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Monday, October 15, 2012

Meet a Rescuer on National Feral Cat Day!

Today, October 16, is National Feral Cat Day. Visit Alley Cat Allies to find out more. I thought I would add this to yesterday's post for extra emphasis!

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About The Feral Cat Rescue Project

The Feral Cat Rescue Project photo blog is an attempt to document the lives of feral cats and their plight. I do my best to feed and care for them, and to protect them from danger. The Feral Cat Rescue Project is not a 501(c)3 charity; it's just the effort of one impoverished artist.

~ Chriss Pagani

Today, October 15, 2012, is Blog the Change for Animals. There are many many good people out there who engage daily in selfless actions to help change the course of life for many of our furry and 'unfurry' friends. I want to highlight one of those people.

Chriss has literally given her all for the care and feeding of the feral cats that she has devoted her life to. Through her beautiful photography, she has allowed a glimpse into the lives of those that are too often considered unworthy of a place on the earth. Her own tragic background has perhaps allowed her to experience a deeper empathy than most toward the plight of these kitties. The loss of her own cat several years ago certainly played a large part as well in her current efforts to provide a safe place for these feral felines.

Flojo

She has captured and neutered dozens over the years through the help of a local vet and used to house them in an old trailer on her sister's farm property. Sadly, an electrical fire earlier this year wiped out the trailer and as of this writing, I am not sure if she has yet found a place for the 30 or 40 that depend on her to winter over. But she continues to feed and care for them as best as she can through her sales of her art and photos and donations of other caring cat lovers.

Her blog header states:

Photos of feral cats and rescue cases. Full of beauty and sadness, feral cats are not trespassers nor are they alien invaders: feral cats are part of our natural world. This photo-blog documents the lives of feral cats; raw and real. It is not a place for studio portraits or carefully photoshopped pictures of fluffy purebred kittens. Real life is not always pretty, as you will see. This is the feral life.

Please visit her blog. You will find many gorgeous photos as well as her full story along with links to her art and photography and other selling venues. I included a couple of them here. And please consider a donation. A little can go a long way!

Where to find her art, calendars, and other items for sale:

Fine Art America

2013 Feral Life Photo Calendar

Zazzle T-shirts and Cards

God Bless you, Chriss! And thank you!

Saturday, August 13, 2011

Two Sweet Torties Need a Home!

Chriss, over at The Feral Cat Rescue Project in Oregon, has these two adorable kitties that need loving homes. She is such a sweet heart, that she is willing to drive quite a distance to give them a good home. PLEASE PLEASE take a look and PASS THIS ALONG through twitter, facebook, blogs.....

She can be reached through comments on her blog, @Pagani on twitter, or contacted HERE.

The following is taken from her blog.

All made-up, colorful and pretty ..and no place to go! Aww. Georgia, the four month old Tortie kitten seems like she's looking for love. She and her sister, Non-Georgia, are a pair of friendly, smart, and charming tortie kittens that were rescued.

Georgia (above) and her sister, Non-Georgia, are the cutest things to me! I love them and I think torties in general are adorable. But for some reason they can be hard to adopt out. Which is sad. Personally, I think they are wonderful; they have that special tortie-attitude that is unique to this coloration. I want to have them for my own but I'm already maxed-out on cats. And they deserve some love.

Georgia and Non-Georgia aren't really box trained but you can work with them; they are very smart. They need a loving, safe home. I'd work with whomever adopted them for shots and spaying as they get old enough. I just want them to be well-cared for.

I hope someone will save them! Our rescued tortie from last year was not adopted and became a victim of coyote predation before the summer was over. I still haven't recovered from that one and I don't need more things to cry over.

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THANK YOU FOR SPREADING THE WORD!!

Monday, May 16, 2011

Welcome to

MEWsings

A display of some of my favorite cat items from a selected Etsy shop!

MEWsy on over and see for yourself by clicking on any of these feline goodies. Today, let's peek in the window of Beeblecat’s shop!

"Beebles is a little black cat that lives at our cage-free sanctuary where she get lots of love and care. The sales from Beeblecat’s shop go toward food and medical care for her and all the many other cats that are living out their lives in the sanctuary. All items are created or furnished by Joyce.
Beebles and all the other cats thank you for visiting."

I so love the fact that these beautiful offerings are two fold - the owner receives a genuine hand crafted article and the sanctuary receives much needed supplies. And everything is extremely affordable!

I hope you'll visit and PURRuse her shop!

Patty

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

HOWL iday Tidings Giveaway!

Winner Chosen Sunday Dec 19th at 6 pm ET

With hopes of bringing tidings of comfort and joy to the animals at my local shelter, Rescue Village.

Moka Designs offers fantastic handmade tote bags in a variety of colors and patterns. Monett is committed to quality and I can testify to that, as I am the happy owner of one of her gorgeous bags! She is also committed to animal rescue and has a happy fur family she dearly loves. You can read about her rescues here.

