tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48439367378043065982024-03-07T00:04:37.201-06:00Lee County Clowder<p align="right">I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.</p><p align="right">Jean Cocteau</p>The Lee County Clowderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02745490690252097351noreply@blogger.comBlogger173125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843936737804306598.post-84224726805482644522013-10-08T20:32:00.000-05:002013-10-08T20:32:07.172-05:00I Fear the Word is Getting Out<div>
<span style="font-style: italic;">You know, it is bad enough when the human neighbors figure out that they can probably hand me the stray cat they find, and get me to take care of it. But it is starting to look like the cat neighbors are starting to figure that out, too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Sunday morning I was out refilling the supplies for the outside kitties, and I started hearing a kittie </span><span style="font-style: italic;">crying. After I called out a few times, a little kitten came crawling out of one of the shelters I keep in the area, still crying for all he(?) was worth. I looked around and couldn't see any momma cat, or even any more kittens. He wouldn't let me catch him, so I finally left him go, rather than chase him totally out of his territory. I left the back door open a crack, and figured he would come inside or not.</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">He came inside about half an hour later, and eventually found the food and water. He set to like he hadn't seen food in a while, then hid himself away for a nap.</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">By Monday, he was starting to figure I wasn't going to eat him, and that cuddling with me might not be all that bad a thing after all. Now, he is starting to turn into a lap cat, although he still hasn't been confident enough to take a nap in my lap.</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">I'm going to have to check around, and see if I've stolen someone's new kitten, or if he really is a feral kittie.</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">The current crew is not at all sure they approve, although reactions are mostly limited to grrrrrrsss and an occasional head thwopp.</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">PS: Another, older kittie came by a couple times late Sunday and early Monday. I've seen this cat around a few times, but she will not let me get close to her. </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">This kittie looks a little like the
new kitten, and was crying and looking around Sunday evening when she first showed
up, so that might well have been the momma cat.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">I thought about showing the kitten to this cat, to see what happened. But the kitten had hid himself away somewhere, so I just let things go as they were. If that was the momma cat, I hope someday to be able to tell her that her kitten is safe and warm, and doing fine. </span><br />
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The Lee County Clowderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02745490690252097351noreply@blogger.com39tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843936737804306598.post-42259983439173923862013-10-04T14:23:00.001-05:002013-10-04T14:23:20.161-05:00Dig out the jackets<div>
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<span style="font-style: italic;">The kitties and I will both mostly stay inside the next day or two, looks like.</span></div>
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The Lee County Clowderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02745490690252097351noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843936737804306598.post-27057418911041984122013-09-13T16:22:00.001-05:002013-09-13T16:22:46.830-05:00Enough Said<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Lee County Clowderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02745490690252097351noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843936737804306598.post-13247821833645813522013-09-09T15:57:00.000-05:002013-09-09T15:57:32.671-05:00Kitten update<div>
<span style="font-style: italic;">Updating the kitten status. I didn't realize it I left things hanging so long.</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">After the first three disappeared, I started taking the last two into the house in the evening whether Calleigh was around or not. She was a decent mother kittie, but obviously had trouble defending against whatever grabbed those kittens.</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">For about a week, that went fine. Then one day I was a little late collecting the kittens. It was about dusk when I went down to the utility room. The black & white kitten was already in there playing. When I went out the back door, the orange kitten was lying dead a few feet from the back door. Something had grabbed him around the chest/throat, and scraped most of the hair off of his chest, probably when he tried to fight free. Still have no idea what it was doing this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">At that point, I grabbed that last kitten, and relocated him to the spare bedroom. He's still there, though he seems to be wanting outside just a little bit recently. Calleigh will come into the house and spent the night with him most evenings. Once everyone is a bit bigger and stronger, I'll think about letting little Squeek outside again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">So something got four of Calleigh's five kittens.</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Sorry to have to bring such bad news, but I thought you would want to know.</span><br />
