Hello all,
I joined here some time back, but life overtook my forum time so I haven't been around. Thought I'd drop by and show off my kitties.
Let see, last I was here was in 2007 and I was living in Mexico. I have since moved back to Texas, lost my dear Mocha kitty to xylitol toxicity, and adopted a darling little three legged siamese hellion named Sully.
This is the last pic I have of my Mocha.
She's sitting with my mom.
She always loved those starlight mints in the little cellophane wrappers. I had no idea they had xylitol in them or that she was actually ingesting them, I thought she just liked carrying them around and playing with them. I feel incredibly guilty about her death to this day. Rest in peace sweetheart.
A couple of months after Mocha left me, Sully found me. He's named for the big blue monster on Monsters inc, and lives up to his name quite well. He was a 4 month old kitten who was brought in to the clinic where I was working at the time with a leg injury. He had, somehow, (and God only knows with this cat) crushed his elbow. The damage was irreparable, so we had to amputate his left front leg. It hasn't slowed him down a second. I brought him home and he took over right then and there and has ruled the roost ever since.
Here he is as a kitten. Cute as a little button, and oh so innocent looking! HA!
butter wouldn't melt!
He and Thurston were best buddies from day one. Thick as theives these two are.
He loves Kobie too.
Loves me best though.
Getting a bit bigger
All grown up now!
Butter still wouldn't melt!
He turned 3 years old on April 1st.
Now let me reintroduce Thurston. Officially, he's my brothers cat, but he has been living with me for four years now which is a year longer than he lived with my brother, and there is no end in sight to this arrangement, so he's my nephew kitty/foster son. He and Sully are best mates. I mean, I've never seen two cats form such a close bond. At this point, I really hope my brother never turns up to claim Thurston as it would break both their hearts to be separated.
Handsome Thurston
Put him on a diet shortly after this pic was taken.
And Thurston and Sully Spooning.
Finally Kobie. Poor soul is ten years old now, and has moved from one health crisis to the next his whole life. Right now we are battling a nasty inner ear infection which has affected his balance which put him off food and once this cat stops eating, its the devil to get him going again. He had a feeding tube which we pulled last week, but in the last few days he's really slowed his eating, so we are switching around medications and and I'm assistfeeding him to supplement what he isn't eating on his own.
This cat has used up 7 of his 9 lives. We've counted. He's such a sweetheart though and never offered to bite or scratch despite the near constant poking and proding. I really hope he makes it through this, I'm not sure I'm willing to put another tube in him. I just don't know if its fair to be putting him through all this.
Anyway, here's the most recent pic of him, looking pretty pathetic. He's very skinny and his right eye is sunken because of horners syndrome caused by the ear infection.
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And a few of him while still healthy. He really is quite a handsome cat!
And finally a group shot
So thats my lot. Off to find out how everyone here is doing!
What a handsome trio of kitties you have Kobster, all delightful but the eyes have it for me and Sully is sheer gorgeousness...
