Why HELLO there!

Whew! Sorry for my absence the past several days! This weekend, I spent most of my time with Ruby trying to get her attached to me and helping her to feel at home! :) Thankfully, all my effort and hard work PAID OFF! :D

Here's the story...

Gene and I left right after we got off work at 11a on Friday and went straight to Emory, TX, to pick up Ms. Ruby. I paid the lady (yes I paid for a cat!), and she gave me a small scratching post made of wood and rope that her husband made! I thought that was such a cool gift, and esp. cool that this scratchy post can lay down on the ground! She also gave me some of the tap water from her house (to add to the water I have so she won't have TOO much change at once) and a lil baggy of the food she's been feeding Ruby! So I was definitely well-prepared! We got Ruby in her cage and she was meowyelling like CRAZY! She did NOT want to be in there! Gene took her out a couple of times and cuddled her, but of course she didn't want to do that either! Ruby's mom was looking at her all worried! It was kind of sad, but we had to do it! One of the other adult cats voluntarily got in the cage when Gene was holding Ruby! LOL Like she straight-up walked in there and lay down like, "Okay you can take me instead!" It was really cute! So, after all that, we said our goodbyes and went on our way! Ruby didn't like the car ride any more than she did being in the cage in the house! I ended up letting her get out of the cage because she was biting the bars on the cage door and doing it pretty rough, and I didn't want her to hurt herself!!! She still meowed like crazy, but ended up calming down after a while. Poor baby... you could tell she was so scared! :(

When we got home, I -IMMEDIATELY- took her into the spare bedroom a.k.a. the "cat room" (which is also our office/tool room lol) and let her out of the cage. Of course, she ran away pretty quick and started exploring the room. She wouldn't let me pet her unless it was on her back. My hand coming at her face was just too scary for her at that point... Gene came in and started petting her too (when he could get her to come out of hiding) and ended up finding her "purr spot"... Which is at the base of her tail! When you scratch or pet there, she purrs EXTREMELY loud and if you do it long enough, she'll roll over on her back and let you rub her belly! :) This was definitely an EXCELLENT discovery about her and it helped SO much!

Not long after we had gotten home and all that, I had to put her back in her cage and send her off to the vet for her "new kitten exam" at 3:30. That appointment went quite well! The people at the vet said she was very beautiful and she came out with a CLEAN bill of health! So happy for that! :) Mrs. Grace (the lady who sold me Ruby) definitely takes GREAT care of her foldies! ;-D I am going to take Ruby back to the vet in 2-3 weeks for a booster/rabies shot that she hasn't yet received. Thankfully, the "new kitten exam" was FREE, which I totally wasn't expecting!!

After the vet, we went home and I spent the rest of that evening in "the room" with Ruby... Petting her every chance I can get and giving her some catnip so she'd play and be a little more relaxed! Catnip has definitely been my saving grace the past several days! She LOVES it! She'll eat it like it's prime rib or fresh tuna or something!!! LOVES it! I was a little scared, at first, that she was just going to be a wild cat and she wouldn't even want to be near us! :-/ I had actually found out, from Mrs. Grace, that Scottish Folds aren't "normally" lap cats. I TOTALLY did not know that! Makes me wonder why that's so, but I'm still going to put my best effort forward in getting her to be a cuddle buddy! :) She's doing good so far!

And in doing good, I mean that she'll even jump on the couch with me and lay beside me! She'll even jump in my lap FIRST and THEN go over and lay beside me! :)) Does my heart good, lemme tell ya!

So, I know it seemed like I was going to give you a day-by-day analysis of what's been going on, but I think this blog is already long enough! ;) Again, sorry for the delay! I'll try to do better! But weekends are usually probably going to be pretty dead for me blog-wise! We'll see though!

 

 

Y'all come back now, ya hear?! ;-P

Oversized load!

I got out Ruby's new bed to let Winston lay in it a bit so that Ruby can get his scent before she meets him, and this is the result!:

KITTY OVERLOAD!!

"I fit in dis real guud, see?"

"Pink is SO muh culluh! Where mah eyez?!"

"Okay sooo mah heini fits guud!"

"I gib up on tryin tuh fit in dis!! BAFF TIME! :-D!"

