Happy Cat Family

Con-cat-tulations Samantha, Clementine and Maverick for winning! Meowmy already sent your address for KC, so brace yourselves for some goody goodies! Woohoo! Thanks for participating - aren't you glad you made it? You literally got here in the nick of time!

By the way, have you been to our Auction yet? Furriends, it is on FIRE!! You couldn't expect any less from something KC and Gracie put together though - the items are Great, and there is something for effurybody - check it out!

Hi Furriends, Lucky here!
See the picture up there? That's how I've been lately: in-your-face!
Yep, I have been extra loud, extra obnoxious, extra annoying, extra extra, extra Lucky! Yep, I guess I am doing purry good furriends!
Here is the thing... Even though it was kind of bad being force fed with that syringe thing, I liked the extra attention! I really really liked having meowmy all to myself, on my paw-tips for the last three four days... I don't think I want to let it go now - oh no, sir! So now that I am doing better and she is no longer feeding me 'round the clock, what am I supposed to do besides reminding her that I am still her highness? Oh, and let me tell you, I know how to do it! I meow as though I was dying - B-E-S-T technique furriends - learn from the pro: Be dramatic, Very dramatic! Meow like you mean it! I promise your meowmy will come running!
Now that Meowmy got traumatized with me not eating, I am using her fears as well- that is part two of the technique: Manipulation, (in this case by fear). For example: She is now feeding me in the bathroom, so I will walk to the bathroom door and meow very melodramatically, as though it was a case of life or death. That is Dramatic manipulation - Bingo! Meowmy will stop effurything to go there!
But be aware furriends that you have to give your meowmy some recoup time, otherwise she will catch on and start ignoring you - even though they are hoomans and not as refined as us, they do catch on to it with time, so you need to strategically pull back to keep them always on their toes.
I hope my technique helps you some!

By the way, have you been in our Auction? My Goodness, you have to check it out! We had a GREAT first day - no wonder - the items are PAWSOME!!!
And...... Tomorrow we will announce the big Photo contest winner! Yey!! Good Luck All contestants!

Hello Furriends, Lucky Here!
I have good Noos! I am eating again! Meowmy fed me twice with that syringe contraption, then she decided to see if I would eat some different Hairball foods on my own. She went to the Pet-mall and bought a whole bunch of different flavors, and guess what???? I liked them all! So, meowmy said she will mix them up and feed them to me in the morning and at night - during the day I will have to snack on Bugsy's and Hope's food, since they have IBS and Allergies and can't eat my food. Meowmy is happy and so am I, as we both don't need to go through force feeding anymore! Yey!
I am still very constipated, meowmy says she still doesn't like what she sees in the box at all - she said she almost needed a nut cracker to crack my poop open if she needed to. Uuuuhhhhgggg! Why would meowmy want to crack my poop open anyways? Hoomans are just so weird!
I told her to wait until tomorrow and see... I will probably have some major diarrhea with all this new food - try to crack that open meowmy!
On another, more hygienic note..... 

Me, meowmy, my sisfurs and brother Bugsy would like to thank effurybody at the Cat Blogosphere for this amazing gesture, for all the members who donated such incredible items, for those who worked so hard to make this happen... Thank you so much, from the bottom of our hooman and feline hearts!
Furriends, you really need to check out this auction, there are great items for effuryone! Really! To go there, click on the sidebar, on the picture above, or on any link on this post! Thank you, and happy bidding!

Hi Furriends, Lucky here!
Thank you for all the purrs and purrayers, I really need them... We had a busy busy day here, lots going on... I am not eating on my own yet so meowmy is feeding me with a syringe until I feel hungry enough to eat without her help. I do eat treats, but unfortunately meowmy doesn't want to feed me only treats, so I guess I need to comply with her "force-feeding" plan. Feels like all we did today was this force feeding thing, but oh well, right? I am no longer throwing up - that is the good noos. Bad noos is that I am still very constipated. Meowmy checked my poop and didn't like what she saw. She said it looked like a witch from a Disney movie, but tiny. Got the picture? Yep, no good. So meowmy gave me some hairball treats as they are a good laxative, to see if I get some of that stuff out. Lets see if I do better next time around!
On another note........................ Today is the last day to enter the Photo Contest!

Did you see that mom ML increased the prize? Yep, now the Prize will be a HUGE Goody Bag paw picked by little KC… you know how much fun she has making up her goody bags!
So Furriends, today is your last chance! Hurry up and choose those cute pictures already - we know you can do it! :)

Pee Ess: I have been so cooperative with force-feeding, meowmy asked me if she could make an "educational video" to help other meowmies and kitties who might have trouble eating out there... I said yes, but really, I think I might start charging royalty from now on! The video is below - am I a good actress or what?

