Cat Blogosphere

That friend is my neighbor, Lynn. She is owned by Schatzie, a beautiful silver schaneuzer. He is Missy Blue Eyes’s NOMSS friend. You can read more about him in a Pet de Jour post June 09, 2006.

Schatzie has allergies for a year or so, but in the last few weeks they have become unbearable. He scratches continually. When he is wearing the thing around his neck to prevent him from scratching, he moans and eats at his paws. He has a very large tumor on his back he is repeatedly breaking open. He had a cortisone shot last week, it didn’t help at all. He is also having mini-seizures lasting a few seconds to a few minutes.

Another important point, Lynn is on a very limited income and the shampoos (he must be bathed at least daily) and ointments are expensive. The doctor doesn’t charge her for visits, knowing her situation, and we help her out, but it still adds up, plus the fact he is not going to get better. 

Lynn, understandably, is in a panic. She has had Schatzie for about 11 years. He was 2 when she got him, right after she lost her hubby. Her own health is not good, she has epilepsy and recently had a heart attack. The stress of dealing with Schatzie 24 hours a day (he can’t sleep and has bladder control problems) is taking a toll.

She asked me to help her find him a new home, but the only contacts I’ve made stated he was suffering too much and that it was cruel to keep him alive under these conditions. 

She doesn’t have a blog (yet), so I’m posting this for her and maybe you could give her the benefit of your experience. Anyone who has been in this position knows what she is going through. Please let us know what you think in the comments. Thanks from the bottom of my heart. ML (Mary Lynn)  — sorry this is so long!

Kashim & Othello (and their mom) are auctioning off some beautiful pieces of jewelry to raise funds for Project HAM.  Stop by their blog and see what’s available. 

Sponsored by KC and Sanjee wif help from Zoolatry and Ofurs

ATTENTION
CATS & CRITTERS OF THE BLOGOSPHERE

PROJECT Help A  Meezer 

Let’s help Miles (and Sammy) keep eating ham
while Mom & Dad Meezer job hunt

UPDATE March 19, 2008:  Meezer Mom gets her first paycheck in a week and has asked us to take down Project H.A.M. We’ve helped them get through to where they can begin to get on her feet again. Yay for all the cats!

And fanks lots to these cats who’s done stuff for Project H.A.M.!

Millie’s Mommie has  raffled  a beautiful ginger-colored Gizzy Quilt for Churchill. Tickets are $5 each and it ends 2/24. There’s a Paypal button on their blog. After this, they will auction another for Sammy & Miles Meezer.

Skeeter, LC and Ayla says: We haf decided to start making “Quest for Ham” games again to help out Sammy and Miles Meezer. This one will be a gameboard on hard cardboard, toy and mice gameparts on posterboard, and with playing pieces of different colored toy mousies. It requires 1 dice or a spinner wheel that ya gotta provide yerself (dice are tricky to mail in flat envelopes), but everybody gots a few dice around. $25 dollars ya send to us by Paypal and we send it ALL to Sammy and Miles AS SOON as we see it confirmed by Paypal… An send ya the game within 5 days.Lets all help Sammy and Miles get their HAM food! Our Paypal address is cavebear-2118 AT comcast DOT net… We hope we haf figured all this out right. Feel free to send us a email an we will confirm we got the game request…

To raise money for Churchill and Sammy & Miles, Dragonheart & Merlin‘s talented Mom is custom-designing scrapbook pages. Prices range from $5 for a single page to  $12 for a set of three. Check out her designs and get more info on their blog.

Latte wrote: Spring has Sprung! OK obviously, not yet. But I’m dying for the longer days and warmth and I’m betting you are too! So here at Simply Siamese we’re looking for a way to celebrate regrowth and help our friends at the same time. Soooo….you all know Sammy & Miles right? Well they still need help and while we’ve all been helping with project HAM and the other great contests that have contributed, we wanted to do something special for our very devoted friends. Spring has Sprung Contest! Go to our new Spring Contest and spread the word to ALL of our friends (its open to all cats!)

Fanks to everycat for helping out!  More info below.

Cheysuli wrote: Our auction for Project Ham is up! This is your chance to win jewelry fit not only for a meezer, but for me!!! thru Midnight Fri 11/30/07 Chey writes: The auction is closed and I have a winner! Lilly Lu won my beautiful jewels! YEAH!

KC has issued a Challenge to Sam "the Ham" Taylor for Project H.A.M.!

Kashim and Othello are auctioned goodies for Project Ham!

"The Quest for Ham" Game was presented for a limited time by Skeeter and LC to earn green papers for Project H.A.M. for Miles and Sammy Meezer. Way cool game! 

Pixel has goodies up for auction for Project H.A.M.!

H.A.M. CHALLENGE from Grr, Midnight and Cocoa: "We’re bringing back the Challenges, like we did last year, and we’re starting with one of our favorite ones. We Challenge KC and Missy’s mom, ML, to post a single un-photoshopped photograph containing as many cats and kittens as she can. We will contribute $5.00 per feline in the photo to Project H.A.M.."