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The Lee County Clowderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02745490690252097351noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843936737804306598.post-39448681032724662072013-08-05T12:46:00.000-05:002013-08-05T12:46:05.481-05:00It looks like something grabbed the missing kittens<div>
<span style="font-style: italic;">It looks like something has grabbed those three missing kittens. I haven't seen any sign of them for several days now. Maybe worse, some of the older stray/ferals that had been coming by to eat haven't shown up in a while. There is a vacant lot and a patch of woods across the street. Those woods are mostly surrounded by fields and pastures, so who knows what could be running around over there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">About all I can do is keep the last two kittens inside at night, and try to ensure the older kitties have a safe place to hide if they need to.</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">On the good side, Calleigh is getting more comfortable being around me while she's inside. With luck, I'll get to pick her up and take her to the vet sometime soon. The remaining two kittens are getting around better, and are eating solid food, although they still hit the milk bar when it's open.</span></div>
The Lee County Clowderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02745490690252097351noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843936737804306598.post-73399038075924381782013-08-01T17:26:00.000-05:002013-08-05T11:55:30.044-05:00Starting to worry a little<div>
<span style="font-style: italic;">Just a quick note. The little kittens had been running around, climbing up the stairs and eating great. </span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">But for the last day or so, I've only seen two of them -- the orange boy(?) and one of the black and white ones. Not sure if the others are hiding somewhere, or something has happened to them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">There has been a family of raccoons running around the last few days, eating the cat food and bird food. The kittens were running around with the raccoon babies, and everyone was pretty much ignoring everyone while I was watching. </span><span style="font-style: italic;"> Not sure if they would attack kittens or not.</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Momma Calleigh doesn't seem upset, but she is a new mother (less than a year old) so I'm not sure how she would react if something went wrong.</span><br />
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The Lee County Clowderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02745490690252097351noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843936737804306598.post-21802792146270885892013-07-25T17:47:00.000-05:002013-08-05T11:55:46.177-05:00Calleigh, the Calico mom<div>
<span style="font-style: italic;">Do you remember Little Momma? After she and the kittens Bobby & Little Dots parted way, she disappeared for a while. Then Little Momma reappeared with another group of kittens.</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Those kittens grew up over the winter, so we never got much chance to socialize them. Momma had five kittens, and three of them are still hanging around pretty regular. But there was only one of them that we could touch or cuddle with.</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">We're calling him Horatio. It is about fifty-fifty whether we decide to keep him, or find him a different, furrever home. It depends mostly on whether we can or not. More on him in another post.</span><br />
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<i>She had sneaked in there to have her kittens, way in the back where no one could get to her.</i><br />
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<i>Best guess is they are about 4-6 weeks old, maybe a bit older. They are just starting to run around and climb up and down steps. The one at the bottom of this photo is the kitten asleep on my arm in yesterdays photo.</i><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Yes, another kitten.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Billy hangs out in the tree like this quite a bit. I would think it would give him a sore neck, but it doesn't seem to bother him any.</span><br />
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The Lee County Clowderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02745490690252097351noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843936737804306598.post-30203707805619607852013-07-12T17:42:00.000-05:002013-07-12T17:42:49.702-05:00Yeowwwww, banana<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">I was seeing a lot of dirt, or grass, or something showing up in the house, especially on one chair when there usually was a kittie asleep. Finally I figured out what was going on. </span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Someone in the Clowder figured out that if you chew hard enough, right on the end of the banana, you can chew open the end and start playing directly with the catnip.</span><br />
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The Lee County Clowderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02745490690252097351noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843936737804306598.post-78724735960492172902013-06-22T14:44:00.000-05:002013-06-22T14:44:12.912-05:00Little Momma's kittens<div>
