#WordlessWednesday - How to convince your human not to make the bed.

Lola

Kittyland Dancing With The Stars!

Hello everyone.... Lexy here.... I want to tell you about a very special event happening on Facebook.  Every year our good friend Prince Pan Pan and his brother, Prince Pippin, host a fantastic event called Kittyland Dancing With The Stars! Round 1 of the event takes place tonight at at 7:30 PM.

Photo courtesy of Prince Pan Pan

Each couple chooses a pet charity to represent in the contest. The contestants who receive the highest number of votes will not only be the 2015 champions, but a cash donation will be made to the charity of their choice.  They will also win a prize package, and the Mirror Ball Trophies. The amount of the donation will be the proceeds of a special DWTS fundraiser created for the event. The designated charities of the second and third place winners will split the proceeds of a SPECIAL FUNDRAISER to be held later this year.

This is such a fun event! My partner is my good friend Jake from The Royal Ruskies.

Photo courtesy of Prince Pan Pan

Not Really a Wordless Wednesday - Part 2

Last week I took over Lola's diary for a day and published a post about a photo of her that I think speaks 1000 words. I had originally considered posting it as part of #Wordless Wednesday, but Lola had other ideas about that (she can be an opinionated kitty at times.)

I also have a photo of Lexy that speaks to me in the same way.

I took this photo of Lexy about 10 minutes after bringing her home.  A little back story - Lexy was in a shelter for a time period of anywhere between 9 to 12 months (most likely on the higher side of that estimate.) For all of that time she lived in a cage.  She was also part of an adoption event every weekend, and she spent those weekends in a cage on display looking at people with her big, expressive eyes trying to woo them into taking her home.  That really broke my heart and was part of the reason I wanted to take her home right then and there.

Fast forward to her gotcha day.  As soon as I got her home she used the litter box, sniffed around a little, and then jumped in the window to look outside.  I don't remember how long she sat there, but I couldn't even lure her out with Temptation treats.  After all of those months of not seeing the outside world she was so excited to sit in that window, feeling the breeze on her fur and watching the goings on of the world.  When I look at this photo words that come to mind are awe, excitement, happiness, wondrous, exuberant.  At one point she looked at me and then looked back outside. I just know she was saying "Thank you".

You stole a piece of my heart that day, Lexy, and I never got it back.


Dawn

Rescue Stories: Lola - Facebook Helped Her Find Her Forever Home

This story is the story of another Lola, another lucky girl. AND... we're besties! You can follow my friend lola on her Facebook page.
Lola

I’ve always believed everything happens for a reason, and I’ve always been an animal lover my entire life, even though we never had any pets while I was growing up.   In 2011 I took a chance at a new job, and after seven months of commuting over 120 miles round trip each day, I decided to relocate.  I reluctantly left my house in the town that I had called home my entire adult life, moved and started a new life.  I decided that since I was moving for the job I would select the closest place I could find to my office, which happened to be 300 yards away from work.  

In late 2012 I started to realize that something was missing and that I didn’t feel as if my new place was actually a home.  I decided since my work schedule was somewhat hectic, and I could not always guarantee what time I would make it home, that it would be unfair to bring a dog into my life and that I would start to look at adding a cat to my home.  A few years prior to all of this my best friend, Kelly, rescued two amazing cats, Kenny & Chesney, whom I met and loved so I knew that a cat would definitely fit in with my needs.

I knew I was going to need to find the right cat, and it would take a while, so in early 2013 I turned to the internet to begin my search.  I felt two things were important during my search 1) Make sure the cat and I got along and 2) have the cat pick me out, not the other way around.   I reviewed several pictures of cats with a local rescue group, and decided to meet a couple.  They were all very nice cats but I wasn’t sure of how they would work themselves into my life and was especially afraid of one who had balance issues falling from the loft space where my bedroom was located.

Work became very busy and I did not search as hard as I could have, but I continued to passively search hoping the right cat would come into my life, somehow.  I noticed that several rescue pages used Facebook to communicate so I decided to start to “like” their pages.  I also noticed that rescue pages would share pages for individual cats that needed to be adopted.   I ended up seeing a page about a Cat named Pedro from Indianapolis who had Diabetes and was at the Humane Society of Hamilton County.  I was contemplating meeting Pedro, however, he was adopted before I could act.  I was happy that Pedro found a new home, but days later I saw post from Pedro’s page sharing a cat named Lola, and a cat named Abe.

One of Lola's photos posted to help her find
her forever home.

Wordless Wednesday

Mommy took the curtains down to wash them,
but she didn't open the blinds.   

It's a good thing me and Lexy put
this hole in them.

I'm almost through.

Not really a Wordless Wesnesday

Hello everyone, this is Mommy Dawn taking over Lola's Diary for a moment.  I wanted to post this photo for Wordless Wednesday with some comments, but Lola had other ideas about that.  "Mommy, Wordless Wednesday means we don't meow words!" "Mommy, you can't do that! Don't embarrass me in front of my new friends!" Mommy, we don't want to look like beginners!" You get the picture.  So I'm going to do a separate post and share this photo now.

This was taken 11 days after I brought Lola home.  Eleven days after being  discharged from the hospital and having the experience of being loved and treated like a Princess. This is the very first time she every laid on the couch out in the open.  They say a picture speaks a thousand words, and to me this couldn't truer when it comes to this photo of her.  Some of the words that come to mind when I look at it are: peace, love, serenity, safety, thankfulness, relief, happy, calm, content, tranquil, grateful. Home.

This picture still melts my heart when I look at it.  I love you, Lola.  Now and forever.

I tricked Mommy!

I tricked Mommy! It's been a while, but I did it!

A couple of weeks ago we posted this photo of Mommy's bed on Facebook: 

Oops!