Mischief Monday - We Are Too Busy - by Styx

 Hi friends, hi friends, hi friends,

We are so, so, so busy right now. Lady hardly has time to think much less do fun things like Blog or visit you. She is so busy, people have been talking about headline news (which usually she knows enough about) and she has no idea what people are talking about. The world could have ended and she would not know!  Besides work and her volunteering with the Ottawa Paw Pantry, she has taken on a board position with the rescue we foster with, TNR La Peche. She is now the vet appointment coordinator and fundraising chair! 

While we are busy, we are all good.

Updates:

Oakley moved to her forever home on Thursday. She is already so loved. Here is a picture her new family sent us. 

This has left Miss Acorn alone so she is now living in the whole house. While Tigris and Lanie barely tolerate her, she and I are now BFFs. 

Celeste and the cosmic crew are doing really well. We had our family over for Thanksgiving and Celeste was so tolerant of the visitors. She handled it better than Man handled our fridge dying Sunday of Thanksgiving weekend. (New fridge arrived Friday).

Here is a neat series of Eclipse to show how quickly the kittens have grown in 2 weeks.

This week we celebrate 1 year with Lanie and 1 month until Man's retirement. 

Hopefully things will slow down a little as winter comes!

your pal, who misses you so much, Styxy

Mischief Monday - Celeste and The Cosmic Crew -by Lady

 I was away for a few days and the Man had to take care of all things kitten. Overall it was ok, execpt the time Celeste acted like she wanted pets and then put her claws into him and drew blood. I was stunned how big the crew got while I was away. It was only 3 days and they look even more like real cats and they are moving around so much more and playing! 

Thank you to those who commented on the infected eyes. We are aware of this and are working to treat it. We lost a little ground the 3 days I was away because Celeste doesn't trust man like she trusts me and he couldn't treat them safely. I can see in the one day of cleaning, we are already getting an improvement so I hope we can get it all cleared up. It is in no way impacting their play and exploring.

I call this picture trust because Celeste trusted me to pick up one of the crew to treat the eyes. She was a little unsettled but was not aggressive. 

Eclipse

This week we will be introducing litter and food to the crew! Fingers crossed. I can't believe they are 4 weeks old!

Kittens In The Big House - By Styx

 Hi friends, hi friends, hi friends!

How I have missed you! Lady finally had a quiet day to catch up, up, up. I told her, time to tell our friends about what we think about living with foster cats.

First, for the most part the foster cats are in rooms we don't see. Celeste and the Cosmic Crew are in the foster room, and Acorn and Oakley are in the main bathroom. Once Celeste and Tigris had words under the door, but mostly we just ignore them.

Yesterday Man had an idea. He thought Acorn and Oakley should get some supervised time out. Well they did and it went pretty well. I was the bestest, bestest, bestest boy.

Acorn and I were nose to nose and I only hissed after she hissed at me 3 times. 

Tigris watched it all from the table, not happy but not angry either. 

Lanie hissed, hissed, hissed and growled, growled, growled when Acorn looked at her. 

Oakley got brave and walked around. She avoided us so no hissing occurred. 

It went so well, Lady and Man said it would happen again.

They have discovered the towel laundry basket and were mad when Lady did the laundry

We will see if they make more mischief this week.

your pal, the amazing friend Styxy 

Mischief Monday - Ummm, Some Excuse - by Styx

 Hi friends, hi friends, hi friends!

The Lady promised we were going to have lots and lots and lots of time to catch up with your blogs yesterday and then she got a call to go help catalogue cats in a colony who need to be re-homed and she did that and then spent 2 hours going through the pictures to make a profile for each of the 18 cats. The people say people keep dumping cats near their house and they have been trying to take care of them. 

She said you would all understand. 

Here are some of them. 

sigh! She really is being a crazy cat Lady

Styx

Mischief Monday - Is It Over?

 Hi friends, hi friends, hi friends!

First, we have not got to visit you like we have wanted to, because we are busy, busy, busy. Lady says we may not blog 5 or 6 days a week for the short term, but you will hear from us a couple times a week.  She says, things overall are just rolling along and there isn't much to talk about.  We are boring, boring, boring, in a very good way. 

Enjoying the last of the summer sun. 

Now, perhaps the most important news for me, your Styxy. The kittens have all been adopted. While some are still in our house, they will all be to their forever homes in the next day or two. 

California is going to a lovely young couple who said goodbye to their calico earlier this year and are ready for another one. 

Austin and Friendly are going to a family who have always had cats. They will live with 3 kids. They will get lots of love and not from my, my, my people. 

Together forever - Friendly and Austin

We have also heard from Phantom's (now Eva) family that she is settling in and they love her already. 

I stopped to look at the kittens yesterday, and I did not, not, not like it. I had to growl, growl, growl at them.  I am hoping having intruders will be over, but I heard Lady tell Man, she is working with the rescue to figure out the best fit for the next cat(s). We will see. I think Lady has done enough with Lanie and these kittens to help the Cat Redistribution System.  She says no, no, no. 

