Tom Jones is in the house

Martha managed to catch Tom Jones yesterday and took him to the vet to get checked out.
Three hundred and eleven dollars later, his wounds were clean, he is now neutered and on three medications. Eye goop, ear drops, and an oral antibiotic.

He's really friendly though, and seems to be coming around to this indoor thing (which is better than single digit weather).

And he uses the cat box. YEA!

A stray cat

Over the last week or two, there has been a cat that has been staring in the backdoor of the house.

From the first, he would not run away when we approached the door.

He's been in a fight recently, and has a wound behind his ear. It also looks like he's favoring his right front paw, so we would like to take him to the Vet to get checked out.


In the last couple of days, he's come inside the backdoor to eat his breakfast (yes, we started feeding him in the mornings, then he's off for his daily round). So, hopefully, we will be able to get him in a cat carrier and take him to the vet for his injuries and shots and stuff.

So far not too concerned about feline AIDS or leukemia, as one is transmitted by snot and the other by blood, so his food and water bowls are kept outside, away from our inside kitties.

Big Kitties

We went to Crown Ridge Tiger Sanctuary to see the tigers. It was one of the tigers birthday and it was the first public showing of their newest tiger, Izzy. Izzy was a photo cat (a cat that people posed with), but her previous handlers had too many other cats at the time, so they sent him here.
Izzy had not really been around trees, so he loves to attack branches of them and chew all the leaves off.
Izzy is only 7 months old, he still has needs to grow into those paws!



Thor is a big goofball, just loves playing around. The small kids really gets her attention. Hmmm, tasty snack?





Raja loves those lazy days. Rohan catches some Zzzzz. When awake, he roars a lot.

Guess the big kitties are not that different than our our pet kitties, they all sleep all the time.

Freya is at rest

We lost our fourteen year old kitty Freya to renal failure last night. She was diagnosed with it a while ago, so we had her on the K/D diet food. Unfortunately, last Tuesday she was not looking good, so we took her in for blood work. It came back real bad. So, we started giving her subcutaneous fluids every day at home. On Sunday, it didn't seem to be helping anymore. Yesterday, she could not walk or open her eyes all the way, and in general, was really out of it, so we had no choice but to euthanize her.



She's a Cornish Rex , which are very thin and Siamese looking. And she had a very distinctful and loud voice that could be hear upstairs even when the TV was on.

We had her for four years, her previous owners had to give her up because they had a baby, and at that point Freya started urinating outside the box. She was on the coast, so they actually bought her an airline ticket to fly her to us.

Heres a video of her drinking from the sink.

Our four kitties, (clockwise), Freya, Vashti, Mango, and Kiwi

Viking Kitties

I got this link on viking kitties. I almost rolled on the floor laughing.
If you like Led Zepplin and cats, check it out.
Viking Kitties