tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11749511127418893602024-03-12T23:22:48.592+01:00CooperscatsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1174951112741889360.post-58684065647788567322013-06-05T16:33:00.001+02:002013-06-05T16:35:52.207+02:00Jumper Recycled to make a Catbed<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I had a lovely, soft, cashmere sweater that was en route to the charity shop, when I remembered seeing a photo of a catbed someone had made from an old jumper, so I decided to do a bit of recycling...<br />
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An old slash-, crew- or round-neck jumper or long-sleeved top</div>
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Something to use as filling - either wadding or old teeshirts, towels, etc</div>
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1. Turn the jumper inside out and sew up the neck opening.</div>
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2. Turn the jumper right side out again and sew the ends of the sleeves together, making a hollow tube. (This join will be covered, so don't worry too much about your sewing!)</div>
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3. Roll your filling lightly into a sausage-shape, then feed through the arms from up inside the jumper, finishing with a sausage across the neck. Topstitch the front to the back of the jumper along the bottom of the sausage across to the bottom of the armholes - you should now have the circle of the arms forming a sealed tube as the sides of the catbed.</div>
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4. With the stuffed arm circle laid on top of the body of the jumper, fill the jumper body with your filling, folded to form a comfy cushion that fits inside the circle of the arms.</div>
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5. Wrap the bottom of the jumper up and back over the stuffed arm circle and stitch into place.</div>
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6. Stich the arms to the body underneath to close any openings in the base of the catbed.</div>
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7. See how long it takes for a cat to take up residence... ;-)</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1174951112741889360.post-32515609617383168562013-02-16T22:06:00.002+01:002013-02-16T22:06:15.789+01:00Cooperscats Designs Etsy ShopI have just opened a shop on Etsy, showcasing my digital artwork in the form of Greeting Cards. There is a special offer listing for a saving on a mix & match set of 5 cards to look out for too :-)<br />
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<a href="http://www.cooperscatsdesigns.etsy.com/" target="_blank">www.CooperscatsDesigns.etsy.com</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1174951112741889360.post-14305235411402987472013-01-05T20:29:00.000+01:002013-01-12T17:36:49.699+01:00@FeralTom joins the #wlf10thBatallion<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Our very dear friend @FeralTom (Greebo) joined the #wlf10thBatallion</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">on </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">3rd January, 2013.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">He was the ripe old age of nearly 17, and had a most wonderful life</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">at </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">his forever home having been rescued, along with his sister,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">@Binky_Cat, </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">from </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">a farm at age 6 months.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">@Goblin_Kitty arrived a couple of years ago to keep him fit in his old age,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">and will now assume the role of Mancat of the House, having been trained</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">for the position by Tom himself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Tom set up and ran the #wlfBrewery, serving his homebrew, Old Feral Tom,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">in his Public House, the Cat & Trumpet, frequented by many comrades and friends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Binky is now taking over the role of Landlady, and will do a sterling job.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Tom will be sadly missed by his </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">family and friends, including</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Old Chap Up The Road, who had a special cushion for his regular visitor, Tom,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">and a ready tin of tuna. Tom was that kind of cat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We hope, once Tom has settled onto his new cloud, he will be able to visit us occasionally to offer words of wisdom or a snork! now and again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">He will forever be watching over Clover, who holds him tightly in her heart.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"><b>THERE'S NO ONE QUITE LIKE TOMMO</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Though you may be far away </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And I know you will agree </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">That he always is a friend to you </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And he's a friend to me </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">At party time and Christmas too </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We know that he'll be there </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And we know you love us too </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i style="background-color: white;">Along with many of us, Feral Tom's Staff are great supporters of</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i style="background-color: white;">St Francis Hospice for Cats, a UK Registered Charity based in Derbyshire,</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i style="background-color: white;">who care for chronically sick, elderly and terminally ill cats.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i style="background-color: white;">Through charitable donations, they provide facilities for their reception</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i style="background-color: white;">and longterm care.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i><b><u style="background-color: white;">If you would like to honour Feral Tom's memory with</u></b></i></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>a donation to </i></span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">St Francis Hospice for Cats,</i></span></u></b></div>