Styx - who isn't sure he likes new cats in his house and wants it to be over. 

Mischief Monday - Not Enough Pictures of Me - by Styx

 Hi friends, hi friends, hi friends,

This week was fine, fine, fine, EXCEPT, I got a peak at the Lady's phone and there are 87 million new kitten pictures and no new ones of me. I let her know my displeasure by giving her the stink eye, which she captured on film.

Who would want pictures of kittens when they have the most handsome guy in the world here!

your very handsome friend, Stysy

Mischief Monday - Where's My Chicken - by Styx

 Hi friends, hi friends, hi friends,

As you know, I am a very, very polite cat, so, so, so polite. I have learned very good table manners, and yet still, I have to ask "Where is my chicken?"

A very hungry Styx

Mischief Monday - Traitors! Traitors! Traitors! by Styx

 Hi friends, hi friends, hi friends,

I am very mad, mad, mad this week. My people have been the big bad traitors and i don't know if I am going to forgive them. 

A picture from before I was so, so, so mad

I got a little mad, because Lady took another day off to drive cats to get spayed and neutered. This time she took 11. Here is one of the cats she took, who sang most of the ride. 

Archie

I understand this is very important. While we cats are the most awesome, awesome, awesome, we do need to curb unnecessary reproduction. Allowing people access to affordable spay and neuter services is important! But I am still a little mad that she was gone from me all day. She could have just been with me, me, me. 

I might be able to forgive this, but Lady and Man were away for 87 million years and while they don't deserve it, they will probably tell you more about it here, I found these pictures on Lady's phone. This shows she has a pattern of loving other cats and not just me, me, me. They went to a cat cafe and played with kittens. They left us alone for 87 million years to play with kittens in another province. This is completely unacceptable. I am mad, mad, mad.

Tommy and Dakota

Tommy

Dakota

Tommy

Tommy

Part of me can't blame them from wanting to play with cats, because we are so great, great, great. These kittens are cute, cute, cute. But if I can't go, they should not be able to go.

Styx - the mad, mad, mad cat

Mischief Monday - Nothing Caught but a Catch Up

 Hi friends, hi friends, hi friends!

It has been busy, busy, busy here. Things have been happening and I have been too tired to catch up.

First last weekend, our cousin Troy came. He was a nice boy, although Lanie thought stranger danger, strange danger, stranger danger, and hid a lot. Troy didn't get to see her much. 

Troy gave lots and lots and lots of treats

Then Lady was gone for 1, 2, 3, THREE, whole nights. She had to go away for work. Man was in charge and it was good but not the same. We like our routine.

Then Lady came back tired and had to keep working, working, working, so when the weekend hit, she was done, done, done. 

Like my new sitting place?

She says she has a quiet week this week. While you are reading this, she is likely driving cats to get spayed and neutered again. 

We are all well, and busy, busy, busy so we are tired, tired, tired. 

A very busy and tired Styxy

Mischief Monday - My Nemesis By Styx

 Hi friends, hi friends, hi friends,

You all know I love almost everyone. I have a heart that is too big, too big, too big! I am the anti-Grinch. However, there are two things I don't love. There are two things I want to hunt, hunt, hunt.

The first is the crow. They stay far from my house, far, far, far. They know I would get them.

The second is the black squirrel. He or She does not stay far, far, far. He or She teases me and stands right at the window, thanks to the feeder Uncle Chris got me.

Sometimes He or She even knocks on the window. I do not want to be his or her friend. I want to hunt him or her. Hunt, hunt, hunt.

Lady says it is very distracting when she is trying to work.

you pal Styxy, the squirrel fighter

Mischief Monday - I thought She Had Forgotten - by Styx

 Hi friends, hi friends, hi friends, 

Wednesday was Canada Day. I was so, so, so excited that Lady had forgotten that she had purchased a Canada t-shirt for me, so I thought I was lucky, lucky, lucky and was going to escape the hat tax. No, no, no, she remembered and I had to wear it and have my picture displayed on surveillance capitalism sites (aka social media).

 

I do look very, very, handsome. Lady had the audacity to say I had to pay the tax while the girls did not because I just cost her $87 million at the cardiologist. To that, I said . . . .

a very handsome Styx

Mischief Monday - Squirrel Watch

 Hi friends, hi friends, hi friends,

I feel like my dreams have come true. Squirrel TV has really, really improved here.

Smiling in my sleep, as I am living my best life

Uncle Chris got Lady stick on bird feeders for her birthday. So far she has put one up and it has worked, it has brought us squirrels, squirrels, squirrel!

Me on guard when Lady first put it up.

Gris tuned in - I am there, just out of frame 

The mischief is the squirrels knocked the feeder and have at least once knocked on the window looking for more food.