This fun dog print bag can be yours! Her bags measure about 18" wide, 14" tall, and 4.5" deep. There are double pockets on both the inside and outside and it closes with a magnetic clasp. You will also receive a stuffed dog from my Dogbarks shop to go with it.

10% of any sales in either shop during this giveaway will go to Rescue Village! Help us spread tidings of comfort and joy to the cats and dogs at this caring shelter.

Moka Designs

Dogbarks

To Enter:

1. Follow this blog if you are not already AND visit both shops and choose your favorite item. Come back and post it here in one comment. 3 entries

2. Tweet, facebook, stumble....copy and paste what you wrote in the comments up to 5 times for 1 entry each.

2. Purchase anything from either shop. 10 entires per bag. 5 entries per Dogbark purchase.

GOOD LUCK!

Thursday, November 11, 2010

IT'S FURBABY FRIDAY!!
Naomi, from HyperspaceHippo.etsy.com, and her two kitties, Gromek and Peanut, have wonderful 'happy ever after' stories to tell us today!
She will receive 50 FREE TWEETS next week for being my guest today!

GROMEK

Ahhhh.....right there...yeah...now a little to the left....ooooo purrfect!

My sister is a veterinarian. One of the veterinary technicians working at an overnight emergency clinic had gone out to buy food for the staff. When he was walking back to the clinic, a cat followed him. He left the cat outside and went in. Over the course of the night passers-by rang the doorbell to the clinic several times thinking a cat had escaped! Eventually they figured out that this kitty was not planning to leave and they brought him in and neutered him, intending (on the boss’s orders) to release him the next day. Luckily for Gromek they kept him, and once I met him I knew I had to take him home! He was such a sweet, laid-back kitty that I knew he’d be able to handle driving two hours back and forth with me to visit home on weekends. He was about a year old. The first day I brought him home he actually climbed into my lap, and I knew I’d picked the right little guy!

PEANUT
....just showing you my fine looking tummy!

Five years later, my sister emailed me a picture of a tiny little cat that had been brought in to the clinic where she works. He looked about 6 weeks old and had only one good eye. My boyfriend and I weren’t sure we wanted another cat, and we definitely thought Gromek would not be pleased. We were sure such a young kitten would be easily adopted, so we said no. Almost 8 months later, the poor little guy was still stuck at the clinic! They had heard a heart murmur and knew he would need an echocardiogram and preferably a visit to a cardiologist to be sure of his prognosis. A few people had considered adopting him, one of whom could not afford the specialist visit, and another of who said they would euthanize him if he had a heart problem. Needless to say, I ended up going to meet him, and we took him home. We got him his (expensive!) cardiologist visit! Peanut is now a year old, and will need another echocardiogram in a few months, but so far, if his heart problems don’t get worse, his prognosis looks good.

I LOVE to cuddle! Sometimes I squeeze between my mom and dad on the couch. And burying myself under the bed covers is always fun!

This is my cousin. When I first moved in, I used to attack him when he came over. But now we are good buddies...in fact, we are cuddle buddies!

I am VERY smart! My mom taught me to sit for my treats. Chicken and tuna are my faves...YUMMMMM!

You can't see me! This is one of my special hiding places.

Another fun hiding place. I bet Mom won't have a clue I was here!!

It's true I only have one good eye, but I have gotten pretty good at jumping in the house. See that sofa Gromek is on?
I'm a bit of a klutz, but I am famous in our house for leaping up to the back of the sofa . . . and disappearing over the other side! But I do it again and again....and sometimes make it on!

At first Gromek and Peanut did not get along and we kept them separated only allowing for short interactions. We kept at it, rewarding them with games, pets, and treats whenever they were near each other, and separating them whenever things got too stressful. Now they get along . . . at least as well as any pair of human siblings. Gromek still thinks Peanut is pretty annoying. Peanut likes to bat and chomp on Gromek’s ears and tail. But Gromek lets him get away with it now, and might move away if things get too annoying. They play-fight now instead of real fighting, and will bounce and jump over each other and chase each other through the house until someone gets tired of the game. After a long time of being unwilling to be in the same room, they can now even share some of Gromek’s favorite windows, and I recently even caught Gromek grooming Peanut!

Along with her beautiful cats, Naomi also has beautiful jewelry! You can find her work at her Etsy shop
http://www.etsy.com/shop/hyperspacehippo

and see more photos of her work on her own website:
http://hyperspacehippo.weebly.com/beading-photos.html

Follow her on twitter and at her blog as well!
http://twitter.com/Hyperspacehippo
http://hyperspacehippo.blogspot.com

Please click these lovely photos to visit her shop!

FURBABY FRIDAY is dedicated to our much loved furry (or not so furry!) animal friends that enrich our lives and world and make us better people!
If you are an owner of an Etsy, Artfire, or other online shop with a pet and would like to be featured here, please follow me and leave a comment with a link to where I might contact you. Those chosen will receive 50 free Tweets of advertising the following week.