Sorry for the crappy pic quality! My phone camera doesn't like how he moves so much and is SO dark! My phone is like racist or something jeez! ;-P


P.S. TODAY IS THE DAY!!! YAYYYYYYY!!! :-D

TOMORROW!

TOMORROW is the day of Ruby's homecoming! Gahhh I can't WAIT! But am I really prepared?! Hmmmm... Lemme think...

Kitten food... CHECK

Kitty Carrier prepared... CHECK

Kitty room prepared... CHECK

(^^Although it could use a bit more cleaning out, but it's partially our office and Gene's tool room, so that's gonna take a lil bit! Haha.. but it's cleaned out enough for Lil Miss Priss! ;) )

New bed for da BB... CHECK

Telling Winston he's getting a new sister (yet he's still clueless!)... CHECK

New toy for da BB (that Winston can play with too, of course!)... CHECK

Bought a gate/some kind of solution for the bedroom... NEGATORY....

(^^I think I'm going to play this one by ear... And especially since I'm getting her on a Friday and have all weekend to get her used to the house and get Winston introduced... I may still get the gate and/or just have things prepared outside of the room, but we'll see! :-P )

Anything I'm forgetting?! I'm sure there is... That's just the nature of the beast! LOL... I mean I have probably NEARLY everything ready already since I have Winston, but I'm sure there are other minute details I'm forgetting! Still have to have a talk with Wesleigh about how to treat the new kitty... I'm not scared she's gonna like strangle it or anything, I just don't want her chasing it if/when it runs away from her. Time to talk! :-P

Appointment for Ruby!

I just called and made an appointment at the vet for Ruby @ 3:30 on Friday! Eek it's getting more and more official!! I've never brought a cat immediately to the vet as soon as I got them, but I wanna do this right this time, so she SHALL be checked out! Although, she's already had her feline leukemia shot and other shots besides rabies, so I think she's good! It was pretty cool to actually be able to tell the vet what breed of cat she was and her EXACT birthdate! :-D Since all of my kitties have been strays, I've never been able to do that! Yea buddy!!

Kitteh food

So... I wasn't sure what to blog about today, so I decided to blog about what I feed my kittehs and what I plan on STARTING to feed them! This will probably be a boring post for most, but hey it's a post nonetheless! ;-P What I'm feeding Winston and Merlin now is quite simple; plain jane cheap-o dry food! I can't remember exactly what brand I use, but trust me it's the CHEAP-O kind! LOL! Well, after doing some research online, I found out that this is horribly HORRIBLE for kitties! Apparently it has more grain and meat by-products than the stuff they need! And apparently ALSO, it's best to give them some kind of wet food with this dry food because it definitely has more meat and more of the good stuff!

So, in lieu of that, I've decided that I'm going to change my kitty's diets and buy them the better stuff, because I think they deserve it! I'm sure buying the cheap-o stuff will be good when times are tight, but it's not good ALL the time! They need some substance!! So this is the brand I've decided on--It's called Wellness CORE (pictured right, of course!)... Not only is it for adults, but it's also for kittens as young as 1 month old! It has NO grains (they don't need them!) and plenty of meat, which is basically all they need! I will also be feeding them some wet food a few times a week, but I'm not sure which kind to get them yet. The lady I'm getting Ruby from suggested Friskies, which she calls "junk meat," but apparently they like it! So maybe I'll go for that or maybe I'll decide on a different wet food, but those kittehs are gonna be eating GOOD now! :) I'll also incorporate some goat's milk into their diet every now and again! And I can be happy and feel safe in knowing my kittehs will be healthy and they'll be living with me for a VERY long time! :-D

1 Kitteh, 1 Popsicle

Winston enjoyed nomming on the end of my popsicle as you can see with the pictures below! :-P Yea he actually bit a hole at the end of it and I didn't know it and when I picked it up, green popsicle went everywhere! THANKS MINMIN! He's such a crazy cat! I love how he talks to me when I walk up to him... and gripes at me when I surprise him! I wish I knew what he was REALLY saying instead of making guesstimates! haha...

