Some bad news

Just been to the vet today, and Pebbles is not doing as well as we hoped; in fact she's dying.  We don't know how long she has, but then with kidney disease I guess you never do.
This is a pic of her 2 days ago, perching on her daddy's shoulder like a parrot.  What a sweetheart she is! all we can do is love her to bits for as long as she has.  Today she has been acting OLD.

Pixie on the other hand is lively and playful and loves all the world.  Here she is with her big black brother and her little black sister all sharing a chair, Pixie is on the back of the chair, Biff is asleep trying to pretend that he isn't noticing Rebel lying partly on top of him

Help! furever home needed in UK for 3 blind kitties!

I should think everyone who knows me is aware by now that  I'm involved in rescue from Romania - now there are three kitten-cats in need of homes, who are being fostered by a good friend of mine, Lucy, who wants them to have a good place to go so that she will have room to foster more cats in desperate need. 

Norocel and Sonia are both black and white, 4/5 months old, and are blind through the Herpes virus. 
Holly is a tabby and has lost an eye after being hit by a car. I think she's about the same age. The two fully blind ones will need an indoor home and someone prepared to keep furniture in the same place, and Holly might be better in an indoor home too.
Please contact me through the blog or on sjwaldock@yahoo.co.uk and I'll put serious offers in contact with Lucy who will organise a home check. 

Holly, an adorable baby!

Norocel, what a brave little boy!

this is the only picture I have available of Sonia, it shows her younger than she is.  What a sweetheart!

A purr is a purr is a purr, in Romanian or English... who can help these sweethearts?

Antifreeze - it's a problem

I've just heard of another case of deliberate poisoning with antifreeze, and closish to where I live too,  and it happens by accident every year too.  It's time to get bittering agents added to the stuff, which will make it harder for abusers to readily poison family pets as well as preventing the accidents.

Any of my British followers, here's a form letter which I implore you to use and personalise to your MP, and indeed anyone who would care to email David Cameron at camerond@parliament.uk please do!  His cat is called Larry.

Dear [MP],

Over the last year there have been more than one incidence of sick individuals poisoning the family pets of others with antifreeze.

There are two issues at stake here; firstly the need to bring in a law to have a bittering agent added to antifreeze, which will prevent accidental poisonings and too make the abuse of animals harder, and secondly to address the issue of harsher sentencing for those who abuse animals, as the current laws are derisory. 

Please consider raising this in the House and supporting anyone else who raises the issues.  In a nation which prides itself as animal lovers, these issues go far beyond party politics.

Thank you for your time,

Yours sincerely,

Thanks all.


Here's a petition I've set up too
Here

At last, 365 cat days is published!

The link I have on the side bar is to Amazon UK, but it's available from Amazon too Here
The royalties from sales of this one will be used for helping with cat rescue. 

Here's a sample of October:

October 9^th

Kitkat [4]

Kitkat, like most Siamese cats, loved to explore, and if this happened to be up and down the shelves of a neighbour’s flat, why Surely Nobody Minded Him Taking Liberties?  Wouldn’t Anyone Be Proud To Let Him Kip On Their Bed?  Perhaps he was slightly less welcome when being a paper weight on papers or books his host was trying to use than otherwise but Kitkat was so sweet he could get away with it!

October 10^th

Max [6]

Max was one of those cats whose propensities for falling in the pond came close to being fatal more than once as he had no idea how to help himself by swimming.  It did not help his ego that the worst Wolfie ever did was to get a wet tail.  It Wasn’t Fair, said Max,  Having A Pond Left Untidily All Over The Place Right Where A Fella Can Forget It’s There And Fall In.  On his first summer he fell in the pond four times and proceeded to do so at least once every summer thereafter.

October 11^th

Sophie [4]

Sophie was loath to come in at night and led her people many a merry dance.  She would stand, as if waiting, and as mumstaff or dadstaff came close enough to think they could pick her up, she would spring lightly away, dancing sideways, sometimes darting under a parked car and peeking out, her whiskery face seeming to laugh at their frustration.  It’s A Good Game Played Slow, she said.