We Need Your Prayers

Published on December 23, 2015 by Service Cats U.S.39 Comments

Well here we are just 2 more days till Christmas. Can you believe it? It’s been a crazy year here and has gone by so fast. Too fast really. As most of you know sis Lexi was diagnosed with CKD last January and it has been a roller coaster ride since then. Furst there was da trying to find foods she kuld eat dat she wuld eat. And not just once, but again and again. Overnight sissy went from da kitty who ate anyfin’ what didn’t eat her furst to bein’ as finicky as me. Talk ‘bout furustratin’ fur mommy. It sure is. And ifin CKD isn’t bad enuff, those same kitties are prone to other issues as well. So you never know what kind of day you’re gunna have from minute to minute.

You know since goin’ to BlogPaws sissy’s been duin’ purretty good. She’s had a few bad days, but mostly good. Mommy was hopin’ to ride dat high fur at least another year. But yesfurday sissy didn’t eat much bweakfastt afur she was off to have a meownin’ nap. Mommy didn’t worry too much cuz she had eaten a really big dinner da night afur. But later yesfurday afternoon, Lexi suddenly started pacin’ da floor and meowin’ her dispurrleased low yeowl. And then she threw up what little she did eat fur bwekky. Oh but it didn’t stop there. She then climbed in da litter box and only sprinkled a little. And what she sprinkled was nuffin’ more than blood drops. Yep, weez on da roller coaster and zoomin’ downhill. Yep UTI’s are commonplace in CKD kitties and sissy has another one. And yep, again da VET was out of reach. Yes we know we need a new VET but it’s not dat easy. Since we don’t have any where we live and have to dwive a good distance, we have to make sure we kuld get there ifin there was a real mergency. We have now twied all da VETs in da town wiff our current VET so now weez gotta start checkin’ a few other towns round us which of course takes time, money and gas. Sumfin’ we don’t have at da moment.

Dezi checking out the gifts from Gracie and Anya — OMC Fank you Gracie and Anya. Me knows sis Lexi’s gunna luv ’em too.

Mommy sez she dusn’t know which is worse, da kidney disease or all da illnesses and issues dat occur because of it. And of course everytime sissy takes a down turn, mommy gets terrified dat she won’t bounce back this time. So yesfurday she was hollerin’ at God and tellin’ Him dat He kuldn’t have Lexi yet, and dat she kuldn’t go thru another Christmas loss. 10 years ago sissy and mommy lost Lucky on Christmas and Ransom 5 years ago a little afur Thanksgivin’. Sissy posted an update on da fundraiser and we wuld purreciate any help you can give. We wanna say a meowsy big Thank you to all who have helped so far. We’ll fur sure keep you posted as to how sissy be duin’. We wuld also purreciate your purrayers.

Dezi up close with a gift from Gracie and Anya — There’s so many gifts in here and some fur mommy too. Fank you Gracie and Anya and yous mommy too.

You know this disease is pawful and altho it’s more common in older kitties, it can affect younger ones as well. While mommy was cleanin’ all da mess and dealin’ wiff sis Lexi one of meez fellow scouts made a purrayer request post at scouts. Meez furiend Mau from da Kitties Blue, you know da Sunday Selfie’s kitties; well hims sisfur Fiona was just diagnosed with CKD. At only 5 years old, this news has devastated da furmily. Purrlease send sum purrayers Fiona’s way too. They are tryin’ to stabilize her so they can come up wiff a treatment plan. Purrlease go by and share sum luv wiff them.

Dezi poses by the box of food from awnty Jennifer — Fank you fur da gweat noms awnty Jennifer. Meez gunna twy to talk sissy into posing wiff them too.

Neever of us awe ready to lose our sisfurs. Mommy sez we will enjoy Christmas and won’t accept sissy not bein’ here to share it wiff us. Me also wanted to tell ya’ ‘bout our Christmas article over at da Daily Mews. check it out, and while you’re there, take a look around. There’s lots of pawsum stories every month. Share and sign up fur da Mewsletter. We purrominse no spam or bothersome emails will come your way just da occasional update of new stories. Weez on da front page this month Sharin’ da Luv. Just click da link and scroll down a bit. Fanks again fur bein’ our furiends and sharin’ da luv with us. Meez gotta go now, with sissy not feelin’ gweat it’s up to me to do all da posin’ wiff da pawsum gifts weez been getting’.

