Jimmy is having a breakthrough!!

There is even more good news!!! I'm not sure what the heck is going on but we are on a row in my house. Everything is going so great. Things are falling in place. I start a new job next Monday. The pay is fantastic!! And I get a dollar an hr raise every 30 days for awhile!!! weeeeeeeeeee....

No more housekeeping job!! Thank god......

Jenn

Wow. I've been enjoying this story. Congrats on your beautiful grandbaby too.

Jimmy is certainly a beautiful feline. His lovely nature comes through from your pictures, if I might say.

Great story. Thank you.

Thank you Vic...........!! Jimmy is a good boy kitty.

Congrats, Grandma!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Knock wood all this great news just keeps coming.

I LOVE those before and after pics of Jimmy. I have such a love for Tuxedo/black and white kitties, and he is just a darling.

Good luck Monday!

I'm a granny and I love it!!! My son's wife has a 5 yr old by another man. But her and my son have been together 3 yrs so I have known this little guy since he was two year old. This sweet little boy calls me "mom" because everyone else does..... But I wanted to be granny to him because he has no granny. And everybody needs a granny.

When the baby was born, Andy had on a tee that said "I'm a big brother now"...... But I told him that Zach was going to call me granny and I wanted him to call me granny also.

So Andy is trying to remember to call me granny. He is a doll too.

Here he is........ Superboy......!! This was at the hospital when the baby was born. He is going to be a good big brother!!


This is me, hubby and son and new grandson.


This is Bryan and Amy. [my son and one of my daughters] She has a clone that looks just like her named April.


These are all hospital pics....

Jenn

p.s. Now back to Jimmy

I love tuxedo's too. I never knew that's what they were called until I got Jimmy however. Eileen used that term the first time I heard it.

Jimmy discovered his condo. He barely fit in it. The first picture the flash woke him up as he was sleeping. And in the second he was awake. I am fixing to head out to the new place and texture walls some more.

When I finished the pictures, Jimmy stayed in his condo. He is very used to the flash in his eyes by now. He takes it in stride.

He was just barely awake here.

Here he is posing after me rudly waking him up by flashing a light in his eyes......


He is already back asleep now. I think he need a bigger condo......!! He is a big boy kitty.......

Since I made this area, this is the first time he went inside the condo. The kitten slept in here as well for their morning naps. I have water outside the door and food inside....

Jenn

Originally Posted by jcribbs

He is already back asleep now. I think he need a bigger condo......!! He is a big boy kitty.......

Since I made this area, this is the first time he went inside the condo. The kitten slept in here as well for their morning naps. I have water outside the door and food inside....

Jenn

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Probably not, actually.

A really tiny space is probably the most comfortable (at least mentally!) for him right now.

He has been laying with his hind legs sticking out. He has been in there for a while now.. He might have came out when I was gone today but he was in it when I got back too. He just looks scunched up...... But I guess if he were uncomfortable, he'd go get in his crate.

i've really enjoyed reading about Jimmy's progress-i just read through this whole thread. Kudos for you for taking care of so many kitties, and having the patience to care for and love ferals.

btw, your daughter is beautiful

Thank you for the compliments on both my daughter and and the cats.......... And Amy is very photogenic..... I took several pics of her at the hospital that day. She is a great person and she has her own special light that shines all the time. She just glows she's so happy. I got my cat Kissy from her. She found her a wee babe and bottle fed her to save her life. Kissy was about 3 days old and was abandoned.

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Thank you for the compliments on both my daughter and and the cats.......... And Amy is very photogenic..... I took several pics of her at the hospital that day. She is a great person and she has her own special light that shines all the time. She just glows she's so happy. I got my cat Kissy from her. She found her a wee babe and bottle fed her to save her life. Kissy was about 3 days old and was abandoned.

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Well, that apple didn't fall so very far from its tree...

True, so true..........

This is Kissy the bottle baby... I can ask her now "You want a baba?" and she nearly attacks my leg looking for a bottle. She is close to three now and about once or twice a month we still give her a bottle.. One of those tiny little bottles. I heat her fat free milk in the microwave to take the chill off. She is rotten to the core. [little apple pun] She thinks she is a human. When I shower she stands behind the cutain so the water will hit her..... She likes getting wet. She also prefers to drink running water from the bathroom sink..


My black cat cleo was a feral that my son tamed and gave to me several years ago. She is the armpit kitty............hehe

You sure do have many reasons to be proud! And you're right - your daughter is very photogenic (and pretty to begin with doesn't hurt!)

As to Jimmy - when we named Tuxedo, we didn't know there were Tuxedo cats either, lo! Our Sheldon is "wearing" an almost "perfect" Tuxedo - but it's like with flood pants (the "tuxedo" only goes down to just past his knees in the back). Tuxie, on the other hand, looks like he was wearing a Tuxedo when he went to a bar and got into a fight (which, at the time, was very appropriate as he was a REALLY aggressive kitten and would fight with any cat that gave him a chance).

But here's our Tuxie squished into the top level of a condo - looks so much like your Jimmy in this pic!

He looks exactly like Jimmy!! wow.......... That is too cute now.... I can't wait till Jimmy lays in a condo in the living room beside our chair......

Tuxie is all squished in there too.....like Jimmy. Jimmy is so big he hangs his hind legs out for a little extra room. He is under my dresser right now.

He finds weird places. He scared my husband the other morning. Juan got up real early and went to the kitchen and Jimmy bolted from the top of the fridge...... Guess he heard the other cats say there is food in there...

Jenn

p.s. You know what scary is........? Sitting on the toilet and glancing around and seeing a feral cat 6" behide your rear..... Fridge is nothing.. Juan has no idea.. Luckily Jimmy just sat there.

I swore I wasn't going to tell that....Yikes.....

I have just read this whole thread through, and it is fabulous the progress you have made with him. It is such a good feeling when they do such small things isn't it? Am sure he will continue to improve.

I hope so too. He hasn't had a setback but for the last week or slightly more he is not coming out in the open either when we are around. He does somthing different for a week or so and then goes back to his old ways. He is interested in people now but just not ready yet. Right now I am keeping his food under the dresser for him. His crate is right by the dressers but he is preferring to sleep under the dresser. He comes out when we are not around but he will start coming out again....

Originally Posted by jcribbs

True, so true..........

This is Kissy the bottle baby... I can ask her now "You want a baba?" and she nearly attacks my leg looking for a bottle. She is close to three now and about once or twice a month we still give her a bottle.. One of those tiny little bottles. I heat her fat free milk in the microwave to take the chill off. She is rotten to the core. [little apple pun] She thinks she is a human. When I shower she stands behind the cutain so the water will hit her..... She likes getting wet. She also prefers to drink running water from the bathroom sink..

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What a perfect baby (and a cute apple pun!)

Kissy could not have a more perfect name.

Originally Posted by jcribbs

p.s. You know what scary is........? Sitting on the toilet and glancing around and seeing a feral cat 6" behide your rear..... Fridge is nothing.. Juan has no idea.. Luckily Jimmy just sat there.

I swore I wasn't going to tell that....Yikes.....

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My friend has a cat who HAS to sit on your lap while you are going to the loo - though he knows to get off when you reach for TP.

hahahaha.............that is so funny. Guess that cat knows the comfortable lap is going to "move slightly" when the toilet paper is required..............

Smart kitty.....hehe