Kitten???

[marydaniellesantos]

Originally Posted by Izzie

In kitten's defense though...some of my favorite times were to go into our "kitten room" where we keep all the bitties that are just young enough to adopt. Lay on the floor, spread a fleece blanket over yourself, and within minutes you're covered in warm vibrating kitty bodies.


Well, actually, that would happen in the feline friends room with all the oldbies too. But much more readily with the kittens.

Lol! That sounds like fun!!!

[kavanaru]

My experience... you will only have "problems" if you have orchids with grass-like leave... those are teh only ones my cats like to "eat".. also teh long petals of Phragmipedium wallisii seems to be atractive to them

otherwise, they are all safe: cats and Orchids!

Ah! if you keep humidity trails under your orchids, no matter how dirty teh water is, be sure your cats will prefer drinking that water than the clean one you give them....

[marydaniellesantos]

Originally Posted by Izzie

While I'm hijacking...
Here's me and one of my old minions (Kato)-


And proof of kitty solubleness-

The grey I'm talking to...was named Angus.

The white and orange one looks like my Pumpkin Pie. Miss him so much... Here's a picture:

[marydaniellesantos]

Originally Posted by kavanaru

My experience... you will only have "problems" if you have orchids with grass-like leave... those are teh only ones my cats like to "eat".. also teh long petals of Phragmipedium wallisii seems to be atractive to them

otherwise, they are all safe: cats and Orchids!

Ah! if you keep humidity trails under your orchids, no matter how dirty teh water is, be sure your cats will prefer drinking that water than the clean one you give them....

Lol. Good to know. Thank you.

[marydaniellesantos]

Originally Posted by WhiteRabbit

aww shucks lol

well I had seen Jack's pic on their website, and wanted to go see him in person - when we got into the quiet room - he hid at first, but only took maybe a couple minutes before he came out and brushed against me - after getting acquainted for a bit the shelter employee asked if I would like to hold him, so she picked him up and handed him to me - and he HUGGED me! So, I ask, how do you NOT adopt the cat who has just hugged you ??? lol He's been doing great - eats VERY well here lol - loves to cuddle, likes playing with toys, loves his cat tower - he seems very happy now

That's great you hopefully will be fostering - since losing my beloved Cahala, I have been thinking about that too ...

and seems we have hijacked this thread lol oops

That's so cute! I would have brought him home too!

Fostering is a terrific idea, I would if I could, but the organizations here are really touchy about where to place animals. As their pens are filled... they had medium dogs in cat pens, and 4-5 dogs in each doggy pen... And don't get me started on the kitties...

That place is horrible. They have 5 people on shift at a time and the dogs don't get walked, they are sitting in their feces for days... The cats litter boxes look like they haven't been cleaned for weeks... I feel sorry for all the animals there. I visit regularly, and I only see animals going in, and not out...

[Izzie]

Originally Posted by marydaniellesantos

I'm so sorry about you kitty.

It always stinks losing a loved one...

It was very difficult.
There's a thread about her, and the shelter cat that followed me home from college here: http://www.orchidboard.com/community...t-present.html
(that little trooper cat drove 12 hours with me without batting an eye.)

[Izzie]

Originally Posted by marydaniellesantos

That's so cute! I would have brought him home too!

Fostering is a terrific idea, I would if I could, but the organizations here are really touchy about where to place animals. As their pens are filled... they had medium dogs in cat pens, and 4-5 dogs in each doggy pen... And don't get me started on the kitties...

That place is horrible. They have 5 people on shift at a time and the dogs don't get walked, they are sitting in their feces for days... The cats litter boxes look like they haven't been cleaned for weeks... I feel sorry for all the animals there. I visit regularly, and I only see animals going in, and not out...

Keep working on them. Tell your friends to go volunteer. That's one thing that I loved about my shelter back in sufu. They really made themselves known to the general public, and therefore had a great volunteer program. There were still those animals that were overlooked, but thankfully we had a handful of volunteers like me that focused on those guys.

ANother thing that really helped- they had an inmate program. All the cleaning, feeding, and most of the walking, was done by inmates. It was wonderful. They were only those that were convicted of non-violent crimes. But it helped both animal and human alike. And really helped the shelter. Perhaps suggest that?

[Izzie]

Originally Posted by marydaniellesantos

The white and orange one looks like my Pumpkin Pie. Miss him so much... Here's a picture:

Cuuuute! The dilutes are rather hard to come by, I'm a sucker for them. I have a smokey black, and Posh is a grey and cream torbie.
x.x I love color genetics.

Did you know that all cats are tabbies? The stripes are only expressed if they have an active Agouti gene. And even if they don't, sometimes you can see faint stripes on solid cats.

[Izzie]

Originally Posted by marydaniellesantos

Lol. Good to know. Thank you.

And if you have a water fountain.
I broke down and just bought one of those kitty fountains, and now they leave my decorative ones alone.

[Izzie]

Originally Posted by kavanaru

My experience... you will only have "problems" if you have orchids with grass-like leave... those are teh only ones my cats like to "eat".. also teh long petals of Phragmipedium wallisii seems to be atractive to them

Very good point, I've noticed that too. My black monster only bothers my spider plant- the grassiest plant in the house.

I saw her eyeing George yesterday and he got sprayed right quick.