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

Luv and Hugs and Kitty Kisses

Dezi and Lexi

Training Behind the Scenes

Published on September 2, 2015September 2, 2015 by Service Cats U.S.25 Comments

Well we went AWOL yesfurday didn’t we? Weez ‘cided to save our Tuesday postys fur weviews, but weez didn’t weally have anyfin’ to weview and our innewnets went out da night afur so we ‘cided to just twy and do sum visits stead of postin’ just to be postin’. Sides, mommys bwain purrobly needed a little rest. MOL But weez back today fur anudder Service cat twainin’ stowry. This one’s a behind da scenes look cuz we wuld like to addwess sum of da comments weez been gettin’. Sum of ya’ sed yous was worried or concerned dat our twainin’ might be a little dangerwous and you was surpwised dat weez didn’t get hurt. Stead of twyin’ to answer yous all individually we ‘cided to twy to splain here. Now since noopawdy be in twainin’ and weez not have fotos fwum back then me fawt you might like to see me enjoyin’ one of da new made wiff luv toys awnty Ellen fwum 15 and meowin’ sent us when flat Sammy P came to visit.

Mommy bases hers twainin’ techniques loosely on what she observed Shad (mommys furst self twained Service Cat) duin’. Since Shad taught hers selff and da assumption is dat she wuldn’t purrpussly hurt hers selff then mommy had no doubt udder kitties kuld learn to purrfurm da tasks she needed to wemain livin’ independently. Mommy was also a dog twainer in hers yunger days. And she’s been disabled and twainin’ kitties to help her fur over 20 years so there’s not much she hasn’t seen or ‘sperienced. And she makes adjustments to all the equipment dat weez twain wiff and/or on.

Da stwing she uses to tie to da fone so we can learn to dial 911 and bwing it to her is secure and no kitties gunna get it off and swallow it. Even tho’ me be weally fascinated wiff da fone we don’t weally see it as a toy. And ifin weez not twainin’ da cordless handsets awen’t layin’ wound in da floor confusin’ us or temptin’ us to play wiff ‘em. Yes me was a feisty kitty girl and weally luvved to answer da fone, but me only ever twied to answer it when it actually rang. Ifin it wasn’t ringin’ me wasn’t touchin’ it.

: Fank you awnty Ellen. Weez just luv yous made wiff luv toys.

As fur da wheelchair, da fotos yous see today awen’t what it looks like duwin’ twainin’. Because we live in a pawrtment and wuld have to pay fur any damage we cause and mommy dusn’t want us to be hurt eever, she makes sure da chair won’t be leavin’ mawrks on da wall or any holes in it. Mommy attaches big foam pieces to da metal foot rest and awrms so dat it’ll kinda bounce off whatever it hits. Mommy wasn’t a very good dwiver of da wheelchair in da beginnin’ eever and ran into a few doors and walls hers selff. Who is she twyin’ to kid? She still duz on occassion. MOL We did have one oopsie dat mommy hadn’t fawt ‘bout and purrally kuldn’t have purrpared fur, but fankfully nopawdy was hurt then eever.

As fur me and sissy, mommy keeps a purretty good hold on me or sissy when we be dwivin’. Mommy sez no matter how long yous been dwivin’ da wheelchair accidents can and do happen. Da joystick be very sensitive and da wheels can get “stuck” on da cawrpet and turn unexpectedly. So she’s always got a gentle but furm hold of us. When we come to an abwupt stop or sumfin’ we might lunge a bit, but nopawdy’s getting’ fwown outta da chair. And purrawlly most purrtant is dat our twainin’ takes place “inside da house”. We have a very small pawrtment so there’s not a lot of room and we don’t have faw to go afur weez at our destination. Altho’ da close purroximity of fings is why we can so suddenly run into furniture and walls and such. Our pawrtment is just a little over 500 square feet and mommy be a furniture walker so dat means we have lots of stuff to run into. MOL

Now sumpawdy asked ‘bout us “seein’” where weez dwivin’ to. Member our mouff be on da joystick; which by da way is a very soft vinyl/leather/plastic and therefur weez lookin’ downward stead of stwaight ahead. We can see da floor and fings on da floor and da bottoms of fings dat be fairly close, but like you ifin yous head was down; we can’t see swaight ahead. As fur helpin’ mommy in da shower…well all we get is a bit wet. And not all kitties hate da water. Mommy sez any kitty can be twained to fink it’s purrfectly normal to get wet. So there yous have it. These be just sum of da purrpurrations mommy takes when twainin’ us. We hope weez answered sum of yous questions ad helped you to unnewstand better what goes into our twainin’.