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<i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><u><span style="background-color: white;">please follow this <a href="http://www.sfhfc.org.uk/donate.html"><span style="color: red;">LINK</span></a></span></u></b></i></div>
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<i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><u><span style="background-color: white;">a gift purchase for St Francis Hospice for Cats from their Amazon Wish List,</span></u></b></i></div>
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<i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><u><span style="background-color: white;">please follow this <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/registry/wishlist/3VNQVU92L9M8Q"><span style="color: red;">LINK</span></a></span></u></b></i></div>
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Henry was found by our vet outside his clinic in a cardboard box, aged about 6-8 weeks. He took him in and tamed him from a wild feral cat to a cuddly, if a little nervous, kitten. Henry had Cryptorchidism (erm... an undescended testicle...). He has had to have two operations, the last one involving opening up his abdomen, because the testicle was right up inside him. At the same time, he was castrated and blood tested negative for leukemia.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">The vet had asked us at Christmastime if we wanted him and we resisted, thinking he would easily find a home. When we called in last week for Nutmeg's tablets, he was still there... Mr C said 4 months there was too long, we would give him a home! Yippee!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Henry is about 6 months old and is recovering nicely from his operation on Thursday (today is Saturday; he's had an antibiotic injection that lasts for 14 days, a painkilling injection and has dissolvable stitches). Looking at the size of his feet, he's going to be a big boy :-)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">He has had a pee and poo in his litter box, which is brilliant, rather than splashin' it all over, and he loves his new wet food, only having had kibble before.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">If you want just mayonnaise, stop after Step 2.</div></div><br />
<b>Here's what you need:</b><br />
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<li>1 tablespoon lemon juice (or wine/cider vinegar)</li>
<li>150 ml sunflower oil</li>
<li>100 ml olive oil (general cooking variety, not Extra Virgin)</li>
<li>half teaspoon salt</li>
<li>2 or 3 crushed cloves of garlic (or according to taste!)</li>
<li>An electric stick blender</li>
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<b>STEP 1:</b> Place the first five listed ingredients into the stick blender jug, put the blender in all the way down to the bottom.<br />
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<b>STEP 2:</b> Turn blender on and leave at the bottom for a few seconds, then slowly raise up and down a few times, until all the oil binds and the mayonnaise is thick and creamy. It only takes a few seconds.<br />
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<b>STEP 3:</b> Crush 2 or 3 cloves of garlic into the mayonnaise mix, turn on the blender and just move it up and down for a second or two through the mayonnaise to mix. That's it, done!<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Eat with fresh crusty rolls, baguette, homemade bread, whatever you fancy. Also makes a great salad dressing if thinned with a little water.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SXfIPTeDQik/TbbO2D_0pnI/AAAAAAAAADE/obfTKqdva_I/s1600/THE+SHOTCatsClose.jpg" imageanchor="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="276" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SXfIPTeDQik/TbbO2D_0pnI/AAAAAAAAADE/obfTKqdva_I/s400/THE+SHOTCatsClose.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">L-R: Clover, Feral Tom, Lily, Mr Pie, Nutmeg, Larry.</div><div style="text-align: center;">(@cooperscats, @FeralTom, @Mr_Pie)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2Qp_N1zlQgU/TbbPFuwpRXI/AAAAAAAAADI/JC2nOvYZcTA/s1600/THE+SHOTcrop.jpg" imageanchor="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="281" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2Qp_N1zlQgU/TbbPFuwpRXI/AAAAAAAAADI/JC2nOvYZcTA/s400/THE+SHOTcrop.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Arriving at the Abbey courtesy of Max the Pony.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WsrYz4TsYfM/TbbPG08HRVI/AAAAAAAAADM/uqhARfa0L0g/s1600/THE+SHOTMiceClose.jpg" imageanchor="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="261" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WsrYz4TsYfM/TbbPG08HRVI/AAAAAAAAADM/uqhARfa0L0g/s400/THE+SHOTMiceClose.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The cats arrived to a feast of Mice and Cream</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(as promised by @WaityNoMore). As a Royal Wedding is a celebration for all,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the mice are set free amongst the guests inside the Abbey</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">to provide added entertainment . . .</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The reward is love and it has the greatest value of all.