Prayers need for Chemar
 

her little cat shadow has been missing since early this morning. shadow isn't a wanderer, so is cause for concern.

cheri and her family are printing up flyers to put around their neighborhood.

please pray for the safe return of shadow.

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Will do,curious..keep us posted,will ya??? :grouphug:

oh, no....
 

I will be hoping and praying for his safe return...I know this feeling...have been there, myself.:hug:

:( no calls on the flyers yet. i gave cheri some web sites to post free lost pet ads.

:hug:

I sent her a private message
 

with some tips that I have seen that work for lost kitties.

Tonight is an almost or full moon... he may just have lost his way.
I suggested putting scent outside, so he can find his way back. Sometimes they chase something and lose their way.

Even neutered males will wander... sadly. Neutering doesn't always change that behavior.

C
 

I wish for you and you wonderful family,your kitten comes knocking on the
door,window... Huga and pryers...Sue

Thanks Curious.

Cheri - I know that little one is an important member of the family. :( You have my prayers for his safe return.

How horrible - how scary
 

I'm now praying for the safe return of Shadow too.

Chemar -- we're all still praying for you and wishing you well. I've been hugging my dear cat even tighter.

((((((((((((((((( chemar & precious family ))))))))))))))))))))

Please know that you are all in my prayers, prayers that sweet shadow will be found very very soon.

KD

Benton and I are praying so hard Cheri that you find your precious little baby Shadow :hug:

Praying that Shadow returns home safe & very hungry. Both my sons have cats and are mailnly indoor cats, however the oldest one DID manage to fall out of a second story window onto a cement patio one time and roam the neighborhood for a couple of days. I agree with what others have said, a neutered male still wants to scout out the neighborhood once he's outside! LOL Hugs to ya chemar,


Marilyn:hug:

Chemar,

You and your family are in my prayers.

Darlene:hug:

thanks you so much for posting this Curious:hug: and to all who are praying for us and especially for Shadow:grouphug:

I had so hoped to find him by the door this morning but did not:(
needless to say it has been a sleepless night for us.

I have posted online ads as well as put up flyers in the neighborhood. Called ER vet but not there and will be at the shelter when they open at 10am

this is heartbreaking for all of us, after the miracle recovery and joy that Shadow has been, but especially my youngest son, who got Shadow when his beloved dog, Millie died, almost exactly a year ago. It has devastated him:icon_cry:

our deepest concern is that Shadow has special needs cos of his neuro probs and the specific diet he needs to survive.

we value your continued prayers, and especially that, whatever has happened to Shadow, he will not be suffering.

Cheri

OH (((((((((((((((((( chemar & family )))))))))))))))))))

HE'S FOUND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i'll let cheri fill y'all in on the details.

YIPPEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

you won't belive this....LOL

Hoping that Shadow is okay!

Omg...
 

Fantastic! I'm very very eager for the "story":trampoline:

With cats it is never boring!

Now I can breathe easier!

me thinks cheri has too many kitties playing in her keyboard right now. :wink: i'm sure she will update shortly. :D

oh and what a story!!!

I was at the shelter when they opened at 10am, and waiting to be taken to the stray cats section.......when two ladies came in with a box, containing two tiny grey kitten sisters that she had found left on her doorstep this morning.

before they even had a chance to fill out papers for them, and especially when I saw the one had a white moon tummy just like Shadow, I heard myself say "I will take them!"

at that moment the lady came to take me to the strays and I asked the other ladies to wait.

not finding Shadow, I came out and the kittens (just a few weeks old by look of them) had already been transferred to a clean carry crate for me to take them

I arrived home and called family to see the new guys, sharing joy over them and tears over Shadow.........when the phone rang.....neighbor down the road...just saw Shadow peeking out the storm drain:Bow:
I ran there so fast and crawled in and grabbed him! I dont know where he spent the night....but he looks ok, albeit scared, hungry and thirsty....and not a little puzzled at these two lil girls in his home!!