<span style="font-style: italic;">Hi. Didn't mean to take as long as I did to follow up with Little Momma and her kittens. Sometimes life just kind of gets in the way of itself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Little Momma had two kittens, an orange boy I started calling B.O.B (Big Orange Boy, Bobby for short), and a spotted brown tabby who wound up with the name Little Dots, mostly because I couldn't come up with anything else I liked.</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">They were about the same size/age as Billy White Shoes, and it took them all about ten minutes to decide playing together was FUN. Every morning, when I would put out fresh water and food, the two kittens would be hanging out by the back door: "Can Billy come out and play?" They would spend the day running around, playing together until evening, when Billy would come back inside for the night. The other two would start toward the door, but wouldn't come inside. Bobby would let me touch him, a little, but Little Dots never would let me get close.</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Eventually, Little Momma decided they were old enough to be on their own, so she started chasing them away. They stayed in the yard, hanging out with Billy, and eventually Bobby decided to 'sneak' (he thought) into the house. I didn't eat him, so Little Dots moved into the house, too, though she never was a comfortable inside as Bobby.</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Little Dots would never spend more than a day or two in the house, before wanting back outside. It got to the point where Dots would come in at night, spend the night cuddling with me, and want back outside in the morning. The she'd disappear for a couple days. One time, she just never came back. I suspect she had someone else caring for her, since she was never that hungry when she did come back. I hope she just moved in with them, someplace where she could be the only kittie.</span><br />
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The Lee County Clowderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02745490690252097351noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843936737804306598.post-17628466799801264052013-05-12T13:46:00.000-05:002013-05-12T13:46:12.751-05:00For Mothers Day -- the Little Momma<div>
<span style="font-style: italic;">Last summer I kept the back door open a crack so my kitties could get in whenever they wanted. That, coupled with the food and water I kept out, started attracting other critters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">One of them was a tabby girl I started calling Little Momma, mostly because she had two kittens with her, and wasn't a whole lot bigger than the kittens she was raising. Little Momma wouldn't let me get close to her, or her kittens. But she wasn't bashful about using the supplies I set out for the crew.</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Little Momma taught her kittens to use the Clowder's litter boxes and eat their food. But the Clowder finally got their revenge, sort of. Little Momma's kittens started playing with Grace O'Malley and Billy White Shoes, and eventually both of them moved inside.</span></div>
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The Lee County Clowderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02745490690252097351noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843936737804306598.post-15812798293341396552013-05-04T00:30:00.000-05:002013-05-04T00:30:00.090-05:00May the Fourth Be With You<div>
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<span style="font-style: italic;">For more cats and Star Wars, check out <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/modcatlove/cats-and-star-wars-2n09">http://www.buzzfeed.com/modcatlove/cats-and-star-wars-2n09</a>, or try your favorite search engine.</span></div>
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The Lee County Clowderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02745490690252097351noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843936737804306598.post-18504502638413402742013-04-19T22:03:00.000-05:002013-04-19T22:03:49.887-05:00Kitties checking out the Ham-Mick<div>
<span style="font-style: italic;">So far, Billy White Shoes and Grace O'Malley are the only ones using the ham-mick, mostly because between the two of them, no one else has gotten a chance so far.</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Outside of a few hours when everyone decided they HAD to go outside, no matter how cold and rainy it is, the Ham-Mick has been in pretty much continuous use.</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Thanks, <a href="http://fortypaws.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">40Paws</a>, you have another satisfied customer.</span></div>
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The Lee County Clowderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02745490690252097351noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843936737804306598.post-1666681589999059402013-04-09T18:30:00.000-05:002013-04-09T22:20:38.330-05:00Happy Burrrthday, Marg<div>
<span style="font-style: italic;">A somewhat belated Happy Burrrrthday to Marg. We all hope she had a great day.</span><br />
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<b>UPDATE: </b><i>Feel free to leave your own wishes at <a href="http://margsanimals.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Margs Animals</a>. (We knew we we were forgetting something.)</i></div>
