About 2 years ago, I posted to the Lounge in despair because my kitty had mouth herpes

[EFerrari]

and even after her teeth were pulled, her condition didn't seem to get better. She was a walking skeleton and it hurt to look at her.

Well, we sat it out because I must be a coward and in about two months after her surgery, her mouth calmed down!

Today, she's a fat, happy, toothless darling and no sign (knock on formica) of the herpes coming back. If it does, I guess we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.

My little Friday was named for the day of the week that I'd run out of names for fosters. She spent two months in and out of my closet -- my friend Antonia rescued her from a garbage bin on the Santa Monica promenade. We never could get her adopted because everyone wants a cute kitteh.

She's as ugly as an old tennis shoe and I love her dearly. She's gone from being one of those kitties you can't pick up to being on my lap all day while I'm working. Here she is in the family room, pretending to own the place:

[flvegan]

1. What do you mean "pretending" to own the place?

Ah, you must not have gotten the memo.

Seriously though, good looking cat with a nice story.

[EFerrari]

3. I'm the slowest one in the colony.

lol

:)

[lizziegrace]

2. What a sweet girl

She's lucky to own you. :hug:

[EFerrari]

6. The surgery she needed I could not afford.

It was almost $2K and I'd just lost my job. :scared:

But some things are not negotiable. After weeks of watching her try to eat and not be able to, I just threw down and did it. If I ever go homeless, maybe she'll be willing to wear our cup around her neck.

lol

:hi:

[Haole Girl]

4. Glad to hear she made it!

:-)

[Shell Beau]

5. That is a great story.

:hug:

It is kinda scary too. Some would have put the cat down. It just goes to show that you know when it is time. And they do too.

[EFerrari]

7. My cowardice was the only thing between her and being put down

before her mouth could calm down after the surgery. See, sometimes being a weeny has benefits!

:)

[Shell Beau]

8. Absolutely!! Beautiful cat too!

Mainly because she is a fighter but also because she is just cute!

[Gormy Cuss]

9. She's not ugly.

Then again, I have a soft spot for tortoise shell cats. You have at least TWO of them I see.
She looks very healthy.

[EFerrari]

13. The other one is #2 Miss Most Ugly. Little Bella was being pushed out

of one of my foster litters and she was starving. Then, they all came down with an upper respiratory infection. So, I gave them all meds and put Bella in my shirt for a week to keep her warm and hand fed her.



She was also too homely to be adopted by people with semi-decent vision. That's how I got from two cats to four. Sucker!

[libnnc]

10. Tortie!!

I'm a tortie "staff member" (torties don't have "owners")

So glad she's fat and happy!

here's my boss Tipper the Tortie

[EFerrari]

16. Tipper has a very dignified aspect! LOL! Friday looks like something

scraped out of a burnt frying pan and she owns me, completely. :hi:

[Pavulon]

11. I disagree with like 99% of your posts but you HAVE

to respect a person who keeps calico cat(s). She looks really happy and am glad you kitty is doing well.

Are the two related?

[EFerrari]

14. Hey, Pavulon. No, only related because they landed here.

:)

[Pavulon]

26. Calico's

are always female. They have a history of being smarter, friendlier, and better luck than other cats.

[DeepBlueC]

37. those are tortoiseshell cats

calicos have some white with the black and tan and orange.

[Pavulon]

49. Correct, I thought I saw a white bib..

anyway I have had many of them over time and they seem to be particularly affable.

All calico cats (torts as well I presume) are female. Any male is sterile if he is born with that pattern. So says the internets.

[deucemagnet]

12. I remember that thread!

I'm glad Friday is doing well! :)

[EFerrari]

15. I was already mourning her and I was WRONG, wrong, wrong!

:woohoo:

[DeepBlueC]

38. my neighbor was told her cat was in kidney failure and had to be put down

That was nine years ago. He was quite a young guy then but very sick and she just was not ready to put him down and decided that she WOULD do all the things that the vets said she wouldn't want to do and were pointless. She gave him sub-cutaneous fluids herself for more than a year, maybe closer to two (brave girl, that guy is FIERCE, you can't even brush him now), and put him on prescription food and, wow, she bought a life for him. If he has kidney failure it sure isn't showing. He visits me every day and challenges my entire brood of 5 cats because he apparently thinks he owns me too. Hokay.

[EFerrari]

42. Most people never hear these stories.

One of my orphan fosters had been sliced at his throat by some psycho. When I got him, he needed sub-cu irrigation three times a day on top of a bunch of other things. I didn't go to medical school because I'm basically a big baby but somehow, I did that. Nothing like sticking a syringe into a wound that big and ruffled and ugly. We named him "Frankie" for Frankenstein because he was all stitched up around his neck.

He healed completely and became a beautiful black cat. And, he was adopted by a great family. :toast:

[KamaAina]

17. She is not ugly so stop saying that!

She reminds me of two of our kitties, Elsa and Buddi. We called the little barn kitty Mom's boss gave her "Ferret Face" until she matured out of ferretdom at about a year. So we wrote down kitty names on slips of paper and put them in a bowl. She actually reached in and pulled one out; henceforth she was Elsa. Elsa had a disconcerting habit of going outside and shaking her tail at the neighborhood toms once a month, long after she had been altered.