Thank you so very much for your thoughts and prayers.
God heard and answered in a truly amazing way............

blessings to all of you and a special :hug: to Curious for the vigilance, prayers and posting updates

from the FIVE cat family..........errr nope make that the SIX cat family!
:D

This is
 

Wonderfull news and great relief for all,I'm sure...Sue :)

Oh, what a WONDERFUL story.

Prayers of thanks and joy!

KD

So glad he was found and safe.:grouphug:

Oh,
 

something chased him.

I am so glad you found him. If you still let him out, in the future, it might
be a good idea to provide a high rescue place for him.

Some people in our area create climbing havens for their cats. We have a natural 45 degree angle tree that leads to the little roof on our porch, which leads to the rest of the roof. Our old cat can't do this anymore, but the other two do. They run up and hide on the roof if they spot danger. I even put a cat door in the screen in my bedroom, and they go out and enjoy "out" without having to really be "OUT" if you get my drift.

This is a picture of Oreo on the roof just over the study, where the main computer is.
Our home has many small gabled spots...and Oreo walks all over and watches the yard from there. She is very muscular and athletic for a cat.

This could be a good project for your son to design. I have seen some on pet shows that were amazing. You'd just need one that serves the purpose for safety.

I have to wonder, if he has poor eyesight still... that is also something to think about.

And that is TOO much that you found soulmates for the guys. How karmic is that? ! So what are you going to name these new ones? It is also ironic he was lost on the full MOON. And now you have a new "moon" kitty! Are the new gals the same color gray? Could they be related?

Quite the adventure, I'd say.... :hug:

So grateful!
 

Chemar,
I'm so grateful you got this little fellow!!! And his new siblings. But I gotta tell you that if that little button nosed fellow with those adorable eyes had shown up on my doorstep, you'd never see him again. :D

Billye

:hug: Billye :)

He is so special...I have never had a cat like him. And my son's bond with him is unique...both having neurological as well as digestive disorders...it is hard to fully explain in words how they have cared for one another over the past year.:heartthrob:

I will have photos up soon of Catsby & Twisp:D (son's named 'em) soon
but here is our precious and very sleepy Shadow after eating a big bowl of his special food and gulping down two bowls of water

Thank YOU Lord and thank all of you for the harmony of prayer that reached heaven for us:grouphug:

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yes,
 

a special kitty in a special home.

He looks all tuckered out...from his "adventure".

It is amazing how much we can learn from animals. They enrich us in a very
special way.

I am waiting to see the "spice girls" too... sorry...that name just popped into my mind.

edit-- my husband has reminded me that "knackered out" may not be the best word
to describe the exhaustion shown by rescued Shadow. So I changed the term.
I am sorry if I offended anyone.:o

:hug: I'm so very happy for you.... what a wonderful story.

Our kitty turned 20 on the 14th of November so every day we worry about her .... Worrying about cats ~sigh~

Spice girls
 

Mrs. D,
I think they should be named after the Spice Girls. They are gonna spice up little Shadow's life!!:D

Chemar, he is absolutely adorable. I wanna hug him all over his little body and rub noses with that little button of his.

Billye

I love happy endings! Precious baby..safe at home. :hug:

I have edited my above post...
 

I innocently used a term, that has mixed connotations.

I've changed it... sorry...:o:

(been reading too many British novels of late!)