Hi Furriends, Lucky here!
Well, guess what? I was tired of being in the background with Bugsy's and Gracie's health issues, and decided to pull a number on meowmy. A couple of days ago I started turning my face away from the food... The little I ate I threw up too. When I want to do something furriends, I do it right! So meowmy took me to the V-E-T today... The verdict? Severe constipation due to hairballs. Furriends, my V-E-T trip was not fun - it involved injections, things stuck on my both ends to make me eat, to make me poop... I felt embarrassed and violated! Those V-E-Ts sure are mean!
Then to top it all I get home for a bath and for what meowmy calls it "force-feeding" uhg! Can a girl just be left alone? Meowmy said she will keep feeding me and giving me this water until I eat and drink on my own... I hope I get hungry soon... The V-E-T gave me some good meds for it.
Purr for me furriends - purr for me to unplug so I can start eating! Isn't that ironic - Bugsy poops too much.... I poop too little.... Maybe if we just meet in the middle?
Update from meowmy, 11:45pm, Saturday: Lucky seems sad and "under the weather", she is not eating at all on her own, so I am not leaving up to her - I am syringe feeding her 1oz of A/D every couple of hours. I also started her on Appetite stimulants 2x a day - first dose this morning, with her vet approval. So far she hasn't thrown up, which is the good news. Please keep the purrs and prayers coming....

Hi Furriends, Lucky Here!
I sure know really well how to demand meowmy's attention! I am a pro furriends! Did you watch the video? I can go on and on and on! And you know what? It works - every single time! Meowmy says I am just Lucky to be cute (hey, another reason to be called Lucky too!), but I know I am actually really exceptionally good at what I do! Hoomans just have a huge ego, you know? It's ok - we let them think they are smarter than us... in the end, we always get our way anyhow!
By the way... Did you hear what I said in the video? I said.... "Did you choose your picture for the contest yet? Hurry hurry!

Contest Rules:
Love is in the air... Send us a photo of what you love the most: It can be of your favorite hooman, your favorite fur-sibling, an activity you love, your favorite thing to eat, your favorite place to sleep, your favorite toy, etc.

• For a donation of $5.00 per photo your name will be put into a drawing. The winner will receive a personalized gift $20.00 for your pet!! (Prize donated by Gracie and paw picked out by KC)
• Make donation through the pay pal button. Put the name of your pet and your blog link.
• Send photo, no smaller than 1000 pixels in jpg to carolina (@) happycatfamily . net
• It would be great if you could tell us what you love when you send us the picture, so we can use it as a caption! Oh, and don't forget to send us a link for your Bloggie with it as well!
  
• You can enter as many times as you want but each photo must have a $5.00 donation.
• Contest Begins at February 13th 11:59pm, and ends February 20th at midnight.
  
• Winner will be announced on February 23th
• Good Luck!!

Hello Furriends, Bugsy Here!
Our Valentines Week Photo Contest has started! Have you seen the pictures yet? Adriana submitted the oh-so-cute picture of her woofie Quattro, playing with his favorite toy, a rubber Chicken!

Marg's Pets submitted of her pets lounging on a nice sunny day, and said: "I Love all my kitties and actually all my animals. They are my entire life and I wish them a very Happy Valentine's Day."

What about you, have you chosen your picture yet, or are you going to kill us with curiosity untill the last minute?
Can't wait to see your pictures!
Below are the contest rules again:
Love is in the air... Send us a photo of what you love the most: It can be of your favorite hooman, your favorite fur-sibling, an activity you love, your favorite thing to eat, your favorite place to sleep, your favorite toy, etc.

• For a donation of $5.00 per photo your name will be put into a drawing. The winner will receive a personalized gift $20.00 for your pet!! (Prize donated by Gracie and paw picked out by KC)
• Make donation through the pay pal button. Put the name of your pet and your blog link.
• Send photo, no smaller than 1000 pixels in jpg to carolina (@) happycatfamily . net
• It would be great if you could tell us what you love when you send us the picture, so we can use it as a caption! Oh, and don't forget to send us a link for your Bloggie with it as well!
  
• You can enter as many times as you want but each photo must have a $5.00 donation.
• Contest Begins at February 13th 11:59pm, and ends February 20th at midnight.
  
• Winner will be announced on February 23th
• Good Luck!!

Hi Furriends, Meowmy Here!
For those who don't know Gracie's story, in summary, we are trying now to adjust her thyroid meds. She came to me on November 1st on what I thought to be a very high dose of Methimazole - 7.5mg 2x a day. She was gaining weight nicely, which she needed, as she was almost skin and bones, and there were very high vet bills with Bugsy and her very unexpected surgery, so I had to wait to take her for a blood T-4 blood test (which her new vet said was ok and safe to wait).
A month/few weeks ago I took her in for a a blood test - sure enough, she was way over medicated... Her new vet immediately lowered her dose to 5mg 2x a day.
Then last Friday I took her in for yet another T-4 test to see how she was adjusting to the new dose. Well, lo and behold, she was still overmedicated. The vet again Lowered her meds to 2.5mg 2x a day.
I am furious with the old vet, that means she was taking at least triple of the dose she was supposed to be taking! At the same time just glad that she is with me and not seen by him anymore. She will have another test in 3 weeks. Aside e from that. our little old lady is doing FANTASTIC!!

