Love Cats Valentine Facebook Friends Show 2019

We thought you would enjoy watching our 2nd annual LOVE CATS SLIDESHOW (click on link) for our Facebook Friends and several bloggers who are Facebook friends are in it too this year - Trouble from 15 and Meowing, Raz from Friends Fur-ever, Mudpie from Melissa's Mochas, Mysteries & Meows, Parsley from Bionic Basil, Teddy from https://onespoiledcat.wordpress.comTwo Spoiled Cats and Pia from Colenhaus Cats. 

 You can watch by following the link (high res) or, if short of time, watch the lower res uploaded version HERE!

If you watch the youtube version (Recommended!) , we appreciate your leaving a comment there!

St Patrick Facebook Cat Friends Slideshow

We created this special St Paddy slideshow for our Facebook friends. Well, ok truthfully, our human did it. But we helped! Carol dressed up these felines so they are looking really FINE!  Everyone had a good time and hoping you enjoy it too!   2 of our blogger friends are in it too!

Just click on picture to view!  You won't be sorry!

Link to slideshow is by clicking on picture!

We joining the one and only THE CAT ON MY HEAD'S blog hop today, with special birthday wishes to Giulietta & Angel Fiona!

GOTCHA DAY: Our Narrow Escape from New York City

It's our Gotcha Day! 

 We are celebrating our 5th "Gotcha Day" with Cat on My Head's Sunday Blog our Fifth Year with Carol in Connecticut.  We almost didn't make it out of New York City though...

Our Narrow Escape from NYACC in New York

Our story: We were "Peaches & Tigger"in the old days & we had a narrow escape in NYC before moving to Connecticut. We were even on  "death row" for a while. Our previous owners surrendered us to a shelter in NYC when they moved to Puerto Rico. I guess they thought we'd be adopted right away since we had such beautiful calico colorings with gorgeous stripes.

But NO ONE came to get us and day after day went by. We were besides ourselves with grief and terror. Finally the shelter put out a notice: we were now on "death row" - a place for cats no one comes to adopt!  We were due to be put to sleep the next day!

"Death Row," Facebook & Loving Volunteers

The good part of the story starts now.  Hundreds of loving volunteers watch the "death row" item in Facebook. They share kitty stories, post loving words & make donations. We were lucky and captured the hearts of many. Here are some of the pleas posted by those who helped (you may need to enlarge(

After many of these posts, we were "pulled" (SAVED) by a wonderful foster organization in Staten Island. Paprika and I had caught sniffles in the shelter and this wonderful foster lady named Joann nursed us back to health and brought us to Connecticut to Marys Kitty Korner, a no-kill shelter.

Connecticut

Peaches trying to captivate visitors

For 6 more months we stayed in a large white house with 50 other cats while

awaiting forever homes.  I was in charge of captivating visitors. Of course I did antics daily in a sunny window where I could attract visitors and pick the best! MOL.

Then we met Carol. She had fallen in love with me the week before after seeing my picture on the internet.  And then she came to meet me and my sisfur Paprika (then named "Tigger") in that white house. Of course I could not leave without Paprika. So Carol took both of us home.

In Connecticut

Our explorations in the new home

Of course, being the lovable furries we are, Carol loves us both and we're awaiting our 5th Christmas here.  We have taken over the house, believe me!  We set the rules, although we still haven't come to an agreement on the quantity of tuna  being served here...

Happy Holidays 
to all our blogger friends, kitties still in shelters & the angel kitties who graced our lives for all too short a time!

Peaches, PaprikaTigger and Carol

Black Cats Spooktacular Announcement

Are YOU a BLACK CAT who'd like to be in our Halloween slideshow? We decided to be a little different and honor black cats this year. If you ARE one, just click on the link below, and that will get you to our Facebook page to join in the fun. Easy instrucs are on link.

Tortie and Calico Autumn Slideshow Announcement

Exciting News for tortie/calico owners!  New slideshow on our Facebook page celebrating autumn and honoring Tortoiseshell cats  is now being assembled.  Hope you tortie owners can participate.  Note our own Mudpie, famous cat of Melissa's Mochas Mysteries and Meows kindly agreed to grace our poster with her beautiful presence. Thanks, Mudpie and Melissa! Here's the link to our FB page & hope to see you there!!! Happy autumn to all!



In addition to what's written on the FB page above , you are welcome and invited to include your blog name along with kitty's name! Also please LIKE our page while you're there if you haven't already.  First 50 Torties  who enter will be in a special slideshow. We have 20 already! Deadline September 22.

Joining Cat On My Head's Sunday blog hop today!!

Calico Celebration Event

Do YOU have a Calico, per chance?

On PEACHES & PAPRIKA'S FACEBOOK PAGE  we are hosting an informal event to honor Calicos!  

All you have to do is 1) own a calico cat 

 2) Leave comment &  picture on Calico item

 3) leave a few words about your cat.

4) Please LIKE our FB page if you haven't already

If you have  xmas pictures, great, but not necessary.

After jan 1 I'll do a calico album. Or slideshow if I have any energy left after the last one. We'll follow that in future months with events for all cats - orange, black, tortoise, white, the works!~ But for now if you happen to have a calico and would like to post his/her picture we'd be delighted to honor her. 


Here is the address again:
Peaches & Paprika's Facebook Page- the calico event is pinned to the top this week.

Celebrating Our "GOTCHA" DAY

OUR GOTCHA DAY

as of today, we are thrilled to celebrate our "GOTCHA" day--4 years of living with our human in Connecticut. 

Our first night in Chez Carol

Before that we were "shelter kitties" But In December 2012 our human, needing furrrballs just like us in her life came to get us! We spent the first night in a luxuriously appointed room  with soft rugs & TUNA.  By morning we were raring to go explore the rest of the house. Here we are at 1-1/2 years old, on our first morning "jaunt."

