"Dust Bunnies" and "Hair Bunnies"

If you own a pet surely you have pet hair in your house. People always FREAK out about this but I don't understand why. Pets have hair, people have hair, it falls out sometimes and we deal with it. Personally if you ask any cat we enjoy shedding it. Grooming ourselves and loosing our hair is our way of making our new hair shiny, silky and clean. Plus as an added bonus Dust Bunnies and Hair Bunnies are GREAT toys! You can bat them around on the floor and chase them under the couch. Who wouldn't want this free toy for their pet? It gets even better I have never seen a person who hasn't laughed when watching a cat groom themselves and come up with a mouth full of hair and then try repeatedly and unsuccessfully to shake their heads to get the hair of their tongue. What better entertainment could you ask for? So let me recap, pet hair is okay to be on the floor (or furniture, car seats, and your clothes) it is not the end of the world as some of you say. Best of all it is easy to clean up, since it doesn't even leave a stain. So my people friends wear you pet hair proud. It lets other people know that you are a wonderful pet parent to some great furry critters. My name is Chance and I am a cat.

Be Kind to Animals

Last week was National Be Kind to Animals Week. I wanted to say thank you to all of my people friends that help to support their furry community. It doesn't matter if you have skin, fur, feathers, hair, no-hair, scales or wool. We all deserve to be treated with care and love. I for one may not have had the easiest start to life, but now I am well cared for and loved deeply and that is what counts. Thankfully at the Animal Hospital were I live we don't see neglect cases very often and there are great groups and organizations out there right now trying to make a difference. My name is Chance because I got a second chance at a GREAT life. So I am asking all of my followers to make a difference in your community by adopting a deserving critter, volunteering your time, donating, and spaying and neutering pets. Thanks again for being kind to animals! My name is Chance, and I am a cat!

Happy 1st Birthday to me!

Saturday May 1st was my birthday I don't exactly know what this means but I got presents!! My favorite gift was a gift of good health. Friday I visited my people friends at Carolina Veterinary Specialist and they re-evaluated my knee (2 weeks post surgery). So far so good it looks like my knee cap is stable. So my absolute favorite gift was that I don't have to wear my stinky e-collar anymore! Oh happy day! My vet people friends that I work with all celebrated with me and gave me special attention. I got some extra can food and a new toy and they even let me play with Q-tips. Q-tips are the BEST things ever. They are small enough that you can carry them anywhere. They have this cool stuff on the end that is fun to chew on an pull apart. Q-tips roll around and are easy to hide in small places to save for later play dates. I haven't played with a Q-Tip in several months my people friends played a game and hid them in a cabinet so I couldn't find them anymore. My people friends told me that I couldn't steal all of their Q-tips because they needed them for work. Why work with them, Q-tips are fun and meant to be played with, duh! Anyway well Happy Birthday to me! I like birthdays now and can't wait for my next one. Maybe we can have a party when I am allowed out of my cage, they told me 4 more weeks to go and then I am free to roam again. Thanks for celebrating with me. My name is Chance and I am a cat.

Long time no meow!

Unfortunately I have had quite a busy month or two. Around the time of my last blog I had an accident when falling off a sink counter and injured by back left leg. Now considering since this is my only left leg, since I am three legged this has been a difficult time for me. Upon x-raying my back legs my people friends were surprised to find out that both my back knees were not working properly. Now almost two months later and three surgeries on my left rear leg the doctors are 'holding' their breath hoping that the last surgery will hold so I can be more comfortable. Down the road I may need a surgery on my right rear leg too. So as it stands I have now been kept confined, or in other words limited to my cage only for the past seven weeks and have many more ahead. When I am fully recovered my people friends tell me that I can no longer jump up onto counters or my favorite place the top of the fridge for fear of re-injuring myself. So I apologize for not blogging lately I will try to do more from now on. My people friends are keeping me company spending all their lunch breaks and down time playing with me. However I am expecting multiple toys and gifts when I am fully recovered. Don't let them forget it! My name is Chance, and I am a cat.

I luv being me!

I was told today that I am such an original cat. I agree.

 My name is Chance and I am a cat.
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Mondays!

I was told this morning that I am a little obnoxious on Mondays. WHAT? ME? WHY?