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1174951112741889360.post-88242109361386950382011-04-08T09:31:00.001+02:002011-04-08T09:49:23.015+02:00Just For Fun - Our new mag, CATLER, April 2011<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><b><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KKYEfjV3Ka0/TZHsiNYMVRI/AAAAAAAAABU/i4LYZ4JKaHY/s1600/PottedKittensx3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KKYEfjV3Ka0/TZHsiNYMVRI/AAAAAAAAABU/i4LYZ4JKaHY/s400/PottedKittensx3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">She seems to be doing a good job; the garden is well fenced in and safe, the pot is on it's side so provides good shelter, and the compost is nice and warm! She wasn't taking any chances and came and took the gingery kitten away whilst I wasn't looking!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7sugh3GFKrQ/TZHsdYdQxcI/AAAAAAAAABQ/HcuifblZm38/s1600/PottedKittensx2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7sugh3GFKrQ/TZHsdYdQxcI/AAAAAAAAABQ/HcuifblZm38/s400/PottedKittensx2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">She's taking good care of her babies.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="margin: 0;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cooperscats/5561318136/">Nutmeg asks for a Salmon Stick.</a>, a photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cooperscats/">Cooperscats Spain</a> on Flickr.</span></div><p>Nutmeg has an allergy, but we don't know what to. The vet is reluctant to do blood allergy tests because it would involve extracting 5ml blood, quite a bit for a cat, and the tests may well not give a positive result if what she is allergic to isn't tested for.<br />
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We don't use chemicals such as floor cleaners, polishes, etc, around the home, or detergents when washing the cat bedding, or have plants around that she could nibble, and we've tried different cat foods, etc, etc. We have been through everything we can think of, but can't determine the cause.<br />
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Her symptoms are that she nibbles the fur on her forearms leaving bald patches and to start with, when severe, she had itchy spots between her eyebrows and ears.<br />
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For this allergy, she has to have a quarter or a half steroid tablet a day, depending on how itchy she is. If she's not itchy, she doesn't have to have a tablet. Her fur has grown back fairly well, but we do have to keep an eye on her.<br />
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The easiest way we have found to administer tablets to cats is inside part of a soft salmon stick treat. It's a bit labour intensive:<br />
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• Break 1cm off end of soft salmon stick treat.<br />
• With pointy end of half a toothpick make hollow in end of soft salmon stick treat, being careful not to go all the way through.<br />
• With blunt end of half toothpick, push tablet into newly made hollow in soft salmon stick treat.<br />
• Squidge end of soft salmon stick treat together with fingers to conceal tablet.<br />
• Excite cat at the prospect of soft salmon stick treats, then administer drugged soft salmon stick treat, followed rapidly by further soft salmon stick treats, so cat's mind is on next soft salmon stick treat waving in front of his/her face rather than oddly flavoured soft salmon stick treat currently being swallowed.<br />
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NB: This method fails if your cat does not like soft salmon stick treats.<br />
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For Nutmeg, this process occurs every evening around 9pm, after we've had supper and I've washed up. Everyone gets treats, whether she has to have a tablet or not. When I come in from the kitchen, Nutmeg starts reminding me that it's treat time . . .</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1174951112741889360.post-81523149292015776412011-03-24T22:59:00.001+01:002011-03-24T22:59:41.381+01:00Beefer, Lily's Dad.<div style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cooperscats/5457461803/" title="Past Loves: Beefer."><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5179/5457461803_e28c013839.jpg" alt="Past Loves: Beefer. by Cooperscats Spain" /></a><br/><span style="margin: 0;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cooperscats/5457461803/">Past Loves: Beefer.</a>, a photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cooperscats/">Cooperscats Spain</a> on Flickr.</span></div><p>Beefer arrived in the car park one day in 2009, crying for food, looking quite skeletal and rough. We fed him biscuits every day, thinking he was on his last legs and that we could make his last days a little easier for him. He gradually started to stay around rather than running off and keeping his distance, until he was waiting for us with head butts every day. He was a feral tomcat, wild at heart, and managed to keep the neighbouring toms away from his girls. There are several Beefer-lookalikes living wild in the Campo.<br /><br />One day, he looked at his biscuits, tried to eat them, then screamed and clawed at me, then followed me, lashing out at me. We felt awful when we realised he hadn't been able to eat for days because his teeth/gums were so painful; the other strays had been eating his biscuits, not him. He was telling me off, he couldn't understand why I was putting all this lovely food down that was hurting him.<br /><br />From then on, we devised a method of feeding him one large tin of cat food whizzed with half a tin of water into a liquid, split into two meals a day. He could lap it up and it didn't hurt him. He became healthier and filled out a bit, got a glossy coat, especially after topical worm and flea treatments.<br /><br />One Sunday in January 2011 was the last time we saw Beefer.<br /><br />If we hadn't kept him going, we wouldn't have the Lovely Lily. Lily has so many of his features, she couldn't be anyone else's.<br /><br />He was a fine cat indeed.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1174951112741889360.post-17931022604692484832011-03-23T18:52:00.001+01:002012-05-25T14:44:23.342+02:00Lily's tale . . .<div style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cooperscats/5453824044/" title="Our beautiful ray of light, Lily."><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5094/5453824044_be2e305c91.jpg" alt="Our beautiful ray of light, Lily. by Cooperscats Spain" /></a><br />
