The cats are all doing well up here just causing the usual trouble!
Ziggy is crashed out on my lap this morning
Pekoe is sleeping on her bag:
And Avery is hiding away in her box:
Category: Kitties
Cold weather
I am told we have about 4 days of winter in Orlando. I hope we just finished 2 of them! It has been in the 40-50 degrees the last few days and the cats are not happy!
Big Cat Sanctuary
We went to the Big Cat Sanctuary and it was amazing to see all the cats, but so sad to see how many people think that owning a big cat is a good idea.
Avery as a kitten
I had completely forgot I had this old video of Avery and Yabbey meeting for the first time!
A bit of sad news
Yesterday was the big day for Avery and Ziggy to travel to the US. They even had their nails in red, white and blue. We got them in their harnesses, got Ziggy a bit drugged up and headed to the airport. We had a checked back full of their beds, toys and treats… they were ready to go.
Unfortunately, they were not allowed to fly as there were problems with the paperwork. We were missing the export approval from the Department of Agriculture. So, Richard loaded them back up in the car and took them home. Ziggy was slept off his medicine most of the day while I made the trip back to the US without them.
We are going to try again in a few weeks and hopefully they will be able to make the move to the US!
Happy kittens!
We have some kittens happy to see us- even after we trimmed their nails and put some new soft paws on them!
Big trip for the kitties
Yesterday all three kitties had to get their Rabies jab. I did manage to get them all in their carriers, although Avery was not happy as she could see what was going on. During the 30 minute drive we had lots of crying… so much that I felt guilty and let Mr. Ziggy out of his carrier. He was doing fine until he decided to go and sit on Avery’s carrier and smash her! So he went back into his carrier after that.
They were all reasonably well behaved at the clinic and very quiet on the way home!
Yabbey
Yabbey has been at the vet now for just over a week. She is in good spirits despite everything when I go to see her. She quit eating and drinking over a week ago and so I took her into se Dr Collin. They gave her fluid and some medicine, but unfortunately that didn’t work and we were back the next day as she was dehydrated. The third day it wasn’t better so they had to admit her and put her on fluids. After a few days on fluids they did a scan and discovered that her lymph nodes were larger than they should be and so was part of her intestine. We made the decision to do the biopsy even though it was a fairly major surgery for her. She made it through the surgery and was looking really well, however during surgery they discovered her liver wasn’t in good shape either. They also put a feeding tube in her neck to force some food into her as she was going on a week without food at that point.
I have been able to spend some time with her most days and se hope to have the test results on Monday so we can figure out how far along the lymphoma is and what type it is as the treatments vary greatly. Unfortunately we will have some big decisions to make next week.
Avery and Pekoe
Ziggy at 11 Weeks
Ziggy is getting bigger and more adventurous! He goes to the vet for his second set of vaccinations on Monday!
The Johnsons 