LOl mrsD...must say I dont know the other connotation and took it as exactly what he was....exhaustapated :hug: He has been playful today tho still very sleepy. It was such a joy to wake to his morning song today:circlelove:

Well, Shadow is making friends with the newlings, tho young Catsby sure is no lady :D He got a swat on the nose when he ventured too close to her. Twisp and he are going to bond quickly I think..Twisp is clearly the smaller and weaker one of the two sisters

Twilight is not amused..:rolleyes:...he has spent the last year becoming Mr Dominant here and even Mama Snowball gives way to him ............but he is oggling them rather than hissing and snarling soooooo I am hopeful for acceptance. the two older cats have a "wo boy...here we go again...more yung 'uns to disrupt snooze time and eat our food:rolleyes:" attitude LOL

May I introduce you to The Spice Girls.................
Ms Twisp Spice is looking at the camera while Ms Catsby Spice gobbles the food

and Twisp fascinated by the sunlight reflecting off the hardwood floor

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Ms Catsby Spice watching the approach of Twilight cos she has his toy:D
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:)

Awesome pics! They are adorable. So glad tp hear about the safe return :hug:

Whew!
 

gotta be careful with "slang".... I'm glad I didn't offend anyone.:o

Those are big kittens.... at least you have males to introduce to. Males like females, even if
they are neutered. I think Twilight will come around. I can imagine your other two however are
not happy. There will be food wars..revenge eating...prepare for that! Don't be surprised if Shadow and
Twilight and the others get a little porky.

How are the Spice girls doing with YOU and your son, husband? Are they
affectionate? (I sure hope they are not feral! --that would be a bummer.)

They are the SAME color...how coincidential is that!

Thanks for the pics...they are great!

Have you checked the girls for fleas yet? Oreo came from a loving home, and was very
affectionate, but she really had terrible fleas. I combed her twice a day and with a flea comb
and drowned them in dish soap before they could jump onto our other kitties or floors.
Just a suggestion.

well I have a surprise for you mrsD.......I guess I may never have mentioned that Twilight and Shadow were feral. Twilight looks so Abyssinian now that he is a yearling. I must try to get a picture of him with that look. So haughty and regal, peering from totally upturned yellow slits for eyes.
Yet when he goes wide eyed and and puffs up his cheeks in playfulness, he and Shadow are clearly brothers. I have never seen *that* look on Shadow.

Anyway, they were from a feral litter taken in to a pastor's house after they were found living behind a shed. The family cared for them while they contacted a local cat placement group there (near Disney) who then put pics of them online, with history, for adoption. The rescue agency took care of the initial cleaning, worming, vaccinations and other veterinary care, and of course, the neuterings...when we nearly lost our Shadow....... We had adopted them under the clause that we would take them earlier than they normally adopt out, on condition we brought them in for neutering to the rescue group's vet when they were still so young :( These gals thankfully will be under the care only of our special vet, who really helped us get Shadow back after the seizures and blindness episodes.And he doesnt use ketamine nor spay or neuter that young!

Both Twilight & Shadow are very affectionate, and even tho they had never lived indoors before us, they have been amazingly careful with our stuff...even tho Twi can sometimes make a low thoated growl that I have never heard from any other tomcat and he goes racing up the stairs or thru the house at such a speed :eek: but he has so far not broken anything and is quite the most nimble and agile cat I have ever had. Shadow is a very gentle and oh so affectionate cat, Twi is affectionate in a very feline way.on *his* terms LOL tho he was so loving on the night Shadow was missing, sleeping curled right near my head (he usually prefers the foot end of the bed) and purring at me most of that sleepless night ....


They were thankfully already litter trained and somewhat *tamed* when we got them, but they had never lived indoors, only in the screened porch at their foster home.

This was them when they came to us
Shadow
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...ic/Shadow1.jpg

Twilight
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2.../Twilight1.jpg

The difference between them and the new kitties are eye color ...Catsby and Twisp have green eyes while Twi and Shadow are now totally copper eyed.(were greenish copper when we got them)

But honestly, altho the other 2 were younger, the similarities in looks and temperament are so uncanny in these two girls...Catspy is a ruffian, loml as is our Twilight (he hides in places and pounces out at Mama Snowball and dances around her lightly slapping till she goes back into her basket and Caspy is already arching and hissing in that comical kitty way at the older cats, whereas Twisp is shyer and seems to want to make friends, just like Shadow was when he first came here.