The Lee County Clowderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02745490690252097351noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843936737804306598.post-48171228429684243592013-03-24T12:05:00.000-05:002013-03-24T12:05:18.799-05:00The traditional 'last gasp' of winter is upon us<div>
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<i>Grace O'Malley checking things out outside. </i></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://classic.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=zmw:52625.1.99999" target="_blank">Weather Underground</a> says we have </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">a Winter Weather Advisory in effect until 7 PM CDT this evening.</span><br /> </span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">yuck!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">PS: In somewhat related news, a prosecutor in Ohio has <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/03/cold-prosecutor-indicts-punxsutawney-phil-for-fraud/" target="_blank">indicted</a> Punxsutawney Phil for fraud, and is <a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/weather/Groundhog-night-Death-penalty-Phil.html" target="_blank">seeking the death penalty</a>.</span></div>
The Lee County Clowderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02745490690252097351noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843936737804306598.post-37016079583308297242013-03-18T23:30:00.000-05:002013-03-18T23:30:12.799-05:00Billy White Shoe's Gotcha Day<div>
<span style="font-style: italic;">Today is Billy White Shoes's Gotcha Day, which means he is just a few days past one year old. </span><span style="font-style: italic;">Billy has had an eventful first year, even without his start as a bottle baby.</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">But through it all, no-longer-little Billy White Shoes is still running full tilt through life. (although </span><span style="font-style: italic;">I still flinch whenever he jumps off of the top of the cat tree)</span><br />
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The Lee County Clowderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02745490690252097351noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843936737804306598.post-36929202686487683552013-03-04T17:27:00.000-06:002013-03-04T17:27:38.729-06:00V*T Visit<div>
<span style="font-style: italic;">Both kitties managed to survive the V*T trip OK.</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Billy White Shoes didn't struggle very much going into the carrier, but spent the trips to and from the V*T meoowwing his head off. Dr. Van De Berg was the first V*T who saw Billy with his broken leg, and the Doc was quite pleased to see how Billy was doing. He thought Billy's bald spot was just Billy over-grooming out of boredom while in his cage, but he did give Billy an anti-allergy shot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Grace O'Malley was quiet on the car ride, but it was a battle getting her into the carrier at all. (Actually, that isn't quite true. It was easy to get her into the carrier, but a struggle to get the door closed before she turned around and ran back OUT of the carrier.) Gracie was running a bit of a fever, and seemed to have some infection around her backside. Dr Van De Berg expressed her anal glands, and gave her an antibiotic shot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">So, two of the crew are fine for the year. (pending) With luck, next month, I can get a couple more of the Clowder in for their yearly checkups.</span><br />
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The Lee County Clowderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02745490690252097351noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843936737804306598.post-24863922087042546542013-03-01T19:47:00.000-06:002013-03-01T19:47:52.952-06:00Don't warn them<div>
<span style="font-style: italic;">Hi. Don't warn them, but Grace O'Malley and Billy White Shoes are going to the V*T Monday afternoon. They both have bare spots on their skin, and the spots don't seem to be healing. On the other hand, they aren't expanding, either. So I might be getting upset over nothing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">But I decided I needed someone to take a little more professional look at things, to find out if we have a problem or not.</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">I am beginning to think I should have named Billy White Shoes something more along the lines of 'Homer Simpson' or something. Little Billy seems to spending his life careening from one problem to the next.</span></div>
The Lee County Clowderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02745490690252097351noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843936737804306598.post-79019941807844967322013-01-26T13:33:00.000-06:002013-01-26T13:33:33.278-06:00Billy White Shoes is out of his cage<div>
<span style="font-style: italic;">Hi, everyone and everykittie. We didn't realize that it was more than a month since we posted anything.</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Billy White Shoes went to the V*T yesterday, some because it was about to the time we were supposed to schedule a visit, and some because I was starting to get tired of spending half an hour every evening trying to catch Billy to put him back into his cage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">So, Billy White Shoes is now out of his cage, although I intend to keep an eye on him for a while yet. I've got a lot of money invested in Billy's leg -- I want to protect the investment. :-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">A big </span><b>thank you</b><span style="font-style: italic;"> to </span><span style="font-style: italic;">Dr. Merlin Van Zee and the staff at the <a href="http://www.summerstreetanimalclinic.com/index.php" target="_blank">Summer Street Animal Clinic</a> for their care and skill</span>.</div>
