Our Puppy Pee-Wee

Every morning when I wake up, I let the dogs out of their kennels in the living room and I open the sliding door to our atrium so they can go out and do their morning "business" and get in some early play time.  This morning I let the dogs into the atrium and then started making the rounds, feeding all of our foster cats & kittens.  After about 20 minutes I heard the most desperate sounding screams coming from the atrium and I instantly recognized the voice to be our tiny little Chihuahua puppy, Pee-Wee.  I figured the bigger dogs were just bullying him as usual, and I took my time finishing up with the cats before I went to check on Pee-Wee.  When I finally looked into the atrium I BURST into laughter and immediately went to go grab my camera!  Below are 2 photos of Pee-Wee, and you can see the reason for his screaming.  He got trapped inside a stuffed dog toy called "Hide A Squirrel."  A better photo of the dog toy is also shown below.  Pee-Wee makes a very cute squirrel, doesn't he??

More Successful Adoptions!

Two more kittens adopted today!  The first was Clara, the gray/white/orange kitten.  She was the "runt" of the litter and the gentleman who adopted her for his grandchildren said that he liked that she was the runt!  When we first took in Clara and her siblings, we were very worried about her and unsure if she would survive.  She was one that we kept a very close eye on and we monitered her eating/drinking very closely.  She was so fragile and tiny and was not as strong as her litter mates!  But now she is a fiesty, healthy little girl who looooves food!!  Many times the runts wind up becoming unexpectedly huge cats once they are separated from the "competition" and have a new home all to themselves.  Just look at her sweet face.....It's no wonder I had so many people fighting over her today!

Then I posted photos of our Tortie kitten and within about 15 minutes I had someone emailing me saying they wanted her!  She got adopted to a nice young couple who was picking out their first kitten ever!  I'm so excited for them....pets can change your life forever!

Goodbye Little Max!

Sweet little "Max" is getting adopted today!  HOORAY for Max!  We will miss him!  He is our LONGEST-haired kitten....so soft and fluffy, he just makes you want to cuddle with him.  Max just got the full spa treatment including a warm bubble bath, blow dry, ear cleaning, and nail trimming.  Some nice people from Los Angeles are driving a hour in ugly traffic to come and meet him.  Be a good boy in your new home Max!

Welcome to my new blog!!!

It's a beautiful warm day in Southern California and our foster cat "Miss Kitty" just gave birth to 4 healthy kittens (although I suspect there may be one or two more yet to come).  It's kitten season and our home is overflowing with foster cats & kittens!  Miss Kitty was given to us (along with a couple other cats) by a lady a few blocks away who's health was in jeopardy due to her severe allergies to cats.  After Miss Kitty's babies are grown and adopted to new families, Miss Kitty will get spayed and placed in a new home of her own. 

I won't get to spend as much time as I like today working on designing my new blog.  Miss Kitty has not been doing her job of severing the umbilical cords of her babies, and I have had to do it for her for 3 of the babies so far.  I'm going to need to keep a watchful eye on Miss Kitty's progress until I am sure she has finished giving birth.  Miss Kitty should be a pro at this because she has had litters before, but I don't mind helping her out.  The good news is all of the newborns have come out healthy so far.  At the moment we have 3 black kittens and 1 gray one.   It's always an exciting day when newborns come into our home!  I promise to post lots of photos of the newborns in the days and weeks to come so you can see their progression into adorable little monsters!