A Few Words From the 'Rents - New Beginnings

Get a beverage of your choice, this is a long one...

Me at the HSoAC circa 2012- my home away from home and my heart. I'm lovin' on Meowser, he got adopted into a great home after a year at the shelter.

The first photo I took of our home in O Hi O to share with hubby back in Kansas City.

Our last day in Kansas City - July 2007, you can read all about that day here.

So many things have happened over the last few months, but the most significant change is that we have decided to follow our hearts and move back to Kansas City Missouri! O Hi O has been a great experience, many happy memories and some sad ones as well, but the time is right to start again in the land of BBQ, great activities, great people and Wayside Waifs!

The Hardest Part of Leaving? Right Here...

I have been honored to be a part of this great organization for the last two and a half years. It's going to break my heart to say good-bye when I walk out of the doors for the last time. If you ever want to see the meaning of dedication in action, spend a day there with the staff and volunteers. It will blow you away. They live the mission every day, and the animals that find their way into the shelter are treated with love and respect. If you have to be a shelter animal, this is where you want to be waiting for your forever home!

So, looking back, what's happened with us over the last seven years?

Here's the happy stuff - 

The reason we moved, my job at this great hospital. 

Ricky-Tiki Tavi - the first photo of him, he literally just showed up on our front porch.

He may be deaf, but that doesn't slow him down or make him any less a gorgeous house panther!

Fletcher - the first photo of him with his very happy Dad.

A few months later - Kharma Kitty. Helping fill a Parker sized hole in our hearts.

Lookit' that face! She is so awesome and loving. We know Parker Pie had a paw in this choice!

Christmas in the big house is always a treat. Parker loved the tree!

It was a joy living here!

The warmer weather was a joy as well.

Not everything was happy in our lives - we suffered some great losses. Heartbreaking ones.

We lost our beloved Parker on May 24th, 2012. It's a loss that still stings.

World famous for her smoochies, she left a hole in our hearts. 

A year later, Diamond Doggie decided to join Parker at the Bridge. Another devastating loss so soon after Parker. He was such a good dog and loved us unconditionally for over 11 years. 

Who was a good boy? You were Diamond.

May 1st, 2002 - May 31st, 2013. Always faithful, forever loved.

 But this guy needed a home.

And he fits in perfectly!

So my friends, we begin another chapter in our lives. Back to a familiar city, back to friends and family that we have missed very much. 2014 will be a year of changes, Hopefully more good ones than bad. We'll celebrate one last holiday here in O Hi O then strike out with our furry family to KC. Please wish us luck. We'll still be here on the "internets" - just a little further west.

I have one favor to ask of you. If you can find it in your heart to send a small donation to our little shelter here in Ohio, please click here and donate. Please tell them it's for helping Fletcher and Kharma find their forever homes with Parker's family. They really need the help - and remember - it's good Kharma!

Smoochies from all of us - The 'rents, Puff, Powder, Rudy, Ricky-Tiki-Tavi, Fletcher and Kharma.

And, Puff, Powder and Rudy want you to know that they are all doing fine and look forward to going back to KC and show the new kids the ropes out there.

Yup - we do!

Happy 13th Birthday Puff and Powder!

Here are my two oldest sisters, fresh from the farm and enjoying their first meal at home. Their dog-brother at the time, a wonderful, happy and silly Golden Retriever named Jordan, was being kept at a safe distance. We did not want Puff and Powder to have little tiny kitten heart attacks right away. Jordan was 20 times their size and so friendly he probably would have licked them to death! (Notice that Powder has her face in the food leaving no room for Puff - Powder has always enjoyed her food...always!)
If you would like to read their Gotcha' Day story - it's right here!

Puff has a serious case of the cutes

 

Powder would always hide behind her sister.

1998 - about 8-9 weeks old. SQUEEEE~!

Teen Mom Puff and Aunt Powder with the Rudester.

 

Puff circa 2000 - 2 years old - lookit' them peepers!

Powder circa 2000 - 2 years old

Puff at 10 years old - Wowza!

Powder's tough look - 10 years old

Powder at 10 years, enjoying a pet from Daddy

We love you very much girls, Smoochies!

Look what Zoolatry made for us! We are going to frame it for Mommy's office. We hope you have enjoyed this little celebration of the calico gals journey into beeing teenagers! I'll be forever grateful to them for blazing a trail for the rest of us kitties. I'm proud to be in their family!

Autumn Rocks!

The Cat's In The Bag

What you see here is Powder exploring the joys of a paper bag with the handles removed. She really enjoys a good game of "kitty in the bag"...as long as the bag isn't a plastic one. You see, way back when, before I was born, Powder had a little "incident" with a plastic bag. She was just an itty-bitty kitten playing with a plastic shopping bag and she got her neck stuck in one of the handles - she panicked and ran and ran and ran through the house with Daddy trying to catch her to remove the bag. Powder ran under the sofa and proceeded to get the bag (and herself) caught in one of the sofa springs. Daddy had to put the sofa on it's side and cut the bag from her neck. To this day if she even hears a plastic bag she runs away from it. To this day, if a bag comes in the house - plastic or paper, Mommy cuts the handles off of it!
Good times kitties..good times...

Sweet, Sweet Memories...

Hi kitties, woulda' look at me in this photo? Gentle warm breezes and the sweet sun on my furs...
I'd like to feel those things today but that's not going to happen.
But a little kitty can dream, can't she?
So on this Sunday I will be napping and dreaming sweet dreams of summer.
January can be a very long month.

2009 Christmas Memories

All of us, Me (Perfectly Parker), Puff, Powder, Rudy, Diamond Doggie and the 'rents want to wish all of you a very, very Happy New Year. May you all enjoy good health, happiness, peace of mind and lots and lots of love and laughter. Oh...and a lot of smoochies too!

~Perfectly Parker~