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6/22/2010 Rehoming More!

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Kitties availble $30 rehoming fee

Pirate again!

SCOUT!! NEUTERED AND WAITING

YUM YUM

FEMALE ALMOST AVAILBLE, SHE'S UP ON THE SPAY LIST FOR 7-1-10

THALIS READY FOR PRE ADOPTION!!

WILL BE READY 7-20-10

PIRATE! What a ham!

I thought I could see my house getting emptier HA!

Today is another day!

I'm feeling better today, I am seeing some movement in the fundraising preprepation.
Free items are coming in for the resale, vouchers are ready to be used this week!
Going to call 2 different vets today to see which one has the soonest appointments!

We still have all the kitties but that is only because we have to wait for the spays to get done first,
Then we can home them out. That I think (besides all the bottle feedings we had to do) Is one of the hardest part of all this, Waiting....

I can see my house becoming empty again, well of course except for our own pets (and the 3 kitties we are keeping).

Sunday is going to be A full day of advertising and meeting strangers on the streets passing out our flyers,
So I am asking again
If you are in Arizona and would like to help our mission, There are no long term commitments, just donate your stuff to us.

I'm also thinking what would help the kitties find homes is if we became a mobile pet unit.
We come to your house with several of the kitties to choose from.
That would be a great reason to rescue from us ( I think)
You thoughts?

June 16th Hubby Napping consider it a classic

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

I'm Lucky My Husband doesn't read my blogs

I am so LUCKY My husband does not read my blog.
If he knew pictures of him were being posted, boy lol that would actually be funny

I Had to get these pictures, Kitties all over him!

In his armpit even!

   Poor Kitty!

This black kitty is new as of yesterday. The rescue lady had given up hope on him, I was called to ask when would I give up on a kitten.

You know Me! NEVAR!! He hadn't been eating since the day she took him home and he's been pooping really GROSS!!

But he's not lethargic or showing any discomfort.

So Jo and I drove down picked him up and he's been to the vet and eating ever since (Beef stew Yesterday)
He's really a strange cat though, He will not eat unless You are right beside him the whole time.
He weighs .5 of a pound and is about 6-7 weeks old.
Very sad, By now he should be hitting 2lbs.

This kitten needs to be named still

there are 5 of them, so far we have dots, pirate and Ohm

2 will be scheduled next week to get fixed and then ready for adoption.
Very cute babies, I have to get their other pictures uploaded!

Please consider donating to our mission.

We are in need of kitten and cat supplies

You can find the donation tab at the top of this blogspot

OR

CHECK OUT MY EBAY AUCTIONS OR ONLINE STORE

To purchase something all money goes to the cats!

Thanks everyone!

June 14th, 2010 Crank :(

Monday, June 14, 2010

I was Reminded Today, The Cat behind the determination

Sometimes

We take on a project out of duty, bordism, whatever. I had forgotten the reason I went full force with this project.

It was out of Love of a Stray.

Crank got killed 3 months ago and I still find myself tearing up thinking about him.

I saw a dead dog on the road yesterday.

Makes me think of that poor owner who must know what happened to him by now, since his poor body is still laying on the sidewalk on Stapley Rd.

Crank, I remember you I'll keep going.
I'll  never adopt out a baby before having them fixed Because of Crank.

I have to find away!

Thank you to the two wonderful ladies that responded to my help ad.

Thank you for trying

TNR Instead of Killing Ferals

Reasons to Do TNR instead of Euthanasia

This is George, You all remember him.

He was off killing babies in the colony that were fathered by another male. Funny how they can tell such things. So George was our first TNR before I found the 602-265-spay number.

This is his colony, he should be proud, he made some beautiful babies but his baby making days are over!

What good is George now? George was found yesterday walking the roof of my neighbors house. They had been complaining of their mice problem every summer when they come out from their burrows. Guess What George had in his Mouth!
To My Horror! A mouse!

The neighbors should see George as a friend instead of a nuisance. He is helping them, even though they won't bother to help him.

Such a Good Boy George!

Having a male dominate feline in the neighborhood is a very useful tool!
Not only will you have fewer mice and pigeons, you'll also have fewer strays moving into your hood!

I Love Mr. George, he is so very happy being where he is, traveling where he wants. I've done my part I wonder, if anyone else can see the God in this?

Here I am blaming everyone else for my Decisions :)

Update On Andy the Kitty!

I should start at the beginning,
I had all the feral strays fixed in our neighborhood, Very little support from any of the neighbors.
One of my neighbors have given us about $5 and two items to sell at the yardsale
And another has given us a bag of cat food, over 2 months ago.
I am frustrated, Because instead of dropping the strays off in another neighborhood or taking them to the pound, I went and trapped them all to get them all fixed to slow the baby process.
The neighborhood has been much quieter and most of the cats have gone home!
Yet I let everyone know,, I owe the clinic $300 and am trying to feed and raise the babies that were left behind from their litters,,,I am 100% on my own.

Strays and ferals are the communities problem!
They are not my cats, they do not sleep here, they do not mate here, they do eat here because no one else on this street minds watching them starve to death.

Anyhow,, So I had all the ferals fixed, One cat was brought to us, pregnant, she had her babies,
I had her in with the group of feral strays to be fixed.

The milk production stopped and therefore her babies stopped getting milk. DAMIT!!!
So Andy was fading...
Three days ago, She has finally started eating with the syringe and wet cat food that is blended with water to make it thin enough to go thru the syringe.
Slowly she is gaining weight and learning to eat solid foods! (andy is the Fat gray striped baby you see in this picture, when she was being fed)

Then There is GRRRRR, A little female from the same litter who found how to eat about a week ago. She has always been a messy eater, but now, well, here's her picture.

Hum What Else

What Else Do I need To Do!

I have decided That I need to rehome a few of the kittens myself.
So Scout and 2 of the other new arrivals will be up for adoption as Of June 14th 2010
They are all neutered or spayed and ready for their new homes.
Rehoming fee is $30 to cover the cost of their sterilization.

Yesterday Gina went to Petco for her rescue adoptions and was able to home ONE kitten.
I'm thinking if there are 40 kittens all together, this is going to take a long time.

So The alternative is to grab some great pictures of the love bugs and place the ads.

We are negative on the funds for the cats. Our housepayment is now 2 months behind. We are really hurting financially and I just don't know how we are going to do this anymore.

Jr my husband has begun making the cat towers and tunnels to resell on craigslist, But they need to be finished up before we can put them up for sale.

$200 is what we need to get through this week, So On my end, I will be listing more yardsale stuff on craigslist, I'll set the kittens sterilzation appointments and keep my freaking fingers crossed.

OUCH! Yes, I have to get these kittens home really soon, I'd hate to lose my home and have no place to put them.
Please check out my selling site http://www.bonanzle.com/booths/Innerflowconnections

I have lowered almost everything to $5.00 to try to get the money to come in.

If you don't want to buy something, You can always hit the donation tab at the top of this page to help out.

6/12/10 Boy this is tough on the emotional brain

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Dwindling Away am I

Dwindling Away AM I?
That is A real question. If you've been keeping up with my blog, (which even I have neglected), this project was never seen as an easy one.
Let Me Tell You I am down to two offical helpers and they are still helping because they are my daughters. Burn Out is really easy when taking on any project, and I think I've hit my point.
Like most Humans I like INSTANT Gratification, A few months shouldn't be difficult.
What runs thru my mind are the soliders who have been placed all over the world, they have to stay away from their comforts of their ideal reality until told they can go home; just to be sent back out. Those that have been mis-placed with no choice but to contiune on.

They are doing their jobs for the same reason I had taken on this job. Wanting to protect.

Every day I am covered in shit, my home is covered in shit and it's really starting to get to me.
Not just the shit, but the finanical shit as well.

As I woke up this morning, there was no electric in the house, our funds had run out sometime in the night, So I borrowed $15 from my daughter to run down to the closest M-Power location and got the power back on.
I get home, feed all the cats which you would think only requires the pouring of the food, but with kittens, it takes the blender, and a bath for each of them afterwards.
We took back a mom cat that was given to another lady to have her babies, she is done weaning her babies and came home. Now she is in heat and we have to get her fixed ASAP! All the vouchers I do have are for 3 month olds, which means I have to run down to the pound to get her a voucher which will arrive in a month from now.
Until her voucher comes, I have to make sure she does not get outside and get pregnant again.
It's 80$ to get a female fixed without the voucher.
Long story short, not only is there the feedings, baths, containing locating and keeping the babies all safe, there is also the same activities for the in heat momma cat.

and my poor house, kids and dogs.

I have to get my house cleared out of the kittens and cats so that I can contiune on with my inital goal in the TNR program. I am really burnt out.

Then A good friend of mine, who has had faith in me from the beginning jumped online and sent me the link to one of the blogs she wrote about spider hunting.
I read this blog, and I feel that it is a direct message to me from the Heavens. Kelley Reinforce!
Don't give up, reinforce your web!
http://saenzmom.blogspot.com/2010/06/web-hunting-followup.html

So this I have to do, the journey is not over yet. I have to keep going.
Even though I cannot afford it, I have to go out and buy a cheap $30 printer to have the ink.
Ink costs a hell of a lot of money! It is cheaper just to add another printer to my house.

I will get that printer, another bag of cat food and milk today. I will print up our flyers again and start the walking. It is way to hot to do a yardsale As I realized a few weekends ago.
And this weekend we made about $20 with ebay auctions.

I will list more items on ebay and lower all the prices to everything in my online shop.
Get the word out by sending out bulk flyers to a few girlfriends in other states with my blogsite and cotton puff website on the flyers and hope that the funding comes in.
(This will help with the cleaning and feeding of the kittens until they are found homes for)

I just never really realized what I was getting myself into, the constant of it all, not to mention the eye infections of the kittens that is running rampant in the house.

So yes, I will reinforce my efforts and not give up.
Thank you Mal for thinking of me, You all have no idea how much support runs to me, just by someone else supporting my emotional frustrations of it all.

6/11/10 Chaos?

Friday, June 11, 2010

Chaos coming to a close

I can not believe it's only been since What April? March? (Some where in that time frame)
That our first baby came in.
All together we are projecting 40 babies to be rehomed in the next 2 months.

Yes they are cute and sweet, but I don't know if anyone really realizes the energy that is literally drained out of ones body and mind when trying to do 20 of these little creatures. Every day, every hour until they are old enough to learn how to eat on their own.

My hats off to those who do rescue. My heart has been forever damaged and created by this experience.

Seeking those donations of food, formula, towels and cat supplies in general on top of playing mom cat to all those babies. Meanwhile still feeding the parents that live outside in the heat.

I've got the freezers full of the coffee cans filled with water ready for their water bowls and I'm placing them in a compact circle under the bushes for the summer.

A few really want to come inside to get out of the heat, but I can't allow that. The cats outside, are what keeps my cats inside, there are 2 seperate territories.

I had recently added a few things on ebay auction to raise a few dollars for the cats to contiune on in the next few months, That's all I need is a few more months of feeding the 20 babies + My 5 house cats. As they are getting older, we are now going through 10 cans in 5 days!
I have items for sale that go to the cats in my bonanzle store also, if anyone is interested in buying something.
We recently recieved a donation from a woman, the donation were save the animal bracelets! That was really cool because we are able to offer those bracelets out whenever a kitten gets adopted.

I had to repost this picture, this was taken the day we tried to do a yardsale, Tell you what, Az Is just to darn hot for daytime yardsales. In the summer Arizona should become noctural! I swear! That heat made me not want to go back out for weeks!

Which Sunday is one of the days I have to go out.

The kittens will be in Sundays rescue at the petsmart on Warner in Chandler!!!

I'm really excited to move past this and contiune on with the spaying and neutering aspect.

I am taking collections now for the spay and neuter clinic on gilbert and southern in the forms of comforters, sheets, newspapers, towels and play toys for the animals that they care for.

I'll have new pictures of the new kittens tomorrow, they are also ready to be neutered and put up for adoptions. Next Sunday is their day! HOPEFULLY!!!

6/2/10 Barriers become challenges overcome

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Predictions, Mind Changing = Go Get Them Attitude

WOW Yesterday Was Not so Horrid!
I changed my thoughts into thinking it was tomorrow and it works.
I got alot accomplished for the fundraising yardsale, Moved out tons of furniture items
and nicknacks from my house! It's actually feeling a lot better in here! Not so overwhelming!
It's amazing how much one can release mentally, when they move excess out of their homes!

A few years ago, I started a housecleaning project, to help others de-clutter their homes.
I have always believed that our homes represent our minds.
The items that were discarded from the clients homes, were then given away to families in need. Towels, furniture, blankets, rugs, lamps, food, all sorts of stuff were given away.

That was right before the gas prices hit $4 a gallon!
And everyone began getting laid off.

I know the service I had offered had helped out so many people, and made the ones that were donating their clutter feel good also.
My route in life has not changed to drastically, I am still collecting other peoples clutter, but am now reselling it to benefit the cats.
Not that there wasn't a sense of purpose, or appreciation doing this for humans, but How am I to help others when My heart sinks everytime I have to start up my Trucks engine, praying there is no cat in there!
You know, Every year on April Fools day; there's this radio station that plays the meow of a cat
They Get me every time!
I pull over my truck and check my engine!
That year, that I started my truck, heard the meow, and then the scream....
Has damaged me for life.

Today is a good day, I had managed to make $10 just from lableing some of the items and I'm thinking ebay would be a good way to go for some of the items Christina donated to me for the yardsale.

I was talking to my step father the other day, he said, they never noticed stray or feral cat issues in their neighborhood. Right, His house is in a neighborhood that is cared about, Ranging in the prices of 700,000 and up per home! OF COURSE you aren't going to see the homeless there, Human or Animal.

Nuns, people of religion, Mother Theresa, Do not stay in the well provided for areas to find those in need. That is just silly, Why OF COURSE this problem is not noticed by the rich America, therefore my mission is seen as silly!

There are those, I receive emails from and statements from my own neighbors, Just take them to the pound! Why put myself through this... I can't afford this problem. But you know, How would I feel if someone turned their head from me? What if I was the one having to watch the babies suffer as they die, when there could have been an intervention to prevent it in the first place.

Seems like there's more head turning in this world, than there is people banding together to create a better world. I'm banding and in my world, there is hope, inspiration, love and function.
Those turning, see nothing but themselves in the mirror.

So Today I am putting a few items on ebay to hopefully gain some funding through them.
I'll Update this blog as soon as they are listed.
Thanks Paul for helping with the research on the items!
YOU ROCK!
Mal Bologna! I miss you!
Audi!!! GIRL YA KNOW!
Cindy thanks for the support!
Angel! You Keep Saving! You've dipped!!
DG ~~~ WHAT CAN I SAY~~~ Your insight and guidance has hit right on!
SMILE EVERYONE, YOU ARE ALWAYS WITH ME!