin’ and yes, Dr. C. Yous want me tu tuwn how Dr. C?? Yous want meez tu stand on meez head Dr. C?? Okay Dr. C, whatevew yous say Dr. C. Hmmph. Meez kuldn’t believ it. Okay so hims a gweat Dr. and wees luv hims. But come on at least make hims eawn hims munny. Aftew all shes had just gav meez a face full of hiss and spit wight afuw hers got on da table. Well luv fest ovew, Lexi got a clean bill of healff and a pat on da head fuw duin’ so well and still bein’ in such good shape fuw a 15 yeaw old.
I’z lubz Dr. Cade.
So den it was meez tuwn. 😀 Well me decided ifin Lexi wusn’t gunna make hims eawn hims munny den meez wuld. MOL So when hims stuck hims face in meez eaw, meez purromptly hissed at hims hoo was boss of dis exam. So hims handed meez back tu mommy as ifin dat was gunna save hims fwum meez wraff. Hims had anuddew fink comin’. Meez was hot and tiwed and hims was pokin’ and pwoddin’ and hims spected meez tu just woll ovew and take it?? Hmmph Not gunna happen. MOL Meez gwowled and hissed and even swatted a foo times lettin’ hims know meez was not at all purrleased. Den came da magic hour, Soft Paws time. Mommy and Dr. C talked a minute and hims got weady and sed, “I’ll start on the back paws.”
So mommy picks meez up and holds meez tight and stawts tu sing softly and sweetly. Well as yous know meez luvs it when meez mommy sings tu me. But not when sumpawdy be messin’ wiff meez feetsies. Meez continued tu pwotest wiff da low gwowl. And den finally meez wiggled out of mommys gwasp and swatted at Dr. C and den at mommy. Mommy gathewed me up again, and hewe wees go again. Dis time when meez got loose meez bit mommy. Mind yous Dr. C jumped back like a jack wabbit when meez wuld wiggle loose, but du yous know what mommy did when meez bit hers?? Hers calmly sed, “Sweet angel, that’s me you’re biting and it hurts. It’s gunna be okay Dezi. Mommy luvs you very much.” Well Of Couwse meez let hers go. Wuldn’t yous?? Meez kuldn’t huwt me mommy. Me luvs hers tu much. And at dis point meez had pwoved tu Dr. C hoo was boss cuz hims sed, “okay I think that’s all we’re gunna do today. Bring her back during the week when I have plenty of staff on hand.” Meez won!!! 🙂 Meez only has da soft paws on meez back paws. MOL Mommys not weal happy ’bout dat, and meez not weally eevew. cuz now meez gettin’ meez claws hung up on evewfin’. Maybe nex time meez will be a little calmew when meez sees Dr. C.
Meez luvs Dr. Cade but hims wusn’t takin’ any chances. MOL
Meez wanted tu giv yous a little update ’bout mommy. Hers seein’ hers doctow tuday. Hims finks it might be hers pancweas and hims has tu wun tests afuw hers can see da specialist/suwgeon. Hers is gettin hers stwengff back little by little so yous purrs and purrayers awe helpin’. Fank yous so much fuw all of dem and all yous well wishes. Wees know dat lots of yous awe not well eevew and yous shuld know dat wees puray fuw all ow furiends evewday. Wees believ in da powew of purrayer. 🙂 And wees gunna stawt visitin’ a little at a time til wees get all caught up. 🙂 Now fuw a little hint ’bout meez nex posty. Is gunna be a yeowww nana time. (yous can paw on da hilighted powtions tu wead ow eawliew posts ifin yous haven’t or wuld like tu)
Meweek furiends fiwst let meez pawlogize fuw not visitin’ and commentin’ and weplyin’ tu yous. As meez has sed, meez mommy’s not well and Yesfuwday and last nite wus pawful. Mommy weally did just wanna die hers wus in so much pain. But cuz of Lexi and meez and hers luv fuw us shes fawt and fawt and cwied sum tu beat da pain and stay wiff us. So wees awe gunna be pawfully behind but wees fuw suwe will get caught up. Since it is just us 3 den ifin mommy can’t see or type den wees can’t du much.
Anyways back tu mommys doctows pointment. Wees got der and da lobby wus purretty empty. Der wus howevew der 2 kids der actin’ like bwats. Deys pawents wusn’t duin’ anyfin’ tu make dem behave. Deys wus climbin’ ovew evewfin’ and just bein’ unwuly. Altho” mommy wusn’t purleased hers ddn’t weally say anyfin’ till deys stawted pokin’ at meez in me stwollew. Dat wus nuff tu send mommy off da deep end. Hers looked up at dem wiff a look dat evew kid in da world knows mean tu sit down and behave. And mommy told dem u leav meez alone and any uddew animal deys see in da public as dey may be workin’. Finally da pawents sed sumfin’, and wees wus dun. Wees had tu go tu da fawmacy afuw comin’ home, and wees fawt wees wus gunna buwn up. Da a/c in da caw wusn’ woorkin, and it has gotten hot and humid hewe indeed. Once wees got home mommy and meez pawked owselves in fwunt of da fan tu twy tu cool off. Mommys test wesults came back negative which shuld be good news, but not long aftew gettin’ home mommy wus weally bad sick and in pain. Wees not suwe whewe tu tuwn now, but wees takin’ cawe of mommy as bestest wees can.
