Love the Pearl Stories!

She looks great, glad to see a too-young mom back to being a teen!

kittehs and doggies.

Hope all is well. And I hope your presence will assure others, sweet people, nice folks, to give this spot a chance.

It's hard to move, when lots of good friends and people we support and have support us are still not here.

Thanks again.

He uses all four feet, standing in a weird crouch that conveys nothing so much as "I have to take a crap" - but actually, he doesn't, it is simply a very uncatlike dance of ecstasy.

Great to see you here, Sara! My kitties sat on, kicked, and drooled over one of your pootie pads until finally someone vomited all over it, and its been out airing on the back porch ever since.

If not in this thread - then where?

RobotKitty (her real name is Bubo, like the robot owl in Clash of the Titans) has Cerebellar Hyperplasia, we think, although the woman we rescued her from seemed to think her neurological issues were caused by a toxic flea treatment when she was a kitten. Who knows? She's a little wobbly when she walks, and it conveys a sort of robotic impression.

Either way, it doesn't slow her down. She is the house policewoman, everytime there's a cat spat, she comes running from wherever she is in the house, gets between the combatants, and smacks both of them. Its pretty hilarious, since she's tiny, only 8 pounds, and can't walk or run quite like a normal cat, more like a slightly malfunctioning cybercat charging toward you at full speed.

Anyway, the point of this LONG comment is to encourage some good vibes to be sent her way. She had an extremely aggressive mammary cancer tumor two years ago, which we had removed. The vet wanted her to see an oncologist, which we did, but they wanted to put her on chemo and said it would buy her, at most, 6 months. That seemed pointless to me, and I have a visceral reaction against chemo, it seems so backwards to me.

So, we declined, and I got her started on several immune boosting supplements, a high-quality homemade diet, and just waited. A month ago, I found a lump under her armpit. Now, remember, she was supposed to be dead in 6 months, so getting 2 healthy years was already a miracle, but still, I was devastated - she looked and acted so healthy.

We went in, had it biopsied, and found out it was not the cancer spreading, but instead, a completely new and unrelated cancer, poor little pumpkin. Once again, had the tumor removed and once again they wanted to do chemo.

I am so ambivalent. I got talked into a short course of Palladia, which isn't traditional chemo but is a targeted drug that only attacks cells with a certain cancer-causing gene mutation, so its only supposed to kill cancer cells - or rather, keep them from reproducing, not actually kill them.

I've been in a tizzy, because even that drug goes against my instincts. Luckily, its not so expensive, because at this point we couldn't afford chemo even if I wanted to.

So, I've given her two doses, she seems fine, and I've added some immune and cancer fighting supplements to the food. She looks amazing - her fur is shiny and she's in good spirits.

She is the opposite of graceful dancing felinity, but she has one of the most unique personalities I've met in a cat, and she is a fighter!

So send her some positive vibes, if you can!

Here she is right after surgery with her cave-man look, and then this morning sleeping peacefully.

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Good to see another Cascadian here!

Wooot!

We can vouch for the Pootie Pads. They are well loved by our two rescues in this house.

They roll up in them like Quilted Love Burritoes