Aspen the Yorkie

My owner had a rough morning today.  She is such an animal lover, she went outside today to feed the birds, and it is FREEZING today.  The feeder is on the more protected side of the house, and there against the house, under where the feeder goes, sat one of several feral cats that roam our area.  What upset her was that it had a large injury on it’s back, as if the skin was torn in a large area, and it is so very cold, yet it ran off as she walked over to it.

I tried to comfort her when she came in, but she just can’t stand seeing the cats out in the cold and can’t believe that they are really meant to be living outside.  They aren’t really wild any more because they come from kittens of domesticated cats.

Our animal shelter will only take cats if we catch them, kittens they will try to find homes for…adult cats that are feral, they will spay or neuter, then we’re supposed to bring them back and let them go.  To my owner, in the winter, letting them go is even more cruel than putting them to sleep.

My owner is really upset by all of this.  It is bitter outside tonight.  What do you people think, and do you have feral cats in your area?  Are they able to take care of themselves in the cold?

I’m back to my old tricks again after not feeling good for a day or so.  Yesterday I started feeling pretty good, and today, I’m feeling too good…that means I’m begging for treats, begging to have my owners throw my toy bunny, begging for them to kick my ball, a whole lot of begging.

Like I told you before, when I’m not feeling good, my owner starts looking online for any pet care information she can find, and even though I wasn’t feeling good, and she was worried about me, she liked one site she found called petwave.com and says that we are going to have to join the site. They have lots of good health tips, and we can join and make new friends, I like that!

So if you want to take better care of your little kitty or pooch (most of their information is about cats and dogs), I’d stop by and visit!

I have another friend to introduce you to today.  I have had Shadow’s picture for a LONG time, but today is a perfect time to introduce you, because Shadow and his owner, Heidi Caswell, live in Texas.  So does Betty, Copper’s owner.

We are thinking of all of our people and pet friends in Texas and the other states that will be affected by hurricane Ike and praying for you.  Here is a picture of Shadow…I’m a dog, and not supposed to like cats, but have to admit he sure is pretty for a cat.

Here is what Heidi shared about Shadow in her email to us back in June…as you can see they are no stranger to nasty weather, and may be in for another dose of it:

This is Shadow, he loves attention, loves hanging out in the house.  A big chicken at times. If we have company he is hiding out.

He lives to get between me and the computer monitor if I’m on the desktop. One time he hacked up a hairball on my keyboard. No problems since. If on my laptop, he has learned to curl up at my feet instead of plopping down on my keyboard.

He was outside during our nasty April 1 hail storm. Very happy see us and come inside. A few weeks ago, during a nasty storm he was acting very nervous. He’d pace back and forth, rub against me and leave, etc. Then the tornado sirens went off (funnel cloud spotted within a mile, headed my way) .

So I did my laptop, cell phone with blanket and bottle of water routine. Shadow climbed on my lap, then left for the bathroom. He opened the towel cupboard, climbed in, and somehow shut the door behind. It was hours before he came back out.

He loves to play soccer with tin foil balls up and down the hall with his little sister.

He believes it is his job to keep all flat surfaces cleared off. The other day he knocked a big jar of pennies off my son’s dresser. Shadow does a great job keeping everything cleared off.

He will tag your ankles when walking by and take off. Missing car keys? Check his stash. I watched him knock mine off one day and followed him, and there were other keys in his stash. Now I can blame lost keys on Shadow instead of menopause or ADD.

Please be safe, friends in the path of Hurricane Ike.

I thought I’d introduce you to some of my friends. Some I’ve met all by myself, others my owner has introduced me to. Today I’m going to introduce you to 4 cats, yes, me, a dog introducing cats. But these are special cats because they are owned by a special lady in Australia who is having a book launch TODAY! If you are a person who works at home, or thinking of working at home, you’ll want to visit eBook & Book Reviews & News and look for the post on this special “Amazon Blitz”. Don’t worry, it opens a separate page and you can come right back here after you visit. It’s going great so far!

Anyway, back to the cats. This is from Kathie Thomas’ web page showing her cats taking advantage of her office space, the place where her books have their beginning, at least the writing part. They are really cute!

This is Beauie sleeping in a paper pile.

Here’s Shadow resting in the desk drawer

This is Smokey, looks like he’s waiting for a fax

and finally, Toki, after a long day in the office.

Thanks, Kathie, for sharing these pictures, they are so fun, and here’s the original post that Kathie sent us to borrow the pictures from.

Kathie, my owner and I wish you the very best in with your “book blitz” today and hope you sell lots of copies of “Worth More Than Rubies“, my owner bought a copy, she can’t wait to get it!

I can’t believe my owner convinced me to add a page on owning cats and kittens, you’ll see it listed in the right column under “Pages”. I think it’s because so many people in her family have cats…there’s more about that on the page.

I made sure to add a comment or two of my own, that was our agreement, if we have to write about cats, I have to add at least my two cents worth.

We think we noticed that you can’t make a comment on the pages, so if you have something to say after you read the article, come back here and comment!

Have a happy day! Aspen