Weekend Cat Blogging: Sophie

I was looking through some of my kitty photos and came across this one. Wow. Time sure flies! This is my Sophie, almost one year ago. She died a couple months after this photo was taken, after she got into the path of some dogs. At least that's what I believe happened. She disappeared one morning and never came back. Her body was found next door by the gardener. She left behind three beautiful kittens, one of whom I kept, Henry. I can't believe Henry is one year old already!

Happy Weekend Cat Blogging!

The Montego Bay Animal Haven

The Montego bay Animal Haven

I had to come out of my Blogging hiatus to highlight this very, very worthy cause. It's the Montego Bay Animal Haven. Recently formed by a group of friends and professionals in Montego Bay, Jamaica, who are just the greatest, kindest, sweetest, most loving people in the world! The Haven's primary aim is to help animals who are abandoned and starving; ensure they are medically fit, spayed or neutered and then re-homed to responsible, loving new owners.

I tell you, when you find people this selfless in the cause of animals, it's truly a blessing! This is the ONLY shelter for animals in Montego Bay. Dare I say it? It is the only shelter in all of western Jamaica!

Last month they brought in vets from overseas and conducted a free neuter/spay programme. Their aim was to neuter/spay 300 stray dogs & cats. They were not only successful in meeting that target, but they exceeded it by finding homes for several of the stray animals! The story appeared in the Gleaner newspaper here.

I commend this group for starting this programme and I sincerely wish them all the best. I definitely will continue to support them in whatever way I can and hope others in the community will as well. The group right now is in desperate need of a permanent place/land from which they can operate full time. They plan eventually to offer several services that are so greatly needed in Montego Bay. Montego Bay currently does NOT have an emergency vet system. If you live in Montego Bay and your animal gets ill on a Sunday or Public Holiday or after the vet's office is closed (4:00pm) then there is NOBODY to call...the animal must remain as is until the next working day. This is one service the Animal haven hopes to offer.

Support them if you can financially or otherwise (prayers, e-mails of support & encouragement, spreading the word, etc) and be sure to Check them out on facebook as well.

Have a great weekend all. And I leave you with a picture of my Henry :)

Henry

Wordless Wednesday : Balancing Act

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Above and Below

One of Max's very rare awake moments! Look how displeased he looks. :-D

Remember that today is Tummy Tuesday over at Lisaviolet's diary! Here's a picture of Sebastian's tummy when he was just a wee kitten. Everytime I see this picture I laugh. Look at the size of his ears! He looks like he's about to take off at any moment! :-D

ZZZZZZzzzzzzzz.......

Things have been hectic around here recently and so I haven't been able to take as many photos of my cats as I woul like. And sadly I just don't have the time to regularly keep up this Chat Katze blog. :-(
I'll still try to stop by the blogs in the cat blogosphere every now and then though and will post a picture every now and then here too.

Fortunately, things haven't been at all hectic for Max or for that matter any of my other cats :)

In fact, it's just the same old, same old sleep all day, sleep all night routine for them. They never get tired of that routine so they're all quite happy and content right now.

A little Tummy on Tuesday

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Man Cat Monday with Stripe

Ain't I the most handsome fellow you've ever laid eyes on? :-D

Wordless Wednesday...sort of

Grrrr!!!

My ISP, Cable & Wireless, is frustrating me to no end. I've been having problems with them for over a month now and it doesn't look like the problem will be solved any time soon, so my catblogging is going to be somewhat intermittent for now and I might not be able to reply to your very kind comments or to check your blogs as often as I would like to. :-(

I think Cable and Wireless should think seriously about changing their name to "Incapable & Worthless!" It would be more fitting.

Life can be truly frustrating, can't it? Aren't you glad you have cats to come home to? :-D

Wordless Wednesday in a Tub

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Wordless Wednesday

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Max on Man Cat Monday

Lazy Sunday

Wordless Wednesday & BJ's Laser eyes

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Man Cat Monday and a Tummy for Tuesday

I love this shot of these two slackers! :) Life must be grand when all you have to do is eat, sleep and look cute!

For more adorable kitties showing off their Tummies for Tuesday, make sure to stop by LisaViolet's Diary. And don't forget to pay a visit to Gattina and the other Cats blogging on Tuesday!

Weekend Cat Blogging with Sasha

So Sasha absolutely loathes the camera. She only has to see it and she's off in a hurry to...I don't know where. She does not want to be anywhere in the vicinity of the camera. She's not afraid of it, she just doesn't like her picture taken and will do anything to avoid me getting a proper shot. She'll come and rub herself against my leg so that all I can get is a back shot, or she'll turn her head right or roll over just as I press the button. :-/

So you can imagine my surprise when I took out the camera and she jumped up beside me and sat while I snapped several photos of her. She just sat there giving me a look that said, "Make sure you take enough pictures to last you a lifetime Miss, cause you ain't getting any more of me after this once in a lifetime opportunity!"

And then, once she had enough of the flashy box, she did her get-up-and-walk-off thing.

I think, though, that she did have someplace to get to in a hurry. You see I know she didn't want to be late to board the Friday Ark over at the Modulator and I know she really had to go get all cleaned up for this Week's Weekend Cat Blogging over at "Sher's What Did you Eat?" and the Carnival of the Cats over at Mind of Mog. Ooo! What fun this weekend! :-D

Wordless Wednesday

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A Red and White Tummy Tuesday

Tuesdays are Tummy days over at Lisaviolet's Diary and this Tuesday is a little sad for LV as she had to have dear Red euthanised on Sunday. I love red cats but have only ever had one. His name was Gin and he died three years ago. He was such an adorable sweetheart.

And here is Sebastian showing off his tummy for Tuesday. Sadly, this little boy went missing (again!) two days after we had a hurricane pass through the island. This was about two weeks ago. He was scheduled to be neutered that very week, but because of the damage and lack of electricity, the vet's office was closed and the...ahem...procedure was to be rescheduled. I don't know if something happened to him or if he's just out chasing girls. :-\ I'm really hoping the latter is the case. We'll see...

Remember to also stop by Gattina and the other cats blogging this Tuesday!

Man Cat Monday with Max

It's so relaxing to just sit and watch Max do what he does most and does best : SLEEP! He's an expert at it. He does it anywhere, anytime, and it doesn't matter how noisy or how quiet it is. He sleeps curled up in a ball or straight out, on his back or on his tummy or on his side. He doesn't care that Sebastian will sometimes come and sleep right on top of him. He doesn't care. I'm sure if he absolutely had to, he'd sleep up side down or standing up! :-D

Of course he gets very angry when, while he's enjoying his favourite...er...activity, Sebastian comes along and decides to start ...uuhhhmm..attacking his tail!

Weekend of Silence & Remembrance

So many of our friends in the cat blogosphere are going through a very hard time with illnesses, deaths and missing kitties. So Kashim & Othello (who are hosting Weekend Cat Blogging this time around) have decided to have a Weekend of Silence and Remembrance in honour of our beloved friends who are no longer with us.

Wordless Wednesday with Sebastian

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