I give up

I give up trying to feed the cats two different cat foods.  I can't believe how hard it's been and how often I've just thrown in the towel and put their bowls away until the next meal.  Pour one and they both come running.  Try to pick up Zelda and she runs under the couch. Pour her bowl and Cosmo looks up - more food?  Put hers up high on the cat tree and she runs up there (sometimes). He immediately leaves his bowl to come and eat what she's got.  I chase him off.  She eats a little and then jumps down.  Two minutes later I see her eating from his bowl and try to pick her up and she runs off again.

Damn it.  I'm just mixing the two foods together and damn her upset stomach.  Going to have to go with Science Diet Sensitive Stomach.  I hate that food, it's just corn based crap.  I really wanted to keep feeding the Blue Buffalo.  The first ingredient is deboned turkey, not corn gluten meal.

Looking for a Senior Dog Foster Home

I'm looking for a foster home for a senior pit bull. He's in an all breed sanctuary and would like to have a soft spot to call his own for a brief time. Please email if you know of anyone that would be willing to take on a foster dog that could take a little while to place. It generally takes a little longer to place the oldies but there are the great rewards of making a dog's final days sweet and kind.

Merging

Merging/Merged the two blogs, into one (smilinpitbull.blogspot.com) to make things a heck of a lot easier on myself. Not that I blog about anything important to begin with anyway. So much easier to have one online diary than two, three if you count the one for the rescue that I can't seem to manage on a good day. This way all of the crazy mess in my life can be in one concise page. I can rant about trying to force fed Zelda Kaopectate for kitties and lament on finding some lusciously delicious black bean tortilla chips to take to work and share only to read the bag later and notice that there's FREAKING CHEESE in them. Damn it! Everyone else enjoyed the heck out of them. Why do they always have to slip some damn animal part in the good stuff - they were low fat and everything!

Off to drown my sorrows in some home made hummus and pita chips...well, shit, no chips so I'm off to the store after I put ointment on my scratches and put on a long sleeve t-shirt. After I wipe off the keyboard, mouse and spot clean my pants. Did I mention that Torti's are bitches?

I'll post an easy recipe for the hummus later so I can remember it when I want to make it again. I have to search my own blog for my baklava recipe because I can never freaking find it. I'll delete the other blogs so someone else can recycle the names.

Cats too

They can always find a way to bend their body into a relaxing position

Relaxation

How I wish I was feeling. Dogs really know how to relax.  She can sleep just about anywhere and sleeps hard.  She didn't even wake for the photos.  We could learn a lot from them. In a good home their troubles can just fall away like leaves from a tree.

more pictures

Some beautiful pictures of the conservatory, the flowers and the Biltmore Inn where my brother and his new wife stayed.  We stayed in a hotel across town ; ). The estate is massive with the estate house, the Winery, the Inn and even another small Inn.  Then there are little houses on the property where the caretakers stay.  This requires 24/7 upkeep. The amount of thought and manicuring that takes place - it's hard to imagine.  Everything is spotless and beautiful. Puts my place to shame.......cuz I haven't dusted in ages and it sometimes takes me days to get my laundry finished and folded.

Sunshine!

Sunshine is taking a trip to the Keys! As I am writing, her wonderful foster mom Kathi is taking her down to Florida to meet her new potential family. A vet from a small practice in far south florida somewhere between Small Key and some other place I can't remember was surfing petfinder and found our girl. Completely by accident she used her old NC zip code and it was love at first sight. So off they went after all the i's were dotted. Her foster mom is going to spend a few days down there soaking up the sun while Sunshine gets to meet and spend a little time with the new family. Here's hoping that it all works out and Sunshine will be in the Sunshine STATE!