Shelters are not the place to get a happy pet picture

Big Boy one of my ten Cats.. No I'm not a horder.. I also have one Dog - CoCo.
About 5years ago in November CoCp was found wondering at the side of the highway, she was picked up and taken ti the local store where they were trying to find her owner.. When I saw her, knowing she was part pit I decided I'd take her home. She was so little she fit in a plastic soda crate. I figure she was about 10- 12 weeks old.  Two months later at about 3 am I heard a kitten crying. there was the cat I now call grandma and the grandmother if this pride of cats.

She had a litter before I could afford to get her fixed.. her kittens were given to good homes and were spayed/neutered all except for one. Momma cat, yes another sad to say two litters.  b ut being careful about the homes they went to and the shelters being so full I just couldn't possibly dump them off at a shelter.. besides they were my babies. so O built a cat run it is 24 ft long by 8 ft wide with one wall 10 ft and the other 7ft so there is a shed roof on it. It has metal screening cloth fir walls and they access it via a window in my kitchen.
the cat bixes are outside and the cat stay pretty much outside. Here in Missouri you shouldn't let your cats run free because of Bob cat tick disease  real name -
cytauxzoonosis there is no cure and it kills.  99.9% of the time.


so the cat run.....

this is Momma

 her mother above and a wild black cat I called black cat are her parents. she has  eight children. 3 tortioushell cats 2 black and white males and three solid blacks. ALL are fixed... thank the lord! The biggest of the black cats used to nurse on CoCo and still treats her as if she's the momma.

Our cat run....

By the way did you go feed the PETS -

http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=3ThirdPartyClicks=ERA_061712_ARS_m

Did you feed them?

Click to  Give free food and Care

 http://www.TheAnimalrescuesite.com

 The also have a store where you can buy items that also pays for food and care.....

 http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=3&link=ctg_ars_home_from_ggc_home_sitenav&siteID=UO85MF6im_8-nYIb102rpsJZ8_2MI_aiZw

Meeow...We all thank you!

Kitty and Nelda

DNA Testing BIGFOOT

BIGFOOT

Bryan Sykes is apparently looking to test "bigfoot"/"yeti"/"sasquatch" rumors 

using DNA:
 

Article:  Bigfoot & Yeti DNA Study Gets Serious

Jeanna Bryner, LiveScience Managing Editor

Date: 22 May 2012 Time: 11:02 AM ET

http://www.livescience.com/20487-yeti-bigfoot-dna-cryptozoology.html

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BBC -  DNA to shed light on yeti claims

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18160673 

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Wanted: Bigfoot hair samples for European study -By MARIA CHENG, Associated Press – 1 day ago  

 

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gWgynehEyHfXL5lGh_u-
cOQYRckg?docId=eb1015150b6c49c1b0b8384802e86bfc

LOL... Interesting! Dr Sykes is very well known   look him up.

Nelda

It's Mother's Day and I'm a Mother!

It is Mother's Day!

And I'm a mother, in fact I'm a grandmother. I have only one wish for today.  It will make the perrrrrrrrrrrrrrfit present!

Go feed my friends and cousins 

Please use this link:

 http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=3&link=ctg_ars_home_from_ggc_home_sitenav&siteID=UO85MF6im_8-ui3L1ch3wkXdmJwEcm1Chw

Grandma has been teaching us to help others.

Karama Says what goes around comes around. WE have a nice home and enough food, I've never known hunger. I don't think it would be a nice feeling, So Please take time from your happy Family Day and Share your good Luck with others... 

Feed the needy! 

 http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=3&link=ctg_ars_home_from_ggc_home_sitenav&siteID=UO85MF6im_8-ui3L1ch3wkXdmJwEcm1Chw

 

Love you Grandma Cat and Love bucket

 

My Cat House - remember to feed them...

Hi,
BigBoy said I should tell you about their cat house. After loosing Scoop to the dreaded Bobcat tick dense, I decided I'd never let another of my cats die from my ignorance. The cat run is actually 24 ft long by about 6ft wide the roof on the far side is 10ft and on this side about 6ft. It has cat walks at different levels along the walls there is a tunnel and shelves that are divided into boxes for beds if they want to sleep. I dig up grass since I can't seem to get it to grow inside the pen..to feed to them every other day or so.. the cat boxes are out here as smelly boxes is not my thing.. as if it is any ones thing.

I have squarsh and green beans planted in that tray outside of the run...

Here you can see part of the cat walks inside the cathouse.
All ten if my cats just love being outside. This is the only way I can give them what they crave and still protect them.

I'd love to create a shelter for un-adoptable animals. My sister and I have close to 9 acres here, undeveloped land. If I ever win the lottery that is my goal with my half of it.

Now to give you the link to go feed the animals at the Great animal rescue site...

 http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=3&link=ctg_ars_home_from_ggc_home_sitenav&siteID=UO85MF6im_8-GzUs5mVeNs.hqMSi5Ja7_A


Nelda sending love for all those who need it...
http://www.Hey-You.info  (my web site)

SPOT THE MOTH

Interesting  articles over at

Follow The Scientist

 http://the-scientist.com/2012/05/01/spot-the-moth/

If you wonder about the world of animals... or is that insects??

nelda

thursday its feed me time!

Hi,
My name is Big Boy, a silly name but I love it.
Do you know how hard it is to live in a house full of GIRLS.... eck! No, really I love my sisters and Mom and Grandma and best of all My human momma. CoCo our doggie now she can be a little ruff cause she always wants to play! but she used to let me nurse on her.. Everybody says I look like grandma, but my almost twin brother does too.

What I wanted to talk about was all the cousins out there that don't have a nice home like we do. My human momma won't let us run free outside because we have that bobcat tick disease here. I'm about 2 yrs old but I  can't spell it so mom will have to tell you about it. Some of Mom's first rescue cats got sick with it...Mom lives back in the woods up a dirt road, in Missouri., and there are wild animals.

 Cytauxzoonosis -  A Fatal tick-borne illness

What the blazes is cytauxzoonosis? It is a disease carried by ticks infected by feeding on wild bobcats. So your cat plays in the woods picks up a tick and is bitten by it infecting him with Cytauxzoonosis.

There are no clinical signs of cytauxzoonosis during the first 20 days of infection, when the organism is growing within blood vessels throughout the cat’s body. The first signs are seen three to seven days before death occurs due to massive organ failure and bleeding disorders . . . 

When the cat starts showing clinical signs that it is sick, the time clock has started. The cat has five to six days before it is dead. The cells rupture, and the spleen and bone marrow are affected. The cat goes into shock, and it literally has no blood left. Its muscles cramp and the cat has a lot of pain.

My momma built our "CAT RUN" so we could go outside but not run off into the woods. She uses stuff to kill ticks every 2-3 months and spreads it all over and around our play house. Out to about 100 ft from our house. She really cares about us. Maybe Mom can show you a picture of our Cat home...

We get to go out through a kitchen window and most of us are outside all day long. Its fun playing in the sun...  I even caught a mouse.. Brought it in to mom, I thought she'd like it,  but she made me take it back outside.

Well Grandma says to ask you to go click on the food button. So our friends will have something to eat. I'm going outside to play you have a good day now.. 

Love you

Big Boy, the cat

 Don't forget to feed me!

 http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=3&link=ctg_ars_home_from_ggc_home_sitenav&siteID=UO85MF6im_8-jdiZ8K.5lSFy7nNjWWxL1A