The Rudy Report

HI! HI! HI! It's me, RUDY! with your Rudy Report! Yesterday we told you about T.C. the cat who is looking for his forever home and it's got me thinking. I am one lucky little orange menace. I have everything a kitty might want or need. Then there are kitties like T.C. who have to fight to survive and find a forever home. I have always had a home and 'rents who loved me from the second I drew breath. I'd like to ask you a favor, if you have room in your heart and home or if you know someone who might have room in their heart or home, could you help T.C. know what "forever home" means? The post about him is right here. Thanks everyone, this is Rudy the lucky kitty signing out.

A Lotta' Love...

Yesterday my 'rents took Diamond and helped raise money for an organization that helps feed animals of low-income seniors and helps to spay and neuter homeless pets. Diamond had a blast meeting all sorts of new friends and he was given a blessing by a very nice minister! The day was perfect for a walk in the park and the organization raised lots of green papers to carry on their great work. Win-win if you ask me!

Family Meeting

Sorry for the blurry photo. Daddy caught us having a meeting. We were discussing how to help Mommy reach her birthday wish goal. We have two more big sleeps to help. If you want to help us help her help Wayside (whew!) please click on the Wayside sidebar on the right.

Smoochies!

A Forever Home For The Holidays

I'm asking everyone to open their heart and/or home to a homeless pet this holiday season. Visit Iamshome4theholidays.com for a myriad of ideas and ways to help orphaned pets.The goal is to raise awareness of this campaign and encourage those who are considering getting a pet around the Holiday season to choose one from a shelter rather than a pet store--and save a kitty life (or other-shelter-animal life) in the process. I salute Iams for this support of shelters.

This being said I need to ask Iam's a huge favor. Please stop animal testing in your Dayton Ohio laboratory. Iams has made progress, but as an industry leader, it must send an even clearer message: No animal deserves the fate of those who remain in their laboratories. Safe, healthy cat and dog food does not require harming cats and dogs.

This is probably not going to make me popular with the very nice lady that asked me to do a post about the Home For The Holidays campaign and I am sorry for that. But I have to be true to my beliefs about how manufacturers produce their food.

If you can find it in your heart and have room in your home, please consider making one little kitty or doggie a part of it. Thanks.

Formerly Feral Friday - Home

It's good to have a home and to live inside. To be protected from the elements and from cars and other animals and from all of the bads things that could hurt me. Alley Cat Allies have a petition that you can sign to thank the prosecutor in Richmond Virginia who made sure that the mean person that killed three feral kitties behind a T.V. station will stand trial. Being formerly feral myself, I'd like to ask that you go here and sign the petition that thanks him.
Everykitty, I hope your Friday is full of love and treats and smooches!

Thursday 13 - Thoughts and Things To Be Thankful For

#1 - They're Home!

Mommy and Daddy came home safe and sound yesterday. That's the very best thing to be thankful for today!

This is a picture Mommy took coming in to Chicago. It made me start to wonder - how many kitties live in Chicago?? All those big, tall buildings! There must be a squillion kitties in every one of those buildings! Whew! (That's # 2).

#3 - This beautiful necklace was waiting for Mommy in the mail. She ordered it from Artsy Catsy. The kitty on the necklace looks an awful lot like me. I am honored that Mommy wants something hanging around her neck that looks like me! (That's #4) She already has me on her purse. She got a cell phone charm from Artsy Catsy last year that has my face on it (it's very itty bitty, so it's hard to take a picture of that you can see!) I'm happy that Mommy also wants me hanging around on her purse. (That's #5)

Then I heard this news from Victor Tabbycat: Oh my Bast! I just readed the most HORRIBLE story! Does anyone know if we can do ANYFING? Town Puts $5 Bounty on Feral Cats Who can we contact? I don't even have words in my vocabulary that describes how sad this makes me. Are there really humans that are this cruel? I asked Mommy to send an e-mail to the town's council people and she did. You should get your humans to send an e-mail telling them how you feel about it - if you go here you can do that. And here's what I'd like to send the Mayor and Council of Randolph, Iowa:

(only it would be the real thing!)

(that's #6)

# 7 & #8 - We have two new members in our family! They are of the feline persuasion, and they are larger than me. I am going to introduce them tomorrow. AND there is going to be a contest. Come back tomorrow for the introduction and the details!

#9 - It has been sunny here in O Hi O for the last 2 days. Some of the snow is melting and oh boy, have we ever been taking naps in the sunny spots! I am very thankful for the sun. I almost forgot how wonderful it is!

#10 - We only yakked 3 times for our sitter! I'm thankful that she said she'd come back and watch us anyway! We were all very well-behaved! She said so! Yup! We were!

#11 - Mommy and Daddy have no plans to go away again for a long time. I'm really thankful about that! It's very stressful when they both go away!

#12 - Mommy thinks that I should wear my John Deere cap for St. Patricks Day. I am thankful that she's kidding (I hope!)

#13 - I saved the most important thought for last. Petey the best boy-cat in the world was lovingly helped to the Bridge yesterday by his humans. Petey fought lymphoma, went into remission, but sadly it returned. It made my Mommy and Daddy's eyes leak a great deal when they read the news while they were in Chicago and it broke my little kitty-heart when they told me about it. Petey's humans said this about Petey and how we should remember him:

Petey went with grace, dignity, and calm. He was truly ready and it lightens my heart to know he’s somewhere where there’s endless bacon, big puddles of sunshine perfect for napping, toys to play with, big cats to pester, and no more pain.
The kind, loving messages you sent throughout this journey, but especially last night, helped me stay strong for Petey.
I will be forever grateful for your love and support.
Please hug your kitties extra hard for me, raise a glass to toast the Best Boy in the World, and eat more bacon! Petey would have wanted it that way.

So Petey, we did.

Smooches to you, and to every kitty...

Thursday 13 - Stuffing My Sock

Here are 13 things that Santa should Leave in my sock!

(Do you like my sock? You'll get one just like it minus my name, of course, if you win my auction!)

A Honey-Baked HAM!

A dozen shrimp

An self-cleaning litter box (oh wait, Mommy wants that!)

A squillion fake mousies

A Catnip plant

A new collar with fishies on it

A case of tuna

A heated cat cup

A new camera (stop putting your stuff on here Mommy!)

A box of Temptations

Another Gizzy quilt that my sibs won't hog

A new feather wand

Here's the most important thing I would want in my sock -

A list of forever homes for kitties that don't have one! Then I could scoop all of the homeless kitties up and go with Santa and drop them off to their new homes! Wouldn't that be the best gift of all?

ps - A lot of you were worried that Diamond Doggy got left out in the snow yesterday, don't let that conniving Canine fool you, he was out there with Mommy playing with his ball in the snow.

pss - My auction for Project HAM! ends on Saturday, if you wanna' bid - go here!

Mutts Monday

We are very excited. Mommy wrote a story about how they adopted Diamond Doggy from Second Chance Adoptions in Kansas City. She entered it in the Mutts Shelter Stories and it was accepted! There were over a thousand entries and Diamond's story was one of the 73 selected! Diamond is very happy that his story will be told. He had a pretty rough start at life, but now is a very happy doggy, sharing his life with the best of species, US!
We're looking forward to seeing Diamond's story in print and having him being a part of raising money for homeless animals!