the Spice Girls are definitely litter trained and I am estimating maybe 6 weeks? They will be going for the new kitten exam etc at our vet tomorrow, but they do look healthy and are definitely used to indoors, so I dont think they are feral. They have huge appetites, but dont appear undernourished tho Twisp is a bit scrawnier and doesnt have the chubby little kitten round tummy that Catsby still has...no fleas that I have found and ears are mite free, no sign of ringworm etc. they really do appear cared for. Amazed someone would leave them on a doorstep................but thankful I was there just at that moment when they were about to be turned in to the county shelter. I saw the stray area and the thought of those 2 lil ones in ones of those bleak cages ....ugh!

anyways...
I am rambling...no secret when it comes to cats I can go on and on and on:o

here is today's pic of our Shadow sitting in his sunny spot on my desk. Still a bit dishevelled looking from a looooong nap:p




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thanks once again to each and every one who posted here, and to anyone who read and said a prayer for Shadow's safe return. I cant begin to say how thankful I am that he is home safe. We have a bond with him that does very very deep ........our miracle kitty:heartthrob:

great pics!
 

You know there is feral, and then there is FERAL...

Tippy our middle kitty, was a "farm" cat. She and her littermates were rescued from an outdoor cat who lived on a farm near a subdivision. I suppose you could call that "feral". The woman who did this, trapped her mother, and took her to the vet, where we adopted Tippy. These cats lived outdoors, but were not "feral" at all. Tippy obviously has Siamese traits...the apple head. All the kittens in her litter were black. Some of them were aggressive, but she was not.
The woman who rescued the litter, raised them in a garage, where her boyfriend restored antique cars. Tippy had never seen a house before. I'll never forget how excited she was in our home...she'd look at something, and come back to me, and purr, and run off and explore some more. Just like a toddler.

I have seen really wild feral kittens. They were not like Tippy at all. I suppose it depends on how many generations that live wild, to become untamed and mean.

I really suspect that those people who donated your Spice girls to the shelter were really the birth home. I just think they were.

For what it is worth, our vet thinks that barn cats...cats that live with humans but outside and are fed by humans, are really smarter and more clever than other cats. While Tippy is cool, she is also kind of weird in that she is afraid of alot of things. Perhaps being cooped up in a garage for several weeks, made her afraid--loud noises, tools etc? She has never been aggressive. But on a humorous note...she does occasionally let out a SCREAM when an interloper cat comes in our yard-- she screams right thru the window at it. Scared the dickens out of US one morning at 6am.! We didn't know she had it in her!

So when I say "feral" I mean really FERAL... there is a difference!

I hope all goes well at the vets tomorrow. If the Spice Girls get amber eyes with age...it is going to be a trip telling them apart! LOLOL

What a happy ending Chemar. I'm so glad he was found :hug: And those two news ones are just adorable. I just love it when people rescue kittens from uncertainty. I thought I'd hit the $139 million lottery last night and be off to buy my farm to save all the kittens and cats I could. But I didn't even have one number. :(

I'm so glad everything turned out and congrats and the new additions :hug:

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Very glad your kitty has returned!
Someone innocently told me a horrid story about a robbery in our area and the family pet, a dog similar to my own, was also stolen. I have started locking the house better and using the alarm more. Why? You got it...thinking about the possible loss of my little loved one is very upsetting! :p:mad::o:eek:
They bring such joy to our hearts.

I am so glad that Shadows back in your loving arms, I love happy endings
Thanks
LOVE ALISON

awwww BJ that kitty pic is just so cute:hug:

thanks again so much to all of you for these messages.......
My son has been reading them and is just so touched by your care.:grouphug:

we just got back from the vet and the kitties have checked out just fine.
He estimates them to be around 7-8 weeks and weighed in at Twisp @ 3.5lb and Catsby a pound heavier

some ear mites to be treated, but no fleas or parasites.

and Mr Shadow is a-ok too :)