Friday, May 25, 2018

Friday, May 25, 2018

I missed the cats and kitties!  While it was wonderful to have some down-time with Steve, it was also wonderful to be back.  Many thanks to the volunteers for taking care of everything while I was gone.  All is good.  

We took on a new kitten. His name is Zorro--he's a cute black/white kitten. He arrived at 5 weeks old with a birthday of 4/16/18.  He was brought to FFRC after someone found him with his paw entangled in string. The string was very tight. His front right paw was very swollen and purple. Zorro is on antibiotics, soreness meds and multiple leg soaks a day.  We are trying to save this leg.  While we are always optimistic, we also know that this leg is rather "hard", not a good thing. He sure can play though and is such a happy boy. He loves to be held.  He's only a one pounder so has a way to go before any surgery can be done. In the meantime, we keep working on him!

We also took in a past FFRC cat.  Her name here was Harvest and was adopted as a kitten in 2005. She's been in the same home all these years and because of a family change, she needed to come back to FFRC. We welcome her. Such a sweetie.  Her birthday is 10/10/05 so she is now 12 years old. She's been with the same family all this time and has never been outside.  She has today taken a walk from the back Thumper's Room to the front Thumper's Room. She is very relaxed and probably will be in the Main Area soon.  Harvest is a grey tiger & white. 

Miracle is hanging in there. He has slowed his scheduled every two feedings down, so we are going more often, but in smaller amounts.  He snuggles into the middle of the puddle of kittens so he's always nice and warm.  And he latches on to Callisynne too for extra nutrition.  Hoping this sweet baby gets stronger. 

We had BOXES on Monday afternoon.  I am very grateful to you all.
Anonymous - (Bird Basket)  Owl caller, owl stickers, (movie basket) 6 movies, What's Poppin' t-shirt, Movie Time Popcorn. (Peace and Love basket)  Peace
Volkswagon toy, (Kids or Horse basket)  Farm Animal Stickers. Kitty stickers, 
2 Mice toys for 1 for Cutie and 1 for Mars,  Think Pink magnet.

Lindsey P. (Mi) - 2 bottles of catnip bubbles, 3 bottles of catnip spray for FFRC.  Coupons, (Reader basket)  The Little Prince book.

Carri - ( Wisc)  6 catnip toys for Derechos birthday:  3 bananas, and 3 whales.  
Babble Ball toy, 4 cases of Perfectly Chicken packets, 3 cases of Perfectly Fish
packets.  

Heather ( Judeanlee and Phil's daughter) - 5 scrub brushes, Lots of homemade 
Key fobs in many different designs--you'll see these in a Flash Sale!!  

Chou Y. - 1 case of Friskie food packets.

Jeanette B. and the Fur Haven kitties (Tenn) - 2 Large Bags of homegrown catnip, (Sock basket)  pair of Nashville Tn. socks, donation check to help with postage
for catathon, 3 rolls of packing tape.

Josette M. (Burgundy) from France - 2 (24) case of Friskie Gravy Sensation packets.

Ashlyn M. - 1 case of Whiskas Perfectly Fish packets.

Nancy S. (Nancepants) - (Food of the Mods basket) - 3 bags of Utz Crab Chips.

Patricia L. - 1 (16) case of Sheba Perfect Portions, 3 cases of Perfectly Chicken packets.

Sonja M. (sonjamac) - (Food of the Mods, Canada baskets) to be divided between the 2.   1 Hudson Bay Blanket with Hiking Strap, 1 Large Caramilk Bars for Jacci, Coffee crisps, Smarties, 2 Maple Sugar Shortbread boxes, Socks for (sock basket), Sunglasses for ( kids basket), 2 Boxes of Caramel chocolates, Canadian Maple Syrup.

Anonymous - Stuffed Monkey for Lynnette, Stuffed Sloth for Ramsay, Stuffed
Koala Bear for Alma.  MickeyMouse cookbook (Kitchen basket), 4 packs of Kitty
Wipes, Variety of Cards for Jacci, Box of Frontline Flea and Tick, Pack of Shiny 
Sharpies, Pack of Bic Pens, Pack of Highlighters, Box of Safety Pin, Box of Paper
Clips, 6 prong outlet.  Bunny Salt and Pepper shakers (Kitchen Basket), Buttered
Popcorn Jelly Bellies for Jacci, Chicken Soup for the Soul Dog Book (Reading
Basket), 3 Kitty Brushes, 2 Droppers, Kitty Jammies for Jacci.

Debbie D. (WandaKittysMom) - Flash Sale check and Chicky $5.

Diane D. (Mi) - (Ruffles) - Flash Sale check
Carolyn R. (tina) - Donation for Paddy Cakes.
Sue M. (Ma) - (MacNCheeseDoodlesMom) - Donation to be used wherever
needed.

Brian B. - Donation for wherever needed.
Phil and Judeanlee - Donation.

Sandra E--4 cases Purrfectly chicken & 4 cases Purrfectly fish

Sandy A--2 cases Purrfectly chicken, 2 cases Purrfectly Fish, 3 cases FRiskies Gravy Pouches

In the back room, we have several adult cats: Charlie, TIna, Mandela, Harvest and Nyota.  I feel Harvest and Mandela will be coming up soon. Nyota is in the top two condo pens so she has plenty of room.  Her feet are healing very nicely and I noticed this morning that a bit of fur is starting to grow back on her face. She still gets treatments twice daily.  And I believe her singed fur is getting a bit softer! 

Do you know how many days to Catathon?  It's now 29 days! It's getting closer.  SonJa and MK did a lot of the descriptions earlier this week. MK had to go back home but SonJa is carrying on!  On Sunday, Jen comes to start taking pictures of everything. Then.....everything is sent in to Clay and Vaun and they start the process of entering all of this into our website.  It's quite a process! 

We have more thanks to give!
Kelly L--donation to FFRC
Marti W--donation to FFRC
Caitlin OT--donation to FFRC for Catathon

Conii-donation in memory of the passing of TIna's 4 babies.
Mark S--donation for the care of Miracle
BillieK--donation to celbrate the arrival of little Miracle
Laura L--donation because she enjoys the livefeed on youtube!

A few dates coming up:
May 31, Thursday--Humane Ohio surgery day
June 5, Tuesday--Humane Ohio surgery day
June 8, 9 and 10--Concessions for Dance Recital
June 9, Saturday--FFRC surgery day
June 18, Monday--Humane Ohio surgery day
And then there will be all kinds of dates coming up in preparation of Catathon!

Callisynne's kittens are toddling about!  They are still so so small but have much energy. Sometimes they get on their backs and have to wave and wave their feet until they can right themselves! They are all so very sweet and love being held. 

Wow--when I walked in the door yesterday, I was met with 3 days of Boxes that had arrived!  So we're not so rushed, we will be doing BOXES today at 2:00.  Hope you can join us!