I can't wait to see what is on the squirrel TV channel this week. It is the best, best, best channel!

your pal Styx 

Mischief Monday - Weather

 Hi friends, hi friends, hi friends,

Thank you from the bottom of my future too big heart for all the POTP and kind thoughts sent my way. I really am doing well and I love, love, love my pill. I jump up on the counter to get it. I think the girls are jealous that I get a special treat. 

Lanie and I love to look out the window together

It has been a quiet week here, except we were alone way, way, way too long Saturday. Lady and Man went out for dinner and to a movie and then 10 minutes from home, they hit a road block. We had a bad, bad, bad thunderstorm while they were in the city and the low road (the highway) and the only other reasonable detour (the mountain road) had flooded. The firefighter said they had no idea when they may be able to open again, so a tired Lady and Man had to take a detour that took about 1.5 hours. 1.5 hours! They drove so, so, so long without a break, Lady's car gave Man a reminder that he should take a break (they were almost home then so he was not, not, not, going to stop).

We saw this the next morning and thought this could sum up our life

At the time of this writing on Sunday, the detour was open but the highway was still closed and may be closed for several days. 

Your pal, the great watcher and waiter, Styxy

Mischief Monday - Is My Heart Too Big - by Styx

 Hi friends, hi friends, hi friends,

Last Tuesday was a horrible, horrible, horrible day for your friend Styxy. First my people gave me medication that made me feel very funny. I felt sooooo funny. I could eat and everything, but man, the world was different. 

Then they shoved me in a crate and drove for 87 years (about 1.5 hours) and took me to a very scary, scary, scary place. Then I go to be in a room but they wouldn't let me climb. Then they took me from my people and shaved my fur. 

I have a hole on each side!

Then after the test, I got to wait in the room with my people, and I hid behind my Lady. Hid, hid, hid. Dr. Whipp may be a very nice person, but I am not a fan.

Look at all the fur I put on her

So the short story is I have a grade 3 heart murmur. I had something called an echo to look at my heart.  Dr. Whipp said the findings were a bit inclusive. My heart is not pumping blood the right way, but it could be something called HCM or it could be I have a very, very special valve. In the end, it doesn't matter for treatment, because in both cases I have to take something called a Beta Blocker for the rest of my life. I also have to see Dr. Whipp again in 3 months and then about once a year. Maybe with time, we will understand more about my "prognosis" whatever that means. In the end, the concern is my heart will get too big. I already thought I had a very big heart., the biggest heart. I can't imagine it could get bigger and if it could, would that really be a problem?

On the way home, in my feeling funny state, Lady took me to the pet store. We needed more food and I needed something called a pill pocket. The ladies at the pet store loved me, and I got lots of good attention. The first pill pockets Lady bought, none of us will eat. They are yucky, yucky, yucky. Lady has since gotten better ones, so I can easily take my pill. 

For now I feel good and we will see.

Thank you all for your POTP. It meant a lot.

your friend Styxy, who may have a too big heart

From the Lady: When people ask me how Styx is my answer is he is both ok (because he is not showing symptoms) and not ok (because he does have a heart problem). We are prepared for wherever this journey takes us.  A friend said, I have bad luck with pets (immune disorder, brain injury, neurological issues etc.) and I said I look at it as the animals who find their way to use have very good luck because we can support them with their journeys. 

Mischief Monday - Styx Alarm

 Hi friends, hi friends, hi friends!

Lady has gotten really too good at ignoring us climbing on her to wake her up. She says she likes the snuggles. She will pet up but she won't get up. On the weekend, this makes my breakfast late, late, late!

With a full belly I am able to have my morning nap

So I am finding new things to do to wake her up. I call it the Styxy alarm.

Last week, I got under the covers and bit her right in the middle of her back. Bite, bite, bite.

This week, I tried biting her feet through the blankets (as she has moved to the thinner summer blanket. When that did not work, she kept sleeping and sleeping and sleeping, I crawled under the covers and bit her feet. She did not like that she said "don't bite".  Cause, while I want breakfast but don't want an angry Lady, then I climbed on her and snuggled for a few minutes before she got up and fed us.

Lady says she does not need a 6:30 Styxy alarm on the weekend. I disagree.

The alarm cat, Styxy

PS If you have some spare POTP I see my cardiologist tomorrow. Lady will try and update you all later this week.

Mischief Monday - Rough Play - by Styx

 Hi friends, hi friends, hi friends,

I love to play rough sometimes. Lanie and I wrestle. I like it when I start it and like it less when she jumps me. I do not like to be jumped. It is not fair, not fair, not fair!

While I don't like being jumped, I love, love, love, jumping Grissie. She does not love, love, love this. She maybe loves it less then I do.

Lady captured a recent match. It started with Gris asleep on the settee. 

It ended on the floor. Gris was mad, mad, mad.

I had a great time.

Styx - world class wrestler