Purring for Shaggy

Our old friend Shaggy is having a tough time right now. Please purr for him so he can bounce back!

Purring for Eric

We are worried for our friend Eric. I just saw that he's having some liver issues. Please purr for him.

Sick dog...

Aunt Tiff's mom adopted a cute dog from a local shelter a few months back. He is a very sweet dog named Droopy. Unfortunately they just found out that he has heartworms. He's on medications for it now, and has to be for the next month, at least. It is a little scary, but it can be fatal. So they have to keep a close watch on him. So please purr a little bit for him. As dogs go, he's pretty cool.

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Mom and Dad continue to walk and walk and walk in preparation for their big 3-day, 50-mile walk. They are still collecting donations to help reach their goal of $1500 so they can qualify to walk. If you have an extra dollar or two (or 20, or ...) please consider helping them out. You can donate to Dad here, or to Mom here. Thanks for you support!

Get well soon Ginger Jasper!

There's another super cool orange-colored Jasper cat out there ... Ginger Jasper ... and naturally I've been a big fan ever since I discovered his blog. Well, it turns out that he is at the vet and struggling with some bad news. So please send all the extra purrs you have to him in hopes that the treatment works and that his kidneys can get going right again. Mom and Dad are particularly sensitive to this, since this is what sent their first cat Fluffy to the bridge many years ago. Ginger Jasper, get well soon and get back home to your beans -- they need you there!

Sending purrs for Daisy Mae Maus

I heard that Daisy Mae Maus is at the vet with bad news. We're sending lots of purrs that the B12 shots and IV fluids do the trick!

Kimo come home

We just heard that our friend Kimo got out and has been away from home. We are purring for Kimo to come home soon. We are just worried sick...

Purrs needed, and Josie in the cat bed

Please send purrs for Mom. She has been up in Ohio this weekend with her uncle and his family. He is ill and on hospice care and Mom went to say goodbye. So please purr for Uncle Billy and that he is out of pain and at peace. Mom will be on the road home Monday. We've missed her, but are so glad that she could be up there to help out.

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Now for some happiness. This is a rare sight...

Dad brought Josie upstairs to get loved on and Josie found her way over to the cat bed. Josie has been spending most of her time curled up on the couch downstairs, so it was a treat for Dad to see her curled up in the cat bed.


Maggie even came over and loved on Josie for a minute and licked her head. But since Maggie usually wrassles with Josie this quickly turned into hissing and growling from Josie.

Purring for Parker

We are so sad to hear Parker's bad news. We are purring as hard as we can. It's just not fair. Cats are supposed to get cancer. No one should.

Purring for Praline

We are purring hard for our dear friend Sweet Praline. She's not doing well and may be going to the Bridge soon. Please keep her and her Mom Paula in your thoughts and prayers.

Purrs needed for our friends

Mom and Dad support a feral rescue group in town called Midlands Kittens. Well Midlands Kittens had quite an adventure today. They were at an adoption day and it was wrapping up and they had loaded the remaining four kittens into the van when a guy stole the van! Here's the account of what happened:

To make it short Stormy's car was stolen right in front of me and I followed the guy to a house. When he got out of the car to open the gate I blocked him in with my car (I was on the phone with 911, the cops were on the way). The guy used Stormy's Dodge Caravan to push my measly Nissan Pulsar easily out of the way - scraping the side and breaking off the side mirror. I tried following him but he was flooring it. The cops caught up to him on Bluff Road going 110. He flipped her car 3 times...with 4 kittens INSIDE. One kitten got out of her carrier and ran into the woods, but we recovered the other 3. They will be checked out by the vet tomorrow I hope. They seem to be fine. We will be searching the woods tomorrow for Jeroma, we thought she was a he and named him Jerome. It turns out the guys that stole Stormy's car was a 60-some-odd-year-old CRACK HEAD!!! The cop asked me if I wanted to press charges for ATTEMPTED MURDER...I said HELL YES!!!! I could definitely be a cop!!!

Please purr that they are able to find Jeroma. It is wet and cold here tonight -- colder than it normally is in Columbia.

[Update: I was typing this late and it read right at the time, but just to clarify -- Mom and Dad weren't actually there, but their friend was. She was the one who chased the guy down. Dangerous, but glad the guy was caught.]

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In happier news, Mom and Dad finished helping us pick out all the Secret Paws stuff and it'll be going out in the mail on Monday. Dad brought in a huge arm full of stuff from their shopping trip, including the bag of Secret Paws stuff and set it all down. Well it didn't take half a second before Maggie had her head buried in the bag -- so I'm going to say Mom and Dad did OK shopping. On a scarier note, it was puppy adoption day and Mom almost brought home a puppy. I don't know what she was thinking. I think puppies put off some kind of drug hormone that makes people crazy.