Tina & Rocky
Member Since 2013
Good morning!
It looks like the mid-60s is where Rocky's BG wants to be. I do feel like testing him to see if he's gone lower than 50 anywhere in his mid-day cycle.
My headache is back! Argghh!! I don't think it's good to continually take antibiotics, hence, I don't do it all of the time. The last time I was on that very strong one it really seemed to knock out the bacteria trapped above my eyes. The doctor told me that the Neti pot won't work once you have the infection, so it's not a solution. I am seriously wondering if I should go to a plastic surgeon and see if the nose holes in my upper nose, where i cannot see into at all, are a normal size, or if they are too small. I don't want a nose job, I don't need a nose job. I love my own nose. :lol:
The other challenge might be, I might have your good ol' fashion cold, once again. My guru told me when I saw him this June that I need to stay detached from all of the cats that I'm helping. He said if I don't, I will take on THEIR emotions... that it is normal human behavior to take on the emotions and thinking of those that we surround ourselves with every day. He told me that one time he met a woman in Colorado who was helping bears, and that she had let herself go so much that she had actually started to look like a bear, as well as kind talk/sound like one too. OMG!! -- :? --- He told me to be very, very careful about that, and to not forget about my human friends and family, to make sure to spend plenty of time with them as well. He said that being too attached to them and their situation, it will cause my body to become weak, and eventually cause me to become sick, perhaps very ill.
I bring this up because this month has been a marathon for me so far. In one week alone, I received an email from 4 rescue groups asking me to trap 3 litters of kittens, as well as one pregnant cat. In addition, I ALREADY have 20 kittens in my 4 colonies to trap that are starting to get too old to tame. My heart is breaking for them the most because they are in my colonies.. In the back of my mind, I also know of two other litters of kittens that I was not able to help in June because I had the retreat and could not take them into my house, and I feel horrible about that. Now, they are most likely too old to tame as well. To old to tame means that kittens 4 months or older get trapped, taken to the SPCA and are fully vetted, ear tipped, and then released back into their colony. This way they cannot reproduce. It means the colony has grown because now the kittens will grow to be adults in the colony. It means more money to feed more mouths, more money that I just do not have.
In addition, at the location where I trapped the last 3 kittens and their mother, the caretaker who took care of this colony of at least 11 cats has moved from California to Oregon, leaving the colony behind.... The location is 30 minutes one way from my house. To feed them, it takes one hour out of my day. I drove over their yesterday and many of them were sitting on the woman's porch, and the house and porch are empty.. It was so sad. I almost started crying. I had moved their food bowl the night before to what I think might be a 'safe' location in the bushes across the street. I won't know if they found it until I go there today to check on them. I just don't have the money to feed this colony. I didn't plan on taking on a colony one hour from my house, as well as feeding them too, but I fear they are going to starve without my intervention.
i am the ONLY person that rescue groups and the SPCA call in all of Elk Grove to trap litters of kittens in Elk Grove, or trap mass amounts of cats. Oh sure, there are other people in Elk Grove trapping cats, ONE CAT AT A TIME. I asked them for names of other people trapping in Elk Grove. They told me that they don't have any one..
Because Kitty Karma Refuge just received it's non-profit status, of course we don't have any source of grant money coming in yet. I haven't even had time to write any grans. All the money to pay for all of these cats and kittens is still flying out of my own purse. I can't keep doing this.
But back to Rocky== the silver lining in the storm loud, I let him out of his room again today to explore even more. About three of the cats came over and were interested in him. So far so good, they are all touching noses and acting like they have known him forever, even though they are not from the same colony and were trapped miles and miles apart. So far so good. Rocky is SO easy going. I have NEVER heard him growl. If one of the other cats started growling at him I am sure he would run and hide in the closet. :lol: He's a gently giant.
It looks like the mid-60s is where Rocky's BG wants to be. I do feel like testing him to see if he's gone lower than 50 anywhere in his mid-day cycle.
My headache is back! Argghh!! I don't think it's good to continually take antibiotics, hence, I don't do it all of the time. The last time I was on that very strong one it really seemed to knock out the bacteria trapped above my eyes. The doctor told me that the Neti pot won't work once you have the infection, so it's not a solution. I am seriously wondering if I should go to a plastic surgeon and see if the nose holes in my upper nose, where i cannot see into at all, are a normal size, or if they are too small. I don't want a nose job, I don't need a nose job. I love my own nose. :lol:
The other challenge might be, I might have your good ol' fashion cold, once again. My guru told me when I saw him this June that I need to stay detached from all of the cats that I'm helping. He said if I don't, I will take on THEIR emotions... that it is normal human behavior to take on the emotions and thinking of those that we surround ourselves with every day. He told me that one time he met a woman in Colorado who was helping bears, and that she had let herself go so much that she had actually started to look like a bear, as well as kind talk/sound like one too. OMG!! -- :? --- He told me to be very, very careful about that, and to not forget about my human friends and family, to make sure to spend plenty of time with them as well. He said that being too attached to them and their situation, it will cause my body to become weak, and eventually cause me to become sick, perhaps very ill.
I bring this up because this month has been a marathon for me so far. In one week alone, I received an email from 4 rescue groups asking me to trap 3 litters of kittens, as well as one pregnant cat. In addition, I ALREADY have 20 kittens in my 4 colonies to trap that are starting to get too old to tame. My heart is breaking for them the most because they are in my colonies.. In the back of my mind, I also know of two other litters of kittens that I was not able to help in June because I had the retreat and could not take them into my house, and I feel horrible about that. Now, they are most likely too old to tame as well. To old to tame means that kittens 4 months or older get trapped, taken to the SPCA and are fully vetted, ear tipped, and then released back into their colony. This way they cannot reproduce. It means the colony has grown because now the kittens will grow to be adults in the colony. It means more money to feed more mouths, more money that I just do not have.
In addition, at the location where I trapped the last 3 kittens and their mother, the caretaker who took care of this colony of at least 11 cats has moved from California to Oregon, leaving the colony behind.... The location is 30 minutes one way from my house. To feed them, it takes one hour out of my day. I drove over their yesterday and many of them were sitting on the woman's porch, and the house and porch are empty.. It was so sad. I almost started crying. I had moved their food bowl the night before to what I think might be a 'safe' location in the bushes across the street. I won't know if they found it until I go there today to check on them. I just don't have the money to feed this colony. I didn't plan on taking on a colony one hour from my house, as well as feeding them too, but I fear they are going to starve without my intervention.
i am the ONLY person that rescue groups and the SPCA call in all of Elk Grove to trap litters of kittens in Elk Grove, or trap mass amounts of cats. Oh sure, there are other people in Elk Grove trapping cats, ONE CAT AT A TIME. I asked them for names of other people trapping in Elk Grove. They told me that they don't have any one..
Because Kitty Karma Refuge just received it's non-profit status, of course we don't have any source of grant money coming in yet. I haven't even had time to write any grans. All the money to pay for all of these cats and kittens is still flying out of my own purse. I can't keep doing this.
But back to Rocky== the silver lining in the storm loud, I let him out of his room again today to explore even more. About three of the cats came over and were interested in him. So far so good, they are all touching noses and acting like they have known him forever, even though they are not from the same colony and were trapped miles and miles apart. So far so good. Rocky is SO easy going. I have NEVER heard him growl. If one of the other cats started growling at him I am sure he would run and hide in the closet. :lol: He's a gently giant.
