Two years ago Maddie came to stay with us as a foster cat.

One year ago Maddie became our forever cat.

Today she is not so fond of me because I've been shaving & cutting her mats out. Her coat was spectacular last year at this time, and hopefully will be again by next year.

And here's my girl with her back partially shaved (hey, I'm just learning).


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Volunteering at the THS today while they do a Feral Spay-Neuter clinic they've dubbed "Operation Cat Snip", that will cover a lot of ACR cats. They've been so helpful to ACR and all the feral cats in Toronto by setting up this clinic, how can I not help out?

My job will be Cat Wrangler, with Heather.

Cat Wranglers (team of 2) (must have experience ( Read more... )

Tonight Harold saw a cat meowing at our back window, out in the snow, he thought it was our neighbours new cat, Dodger, who is a tabby, but when we looked it was Tazo! Harold blames me that she got out, and I blame him, but no matter, at least she's in before we even noticed her missing.

She's been doing this her whole life - 7 years now!

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We have a referral for Violet!!

I can't believe I haven't updated since Day 7 of the bloody nose dilemma!

We had a follow up vet appointment on Tuesday, which was Day 8 since we first noticed Sid's bloody nose. They made sure we were the last appointment of the day so we wouldn't be infecting any other client, and they had plastic covering everything in the room we were in. The ( Read more... )

Day 7... and the only noses in the house that are fine are the tabbies.

Tazo (our only cat with a well nose - foster kitten Violet is fine so far too)

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I'm pretty sure it wasn't the A&H washing soda now... I'm pretty sure it's viral. Vet suggested it may be, and as soon as I got home I looked closely at the other cats noses and I see it starting on both Maddie and Bunny.

Penny's nose is bloody now too!

:(

The only thing we can find is some spilled Laundry Soap behind the laundry cart, which we're cleaning up now.

It is Laundry Soap (as opposed to detergent) but contains borax:
http://puresoapworks.com/laundrypowder.htm

Could this be the

A few pics of my Sid, not so close up and gory.

Sid at the Vet last night

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