My Avatar's name is "Bowie" - named for David Bowie since he, too, seemed to enjoy 'guyliner" as much as possible! Bowie (the cat) is always looking "on" for anything - he's just a hoot!
a tiny bit on him ----after we swore we'd never even consider taking in another "full-timer" since we felt like we were often neglecting our current guys as-is. I was just finishing a single foster, when I got a call from the head of the shelter about fostering a neglect case of a cat that had been at the end of a long, long driveway, near a sign marked "GARAGE SALE" for multiple days
The kitten was in a type of small hamster cage, with no food or water or litterbox, and looked to be about 4 months. HE was out every day, rain
or shine, nor protection in that little cage - at least from early morning (app 7 am) till the sale shut down each night around 8 pm.. advertising that sale. The shelter owner had tried to buy the kitten - but the sale owner said it was bringing her "good luck" and she didn't want to sell it. Our shelter owner asked if she could at least give it food and water - and the owner wouldn't allow that either. By day 3, our shelter owner was frantic (and not that I'd endorse this) so at night grabbed the whole thing, shoved it under a big coat, and drove off., bringing him to me to see if I'd foster him.
He was so terrified - and I'd never seen a more starved kitten in my life. We started out slow - just a tad bit of food spread all over a dish... and he ate so frantically he actually bit at and chipped the china dish! I switched to plastic and he tok big hunks out of the plastic! He knew right where the litterbox was hasn't made a mistake since! He drank like crazy and I know he would have eaten until he blew up, but we took it slowly. And needless to say, he never made it out of foster and he's "our" now
We love him dearly - even though he's the most neurotic animal in the house! And because of his bad start, his sinus cavities never developed and he snuffles, and wheezes like an 85-year-old with asthma....but we love him!
(pic one is him with his sad face, where he'd tried to beat his head and nose against the bars of the hamster
cage to get out - he was bloodied and raw)) Pic 2 is him now - happy (dare I say fat and happy and heathy!)
That's our Bowie!!! Still scared of strangers, particularly men, sleeps on his back, loves to pay fetch, can't meow but does a mean "chortle".....we love him!
a tiny bit on him ----after we swore we'd never even consider taking in another "full-timer" since we felt like we were often neglecting our current guys as-is. I was just finishing a single foster, when I got a call from the head of the shelter about fostering a neglect case of a cat that had been at the end of a long, long driveway, near a sign marked "GARAGE SALE" for multiple days
The kitten was in a type of small hamster cage, with no food or water or litterbox, and looked to be about 4 months. HE was out every day, rain
or shine, nor protection in that little cage - at least from early morning (app 7 am) till the sale shut down each night around 8 pm.. advertising that sale. The shelter owner had tried to buy the kitten - but the sale owner said it was bringing her "good luck" and she didn't want to sell it. Our shelter owner asked if she could at least give it food and water - and the owner wouldn't allow that either. By day 3, our shelter owner was frantic (and not that I'd endorse this) so at night grabbed the whole thing, shoved it under a big coat, and drove off., bringing him to me to see if I'd foster him.
He was so terrified - and I'd never seen a more starved kitten in my life. We started out slow - just a tad bit of food spread all over a dish... and he ate so frantically he actually bit at and chipped the china dish! I switched to plastic and he tok big hunks out of the plastic! He knew right where the litterbox was hasn't made a mistake since! He drank like crazy and I know he would have eaten until he blew up, but we took it slowly. And needless to say, he never made it out of foster and he's "our" now
We love him dearly - even though he's the most neurotic animal in the house! And because of his bad start, his sinus cavities never developed and he snuffles, and wheezes like an 85-year-old with asthma....but we love him!(pic one is him with his sad face, where he'd tried to beat his head and nose against the bars of the hamster
cage to get out - he was bloodied and raw)) Pic 2 is him now - happy (dare I say fat and happy and heathy!)
That's our Bowie!!! Still scared of strangers, particularly men, sleeps on his back, loves to pay fetch, can't meow but does a mean "chortle".....we love him!
