my poor kitty

I'm rather miffed right now- you see, my cat has to do some time in the kitty jail AKA the Quarantine Kennel. Apparently my vet back in South Dakota got the dates wrong, quarantine time starts the day the blood is drawn for the rabies titer test- NOT the day that the rabies vaccine was given. So now Kitty has to stay 9 days in a boarding facility that also houses animals doing quarantine time that are coming in from other countries. I am less than pleased with how this all turned out. Here we were getting ready to drive to London to get my beloved furry child and Bam! I'm told that I can't pick her up and that she has to do 9 days in the kitty jail- I'm just sick about this!

Now after all of my calling around, I find out that there are no quarantine kennels in our area, not even in our county! Talk about an all around sad situation for us and our cat. She'll be in a kennel I don't have my UK license (yet) and I wouldn't feel comfortable driving that far away yet- even with a GPS. I feel awful about this entire situation.

Dry winter weather is rough on pets too!

Dry winter weather is rough not only on our skin but on our pets skin too. Our cat is shedding like crazy, cat hair is everywhere! And to add to our kitty's issues, she's also go dandruff. I find myself putting little flannel receiving blankets around for my cat to lay on, they catch the cat hair and dander quite well. So it was time to give the cat a bath and groom her. We do this to help our kitty not get hair balls and to look as good as she most possibly can. But have you ever tried to wash a cat? Our kitty is getting more used to it since we go through this routine every 6 weeks or so. We have a special shampoo that's formulated just for cats and their skin needs. We set up the small space heater that used to be in my scrapbook nook in our base house- this gets really funny now. The cat sees the space heater and stands in front of it while it's turned on and actually let us groom her with the brush while she "blow dried" herself. Not once did she try to groom her fur herself, she let us all take turns brushing her (talk about amazing). The fur on our kitty was shimmering in the light, no more dandruff flakes, no more hairs shooting out all over, she's looking pretty and she knows it! Hannah takes on the cat washing duties and has become pretty good at it too. Our kitty doesn't seem to mind all of the extra attention. And this morning she's strutting around like a peacock with her shimmering shiny fur purring away.

Cats like quilting too!

I got a good laugh at my cat yesterday. I've got pictures to show you how much my cat loves this quilt I'm currently "quilting"
- it seems not even my sewing it with my sewing machine can deter my cat from being on it. She seems to have announced her "squatters rights" and that this quilt is going to be "hers" and hers alone!




I really was surprised that she kept herself so firmly planted on the quilt while the sewing machine was going. I was pushing and pulling the quilt around to work on it and there she was, not about to budge an inch out of "her spot". Maybe I should dedicate the quilt to my furry child instead of my human children, LOL!