The Mega Pawsitive Fundraiser

[tarasgirl06]

TYSM @raysmyheart and you're so right! So glad you've got heat.
Shane Kent That is absolutely gorgeous! Hoping for pix *with cats added*!

1CatOverTheLine Remembering our 'woodshed' which was a small metal prefab unit on a concrete slab, where we stored our pellets for the pellet stove. Do you know what a pellet stove is? They use them a lot in Scandinavia and other places where it gets really cold. They're about the most efficient wood-burners I know of, and they use waste from lumber production, pelletized, which makes them fairly enviro-friendly as well. The pellets are sold in 50# bags, so we'd go to the hardware store up the mountain when they had them on sale and fill up the truck bed with them, then put them in the shed and my ex would bring a bag or two down to the garage in the garden cart when we needed them. The stove was an insert into a fireplace, so all the beauty and romance of a fireplace, but much more efficient and "green". The heat is dispersed throughout the building via a blower-motor. Genius!

 

[Max's Human]

HELLO TGIF ALL!
Just wanted to pop in and ask if anyone has seen CATS 101 on Animal Planet?
Max and I love watching all animal shows but this one has such unique segments. The last show had LAMPKIN cats and KLEPTO cats. One cat has collected over 200 items, focusing on of all things, Underwear and Bras!!!! And LAMPKIN cats have hair with texture like sheep!

 

[Alicia88]

Off to see my grandma for a while so she can get some baby snuggles. I need to get some prints of pictures so she can show him off. She's 87 and has no interest in computers or smart phones. My mother in law and aunt in law don't have smart phones, either. I'll probably check out shutterfly - we got a gift card for them from the hospital. $20 will probably get lots of prints. I wonder if the gift card will cover the shipping, too.

 

[tarasgirl06]

Off to see my grandma for a while so she can get some baby snuggles. I need to get some prints of pictures so she can show him off. She's 87 and has no interest in computers or smart phones. My mother in law and aunt in law don't have smart phones, either. I'll probably check out shutterfly - we got a gift card for them from the hospital. $20 will probably get lots of prints. I wonder if the gift card will cover the shipping, too.

OH YEAH, @alicia 88! If you sign up on their listserv and get their app, they have 100 Free Prints deals and sometimes Unlimited Free Prints deals. You do pay shipping, but it's an unbeatable deal!
Max's Human -- yeah, I have! Aren't they amazing?
Off to do the nightly sharing for the cats and kittens of the NYACC!

 

[Shane Kent]

I have not got the perch to it's final location in the house. It got cat approval rather fast

 

[1CatOverTheLine]

HELLO TGIF ALL!
Just wanted to pop in and ask if anyone has seen CATS 101 on Animal Planet?
Max and I love watching all animal shows but this one has such unique segments. The last show had LAMPKIN cats and KLEPTO cats. One cat has collected over 200 items, focusing on of all things, Underwear and Bras!!!! And LAMPKIN cats have hair with texture like sheep!

Max's Human - That notorious thief is Dusty, the Snowshoe:




Kieka has two of the little devils! Ha, ha ha! Ha, ha, ha! Hee, hee, hee! I only have one! That's a BIG pawsitive!

 

[Kieka]

Max's Human - That notorious thief is Dusty, the Snowshoe:




Kieka has two of the little devils! Ha, ha ha! Ha, ha, ha! Hee, hee, hee! I only have one! That's a BIG pawsitive!

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Hey! Only Link carries things around and he mainly carriers his own toys around. My brothers cat brought all sort of random things home.

 

[tarasgirl06]

Max's Human - That notorious thief is Dusty, the Snowshoe:




Kieka has two of the little devils! Ha, ha ha! Ha, ha, ha! Hee, hee, hee! I only have one! That's a BIG pawsitive!

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That snowshoe is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too clever (and handy) for her own good. So glad my Seesh never had one of these water coolers. It would have been an accident waiting to happen.

 

[1CatOverTheLine]

Finished one of two cat perches. I will call these "Kittypa's Modified Carpet Covered Cat Perch Version 1".

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The base and top are 2 feet by 3 feet. It is 71 inches tall with a 12" x 12" hole in the top.

