2008.12.12
Christmas spirit kitty
This LOLcat helped make my season bright. Good kitten! Have a holly-jolly weekend, readers.
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Foster homes for the holidays
The Roanoke Valley SPCA is participating in the national “Foster A Lonely Pet For the Holidays” pet fostering program.
Over 13,000 pet rescue organizations nationwide are trying to empty the kennels for Christmas, encouraging families to open their home for the holidays to an adoptable pet waiting for a forever home.
Fostered pets can be picked up between December 18-23, and can be returned to the RVSPCA between December 30-January 2.
The RVSPCA will provide all needed supplies and support to the temporary families. You can view all of the pets online at www.rvspca.org, or visit the shelter to meet them. The goal is to have each of these pets into a home by noon on December 23.
Ann Marie Sweeney, foster coordinator for the RVSPCA, will answer questions about the program for people interested in making this Christmas a happy holiday for a pet in need. Contact Sweeney at 344-4840, ext. 208 or e-mail asweeney@rvspca.org.
Gracie had the "Christmas Spirit" one year until she toppled the tree. I remember seeing a gray streak go flying past me as the sound of ornaments busting on hardwood floors rang throughout the house. Now she avoids the tree like the plague which is in everyone's best interest!
Comment by Kim — December 12, 2008 @ 9:57 am
The first Christmas we had India, she behaved exactly the way you would expect a kitten to act at Christmas: she tried to climb the Christmas tree. Since I have a few ornaments that it would break my heart to lose, I decided to be proactive and cat-proof my tree.
Our Christmas tree has a metal tripod stand, and conveniently there are holes drilled in each leg of the stand. I bought a 2X2 piece of plywood and a few screws and attached the tree stand to the wood. With a much larger base, even when the kitten climbed the tree, it would not topple over. We cover the plywood with a tree skirt.
We still use that tree with my kitty-engineered base. It's like a Weeble: it wobbles, but it doesn't fall down.
Comment by Nona — December 12, 2008 @ 10:36 am
That brings back memories! A very long time ago, my husband and I got our first live Christmas tree, went out and bought all new ornaments for it, spent hours putting it up and decorating it. It looked wonderful...until our two cats decided to come running into the room and up the tree they both went...boom went the tree with ornaments crushing on the nice wooden floor! He was very upset and I was laughing and crying at the same time. That was okay though...we started over...this time with a smaller tree mounted on a desk away from the cats!
Comment by Deborah — December 12, 2008 @ 11:54 am
We have a cat i call my little gang banger, he will comb the tree until he finds just the right ornament, then knock it off so my pit bull "Tater" grabs it, he gets in trouble for chewing it up and the cat gets off scott-free, Scrappy does this for other things in the house also but the Christmas Tree is the funniest.
Comment by Mike T — December 12, 2008 @ 12:17 pm
Mike T, you have no idea how much I love that you have a pit bull named Tater! Great name. And he's the cat's whipping boy. Too funny.
Comment by Nona — December 12, 2008 @ 12:28 pm
I just caught my kitty chewing another ornament off a lower branch. She just wanted to make the tree seem more "natural" I'm sure. Silly kitty. She's going to be mad when the presents arrive too. She thinks it's her tree.
Comment by Amy Hanek — December 13, 2008 @ 10:04 am