<span style="margin: 0;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cooperscats/5453824044/">Our beautiful ray of light, Lily.</a> a photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/cooperscats/">Cooperscats Spain</a> on Flickr.</span></div><p>In October 2010 I found Lily sitting in the middle of the drive down to our underground carpark, just about to be run over, because she didn't move when a woman in a car beeped her out of the way. I ran around for a while like a headless chicken as there was a much bigger kitten about, who ran off, and her mum, hovering in the distance. She was barely moving, her eyes were oozing pus, she was starving to death.<br />
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I made a few fruitless phone calls, and in the end shoved her in my shopping bag and drove to the vet, waited for him to arrive. The veterinary nurse starting cleaning Lily up, and gasped when she realised the right eye socket was full of pus, with no eye in it. I asked the vet if he thought it would be kinder to put her to sleep as she was in such a state, but he said he was prepared to keep her for a few days to see how she got on. We love that man.<br />
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That was on a Tuesday morning, and we brought her home on the Friday night. Her left eye had also been affected by Feline Herpes Virus (FHV) and was ulcerated, but this has healed through continued treatment, although the eye's surface is scarred and the eye itself is blind. The FHV has also led to respiratory problems, so Lily has irregular, often shallow, breathing.<br />
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The disabilities don't hold her back, she is a regular kitten, bombing about, playing with and chasing Clover and Nutmeg. We don't make many concessions to her blindness, but we are careful not to move furniture around or leave things on the floor for her to run into, and occasionally she needs a helping hand down when she's been too adventurous with her climbing!<br />
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Update: 31 March 2012:
Because Lily's breathing is so much better these days, she had a chest X-ray to see if her lungs were good enough for her to undergo a spaying operation. The X-ray revealed her lungs are fine, but her heart is too small (the size of a 1kg cat, and she is 3.2kg), and she has an concave sternum. So, she will continue to have hormone injections to prevent the risk of pregnancy and reduce the frequency of her seasons. And she will remain our beautiful, perfect Lily.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1174951112741889360.post-7841216457438186772011-03-23T18:45:00.001+01:002011-03-23T22:45:56.900+01:00Clover's tale . . .<div style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cooperscats/5453324937/" title="Clover, in repose."><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5060/5453324937_a9590f9f12.jpg" alt="Clover, in repose. by Cooperscats Spain" /></a><br />
<span style="margin: 0;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cooperscats/5453324937/">Clover, in repose.</a> a photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/cooperscats/">Cooperscats Spain</a> on Flickr.</span></div><p>Clover was just 21 days old when I found her in April 2006. I was out for a walk around the village, passing down a shortcut alley, and I found a toddler trying to wrench a little grey ball of fluff of her jumper. Clover was holding on for dear life, literally. I managed to detach her and asked the child where her mother was. I asked if it was her kitten, and she just said it had been lying by her gates all day, her husband nearly ran it over at lunchtime, take it. By now, it was about 6 pm. I cradled Clover in an old cloth I cadged off the woman and rushed her home, got Mr C to drive us to the vet who gave us baby cat milk powder to feed her, but didn't expect her to last the night as she was so weak and hungry. <br />
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That little cat scoffed for her life. We got her all snugged up in the guest bathroom so we could leave her in peace and away from the curious Bailey and Nutmeg. It was quite traumatic opening that door the next morning, but she has thrived. She gradually turned black, with a few white hairs, but is a beautiful cat, although a little grumpy sometimes!</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1174951112741889360.post-70818021947223819822011-03-23T18:41:00.001+01:002011-03-23T18:41:47.015+01:00Nutmeg's tale . . .<div style="margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cooperscats/5453961148/" title="Yin and Yang."><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5300/5453961148_8c4957b95c.jpg" alt="Yin and Yang. by Cooperscats Spain" /></a><br/><span style="margin: 0;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cooperscats/5453961148/">Yin and Yang.</a> a photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/cooperscats/">Cooperscats Spain</a> on Flickr.</span></div><p>Nutmeg and her brother, Bailey, were from a litter that someone had picked up from bins in Elche in September 2004. Before we got to the fosterers' house, Mr C said he definitely didn't want a boy. As soon as he saw Bailey (who they'd named Minerva, thinking he was a girl), he said 'I want that one'. I saw Nutmeg, with her little stumpy tail, and fell in love. She'd be named Spike.<br /><br />Apparently, it is common for tricolour female cats here to have stumpy tails, and there certainly lots of them about, so it was genetic rather than something nasty happening to her.<br /><br />Bailey never was the same after having been mistaken for a girl in his formative months, he was always a bit fussy and girly. He was named Bailey because his tummy was the colour of Baileys liqueur, and Nutmeg because she was the colours of nutmeg grated over a rice pudding.<br /><br />Sadly, we lost Bailey on 23 December 2010, to an undetected heart defect. He took a piece of all of our hearts with him.<br /><br />Nutmeg is our most cuddly and talkative girl, and she's certainly not afraid to ask for what she wants!</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1