ANOTHER H.A.M. CHALLENGE: Abbie wrote: My brofurs and sisfur had a contest meeting last night and counted out our allowances and decided to offer a Project HAM challenge to the blogophere – we will donate $1 to project HAM for effuryone who enters out contest. We hope to have a lot of pawticipants so we can donate our allowances to a great cause.

Grr, Midnight & Cocoa have suggested the ever-popular Challenges! We are planning a raffle on four unique, handmade items: Cats With A Past (see pickshure below). Update: The Cats With A Past all found homes for the Holidays. If needed, we can always find some relatives and relations of theirs.

Purrs, KC and Momma ML (we’s removed our Paypal button since Miles & Sammy haf their own, must faster an cheaper to go directly to thems…Purrs)

This came thru in a letter forwarded to Celene of Hurricane Pet Rescue:

My name is Robin and I’m helping the main contact person, Barbara.
The hoarder is in North Hollywood. There are about fifty cats and six dogs in the small place. They are living in their urine and feces, it’s even in their water. Some have been found dead already. There are two pit mixes who need out very badly as it would open up space for the others. We’d like to get them out before Tuesday when the hoarder, who is out of town, returns.
There are some in pretty bad shape and some adoptable. We need places to put them. We need litter, cat boxes (there are only 3 for fifty cats), food, but especially volunteers to go over to the place and help feed/clean the animals, etc. If anyone wants to come over and handpick the animals they would like to take, that’s fine. Or come and see the situation. Thank you for your concern, Robin 

Grr, Midnight & Cocoa’s Mom Karen has already volunteered to help, and I am sending a donation to help cover some of the medical bills for the little guy pictured below.

If you can help, again, even just a dollar or so, please send to my PayPal account by clicking the button below or using my Paypal email: sherwoodc (at) sbcglobal (dot) net. Be sure and specify the payment is for The LA Cat Rescue. 100% of all donations go straight to for cat rescue work and supplies. All incidental charges, postage, etc. are paid by me so they have all the funds to  help these poor cats.

Barbara’s email is not currently working. If you have any questions for them, please leave as comments here. They will be checking in periodically. Right now they are in desperate need of foster homes and transportation, plus volunteers to help move the animals out.

Also, if you would like to mail a check or money order, or have an offer of help, please leave in a comment here and I’ll get back to you. Anyone with friends in that area, please pass this along…. ML (Mary Lynn)

My mom has crocheted a beautiful snuggle to auction off for BabyBean’s medical bills.  Please check out my blog for all the details!  All proceeds from the auction will go towards BabyBean’s medical bills.

DKM made four snuggles to auction for  BabyBean’s vet bills.

• The purple one is called The BV, for our pals Bonnie and Victor.
• The light sage one is called The Nezbine, in memory of friend who left us.  It reminds us of her beautiful eyes. 
• The sage with colours is called The Mommakitty, because it looks like the wild-flower covered green fields of Petaluma in Spring.
• The fall colours is called The KC, because it reminds us of that tough*ss tortie.

Please place bids in the comments. Auction ends Friday, August 24th at 9pm PDT.

I’m orgunizing a Blogblast of Git Well wishes for Monty Q’s BabyBean. Pleeze partisipate if yoo can! Yoo can post the image below on yer site (just rite-klik to save it), or use yer own image. We’d love for Monty and his famly to see them when they’re bak online!

Sanjee added: We’s turned on autolinkies here so yoo can leave a link to yore post for BabyBean to get well soon. Pleeze just leave those linkies here. Fanks! 

Congratulations Skeezix!  Send us your snail mail address to adivakitty @ gmail.com

Also, DKM said we could extend the Squiggles deadline until today at 9pm.   Hit the squiggle auction tip jar for $2.00 or more dollars and DKM will send you a Squiggle Worm!  All proceeds go to Pippy’s vet bills. 

Come on… you know you want one…

Update - I just learned that my friend Audrey went to the Bridge today. Please keep her mom in your thoughts. We will still be having an auction and sending the funds to the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in her memory.

"All that lives must die, passing through nature to eternity"
- Shakespeare

Purrs, Sophia

This is my pal Audrey, she is modeling her new blanket called, funny enough, The Audrey.  She has cancer and is spending her time living life to the fullest.  We’re auctioning off another copy of The Audrey and sending the proceeds to Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in her name. 

Please place bids in the comments.  Auction ends Saturday, June 30th at 9pm PDT.

Concatulations to Boo for being the winning bid for the Boo-licious.

We’re auctioning off this new snuggle called Boo-licious after our great friend, Miss Boo.  Boo-licious is a very soft plush yarn in olive and sage green.  DKM says it feels like a well worn & loved terry cloth blanket.  All proceeds will go to Piddy’s vet bills or Fiona’s AIDS Hop fund.  Please place bids in the comments.  Auction ends Wednesday, June 27th at 9pm PDT.