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I have wanted to make these for over a year and will be taking this one home tonight Thank you @kittypa for sharing your design with me, I know I changed it a lot but it is the same basic design.

Shane Kent - Just fabulous; it looks like all the tweaking and attention to engineering detail really paid off!
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[Alejandra Rico]

Raistlin seems to have totally forgiven me now for abandomning him last weekend Plus, he is eating canned food of a new brand, and seems to like it.

Freya is behaving especially tenderly these days. She gets in bed with me and cuddles under the sheets, purring on my belly for long periods

 

[Norachan]

I've been giving the cats their first worming meds of the year. I use the pipettes you can squeeze onto the back of their necks, but with these cats even that is a challenge. I managed to get 19 of them done yesterday. Sadie was asleep under a blanket and I managed to sneak my hand under and give her the meds before she noticed.



Now I just have to do Marley, Albert and Button. Three huge boys who hunt a lot and are very skittish. This could take a while......

 

[1CatOverTheLine]

I've been giving the cats their first worming meds of the year. I use the pipettes you can squeeze onto the back of their necks, but with these cats even that is a challenge. I managed to get 19 of them done yesterday. Sadie was asleep under a blanket and I managed to sneak my hand under and give her the meds before she noticed.



Now I just have to do Marley, Albert and Button. Three huge boys who hunt a lot and are very skittish. This could take a while......

Norachan - My hat's off to you - just trying to do eleven - eight of whom were once ferals - is a challenge; I can't imagine doing twice that number. Bravo!

You must be as sneaky as a snake patient as a Saint.


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[Alicia88]

Shoot, we have a hard time getting through 4 of them! Lol



Finally got some pics of all 3 of us. I'm bad at selfies so its easier when someone else is holding the phone.

 

[1CatOverTheLine]

Shoot, we have a hard time getting through 4 of them! Lol

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Finally got some pics of all 3 of us. I'm bad at selfies so its easier when someone else is holding the phone.

Alicia88 - These are wonderful photos, and the second one especially reminds me of Raphael's Madonna and Saint Joseph. Just lovely!
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[Alicia88]

I don't think we're going to have any issues with baby clothes. My mom and my mother in law both stalk swap shop like crazy and keep buying us clothes. Used baby clothes are great. They grow so fast, they don't wear anything for long so everything ends up being like new quality and you get them for a fraction of the price.
My mother in law just gave us a whole bag of expensive brand name clothes - like Calvin Klein and puma - that she got for $10. I wouldn't buy those brands new because they're just not worth it considering how fast they'll be outgrown but I'll definitely take them used!

 

[1CatOverTheLine]

I don't think we're going to have any issues with baby clothes. My mom and my mother in law both stalk swap shop like crazy and keep buying us clothes. Used baby clothes are great. They grow so fast, they don't wear anything for long so everything ends up being like new quality and you get them for a fraction of the price.
My mother in law just gave us a whole bag of expensive brand name clothes - like Calvin Klein and puma - that she got for $10. I wouldn't buy those brands new because they're just not worth it considering how fast they'll be outgrown but I'll definitely take them used!

That's the thinking of generations past, Alicia88 - and it carried a lot of Families through some of the world's darkest days.

"Use it up,
Wear it out;
Make it do,
Or do without."

There's one place where people who think this way very seldom find themselves: in debt. Bravo for your Parents and your In-laws! It sounds like Aedan picked a pretty good Family for himself.
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[Alicia88]

I grew up poor. We didn't have much, but we always had what we needed. We never went hungry and we always had clean clothes. I was taught to stretch a dollar. It's a lesson that's come in handy more often than not.

 

[weebeasties]

I've been sick for two weeks now. A coughing, hacking, snot monster. The kitties have been wonderful nursemaids though. Constantly snuggling up with me and providing comfort. I fell asleep on the couch and woke up to these two. Just what the doctor ordered!

 

[jcat]

It snowed last night, so I thought I was going to have to go to the shelter since it's within walking distance for me. Luckily the main roads were clear by 8.

 

[Anne]

Good news! You can now upload videos right here in TCS!
I wanted to share this in the positive thread too -
Announcement - You Can Now Upload Videos To Thecatsite!