Anyhoo... So I only have FOUR more days before I pick up my baby kitty Ruby! These four days are going to DRAAGGGG! I cannot WAIT to get her! UGH! In the meantime, though, I need to kittenproof the house a bit I think! Or at least kittenproof the spare bedroom that she'll be staying in while we're not at home! I'm not sure how I'm going to do this, though, because if I shut off that room while Winston is in the house, then he won't have a litterbox to go to.... HMMMM!! I kinda wanna put a cat door on that door, but then she'd use it too, so I may just let her and Winston stay in there together at first... Though he's gonna wanna murder me after that... Thinking he has to be the babysitter or that I've replaced him! He's got such an attitude! Get over it, Winston, seriously! LOL I can't believe I'm talking to my cat through a blog.. like he can get on here and read it! Gah I'm sad...

SPEAKING of which, my mom gave me part of my birthday present yesterday (the rest is still being ordered) and it was a "Crazy Cat Lady" action figure with like 10 cats surrounding it! LMAO... Oh man it was too funny! The back of it had a "Crazy Cat Lady Quiz" on the back, and if you answered "yes" to any 7 of the questions, then you were INDEED the crazy cat lady! One of those questions even included if you have a website for your cats... HAH! GUILTY!! I don't think I answered "yes" to 7 of those questions though... I'll have to post those at a later date and see for sure, but in the meantime you can see what the figurine looks like ABOVE (Thanks mom!)! I really don't consider myself the "Crazy Cat Lady" though.. I mean YES I LOVE cats, but I don't do ALL the crazy things people do with their cats! Or do I? Haha.. I'll just bask in my denial for now, THXKBAI! :-P

Oi!

I have a follower now! People know about this place! :-o!

I'M BEING WATCHED!!!!

*snicker* ;-)

Mourning Winston?

This morning was like any other morning... We woke up later than we needed to and ended up having to rush out of the door... But when I woke up and turned on the light, I noticed Winston was at the foot of my bed. He does do this from time to time, but he normally sleeps on Gene's side of the bed if he does this (unless I'm home alone). I found this peculiar, yes, but didn't think much of it. It was when we got in the car and pulled out of the carport that I really started realizing or pondering what was up... When I got in the car, Gene pointed to where Stinky is buried and said, "He's mourning." I look over to where he's pointing and there's Winston, standing over Stinky's grave, just looking down at it. Omg my heart sank at how sad this scenario looked! Did he really know Stinky was down there? Could he really be pretty much "mourning" over him? I have no idea, but he did see where we buried him and we even let him see/sniff Stinky (he was in a plastic bag that the vet put him in), so it's all a possibility. I wish I could have gotten a picture of what I saw, but of course, we were on our way to work and already late, plus Winston probably would have walked away from the grave if I came any closer. I really feel, in my heart, that he was mourning. He and Stinky were pretty close. They cuddled together a lot (as pictures above portray!), and even though I think it was mainly Stinky that wanted to cuddle, I know Winston enjoyed it too! I'm definitely going to give Winston a proper kitty hug when I get home! I think he wanted one before he even went outside, which was why he was sleeping in such an unusual spot (him wanted him's kitteh hugs FIRST-THING KTHX!). :') I hope he attaches to Ruby as well as he ended up with Stinky! Cats need companions too! It's okay, MinMin! I miss the little Stinkster too... And always will! ♥♥♥

THE Logo!

Referring to the "Tales of Kittehs" logo up there, of COURSE! :-) I actually created that in Microsoft Word! It's AMAZING what you can do with that program! I actually prefer to draw some things in Word rather than Paintshop Pro or whatever! Anyways, so I'm kinda proud of the logo and just thought I'd mention it :-D

'Ello blogguh!

Introductory post
(Feel free to ignore this post if you already know all about my kittehs!)

;-)

My name is Hannah and I'm obviously QUITE new to this. I've created this wonderful blog to document life with my kitties. I currently have 2 cats -- Merlin (orange marmalade kitty) and Winston (black kitty).

Merlin (born around Christmas of '08) came with my house when I bought it nearly a year ago. The previous owners told me that he's really great at catching rodents and even water moccasins! lol... That kind of sold me on him, because I definitely don't want to deal with water moccasions! O_o Anyways, Merlin a.k.a. "MERL!" (<--said in a "meow"-like fashion) would really like to be an inside kitty (he runs in at any chance he can get!), but he's not fixed, so I don't want him spraying all over my furniture! Plus he's lived outside all his life, so I think he's just used to it. He sticks around the house mainly... though sometimes he'll wander off for shorts amount of time! Funny thing is if he's down the street from the house, he'll RECOGNIZE my car when I get home and come running back beside the car! I had no clue cats could do that! lol... He's really sweet and kind of shy at times, but he's a really good kitty! MERRRRRL!

