Kizmet's story

So I thought I would share our new cat Kizmet's story. So we met her at the mspca in Methuen & they didn't know too much about her, she had only been at that location for a week. They also said that she had come from the Cape Cod mspca location & had come from a hoarding house in the Cape cod area. That she had recently had some babies. When we met her she had just had surgery to be fixed, 2 days before. So we got her home & she was really friendly & loveable & loves giving kisses. So I thought I would e mail the people at the Cape animal shelter to see if she had gone to a foster home with her babies & maybe the foster parent had taken photos of her with her babies (JoJo was 3 when I adopted her, so I had no photos of her as a kitten, so I had hoped I could have photos of Kizzy's babies. I will never have photos of Kiz a kitten either). I really like doing detective work. I didn't expect to hear what I did. A lady from a New England neglected animals shelter gave me more info (She helped bottle feed her babies). Kiz had come from a hoarding house & said it was really gross. I found out that she had 4 babies & only 2 survived. The kittens had fleas so bad that the fleas were sucking their blood & they ended up anemic (adult cats can survive the fleas). So they needed blood transfusions. 2 didn't even make it to have the blood transfusions. 2 survived, 1 is a boy named Wicket (a little light gray & white kitten) & the other is a girl named Violet (a torti). They both were adopted. It makes me sad sometimes because I know Kizzy would have been a great Mom to her babies & I wish I could see her with them. I do have photos of her babies, but they aren't my photos, so I don't think I should post them. I'll be adding the photos to Kizmet's scrapbook.

Family

I have a really big family. My Mom is the youngest of 7 kids. Most of them still live in MA, but some live far away. My cousin Nancy was in New England recently (she lives in New Mexico), so we got together with her & her sister Dot. I hadn't seen Nancy, since I was a kid. She is a lot older. So I didn't remember much about her, but that she belly danced & would always teach the cousins belly dancing at the other cousins weddings. I've been talking to her on Facebook. I actually have quite a few cousins on FB that live on the West coast that I never met. Anyway, it was great seeing her & her sister. I really want to get together with the other local cousins soon. We are hoping to have a reunion next year.

Below: Tara, Me, My Mom, Nancy & Dot.

I've never really liked my nose. My cousin Nancy said I have the Paine nose, (My Mom's maiden name is Paine), I think our noses kind of look the same. Which is cool. Before I was born, My Dad said that My Mom would just have a giant nose running around because her nose was so big. Well mine is bigger than hers. haha.