Buddi was (maybe still is; Mom had to place them when she moved in with Republican Stepdad) a tortie (a little white to go along with the brindle). She came to Mom along with MooMoo the tuxedo, this time from a colleague, and was so named because she was Moo's buddy. (She did also have a similar demeanor to the Kristy McNichol character on Family.) Once while I was in the process of moving from Jersey City to upper Manhattan, I took Mom's air mattress and crashed at the NYC place, which did not have a phone hooked up yet. Mom called NJ and got no answer, then got frantic because she couldn't locate me. :eyes: That's when Buddi nudged open the closet door and pawed at the empty air mattress box! Mom got the message and calmed down...

[EFerrari]

18. Friday's face would shatter glass but the funny thing is, I don't see that.

It took almost a YEAR to get a purr out of her. I'm not going to get picky at this late date! :)

Omg, she STANK so badly when Antonia brought her to me. She must have been living in trash cans for quite a while -- too long to keep up with her grooming.

There are four other kitties here, all classically beautiful, but the two torties dominate. They are the Terminators of kittehs. :)

[KamaAina]

25. Smelly cat, smelly cat, it's not your fault!

:-)

Calicos and torties are the feminists of the cat world. The three colors scream (in 999 of 1000 cases), "Look at me! I am female, hear me meow!"

[EFerrari]

28. LOL!

:rofl:

[grasswire]

43. I miss Phoebe Bouffet! (eom)

[EFerrari]

44. The more I reflect on Phoebe, the more she seems like a guru.

:)

[DeepBlueC]

19. I don't see ugly at all...

Neither do any of the people here who comment on her looks; you say you don't see ugly...so why the hell are you calling these cats ugly? Who thinks they are ugly? I'm mystified. I think torties are piss elegant.

[EFerrari]

21. I tried to get Friday and Bella both adopted for almost a year

because they were fosters, not cats that I'd adopted. Survey says, no one wanted them.

But they're my girls now or, I'm theirs. That latter is probably more accurate. :)

[DeepBlueC]

32. Is that what led you to think of them as ugly?

That you couldn't place them, that they were kind of leftovers in your mind? They were just meant to be yours. They planned it that way.

[EFerrari]

33. That's probably right!

I was meant to be their slave. :)

[DeepBlueC]

34. apparently you're doing okay

they haven't put you in a shelter yet.

[EFerrari]

35. If they get the carrier out, I'm outta here.

:)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

20. Awww. She's a sweetie.

Not ugly at all... and I'm glad she's OK.

[EFerrari]

22. This girl should have been history long ago.

She's got a lot of spirit and she basically is the boss around here. Pretty good for being the littlest one. :)

[applegrove]

23. She's the queen of the den and knows it.

[EFerrari]

24. When my friend first brought her to my house, I was fostering

and Friday escaped and took up camp in my closet. She only seemed to come out at night to eat and drink. She was so scared.

The rebel in me loves to see her be the Queen of the house now.

[applegrove]

29. Must have taken lots of patience. We had a cat that was a barn cat. It first lived

with two older cats who beat it up. So we took it. Poor little Angus hit under furniture for his first two months at our house. He couldn't stand being held ever. But he got to the point where he would sit in the same room with us. We used to take him up to the cottage where he would hunt and love it. We'd show up midweek at the cottage and he'd show up and was so happy to be there he let us pat him. We did this for years at the cottage. Till finally he just didn't show up one day. I drove up to the lake after work to call him and look for him. But we never saw him again.

[musette_sf]

27. "mouth herpes"

i am assuming you are referring to resorptive lesions?

been through that one with one of my guys... $2K+ was the bill... but he's much better now. glad to hear your little one is doing better too.

and i do love the torties... she is beautiful.

[Lil Missy]

30. I love happy endings. I also spent over $1800 on a surgery that I couldn't really afford.

And knowing he'd be deaf after the surgery. Fortunately I've taken the pooch in question, and my cats there for 16+ years and always paid my bills there. So she let me make payments if I could come up with half down.

Worked out well. I had a guilt trip about making him deaf, but he's a lot happier now.

And BTW, I think your kitty is adorable!

[EFerrari]

31. I was truly blessed or the secular equivalent. My whole life was a mess

but somehow, things turned out okay for this (newly bossy) girl. :)

[SeattleGirl]

36. I remember when you posted about her.

I'm so glad she's doing well now!

And I beg to disagree; I think she's a doll!

She looks a lot like my Baby Cat.

[EFerrari]

40. I can't believe she made it! She couldn't EAT.

Thank you, Universe!

[SeattleGirl]

45. Absolutely!

:toast:

[Drunken Irishman]

39. How'd she get herpes?

:o

[EFerrari]

41. I got her used. Hell if I know.

:)

[enigmatic]

46. Kitty is beautiful

Give her a scratch behind the ears and a kiss from me!

[EFerrari]

47. I will. Thanks, enigmatic.

:loveya:

[kiva]

48. She's gorgeous.

And lucky to have a human like you.

[Bertha Venation]

50. I love Friday!

I don't think she's ugly. Thanks for telling us about her.

:bounce: