Arthur and Guenvere found a fabulous furever home 🙂 They’re going there tonight and a coworker was awesome enough to offer to drive me up to say goodbye during our lunchbreak. So grateful to DeDe. Seriously, good coworkers are everything. Arthur and Guenevere were purring and cuddly. Arthur licked my forehead and hand before grabbing…
Author: Bethany
Food-motivated though not food-aggressive bleeding heart animal lover and advocate. Views expressed do not reflect those of employers & may include bad words.
A Cat’s Prayer
I came across a very sweet “cat’s prayer” on the site of a cool FL rescue group It made me laugh and think of the cats in my life. How the way we treat and raise our cats changes how they treat us. How the raising goes both ways. Toby with his insistent looks that…
It Hurts. You Deal.
Keen, a 15 year old gray male cat, was depressed and in desperate need of a foster home. Arthur and Guenevere were playful, sweet, and happy at my apartment but not meeting enough people to get adopted. The logical choice was to agree to exchange the kittens for Keen. It was the right choice but…
Weight Loss
On the left: Toby as a svelte young cat. On the right: My beautiful currently tubby Toby.My cat and I are both trying to lose weight. Well, to be more accurate I am trying to lose weight and Toby is really confused at the smaller amount of food showing up in his bowl and me…
Big Black Dog and a Cherry Tree
So I know that the actual lyric is horse, not tree, and while a lot of the assumptions do hold true for horses that exist for cats and dogs…my shelter doesn’t have any black horses to adopt out. I went to a seminar tonight about Big Black Dog Syndrome (BBD). It’s an observable syndrome in…
Kittens
I’ve never had kittens. My Toby is 2 years old and I met him when he was almost 1. I’ve fostered 6-, 2-, and 14-year old cats (oddly all male) and Toby’s “sister” was a year older than him. I’m fostering three kittens now. Two months old. They’re cute and adorable but exhausting. Even supposedly…
New article
Go click!http://www.examiner.com/x-12366-DC-Pet-Rescue-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-12366-DC-Pet-Rescue-Examiner~y2009m7d14-Obvious-but-Cool–Cats-Know-How-to-Manipulate-Humans I tallyed up my earnings…they almost paid for the calming treats I bought Toby to help him deal with fostering. I should probably apply for a second job at Big Bad Woof (awesome pet supply store in Takoma Park) just for the product discount…Living Ruff (equally awesome in Silver Spring) isn’t hiring…
Examiner.com!
http://www.examiner.com/x-12366-DC-Pet-Rescue-Examiner is where I’ll be doing most of my pet writing in the future. Go click, tell your friends to click, read, share, pass, click again from a different IP address. I promise, some portion of the tiny tiny tiny possible amount of money I make (which is based on page views and page view…
What I Wanted at the End of Last Night
Instead I drove back to the conference, had a soda, and read Jennifer Crusie until I felt calm again.
A Foster Cat Always Relies on the Kindness of Strangers
Last night I was almost in tears at my shelter and people helped. No one looked at me and said “Why are you stressing about a cat? You have sick family members to worry about!” They understood and rallied and tried to find a way to help LeCat, my fourteen year old foster who suddenly…