UPDATES ON OUR FOSTER KITTENS

Update #1: The day Mom went to Oregon, Zest got adopted.  Mom found out about it when she was checking her email on her new iPhone while riding the tram thingy at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport.ZestUpdate #2: Alec got adopted on Monday, so Mom did not have to bring him home from PetSmart when she brought the other kittens home.AlecUpdate #3: The other six kittens have been growing, and they are now almost as big as Dorrie.  They do a lot...

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MOUNT HOOD

Well, Mom finally came home from Oregon, and she rescued us from where we were being boarded.  So now we are home again, all except for the foster kittens, and they are coming home later today.  We had an exhausting week, but now we are happy to be home where we can rest up. View of Mt. Hood from Mom's planeMom took a lot of pictures while she was on her trip, and she learned a lot of stuff, but there is way too much for me to deal with...

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MOM IS GOING TO OREGON!

Mom is abandoning all of us dogs and cats again, which is a horrible and mean thing to do, if you ask me.  And the reason she is doing this is so that she can go to the convention of the Oregon-California Trails Association.  Last year, the convention was in Lawrence, Kansas, and Mom abandoned us to go there for a week.  But this year, the convention is in Portland, Oregon, which is a long, long ways off, like practically all the way...

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AMUR LEOPARDS

Amur leopards are CRITICALLY ENDANGERED, which is right next-door to being extinct in the wild.  In 2007, only 14-20 adults and 5-6 cubs were counted in habitat, which is not very many.  They live in an area of about 1,200 square miles along the border between China and North Korea.  Some of them used to live in Russia, but there are none there now.  Other names for the Amur leopard are Panthera pardus orientalis, Far Eastern...

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OVER NIAGARA FALLS IN A BARREL

This is the true story of a woman named Annie Edson Taylor, who was a real person.  And the reason she has a story to tell is because she was the first person ever to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel and end up alive afterwards. Francis J. Petrie Photograph CollectionAnnie Edson was born on October 24, 1838 in upstate New York.  Her father owned a flour mill.  He died when Annie was only 12 years old, but he left the family enough...

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MEL WENT TO THE RAINBOW BRIDGE

Yesterday my doggy brother Mel went to the Rainbow Bridge, which is where my other doggy brothers, Gabe and Barry and Nicky already went.  I guess it's a popular place for old dogs to go.  Anyway, Mel went there because he wasn't having any fun being alive anymore.  His neck hurt him and his back hurt him, and when he walked around, he had to walk in a very stiff way.  Also, he had trouble lying down and getting back up again.This...

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WATER MOCCASINS

A water moccasin is the same thing as a cottonmouth.  The name cottonmouth comes from the fact that this snake's mouth is white on the inside.  But I'm not sure why it is also called a water moccasin, because it doesn't look much like a moccasin to me.  And I don't think you would want to wear moccasins in the water because if you did, they would get all wet and soaked.  After which, your feet would get wet and cold and you might...

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QUOTES ABOUT NATURE

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THE LATEST POOP ON OUR KITTENS

On Tuesday, two of our foster kittens got neutered.  And the ones who got neutered were John and Andrew because they were the biggest.  The rest of the kittens also went over to the shelter on Tuesday and got booster shots plus more deworming.  And they got weighed.  They were all either over 2 pounds or very close to 2 pounds.  So Mom scheduled them for surgery next Tuesday.  The smallest kitten is Adrian, and he might...

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