Kitties & Surgery

We have a total of 8 cats in the house: Boo has been our cat for almost 4 years, Diva was Debby’s cat but she gave her to Wendy and the other 6 just came to us by chance. Basically back in March of this year, a cat showed up on the back step and just sat here staring at me, every day she was here, and the longer she hung out in our yard, the larger her belly got, so I knew that she was pregnant. Once I figured she was pregnant I put a kennel out on our porch to give her some shelter, since she wanted IN our house so badly and I wasn’t going to let her in, but I wasn’t going to be mean. Our neighbor that lives straight behind us put a collar on her and a phone number and a little inscription that said “Is this yur cat? Plz call….” well you guessed it, nobody called. One month to the day after this cat showed up in our yard she had 5 babies in the kennel on our front porch. They happened to be born the same day Kyle threw a turkey leg in the kennel for the kitty to nibble on 😛 . Well I couldn’t just leave them out there. The poor kittens would die in the cold night. So I brought the whole kennel in the house. I had to warm up a couple of the kittens, 3 of them were nursing the other 2 had been pushed away, I guess because they were too cold to move so the momma must have thought they were dead already or just weren’t going to make it. I warmed up some towels and just held and rubbed them until they started moving and were dry, then I gave them back to the momma. Well so from that point on we had 8 cats. I kept them in the house because I figured that was better than sending them all back outside to start the process of more unwanted kittens being born all over again. Sandy really wants the kittens. She drove up a few months ago to see them. And today she and Wendy took all the cats to have them spayed and neutered. They are just miserable now, but who could blame them. Actually they took Boo to be neutered too, but he didn’t have any parts!!! How crazy is that? So the vet was nice and they didn’t charge anything for taking Boo in aside from the fees for his vaccines. So he lucked out big time. 🙂

PUMPKINS

Kyle and I took the kids yesterday to go pick out their pumpkins. We went to Wal Mart and they had pumpkins for $2 each. The kids were so excited and changed their minds several times before they decided on just the right pumpkin. Dinah was sleeping, but Jeremy picked a pumpkin out for her. I wanted to get a pie pumpkin this year, but Wal Mart didn’t have any, so Kyle and I went to Macey’s after I picked him up from work and I got to pick a pie pumpkin there.

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My Birthday

Yesterday was my birthday, and Kyle took the day off from both jobs to be home with me. The morning was pretty much normal since Ethan had school and we couldn’t really go anywhere. But we went to dinner at Applebee’s in the evening. We had fun being together for the day. When we got home we realized that nobody had picked up Dinah’s hat at the restaurant when we left. And in calling them last night and this morning and in going down there today it has not been found. I am really bummed. 🙁 It was Tyra’s hat when she was a baby and it has matching mittens, and of course now I have mittens with no hat. 🙁 I am really upset.