As we have sed afur, our stowries awe not meant to be a trainin’ manual as we can’t pawssibly list every minute of every day. And da twuff is dat mommy stawrts twainin’ us da minute we decide to make her our mommy. And altho’ we was kittens, mommy sez it’s never too late to twain yous kitty. Kitties do wanna purrlease their peeps so dat unwanted behavior yous kitty be duin’ can be altered ifin it weally be behaviorwal. But purrlease member to check wiff yous VET afur ‘cidin’ yous have a bad kitty. We don’t typically act out just cuz. We hope yous enjoyed a little look behind da scenes of our Service cat twainin’.

Now ifin yous member we also write an awticle fur da online kitty mewsletter called da Daily Mews. This mumff sis Lexi is tellin’ ‘bout hers fone twainin’. We know yous wanna read dat, so click here to check it out. Awnty Ellen fwum 15 and meowin’ also writes a piece there as do many udders. There’s a little sumfin’ fur everyone so check it out. And ifin yous never wanna miss out on a publication, just sign up. We purromise yous email won’t be sold and yous won’t be bugged by constant nonsense emails. Da daily mews posts 1 to 2 updates a mumff fur which you wuld weceive notice. Well dat’s it fur today. Come back tomorrow fur da continuin’ saga of meez flat scout alter ego, Izzy and Tristy aka Christy Paws. Da Lionesses awe on da prowl and yous won’t wanna miss out on their virtual adventures.

Till da next time………………….Be Blest!!!

Luv and Hugs and Kitty Kisses

Dezi and Lexi

Blest Sunday

Published on February 15, 2015February 15, 2015 by Service Cats U.S.23 Comments

Meowllo evewypawdy, hope yous had a wunnewful Valentines day. We had a blast. There wuz so much food and fun and dancin’ over at da Tabby Cat Club. Sissy wuz on herz furst ever date wiff a fellow Cat Scout of meez, and me went wiff Andy. After dat Andy and me went to Cat Scouts fur their Valentine’s dance. And in good cat scout etiquette me danced wiff sevewal udder scouts and so did Andy. It wuz lots of fun, and their wuz a lot of gweat food there too. Us scouts do know how to hav a good time. Ifin yous been finkin’ ‘bout joinin’ why don’t you just paw on over now and get all signed up. It’s not too late to go to Mardi Gras wiff us. And you know what? Me dusn’t do this very offen, but meez been seein’ lots of new kitties in da blogospere lately and sum of those awe tabbies. So ifin yous loookin’ fur a place where all da tabbies hang and hav fun (Altho weez not be snobby ‘bout ow M’s) then head on over there and wequest membership. We do hav gweat fun.

Today’s posty is gunna be a little on da short side as mommy is all hooked up to da TENs unit and is goin’ fwu coffee wiffdwawel. Meownin’s just awen’t quite da same wiffout mommy wantin’ to dwink hers coffee and us wantin’ her to do sumfin’ fur us. Weez not quite sure how to act eevew. Anyways, we awe so twuly blest. Sis Lexi is takin’ hers “butter spoon” medicine weally well and she even ate all hers dinner last night and asked fur extwa. Yep she got extwa. Mommy sez she can’t wefuse her nuffin’ specially since she’s not been eatin’ so well. We know lots of ya’ out there awe havin’ similaw purrawllems wiff one or more of yous kitties and purrlease know dat we be purrayin’ fur all of ya’ daily. Yous know what mommy keeps askin’? Let me tell ya’. She keeps askin’ wiff all da knowin’ we hav these days and all da advancements in medicine and good fur ya’ noms, then just why is it dat ow furries seem to be sicker and more unhealffy? At least we be blest nuff to hav sumfin’ to giv to Lexi to help hers. You wanna know sumfin’ els dat mommy keeps askin’? Of course we eat good fur ya’ noms here and one of da fings they say ’bout their noms is dat da kitties will hav fooer stools. Mommy sez dat be a bold face lie, cuz she dusn’t know how so many poos can come outta me eatin’ such “good fur me, stool lessinin'” noms. Well me assures you dat me not know da answer, me just knows when me needs to go. MOL

And as you all know we write an awticle fur da Daily Mews. We wrote tackled da age old question “what is love?” this mumff of course, so don’t furget to go over and wead this mumffs awticle. And ifin you haven’t signed up fur email delivewy evewy mumff when it posts, then do so while yous there. We will of course keep you all updated ‘bout sis Lexi, but ifin you wuld like daily updates then hit da like button over on hers Facebook page. We awe also blest to hav so many pawsum furiends and framily here in Blogville and on Facebook. We luv you all so very much. Guess dat’ll wrap up this Blest Sunday fur now. Weez got sum sun puddles today so meez gunna go soak up a foo rays.

Till da nex time……………….Be Blest!!!