Then I found out that some people (i.e. my vet people friends) don't particularly care for Monday mornings even though they do love their jobs they would rather crawl back into bed. I find this to be rather humorous and would love to actually see one of my people friends crawl into bed.... Can you jump into bed while crawling on all fours (or my case threes)?  Well, for whatever reason people don't love mornings, I sure do. I thought that maybe if I shared why I love mornings, you to will learn to appreciate Mondays like I do.

My top 10 reasons why I LOVE  Monday mornings:

10) People do very cool things in the morning like make dark hot water in a weird pot that smells up the entire room. That should make people happy my water doesn't look or smell that interesting, and I have even seen some people add  milk to their hot dark water. Milk and cool dark water how devine!

 9) People have these meeting things Monday mornings and everyone gets here early. Which is awesome because more people = more petting.

 8) In the mornings it is colder outside so my people friends keep it nice and warm indoors. We cats love to be warm so please keep the temperature turned up.

 7) People like to talk more on Monday mornings. I hear them talking about their weekends and what they did. I am still trying to figure out what a weekend is, but when people talk more they also stand around a lot more and this allows me to trick them into standing still long enough to stop and pet me!

 6) More people bring food to work on Mondays than any other day! I for one have never met a leftover that I didn't enjoy.

 5) It is so bright outside and inside! Why don't people appreciate this. I love lights they make it easier for you to see, and they are fun to stare at for hours and hours.

 4) Dogs are more sleepy in the mornings too, which allows me to have more fun sneaking up on them.

 3) Morning time is a purrfect time to play games. My favorite one is to jump into the empty trashcan wait until one of my people friends walks by and then I jump out and yell SURPRISE! Although come to think of it they don't really find this too funny.

 2) Morning time is Kitty Yoga time! Find a comfortable spot, preferably on top of some important papers or across a keyboard and just stretch out and hold that position for as long as possible.

 AND MY NUMBER ONE REASON I LOVE MONDAY MORNINGS OR  JUST MORNINGS IN GENERAL IS...

1)  YOU GET BREAKFAST!!!!!!! If it wasn't morning than you couldn't eat breakfast and that would stink. Plus since my people friends are a little more sleepy on Mondays I usually can trick one or two of them into thinking I haven't been fed yet. Hehe! People are so silly.

My name is Chance and I am a cat.

The "Tail" Begins!

Hello. Thanks for reading my blog. This blog is all about me, Chance. 

First the obvious, I am a cat and I only have 3 legs. After one of my new people friends meets me the first thing out of their mouth is what happened to your/her leg? I am getting tired of this question... If I could talk I would say who cares about my  4th leg... I didn't need it anyway and I LOVE my other three legs so why is it a big deal to you human people? I see no disadvantage to me only having three legs, and in reality it is an advantage. I get by with things that other cats in my position might get scolded for and it was because of my bum leg in the first place that I came to live the best place in the world and be with all of my people friends. We cats are very rational. I had a bum leg that didn't work right, now it is gone and I get around just fine!

Okay, enough of me blabing here is the story about my 4th leg ...

 

I was found by a very nice, young, guy on a golf range when I was just a wee little kitten (about 4 weeks old) with a severe leg injury. The nice, young man took me in and took me to the most awesome place ever. He took me to see the doctors at Sedgefield Animal Hospital and Dental Center. The staff at the SAHDC checked me out and they think by the look of my leg that someone might have abused me by picking me up  by my leg and throwing me. My shoulder was completely dislocated, and I had some pretty bad nerve damage that had been like that for a quite a while. The staff at the Sedgefield Animal Hospital decided to take me in and nursed me to back to health with love and TLC. They knew from the beginning that they couldn't save my leg. However, they wanted me to get big and strong before having surgery.  When I turned 5 months old this past September the doctors knew I was ready for surgery to amputate my front leg. The day after my surgery I was ready to go, and haven't slowed down since. The staff thought they would be able to place me in a new home once I recovered from surgery, but by that point they had already fallen in love with my great and funny personality (hehe.. little do they know). 

So, that's the story. Do I miss my 4th leg? NO! I am a purrfectly normal cat and I can do great cat things without my other leg. I can ride on my people friends' shoulders. I can climb to the top of the refrigerator or on top of the 7 ft. tall bookcases. I can trashcan dive and I can chase down the other hospital cat. Nothing is an obstacle for me. My name is Chance and I am a cat.