Winston (born Octoberish of '07) was a stray kitty that I found on New Years Eve of '08. We were at my brother and sister-in-law's celebrating New Years and when my now husband, Gene, went outside to smoke, he found this little fuzzy, STINKY black kitty who just wouldn't leave him alone! I remember Winston barely had a meow at all.. It was more of a "squeak" or he'd open his mouth to meow and nothing would come out! It was so sad, but so cute! ;) On New Years Day, I had battled myself with whether I wanted to bring Winston home with me or not, because if I did, I'd have to pay a pet deposit to my landlady, which I really didn't want to do! But after a lot of thinking and lots of convincing from everyone else, I decided to take him home. The name was pretty easy because my parents had a black fluffy cat that looked JUST LIKE Winston, but HER name was Salem, so yea Winston came pretty natural! LOL How punny! Anyhoo, so I've had Winston ever since that quite cold New Years Eve! He's been a really good kitty, although his fur is sometimes overbearing! He sheds like CRAZY! He loves to play still, but he's not much of a cuddler unless it's HIS idea! This happens very rarely, and usually only occurs if I'm home alone. It's like he's ashamed to be seen with me or something?! :-P Winston's nickname is "Min Min".... Don't ask where it came from.. I just come up with silly nicknames for animals and even humans alike! ;-D I love my little Winston Shadow Kittycat! Even if he does sound like a chirpy bird! Hehe...

I did have a third kitty, but he died nearly a month ago :'( His name was 'Stinky.'

I loved Stinky SOSOSO much! He was the best cuddler kitty I could have asked for! I actually found this little guy while I was showing my now stepdaughter, Wesleigh, the Paris, TX, Eiffel Tower. We had walked up to the tower and out of the bushes jumps out this little bitty stocky-looking kitty... and he IMMEDIATELY jumped into Wesleigh's arms! That really shocked me that he was THAT tame and sweet! Wesleigh of course was begging me to take him home, but I just knew (or thought I knew) that I didn't need a 3rd kitty. So, we go to leave, and I open the door to put Wes in her carseat and here comes Mr Stinky... and he jumps RIGHT in the car! At this point, I just couldn't leave him! He so obviously wanted to go with me! lol... I had tried at first to find a home for him, but we ended up keeping him, and the rest is history! I had named him 'Bengi' at first because he had spots like a Bengal, but after a couple of months I just ended up calling him 'Stinky' because he would pass gas so much LOL... that and his breath was rancid! Oh my! The name was just oh-so perfect for him! Haha!... I miss this little guy way too much! I only had him for about 6 months before his tragic death. He died due to complications of a diaphragmatic hernia, which was caused by who knows what! Basically, all of his intestines and stomach were in his chest cavity! We tried to do the surgery to fix him, but they didn't even get through the first incision before he passed away :-/ I definitely learned that although kitties are cute and cuddly and you want to squeeze them, you shouldn't squeeze them TOO hard in the belly region because, as the vet said, their diaphragm is so thin that you can read a newspaper through it, therefore it tears quite easily! Don't squeeze the kittehs too hard! I miss you Stinky! I don't think I'll ever have another kitty like you ever again!

Rest in peace, little guy!

Now for some HAPPY news... I will be getting a NEW kitty here in a week! :) I canNOT wait for this! The kitty is a dilute calico, straight-eared Scottish Fold. She is so precious and I can't wait to bring her home! Here's a picture of her that I took when I met her a couple of weeks ago!

I so cannot wait to bring her home!! Her name will be 'Ruby' a.k.a. MISS PRISS! I hope she'll feel quite welcomed into our house and learn to be a cuddler, though it's okay if she's not! :) This will be -MY- first ever pedigree cat AND female cat, at that! Shall be interesting! I have a feeling she'll take up most of the blog posts on here!

Well, that's all for now! TUNE IN to ~Tales of Kittehs~ later for future picture and story updates! :) Leave comments if you feel the itch! Woohoo!!