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When Rescue is the Worst Thing that can Happen
from Covered in Cat Hair
on Monday June 17th, 2013 at 09:29 PM
When I started doing rescue over a decade ago, my goal was simple save lives by home-fostering cats and kittens. Now that I run my own rescue, I have a great deal more on my plate. Because I recognize I can do a better job and help more cats if I network with others, a majority of what I do these days is to locate good shelter or rescue partners to work with in a variety of ways.
One of my dearest relationships is with Animals in Distress in Wilton, CT. I know the ladies that run the...
The Squee Diaries. Chapter 3 The Unbearable Cuteness of Kittens
from Covered in Cat Hair
on Thursday June 13th, 2013 at 03:17 PM
2013 Robin A.F. Olson. Petey meets the chick.
The kittens are almost two weeks old and have been with me for a week and what bliss this week has been. I'd forgotten what it's like to be near such unbearably cute creatures. Even though I can't hold them for long periods of time and they're still a few weeks away from being ready to start playing, just watching them sleep or take nourishment from their mom, Minnie, heals my soul. Whatever lousy things are going on outside of the foster room,...
The Squee Diaries. Chapter 2.
from Covered in Cat Hair
on Monday June 10th, 2013 at 04:15 PM
2013 Robin A.F. Olson. Named, at last, here is our mama, Minnie.
The kittens are 10 days old today. Hurrah! Every day they live is another milestone because at this tender age kittens can fall ill and quickly die. It's common that 30-40% of kittens in a litter will pass away depending on the stresses in the environment and the condition and ability of the mother to provide for her offspring. So far, so good for this family.
2013 Robin A.F. Olson. Who has the cutest little rear end in the...
The Squee Diaries Chapter 1. We are born.
from Covered in Cat Hair
on Wednesday June 5th, 2013 at 03:41 PM
Things have been pretty awful around here the past few months. Between the lingering pall of grief after the shooting at our elementary school, the long, almost never-ending winter coupled with the harrowing road we traveled with kitten-Fred, only to end in tragedythe deaths of our family pets, Mel and Oliver, just adds up to an overly long season of the blues.
2012 Robin A.F. Olson. We try to move on, but the sadness lingers.
Usually Id try to snap myself out of it, but perhaps now that Im...
A Very Good Dog, Indeed
from Covered in Cat Hair
on Friday May 31st, 2013 at 02:35 PM
The last time I felt like I had a family was in the late 1990's. My parents were alive, I had a career, our pets were thriving, relationships were intact. Clichè as it may be, I didn't realize what I had until it was gone, though it didn't disappear overnight or all at once. My family began to vanish with one loss, then another. With every change I scrambled to find a way to feel like I still had a family with whatever remained.
One of the foundations of our family was a dog named Mel. His...
A Little Love Goes a Long Way for Chloe
from Covered in Cat Hair
on Tuesday May 28th, 2013 at 05:06 PM
Chloes been living with foster mom, Angi for six weeks. The fact that shes in the same home is in and of itself a wonderful thing. With her aggression issues, Chloe could easily have been sent back to Animals in Distress and possibly been deemed unadoptable, leaving her to possibly face a grim future. Her former "guardian" had called around to the local Vets asking for a house call to euthanize the cat. Thankfully, though they are not bound by law to do so, all the Vets he contacted would not...
Crazy Cat Ladies No More
from Covered in Cat Hair
on Thursday May 23rd, 2013 at 08:28 PM
Crazy Cat Ladies. In many circles that expression is not meant kindly. It connotates instability, excess (too many cats, obsessively talking about cats), wearing sweatshirts with cutesy embroidered artwork of kittens chasing after balls of yarn. We're probably fat. We're far from cool. We have no relationship as meaningful as the one we have with our cats. We're probably not married, maybe never even had a boyfriend.
2013 Robin A.F. Olson. The cat ladies dinner. Between everyone at the table...
The Other Side
from Covered in Cat Hair
on Friday May 10th, 2013 at 03:23 PM
The past month has been one of the worst of my life. Although Ive witnessed the slow decline and eventual passing of my own senior cats, and all the fear and sadness that brings, Ive never watched it happen to a mere kitten. It is so much worse because theres the added tragedy of the full, long life that never got to be lived. The family I imagined coming to adopt him, never came to the door. The joy hed have being loved and cherished for a lifetime, was taken away by a fatal disease.
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