Beth & Atlas
Member Since 2010
Yesterday's Condo
Well, that looks a bit better this morning....
Now, looking out the window at the blanket of white ...... not so much.
Fresh bread to be made today. I have some mushrooms that need to be used...maybe some mushroom soup too. Add in a salad...and hey! That sounds like dinner for tonight. Maybe I'll invite the neighbor over who snowblows my sidewalk and driveway to dinner. Twelve days ago when we had a snow event...I took him some brocolli cheese soup as a 'thank you.'
Attie is snoozing away this morning. He was my alarm clock to get me up...ate...and he went btb. MudCat is hogging the heating vent in the family room and Gary has been trying to figure out how to snuggle in a human lap this morning. I'm not sure he understands you can't make bread on my lap with your claws!
And my heart goes out to Amber and Sam(GA) from DCIN today. Fostering animals is sometimes a wonderful experience and there are times when it just rips your very heart & soul out. Often times as a foster the animals come your way have been so severly neglected you don't know their full medical background. Even the best vets can miss things until the symptoms manifest ...we just don't know. So, even in brick and morter shelters, we treat what we see and what we see is priority. Basic screenings are completed for parasites, FIV & FElv...but until the cat shows something more testing is often limited. And there are just some disease processes in cats that don't manifest until it is just too late. I think about my own Krueger(GA) and the discovery of the fast growing tumor in his tummy...cancer.
This upcoming March 17th is Atlas's 2 year anniversary with me. That is the day I brought him home from the shelter to "foster for as long as he had left." While Atlas is a success story, he was originally coming to my home to die in some measure of comfort on palliative care. I make no illusions that his level of neglect will come back and haunt him...it is part of his baggage.
Well, that looks a bit better this morning....
Now, looking out the window at the blanket of white ...... not so much.
Fresh bread to be made today. I have some mushrooms that need to be used...maybe some mushroom soup too. Add in a salad...and hey! That sounds like dinner for tonight. Maybe I'll invite the neighbor over who snowblows my sidewalk and driveway to dinner. Twelve days ago when we had a snow event...I took him some brocolli cheese soup as a 'thank you.'
Attie is snoozing away this morning. He was my alarm clock to get me up...ate...and he went btb. MudCat is hogging the heating vent in the family room and Gary has been trying to figure out how to snuggle in a human lap this morning. I'm not sure he understands you can't make bread on my lap with your claws!
And my heart goes out to Amber and Sam(GA) from DCIN today. Fostering animals is sometimes a wonderful experience and there are times when it just rips your very heart & soul out. Often times as a foster the animals come your way have been so severly neglected you don't know their full medical background. Even the best vets can miss things until the symptoms manifest ...we just don't know. So, even in brick and morter shelters, we treat what we see and what we see is priority. Basic screenings are completed for parasites, FIV & FElv...but until the cat shows something more testing is often limited. And there are just some disease processes in cats that don't manifest until it is just too late. I think about my own Krueger(GA) and the discovery of the fast growing tumor in his tummy...cancer.
This upcoming March 17th is Atlas's 2 year anniversary with me. That is the day I brought him home from the shelter to "foster for as long as he had left." While Atlas is a success story, he was originally coming to my home to die in some measure of comfort on palliative care. I make no illusions that his level of neglect will come back and haunt him...it is part of his baggage.
