Cows, Socks, and Flower

You may remember my fascination with cows.  In fact, when I first moved to the country and ended up with a field full of cows living next door, I had a lot of questions.  I've been here over a year now, and finally - FINALLY - I found someone to answer my questions about cows.  Thanks to Debbie, a blogger and a cattle rancher in Kansas, who explained to me the reason that Ziggy and my next door neighbors will most likely never be best friends.  Debbie recently won the "America's Farmers Farm Mom of the Year" award for 2012.  Congratulations Debbie!  Be sure to stop by and visit her blog for a look at life on a cattle ranch, and to have all of your cow questions answered.

In addition to learning about cows, I've also been learning more about cats.  And to help with my cat education, I brought home two new foster cats a few weeks ago.  I met Socks while stopping by my neighbor's house to discuss which animals they were wanting me to rehome.  As we stood there talking, a small brown tabby cat came walking straight up to me and began weaving around my legs.  I picked her up, and she immediately began purring.   I hadn't planned to take home any cats that day, but when I met Socks I just fell in love. 


Socks

In addition to Socks, the neighbors pointed out a very small black and white cat who they also wanted to rehome.  They had named her Skunk, because she had a white stripe down her back and did somewhat resemble a skunk.  However I was concerned about trying to find a home for a cat with the name Skunk - people may think she smelled bad!  So I renamed her Flower ("You can call me Flower if you want to!" - name that movie) and brought her home too.  She is every bit as sweet as Socks, and she doesn't smell bad at all.   

Flower

Update:  Since Socks and Flower came to my house a few weeks ago, they've been spayed, vaccinated, microchipped, and all that good stuff, and then they started going to adoption events.  Within a week, Flower was adopted and Socks has now moved up to PetSmart where I hope she will quickly be adopted as well. 

Houston Pittie Pack

Kissa-bull is a blog written by Sandra about her dogs, known as the Houston Pittie Pack and the Wee Ones.  It was heartbreaking to learn this morning that Sandra's home was destroyed in a fire last night.  Sandra and her human family members survived, but she lost her home and five of her dogs.  As Mayzie's mom reported, "She tried desperately to get all the dogs out of the house but they were hiding under beds and in closets. She was only able to save Brinks and Bella. The rest – Guero, Coco Chanel, Tiger, Lucky and Shelby – are all now at the Bridge."  These dogs were so special, and so loved.  I can only imagine the pain that Sandra and her family are going through.  Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers.  
A chip-in has also been set up to help with any immediate needs that the family has.  If you can help, please consider donating any amount to this family.  You can also leave Sandra a comment on her blog at http://kissa-bull.blogspot.com/ to let her know that you're thinking of her during this time.

It's Virgil Day!

My friend Amy at the House of Cats is holding a commentathon today. For every comment left on her blog from now until midnight, she will donate 25 cents to Cat Guardians, which is a no-kill cat shelter. Please stop by and say "Hi!" to Virgil, her cat whose picture is on the Cute Overload cat calendar today.