10/31 Autumn amps-65,+4-135, +8-67, pmps-165

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Autumn wants to wish everyone a Happy Autumn's Day or as the rest of you call it Halloween. Since she is orange, black and white she thinks it's very nice that everyone is decorating their homes to match her. They are even carving special pumpkins in her honor...they have to be for her right, cuz mommy calls her Pumpkin? And giving away all that candy to the little pink hairless kittens so they can be extra sweet just like her. What a special girl she is to have a holiday just for her!!!

Mel, Maxwell, Autumn and The Fur Gang
 
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'little pink hairless kittens' that's too funny!!! :lol:

Yes, Autumn, of course it's for you! :thumbup
 
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What a diva!!! Deservedly though because she really is special. Enjoy your day Autumn because soon it will be one of those days where we are celebrating the whiteness of Alska and building snow Alskas and making Alska angels. Then we will have those crisp Lucian days where you smell fireplaces burning.

Mel, you just crack me up!! :lol:
 
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Actually just trying to find something to celebrate today as it is a really down day for me as today should have been Onyx's 19th birthday but instead it's his first birthday at the bridge. I put up his story on community.

But the short version I got him 9 years ago after he was a victim to Halloween, nursed him back to health, lost him for 10 months, had him back for a year, cancer took him on November 14, 2012. 9 days before my mother also past. Right before mom died she thanked me for bring Onyx to stay with her as long haired black cats were her favorite. Later when my sister and I were clearing out her room I found a shed cat claw stuck to her blanket. Mom hadn't had a cat in a couple years and they were never allowed to sleep on the bed.

Mel, Maxwell, Autumn and The Fur Gang
 
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Aw what a sad story. I am going to go read the long version on Community. It sounds like he had a long life though, with lots of love from you and your mother and that they were both a comfort to each other at the end of their lives. I love the name "Onyx".
 
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Aw what a sad story. I am going to go read the long version on Community. It sounds like he had a long life though, with lots of love from you and your mother and that they were both a comfort to each other at the end of their lives. I love the name "Onyx".
 
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Robin

Mom and Onyx never met in life. Mom was wheelchair bound by the time I adopted him. But she loved cats and when I was little raised Himmies and Persians. So I would always email her pictures of my cats and she kept two "brag" books of photos. One titled My Grandbabies and the other My Grandkittens. lol And I swear she pulled out the Grandkittens one the most.

She started me on the path of rescue As a kid I grew up in a house full of rescued animals. At one point there was an orphaned lamb on the mud porch, a 3 legged squirrel in the kitchen, 2 baby raccoons in the barn, a crippled Great Horned Owl on a perch in the living room and pair of baby Turtle Doves out in the chicken coop. All that on top of 10 kids (2 of her own, my sister and I, 2step kids, and 6 foster kids), 12 horses, 4 CFA breeding Persian cats and a couple CFA breeding Himalayan cats and lord only knows how many cows, pigs, sheep, chickens, ducks, geese, kittens, neighbor kids etc. lol And she held down a full time job as well as ran the farm after dad died when I was 12

Onyx full name was Onyx Midnight Voodoo he had a microchip that told me he was a registered Domestic Long Hair and his registered name but his previous owner never updated their info so I couldn't track them down.

Mel, Maxwell, Autumn and The Fur Gang
 
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I would have loved to grow up with your mom!!! I love all the animals!! It's funny that it was always my brother who dragged all the animals home and now he is abandoning the two cats my mom had left and was so worried about in her passing. He says that I made the promise to her to take care of them - not him. So they will be taken care of.. somehow.
 
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Yeah mom and my grandparents on her side were GREAT!!! There were always more critters than kids around and there was a passel of kids. Grandma was the youngest of 13 and grandpa was one of 15 so by the time you got all the grand kids, nieces, nephews and cousins together we could field several baseball teams. lol

Funny thing is when I was a kid all I wanted was off the farm now I would break my neck to be back on one. lol. All the things I hated then are now things I treasure. The big family dinners on the holidays, carving pumpkins and roasting the seeds afterwards, first having mom make my clothes and then having to do it myself, being up before dawn and in the barn feeding the horses. etc

I thought us as poor back then and we were at least money wise but it wasn't until I was grown to realize how truly wealthy we were in the things money can't buy. Love and Laughter. I miss seeing mom and dad dancing to the radio in the kitchen. I miss all the kids running in the backyard chasing fireflies while grandpa played the fiddle on the porch.

There is a song I love called Louisiana Saturday Night. The chorus is Pick up the fiddle and rosin up the bow. Kick off your shoes and throw them on the floor. Here come the kinfolks in the pale moonlight. We're gonna dance til the mornin light. That was weekends and holidays for me growing up. Boy I miss those days now especially with the holidays just around the corner

Mel, Maxwell, Autumn and the Fur Gang
 
Re: 10/31 Autumn amps-65,+4-135, +8-67

So far the change in feeding schedule seems to be working beautifully. Everyone survived last night although they did look very confused when mom and dad went to bed without feeding them first but noone beat down the door or screamed for food. And it definitely seems to be helping Autumn's numbers.

Mel, Maxwell, Autumn and The Fur Gang
 
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