OMC Meez wus so supwised by how many of yous hav VETs dat yous like. Meez wus so glad tu heaw dat. But meez wusn’t supwised at all by how many of yous not so cwazy ’bout da twip der and back home. A lot of yous sed dat yous spend da whole twip singin’ da song of ow ancestows. MOL One of da fiwst questions wees get asked, even afuw ‘what’s a Service Cat?’ is….. How du yous get da cats tu wide so well in da caw?? And den wees get wesponses like: meez cats wuld teaw us all up, or meez cats meow at da top of der lungs da whole time, and so many mowe. Mommy tells dem dat yous can’t keep a cat locked away in da house all yeaw long and den pull out da cawwiew 1 time a yeaw and ‘spect evewfin’ tu go smoovly. Cuz at dat point deys associate da cawwiew wiff bad fings, and also da VET. Weally, ifin da only time yous evew get out is when sum stwangew pokes sumfin up yous neddew wegions and sticks yous a foo times and pwys yous mouff open and digs wound in yous eaws and den pushes yous back intu a little box wiff baws dat yous can barely stand up in wuld yous be ‘cited tu go?? Or wuld yous maybe be hidin’ and singin’ da song of yous people tu??
So da fiwst step in makin’ da twip tu da VET mowe pawsitive and less stwessful fuw evewpawdy is tu make it fun and pawt of da woutine. Now as any of yous dat wead meez blog knows wees don’t hav much in da munny depawtment so meez not tellin’ yous tu go tu da VET all da time and spend munny. But let meez say dis, deys don’t chawge yous nuffin’ tu go inside and sit down in da waitin’ woom fuw a bit. Now sum of yous gunna say, “but meez VET is tu faw away.” And meez unnewstands dat, ows is 45 minutes away so is not always pwactical. But ders lots of places yous can go. One of da fiwst fings mommy dus tu twain any animal is tu get dem used tu da caw and twavelin’. Dat means dat da cawwiew or stwollew (whatevew yous use fuw twanspowt stays out and cozy like so dat yous little fuwball can get used tu it and leawn dat it’s a good fing. When fluffy goes in and welaxes fuw a nap or a play, giv dem a tweat and pwaise dem. See whewe meez goin’?? Good fings hapun in da bawwed box besides bein’ manhandled and shuvved inside.
Luvvin’ meez stwollew. Makes fuw a comfy nappin’ spot. ♥
Once fluffy is likin’ da cawwiew close dem in fuw vewy showt pewiods of time and take dem out da doow tu da caw. Don’t go anywhewe yet and be suwe tu giv dem tweats and welease dem when yous come back in da house. Now dat fluffy’s good wiff da cawwiew and goin’ tu da caw, stawt da caw and pull out and den back in and intu da house and welease fluffy. Don’t fuwget da tweats and pwaise. 🙂 Now yous weady fuw a twip wound da block. Not tu faw, just nuff so dat fluffy knows yous ain’t in kansas da dwiveway and home anymowe. MOL Ifin fluffy stawts singin’, yous stawt singin’. Mommys favowit songs tu sing tu us awe, ‘You are so Beautiful’ and ‘You are my Sunshine’. And den ders da made up ones. Mommy can be vewy clevew, and of couwse wees luv hers fuw it.
Now dat yous goin’ wound da block and fings awe good, go fawddew and pick dat place whewe yous gunna stop and go in. Membew du dis mowe den once!!! And go tu lots of diffewent places. Da pet stowe, a dwive fwu, anywhewe will wowk. Yous want tu get fluffy used tu goin’ in da caw and havvin’ good fings hapun. Ifin yous VET is faiwly close purrlease go der a foo times. (Da smells and sounds awe impurrtant, so even ifin yous VET isn’t close at sum point yous need tu go der. Also any VETs office will wowk. Membew, ders no chawge fuw sittin’). At sum point yous wanna make an appointment wiff yous VET and take sum of fluffys favowit tweats fuw da VET and techs tu giv tu hims. (or just call and talk tu yous VET most awe happy tu help out at no chawge) No pokin’, no pwoddin’, no exam. Just pettin’ and tweats. it usually only takes a foo minutes fuw dis pawt and dat’s why lots of VETs will du it fuw a small fee or fuw no chawge. Aftew all, yous supplyin’ evewfin’ and all yous need is a foo minutes of der time. Dr. C did it fuw us afuw hims left fuw da day.
Most VETs don’t take appointments wight up tu closin’ so deys hav a foo minutes fuw dis kind of fing. And sum make meet and gweet appointments fuw new clients and yous can ‘splain what yous duin’ and deys will schedule yous intu one of those slots. In da end, yous shuld hav much mowe peaceful and less stwessful dwives tu da VET. And maybe yous will wanna take kitty mowe places. And den nex yeaw fluffy will be askin’ yous, “Is it time tu go tu da VET?? ” Fluffy is nevew tu old or tu yumg tu leawn tu enjoy widin’ in da caw.
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