Thankful Thursday

Tabitha

After such a horrendous week  in this nation with the two  major tornadoes that hit Shawnee and Moor OK, it does make one pause and be so very grateful for all that we have.

We have been posting and reposting links on Facebook and Twitter to help people find loved ones and pets.  It is the least we can do to help the tornado victims.  If anyone would like to help  you can also donate

World Vets to help the animals in OK



Text STORM to 80888 for The Salvation Army USA.
Text REDCROSS to 90999 $10 donations, or
FOOD to 32333 for Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma.



$10 will go a long way. 

We are thankful for our health, our homes and that we live in a place that is pretty safe, all things considered.. We are thankful that we have each other and have y'all as friends!

"We already have everything we need."  

~ Pema Chodron, Buddhist teacher

Only and his Mom Lily

Medical Mancat Monday with Woody

Happy Monday y'all!  I am feeling much better but I had a runny swollen eye a day ago.  Seems like this was going thru our house - Darby had it and Mamacita too.  If we don't feel very well and it is not serious, Mom treats us with homeopathy first.

She gave us a blend of homeopathic remedies three times one day and it worked on all of us.  She uses different remedies depending on our specific symptoms but always gives us Aconitum napellus to treat any cold symptoms like runny eyes, nose etc.  Other eye remedies that are good to mix with Aconite are Apis mellifica and Allium cepa.  The one the worked for me was Argentum nitricum.

Hope you enjoyed your lesson today.  As you can see my eye is back to normal!  If you ever want to try homeopathy, feel free to email Mom with questions.  She saves us a lot of money using this to treat simple non threatening health issues.

Wordless Wednesday - National Straw Hat Day!

Mom Monday - The Winners

Sweet Yoko napping.

Yoko here today.  We are knackered from partying all weekend! I hope you all had a wonderful time at my party.  And I hope that Moms everywhere had a great day yesterday too!  Thank you so very much for coming. I loved having you all here  I am resting up today from all the excitement over the weekend.

Darling Lily and mother of all the whitesters except Al!

Since our Mom's Day was focused on me, we want to make today's photos about our cat Moms - Lily and Mamacita as well as announce the winners of the party guessing games.

On Friday we asked who said this - "Growing old is not for sissies".  The answer is Bette Davis and Cat's Cats was the first one to guess correctly so her gang will get a hand knit mouse (or two) as their prize.

Mamacita is Rosa's cat Mom!

On Saturday we explained what kind of tabby I am - a very pretty unusual one. (**smile**)  The answer is a "ticked" tabby! Socks from Alasandra, the Cats and Dogs won this prize - a copy of book The Dalai Lama's Cat by David Michie.  Congrats to them!

Sunday we asked how old I was when my baby blue eyes turned the gorgeous green they are now.  When I was adopted from the animal shelter in Florida, they told my beans that I was a bit over 6 weeks old.  Exactly two weeks later, my eyes turned from blue to green. So the answer is 8 weeks and 3 days.  Ginger Jasper came the closest to this with his guess of 2 months and 5 days.  Congrats to them on the cute cat ornament!

Mom will contact each of the winners for their address if she does not have them on hand.  Thanks so much for playing and we hope you like your prizes!

We will be back later this week after a few days off with another tell all posts about Lily or Mamacita.  Come back by then!

Sunday - Final Day of Yoko's Official 20th Gotcha Day and Birthday Party!

Thank you for all the visitors yesterday.  Mom had to work late and did not get to publish all my friends comments until she got home.

Welcome back to the the final day and the Official 20th Birthday/Gotcha day Party Extravaganza for me - Yoko!  Thank you to Ann of Zoolatry for making these lovely graphics..

Cake will be served to all, so relax and let me tell one more story about my life.

You can see that I still have the kitten's blue eyes.

For those of you who are new to our blog, I will tell the tail of how I came to live at Wildcat Woods.  Back in 1993, Mom and Pop lived in Florida then and already had Chica, my late sister.   They wanted a buddy for her and was going to pick out a puppy (**eye roll**) at the local animal shelter over Mother's Day weekend.  Alas  there were no puppies that day.  (Whew) One of the volunteers was cleaning out a cage with a mom cat and lots of little kittens.  She handed me over to Pop a who was smitten immediately.  Mom was looking at black and white cats while Pop followed her, still holding me.  

Pop talked her into taking me home  and the rest is history.  I was a little young and still had the blue eyes most kittens are born with.  There is a cute handmade pottery cat ornament for the first person who guesses how old I was when my blue eyes turned the actual color they are now.  Here is a hint - It does vary and can be anywhere from 2 to 3 months.

Be the first to guess right and win this

Me when I was young with Pop (he was young too)

I have always been a Daddy's girl since the very beginning.  I love to lay stretched out on his lap or chest..  Sometimes I do look like a fur tie the way I lay on Pop's chest.  Mom gets a bit upset cuz Pop can do anything to me and I will let him but let her try to touch my rather large feets and I will growl and swat!  She just yells for Pop to come get "his" cat.  I don't do that much anymore cuz I know Mom is the one who take scare of me when I don't feel so good.

I hope you have had fun this weekend.  Please help yourself to the nibbles shrimps and fishes, cake and shrimp cocktails (yum).  We have some fun games  like bobbing for fish and catch the lizard.  If you are squeamish about live critters you can try the virtual fish  game!  What you do with what you catch s up to you!  Prize winners will be announce on Monday!

And I would like to wish all Mother's everywhere of all species a very Happy Mother's Day!

Thank y'all for coming and for being my friend!  It has been a pleasure seeing you all here.  I am a very lucky lady cat!!!

Bobbing for fish!

Or virtual fish!

Lots of anoles to chase and catch too!