Sprout Day

Today is Sprout Day, in honor of a beautiful baby girl who was with us for only a short time, but touched so many hearts.

The Grayson Eleven

Hi all, The Clowder's Food Source here. I have been in contact (email) with the folks (one folk, anyway) at the Grayson Shelter. I just thought I ought to let you all know what their last email said.

We do have sponsorship for Rosemary. However, when one gets sponsorship, it
just forces us to consider another cat when we are out of space. We did
have 3 leave this weekend and have rescue for a couple more which will leave
on Thursday.
We do not kill lightly and have not killed a cat for space for several years
now, however cat rescues are few and far between and one that pulled a lot
from us had to stop due to a grant agreement in her community (long story).

We are all volunteers and the email comes to my home address as we do not
have internet access at the shelter.

We are at the shelter cleaning every morning regardless of the holiday. The
animals need care and don't understand that people take holidays from work.

Thanks for caring.

Donna White
Grayson County Humane Society
Leitchfield Animal Shelter
213 William Thomason Byway
Leitchfield, KY 42754
270-230-8839
www.graysonhumane.org
www.graysoncountyhumanesociety.petfinder.org
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/friendsofgraysoncohumanesoc/

The good news, maybe, is that with donations from Mom Laure, me, and probably others, the original eleven are looking at a little more time. The bad news may be that by doing that, we may have doomed some other cat, although we fervently hope not.

We do what we can, I guess.

Another hairs breath rescue would be nice

Hi, all. Allie here with just a quick note.

Not sure if anyone is working on this or not, but it looks like there is an entire cat family that has a PTS date of Monday, July 5. (apparently, putting down kittens does not take time off for holidays)

We heard about them from The Misadventures of Me. We're not sure how much could be done over a holiday weekend, but we thought we ought to mention this, just in case someone is close enough to rescue at least one or two of them.

On a happier note, for folks in the USA, Happy Independence Day. For the rest of you, happy July 4.

Purrrring for Neala

Today the Cat Blogosphere is all purrrring for Neala. Neala is a Sphynx who is getting an operation Tuesday to fix up a burth defect she was borned with.

Check in with Neala's blog, Gotta Have Faith for background and (we're hoping) more or less up to the minute updates as Neala's V*T trip continues.

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Added July 2: For anyone who sees this post, we've got some bad news. Neala made it through surgery fine, then started having problems. She went to The Bridge a couple days after her surgery. See Gotta Have Faith for more information or to leave comments.

Hi everyone. Something we found this morning, and thought you all might find interesting.

Oscar was a black kittie happily living on a farm, until he had a accident with a combine.

Now he is still running around, but he has titanium back legs.

So far, he seems to be doing well.

More information is available here, and probably a lot more places. If you are somewhere close to England, you may be able to see Oscar on a TV show called The Bionic Vet. It starts on Wednesday June 30, although you will have to track down what channel.

Purrrring for Maxie, and Iam's foods are messed up again

Hi. Allie here with a couple things.

First off, Maxie is having problems and is going into surgury this morning. He is gonna need all the purrrrsss and good thoughts he can get.

Feel free to use this image -- we grabbed it from the Cat Blogosphere in the first place.

And in a "where have we heard that before" moment, Iam's is recalling a bunch of stinky goodness. This time, supposedly, there is just not enough vatamum B (what ever that is) in the fod, so it looks like at this time it won't actually kill you to eat it. I guess that is progress, at least somewhat.

Check with the FDA or Proctor & Gamble for the details if you are getting Iam's foods.

Lost for those who never watched Lost

Hi. Ozzie here, with a quick note.

We never watched Lost, but we found this wondering around the web.

We thought those of you who did might enjoy it.