Fabulous Furry - Fortean Fosters

25/07/2021

AWWW! Although I bristle at referring to McDOnald's as a "restuarant." Super inspiring, and a great reminder - its KITTEN SEASON - kittens could be ANYWHERE! It pays to BOLO - be on the look out - and to keep a carrier and/or a drop trap, some cans of food, bowls and bottled water in your vehicle! You just never know!

These days, the hustle and bustle of life leads to all sorts of distractions. We're so busy, forgetting to eat, that diets are filled with drive thru fast foods. We try to relax and space out online as the hours slip by...watching cat videos *cough cough*? Multiple trips back and forth to the store...

24/07/2021

Even Kittens Started Smol.

22/07/2021

YESTERDAY was... National Craft For Your Local Shelters Day! These DIY cat beds are purrfect spots for our shelter cats to nap. And when they get adopted, they get to take their blankets home to help them feel comfortable and cozy in their new environments.
Learn more about how you can make DIY cat beds - and cat trap covers! - here: https://pasadenahumane.org/.../service-projects-all-ages/

I am wondering if I should keep this page going? To highlight my current fosters when I have them, but when I don't... I keep getting "likes" here, so... if you see this post, please give me a little shout out/HELLO!

28/10/2020

I only have ONE photo on this computer of my diva princess cat, and pulled ONE photo of she for which she's named and their eyes are so similar I just had to try .

03/10/2020

Such a lovely story.

Room 8 (1947–1968) was a neighborhood cat who wandered into a classroom in 1952 at Elysian Heights Elementary School in Echo Park, California. He lived in the school during the school year and then disappeared for the summer, returning when classes started again. This pattern continued without interruption until the mid-1960s.

News cameras would arrive at the school at the beginning of the year waiting for the cat's return; he became famous and would receive up to 100 letters a day addressed to him at the school. Eventually, he was featured in a documentary called Big Cat, Little Cat and a children's book, A Cat Called Room 8. Look magazine ran a three-page Room 8 feature by photographer Richard Hewett in November 1962, titled "Room 8: The School Cat". Leo Kottke wrote an instrumental called "Room 8" that was included in his 1971 album, Mudlark.

As he got older, Room 8 was injured in a cat fight and suffered from feline pneumonia, so a family near the school volunteered to take him in. The school's janitor would find him at the end of the school day and carry him across the street.

His obituary in the Los Angeles Times rivaled that of major political figures, running three columns with a photograph. The cat was so famous that his obituary ran in papers as far away as Hartford, Connecticut. The students raised the funds for his gravestone. He is buried at the Los Angeles Pet Memorial Park in Calabasas, California.

02/10/2020

Your pet is your friend for LIFE, through thick and thin, not something you discard to a shelter or give away like an unwanted easy chair, because your new place doesn't allow pets. DON'T LIVE THERE! In every pet guardian's mind, there should be no qualitative difference between your human child and your furry one(s). Frankly, some people should not be allowed to have pets - OR children, but that there is a slippery slope to navigate. https://youtu.be/yJnA1vSeZEUhttps://youtu.be/yJnA1vSeZEU

01/10/2020

It's so easy to become to hero to animals... just ask Calvin Tucker.

01/10/2020

"You have to be grateful for the time you have with your animals."

30/09/2020

Did you make a new friend recently, a Quarantine Buddy? Now that tentative steps are being made to get back to "normal" - I'm discovering that shelters and rescues are being FLOODED with all the unplanned kittens who resulted in shelters, clinics and TNR orgs having kept their doors shut for 30-60 days.

One shelter I deal with took in 34 cats today! In one day!!! This shelter exists in a county that has no Animal Welfare Agency but rather, folds their animal services into Health and Human Services. And what does that accomplish? Nothing. Disaster since day one. The county is bankrupt and allows any psycho idiot to trap ANY cat ANYWHERE ...and everything everywhere is made worse by the plandemic nightmare.

I dream of cloning my local TNR org, FixNation, setting up shop in every county in California. For companion cats they also offer extremely reduced fee services but instead of seeing 45 animals a day, they are being SLAMMED with 110 animals A DAY.
While they were closed they ran out of supplies... if you can contribute to make sure that doesn't happen again, please do! I know it's tough for almost everyone...

03/09/2020

Please share these twin brother baby house panthers, listed for free on OfferUp. We don't want them falling into the wrong hands! I've contacted OP, June, and she wrote, "Thank you for your concern. It's appreciated. I'd hate to have something awful happen to them. I've grown attached, but I'm not able to keep them. I already have both the parents. Anything you can do to help me find a safe, loving home, I would be grateful." Please share share share.

Used (normal wear), Kittens. Make an offer!

13/10/2019

Overjoyed to belatedly report that four of the Fab Five were adopted within days of being returned to East Valley Animal Shelter. El Pollo Loco - #5 and the McGyver of the litter - was adopted, technically a "foster fail" - and has been keeping 100-years-young Mr. Larry company in Burbank. (At four months old, he is half Mr. Larry's size ... someone please tell me his noggin will eventually catch up, during cat puberty, perhaps?)

27/08/2019

Guess who needs yum yums (or if you're a Peter Sellers fan, num nums)? I am keeping the Fab Five through the weekend, going to get my bad tooth pulled right now, wish me luck (no, I do not fear the dentist!), gonna have a Kitten Party (Part II), keep walking them on harnesses, and getting them used to the strollers, continue teaching them "teepy" (sleepy?), "hungee" (hungry?), "walkies" (Pollo has that one down), and "paw" (high five!)!

23/08/2019

Welcome to my page for my five fabulous furry fosters! Come meet them tomorrow between 6-8pm, as well as a gaggle of other adoptable adorables! Message me for details and address!

21/08/2019

Carnitas, on top of the world (my office chair) and on top of my shoulder (close up).

21/08/2019

Hey kids! Running low on wet food, if anyone cares to donate. These five go through 4-6 cans of kitten food a day, received a wonderful gift from a great friend but running low. Just wet food, have 40 lbs of litter and lots of dry food! I'm keeping them until Monday and about to make an invite for the Meet n' Greet this Friday in Tujunga! Thanks! https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/C6RTE7B6ZL9D?ref_=wl_share

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17/08/2019

Amanda Volta Garcia: the kittens are very grateful for the wonderful box you sent! (The food to them, a bit of an after thought!)

16/08/2019

Happy Friday! Introducing my five fabulous fosters (temporarily named): (El) Pollo (Loco), Carnitas, Camaron, Pescado and Asada. Astrologically speaking, they are Cancer the Crab but you'd never know it, because they do not hide in their shells! Their individual personalities have just begun to shine through and I really hope to set them all up with furever homes before they return to East Valley for spay/neuter and their first shots. Located in Tujunga-Sunland (near Glendale, Burbank, La Crescenta, etc.), I plan to have a pop-up "cat cafe" meet and greet. Please message me or comment here if you'd like to be added to the invite list. These kittens were brought to East Valley on July 16; they spent only a few hours at the shelter when I came to pick up a bottle baby; all the bottle babies had been fostered out but this litter came in, probably about 4 weeks old at the time, already eating on their own (and would have been PTS had I not scooped them up.) They are close to purrfect, have no issues whatsoever, are all in fantastic health and eating like little piggies. Thanks for watching and have a great weekend!

16/08/2019

Trying to figure out how to upload a two minute introductory video of my foster fur babies, directly from my phone...