Now onto Bugsy:
He continues to have formed poop! After four months of daily diarrhea, many different medications, on their own and combined, LOTs of vet visits, many many tests, a visit to the e-vet, etc, DiaGel, a diarrhea gel recommended by TCS's member Kody's mom (and approved by my vet), finally did it! He was on it a week twice a day, more precisely, 6 1/2 days (we had to stop for 2 1/2 days in the middle to wait for shipping as we froze and there was no shipping to our home). He had a total of 13 doses. 24 hours after the second dose there was a HUGE improvement.
His last dose was five days ago, and so far so good! He does not have solid poop, but it is formed. Warning: I will get graphic now, so if you get grossed out by poop stop here. His poop is rope-shape, but relatively soft. Nothing like diarrhea, but if he steps on it, it will get smashed. If he doesn't it keeps the form. During these four months, the best he ever got was a cow-pile, never formed poop. Whenever we stopped a medication, by the next day he was right back to explosive watery liquid diarrhea. So, this is truly dramatic.
FYI, Bugsy never in his life had solid poop. He always had formed, but soft poop, kind of what he has now. So he is now "at his normal". His stomatitis meds do help a lot with it, but he is out of it until his next liver panel in March, so I can't count with that help now. If his liver numbers are ok then, he will go back on the meds.
In discussing with his vet, all his history, his tests and the fact that he never had solid poop indicate that he might have a very mild form of IBD (which is in line with his other vet's beliefs), but we can control that with Diet, fiber and probiotics like we did in the past, especially since he did not respond to prednizolone.
So, this looooooooong post is to say that........... (unless things change) He is fine and........ finally dismissed of any further treatment until next month when we go in for the liver panel! yey!
Now I will pray things don't change, and that his liver panel comes back normal... He needs to go back into his sotmatitis meds ASAP! For now it is excellent news though!

Hello Furriends, Hope here!
Happy Valentines Day Furriends! We are so excited, our Fun-Raising Valentines Day Photo Contest has Started! Woohoo!! If we were going to submit a picture, it would be this one, what do you think? Yes, aside from Meowmy, the one I love the most in the WHOLE World is Lucky!! She is just my buddy, all the way! What about you? What picture are you entering the contest with?

Contest Rules:
Love is in the air... Send us a photo of what you love the most: It can be of your favorite hooman, your favorite fur-sibling, an activity you love, your favorite thing to eat, your favorite place to sleep, your favorite toy, etc.

• For a donation of $5.00 per photo your name will be put into a drawing. The winner will receive a personalized gift $20.00 for your pet!! (Prize donated by Gracie and paw picked out by KC)
• Make donation through the pay pal button. Put the name of your pet and your blog link.
• Send photo, no smaller than 1000 pixels in jpg to carolina (@) happycatfamily . net
• It would be great if you could tell us what you love when you send us the picture, so we can use it as a caption! Oh, and don't forget to send us a link for your Bloggie with it as well!
  
• You can enter as many times as you want but each photo must have a $5.00 donation.
• Contest Begins at February 13th 11:59pm, and ends February 20th at midnight.
  
• Winner will be announced on February 23th
• Good Luck!!
  

Hi Furriends, Bugsy Here!
Woohoo! We are only one day away from the photo contest! Have you gone through your compooter and chosen a good picture to submit yet? Make sure to choose a good one! This is going to be fun fun fun and exciting! We can't wait to see all the pictures!
Meowmy will not be posting the pictures until the contest dates by the way, until then they will be saved in meowmy's compooter.
To participate in the contest, click on the picture above or in the tab on our header that reads "Photo Contest"! The rules will be posted again in the end of this post :)
Now I will leave you with some pictures of me, taking it easy this weekend! Hope you all are having an easy Sunday too!

Contest Rules:
Love is in the air... Send us a photo of what you love the most: It can be of your favorite hooman, your favorite fur-sibling, an activity you love, your favorite thing to eat, your favorite place to sleep, your favorite toy, etc.

• For a donation of $5.00 per photo your name will be put into a drawing. The winner will receive a personalized gift $20.00 for your pet!! (Prize donated by Gracie and paw picked out by KC)
• Make donation through the pay pal button. Put the name of your pet and your blog link.
• Send photo, no smaller than 1000 pixels in jpg to carolina (@) happycatfamily . net
• It would be great if you could tell us what you love when you send us the picture, so we can use it as a caption! Oh, and don't forget to send us a link for your Bloggie with it as well!
  
• You can enter as many times as you want but each photo must have a $5.00 donation.
• Contest Begins at February 13th 11:59pm, and ends February 20th at midnight.
  
• Winner will be announced on February 23th
• Good Luck!!