Our Life in New York and "the shelter"

We weren't always so lucky.  We had two OTHER humans in New York City before during the first year of our life. We thought they loved us. We became loving & sweet-natured animals, very demonstrative.  THEN ONE DAY they put in cages & took to a cold depressing building, They said it was for our own good cuz they were moving to Puerto Rico.

At the Shelter

Maybe they thought since we had gorgeous ginger and black coloring and fabulous stripes we'd get adopted right away. But no one came to get us and day after day went by. My terrified sister Paprika caught the sniffles while we were waiting.  We were beside ourselves with grief and terror. Finally the shelter (called NYACC) decided we were "unadoptable" and put us on a list called "Death Row" - a list naming all cats to be killed the next morning.

How we were "saved"

Here starts the good part of our story. Hundreds of concerned humans watch this "Death Row List on Facebook. They share pictures of cats who win their hearts, they donate funds and they share our pictures. Here are some of the things loving & kind people posted which led to our rescue.

We were lucky and captured the hearts of many!  After a brief time (which didn't feel short to us) we were "pulled" from our near fate by a devoted rescue organization.

The White House in Connecticut

 She nursed us back to health and brought us to live in a

big white house in Connecituct. There were about 40 other cats but we were allowed to roam free and hang out near sunny windows while waiting for our forever homes.  Then we met our human, Carol. She fell in love with me on the internet after seeing my picture.  "I must have that cat!" she thought...  So she found the white house in Granby, Connecticut and met ME.  And my sister, of course!

I let her pick me up the first day! I don't let just anyone do THAT! 

And Home we went!

She took both of us home because I would not leave without my sister Paprika (then called Tigger). 

 Of course she loves both of us now.  We are awaiting our 4th Christmas here!  We haven't got her trained completely, she still doesn't feed us enough tuna,  for example, but she is coming along!   Happy Holidays from both of us to all our

blogger friends, those wonderful kind humans who shared our story, our foster home where we were nursed back to heath, the kitties still in shelters and the angel kitties who graced our lives for all too short a time!

Love, Peaches the cat

Our Narrow Escape from New York City

Paprika July 1, 2012 in NYC Shelter

PEACHES & PAPRIKA FOUND ON INTERNET SEARCH!

This past week  I thought I’d indulge my never ending curiosity for “where did my cats live before I met them?

 I had checked online before but now I remembered that Paprika was named "Tigger" in her "other life."

Peaches at NYC Shelter

So I typed Peaches & TIGGER into Google, waited, and  
then….suddenly Peaches’ face flashed across my IPAD, taking up the whole screen. 

I was shocked & gasped. Then Paprika’s face, her eyes huge with fright showed up next on my screen.. 

Pets on Death Row - Urgent Death Row Cats ...
https://esla.facebook.com/PetsOnDeathRow/photos/a.../465505273461310/

Paprika, terrified in NYC

The photos were excerpted from Facebook's "Pets on Death Row" page a page I had not knew existed.  

The posts took place between July 1 and July 7, 2012 They were written (& SHARED 177 times!) by 50+ volunteers at a NYC  kill shelter all about MY CATS!  

This brought chills to my heart but I could not stop reading.    Here is the first post I read: 

Somebody.. PLEASE SAVE PEACHES AND TIGGER Together!!! Need Safe, Loving Home!! 2 de julio de 2012 a la(s) 23:11 · 1 .

EBC: Peaches is just beautiful!! Please don't let her die. Please, someone in the NY area, give her a second chance!!!  7/1/12  8:43 PM           

LKC: Please welcome Peaches into your heart tonight & share her widely so she can find someone to welcome her into their home.  7/2/12   1:35AM

Peaches at the animal shelter

TO BE DESTROYED 7/2/12

JR: “Peaches was so starving for attention it was very sad to see. It could of been because she was missing her housemate Tigger."  7/1/12 6:30PM

MLV: PEACHES IS SCHEDULED to be KILLED TOMORROW MORNING!! There are 31 cats on death row!

MT: Please, someone help these beautiful girls. It can be hard to find 2 cats who love each other and these girls are the full package. Don't let her die.  7/2/12   2:46AM

Paprika looking terrified at the animal shelter

PMS: TIGGER is a real little beauty who is playful and friendly - quite a little stunner!  Adopt/Foster?  7/6/12 9:10pm

July 9, 2012 at 10:43pm

PA: Yay!!! Tigger is SAFE!!!! :):):)  PEACHES IS SAFE!

MY CATS... SAFE AT LAST

Peaches on top window at Marys Kitty Korner

Finally, they were both SAFE!   A wonderful angel-lady named Joann who performs last minute miracles rescued my kitties, fostered them till they recovered from COLDS they'd gotten at the shelter, then found them a home in Marys Kitty Korner, a large white house & no kill shelter in Granby CT. That is where I met them. 

But before going to that big white house I saw Peaches’ picture in Petfinder and fell in love.  And I went there to Granby to the white house and took them both home.

When I saw the poignant posts about them both 3 years later (!) I wrote to a few of the more fervent posters to tell them their energy was not wasted: Peaches and Tigger/Paprika were safe and sound.

Many wrote me back, delighted!   Thank you again you wonderful dedicated volunteers!

I don’t think much about my kitties' past (although I couldn't help but be curious)  but often I see a far away look in Paprika’s eyes and I wonder if she is remembering the cold cement floor, the cage, the fright. 

I will never know these things. But I gather my kitties tight about me, just the same.  And I savor their purrs, their whiskers, their sweet dispositions all the more.