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Dining with The Cat Daddy, Jackson Galaxy. Part 3.
from Covered in Cat Hair
on Friday March 30th, 2012 at 02:56 PM
I managed to not drive like a moron, get us lost or scare Jackson with the driving skills I learned when I attended the Skip Barber High Performance Driving School in 2000. Sure, I know threshold breaking and about contact patches, but does Jackson need a demonstration in the middle of the night? Taking a curve on an exit ramp at 80 mph is much more exciting during the day, anyway.
All roads lead to CVS.
We found a CVS, a different location, but part of the same chain Id been in that morning...
Dining with The Cat Daddy, Jackson Galaxy. Part 2.
from Covered in Cat Hair
on Thursday March 29th, 2012 at 02:25 PM
Of all the scenarios of the first moment I'd lay eyes on Jackson Id shuffled through my head, Jackson brushing his teeth wasnt one of them. Jackson mumbled to come in as his electric toothbrush whirred away, then headed into the bathroom to finish up. It felt a bit awkward, but sort of intimate at the same time. I made a dumb joke about having good oral hygiene, but my tongue got tied and Jackson missed what I said. I hung my Hello Kitty 20th Anniversary Jacket over the back of a chair and...
The Incredible Transformation of Miss Fluffy Pants
from Covered in Cat Hair
on Monday February 13th, 2012 at 11:55 PM
I was very disappointed when King and Miss Fluffy Pants's (is this her name? It was just a code name, but I think it might stick) reunion was not a happy one. It was clear they were never friends at the Palette factory, where they were both rescued from. Perhaps they even competed for the same scraps of food?
King was nonplused at the first meeting, but Miss FP was pissed. She hissed and growled when Maria let her out of the cat carrier, into the small bathroom that would be her new home. We...
The Vivid Sting of a Life Lost
from Covered in Cat Hair
on Saturday January 28th, 2012 at 01:27 AM
NOTE: THERE IS NO GORE IN THIS POST, BUT THERE IS A SAD PHOTO OF THE LAST MOMENTS OF A WILD ANIMAL'S LIFE. VIEW WITH DISCRETION.
I'm like a cat. I like my little routine. I like the predictability of the day. When there are jostles and bumps, I can handle it, to a point, but this week, had I known how it was going to unveil itself, I might have skipped over to next week.
With my hand beginning to recover, though still very tender, and with new antibiotics no longer making me sick, I set to the...
Foster Cat Math: Plus 4, Minus 2, Plus 4 Equals YIKES!
from Covered in Cat Hair
on Wednesday December 14th, 2011 at 01:33 PM
Part One of Two.
It seems as though regardless of when I chose to rescue a cat, when it goes into foster care, what day it's transported or when I pick it up, that everything comes together at the same time, even if the rescues happened weeks apart! It's very tough to figure out when to rescue more cats, with the hope that the foster cats you currently have will be long gone by the time the new fosters arrive.
2011 Robin A.F. Olson. Goodbye Sweet Truffles! You're such a sweetie pie!
After...
TWO DAYS TO SAVE THE TOILET-FLUSHING KITTEN & HIS SISTER!
from Covered in Cat Hair
on Tuesday December 6th, 2011 at 08:16 PM
LOCATION WASHINGTON, D.C./VA Area
Bella, left and brother Barney, right.
Barney and his sister, Bella, are bright, friendly and sweet cats. They are 10 months old and NOT spayed/neutered yet. The woman they live with is in the Coast Guard and has been transferred to New Orleans. She had a place for the cats to go, locally, but it fell through. We have TWO DAYS to find a rescue to take them or a family to offer to adopt them.
Barney with a cute smudge of color near his right eye.
FLUSH!!!!!
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Fist Fight Friday
from Covered in Cat Hair
on Friday October 21st, 2011 at 06:31 PM
It began simply enough. I was trying to take some photos of Mazie. She's taken to sleeping in the little basket that hangs off the cat tree. Most of the cats are too heavy for it. Nicky tried it once but the results were less than stellar (in his mind...to me the results were hysterical!). I need to update Mazie's photo for Petfinder. She's been here for almost a YEAR! We gotta get her a forever home!
2010 Robin A.F. Olson. Umm...yes you are!
As I photographed Mazie, Spencer and the DOOD had...
FCJ: Life in the Doodlesphere
from Covered in Cat Hair
on Sunday October 2nd, 2011 at 04:01 PM
Now that I'm certain the DOOD does not have Feline Leukemia, I was able to let him out of the bathroom and allow him to mingle with my cats and Mazie. I knew there would be some issues, but many things surprised me.
2011 Robin A.F. Olson. I'm free from my room. Now what do I do?
Firstly, DOOD was fearless about meeting the other cats. In fact, he was a bit too confrontational with Nora and Nicky. It seemed that DOOD was checking out each cat, trying to gauge if he could dominate them, play...
BlogPaws 2011: The Next Few Hours
from Covered in Cat Hair
on Thursday September 1st, 2011 at 05:41 PM
Maria was certain something was terribly wrong with Amberly. The cat is very small to begin with and was still healing from spay surgery that was done 10 days prior. What was making the cat's belly distend? Then Maria mentioned very smelly poop, which can be a sign of Giardia. I told her I thought maybe it was worms or just the effects from a long ride in the car. She felt it was something worse than that-perhaps life threatening! I promised I'd find a Vet. She said they would be arriving in...
Making Sense of the Senseless
from Covered in Cat Hair
on Wednesday July 27th, 2011 at 03:31 PM
I think it's almost a given, that when something bad happens, we try to make sense of it. Give it a reason for being, so we can learn to accept it. Then there are times when it's just so bad, there is no sense to be made.
Yesterday afternoon, I called my Vet to see if Doodlebug was ready to be picked up. I had dropped him off that morning and he just needed some tests, a shot and a wellness exam. If you're going to do cat rescue, you must NEVER bring a cat into your home without it going to...
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