The Lee County Clowderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02745490690252097351noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843936737804306598.post-28855520573452550322012-12-23T14:48:00.000-06:002012-12-23T14:48:22.176-06:00Merry Christmas to all<div>
<span style="font-style: italic;">Hi, everyone. Just want to tell everyone Merry Christmas (or whatever holiday you might be celebrating, I guess).</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">This first video is a classic version of White Christmas, sung by The Drifters, with animation by Joshua Held. One of our long time favorites.</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Billy White Shoes is still hanging in there. I let him out of his cage most of the day when I am around to keep an eye on him. He stays more or less calm most of the time, and when he starts running and jumping around, I put him back in the cage. He's kind of figured out the connection, and tends to limit his jumping and climbing.</span></div>
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The Lee County Clowderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02745490690252097351noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843936737804306598.post-9872918788756280732012-12-17T18:18:00.000-06:002012-12-17T22:28:25.075-06:00Billy is starting to get restless<div>
<span style="font-style: italic;">Billy is starting to feel better, which in a lot of ways makes things worse. He feels OK, and he really can't figure out why I don't just let him out of his cage so he can run around like he wants to.</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">I used to let him out for a lot of the day, if I was going to be around to keep an eye on him. Of course, back then Billy didn't feel all that great, and he would spend most of his time dozing someplace. Now, he is spending most of his day in his cage, because he keep trying to climb up on things, and generally run around like he used to. The last I need right now is Billy White Shoes tearing that leg up again trying to rassel with the rest of the crew.</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;"> Reaching for my leg, trying to convince me to let him out and let him run around and cuddle with the rest of us. The shaved place on his left leg is where the V*T had an IV during surgery (and maybe for a while after that)</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">UPDATE: I tried <a href="http://www.kittyblog.net/" target="_blank">Connie</a>'s nip suggestion, at least sort of. I had a nip cigar (from <a href="http://www.nipandbones.com/catnip-cigar.html" target="_blank">Nip & Bones</a>) that I gave Billy. It seemed to help, at least for the first few hours. Thanks, Connie. </span><span style="font-style: italic;">(we had some bananas that most kitties seemed to like better, but they've disappeared somewhere) </span></div>
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The Lee County Clowderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02745490690252097351noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843936737804306598.post-56382695663666292012-12-12T15:28:00.001-06:002012-12-12T15:28:38.096-06:00A closer look at Billy's leg<div>
<span style="font-style: italic;">As in, Billy's Xrays. Let's just say Billy White Shoes is going to have trouble if he ever needs to enter a court house anywhere.</span><br />
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<i>My complements to the folks at <a href="http://www.summerstreetanimalclinic.com/index.php" target="_blank">Summer Street Animal Clinic</a> for a job well done.</i><br />
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<i>PS: Various V*T's best guess is Billy White Shoes got hit by a car. The scrapes and scratches kind of indicate that. Beyond that, we may never know. Billy isn't talking about it.</i></div>
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The Lee County Clowderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02745490690252097351noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4843936737804306598.post-88255366075304499802012-12-11T18:35:00.000-06:002012-12-11T18:35:04.517-06:00Billy still hanging in there<div>
<span style="font-style: italic;">Billy White Shoes and I just got back from a trip to the V*T. Some of the staples were working loose, and I wanted to check to see whether there was a problem or not.</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">The V*T checked things out, and decided the incision was healing enough that he could just remove the staples and be done with it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Billy is getting bored in his cage, so I've started letting him out for a while when I can keep an eye on things. Billy keeps pressing his luck, trying to start climbing around, so he usually doesn't get to stay out very long. But progress is being made.</span><br />
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A close-up of Billy's incision, sort of. Billy was laying in my lap when I took these photos, so it was kind of shoot a lot and hope. </div>
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