Wednesday, February 24, 2016

BlogPaws Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop

Kely the Cornish Rex in her heated cat bed

Cats sleep an average of 15 hours a day, and Kely is no different! In fact, when she goes to work with me (almost every day) she's happy and cozy in her heated bed under a coverlet of fluffy fleece! 


She'll nap the day away, just getting up to drink from her fountain and use the potty, with an occasional visit with a client or a lap around the clinic! 

At home, she loves to sit in the Sunny Seat and watch the birds and squirrels in the back yard.

Kely the Cornish Rex in her Sunny Seat window perch


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Friday, February 12, 2016

Frootbat Friday, Kely Style

Kely the Cornish Rex cat at the front desk

Kely, like all Cornish Rex cats, has large ears (aka Frootbats) and it's one of her features that people comment on the most!

Kely the Cornish Rex cat in the sun on the hammock

Her ears, and her lovely green eyes...yes, she is a pretty kitty!

Kely the Cornish Rex cat at Lake Anne with flowers

Kely the Cornish Rex cat posing on books at Just Cats Clinic

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Monday, February 8, 2016

Monday Mewsings ...

Kely the Cornish Rex cat perches on shoulders

I take a lot of photos of Kely ... she's at work with me, at Just Cats Clinic, almost every day so there are many opportunities for cute, silly, sleepy and perky pix! 

Kely the Cornish Rex cat perches on shoulders

In the above photo, she climbed up onto the shoulders of our practice manager (she's been known to do that with both staff and clients, too) ... 

Kely the Cornish Rex cat perches on shoulders

We always warn the clients that she might be heading towards a shoulder perch when she hops up on the counter!

Kely the Cornish Rex cat at the front desk

Today, she ventured up onto the canned food display, but she wasn't looking for a high spot or even some Weruva Paw Lickin' Chicken ... she has sniffed out the sample baggies of kibble and that was the enticement, as she doesn't get kibble any more!



She didn't get any kibble, but she did get a treat of dried Bonita flakes! We used to buy the CatManDoo brand, but since all the kitties crave it, we searched around for a similar product and found this on Amazon and it's nice large flakes, no oily or smoky odor and priced right, too!

http://amzn.to/1VSd6KB

If you'd like to see more pix of Kely, you might want to follow her Instagram page, which I just worked on feverishly while waiting for my car to be repaired. Seems like the only time I make time for Instagram is when I'm stuck someplace! Need to be better about that, as it's fun, quick and produces immediate gratification! Here's the link to her page!

https://www.instagram.com/kely_with_one_l/

Monday, January 25, 2016

Monday Mewsings, Winter Wonderland

Kely the Cornish Rex in a red dress

This might look like a wintery scene, with a snowman and a birdie in a sweater ...

But this is a more of what the weather has been like here in Northern Virginia!

January 2016 snowstorm

Kely has her own little 'Igloo' and we'll have to say, it looks pretty inviting, don't you think?




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Wednesday, January 13, 2016

#BlogPaws Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop ~~ Winter Shape Up

Kely the Cornish Rex in silhouette

Cats sleep an average of 15 hours a day, and Kely is no exception! 

Kely the Cornish Rex napping in a fleece bed

And the long, cold, dark winter days don't find many chances for finding sun puddles to stretch out  do yoga in. So shaping up in Winter can be difficult (just ask me!)

Kely the Cornish Rex cat stretched out in the sun

Fortunately for Kely, packing on the ounces has never been a problem. In fact, because of her IBD (Inflammatory Bowel Disease) and the possibility of her having Intestinal Lymphoma, keeping the weight on her has been my goal since her diagnosis last August.

So gets to eat almost whatever she wants and has quite a buffet of foods offered to her, but along with everyone else of the feline persuasion in my house, no one is eating dry kibble any longer and I think everyone is healthier eating a species-appropriate diet here!

Kely the Cornish Rex cat at the vets

Along with the other kitties, Kely eats Weruva (mostly the chicken varieties), Stella & Chewy's ,(Freeze Dried Raw) Primal Nuggets (also a freeze dried raw) and most recently, Darwin's Raw Food. 

She also gets some Fancy Feast Classic canned (no wheat gluten or plant material) and some FreshPet Meals (some veggies--but they don't make a feline formula without them or I'd feed it!), but I would like to wean her off both of those if she likes and does well on the Darwin's. 

But mostly, I just want her to continue to keep her weight steady (or put on some more ounces). Since seeing the Internal Medicine specialist last August and starting on metronidazole and prednislone, she has not had any vomiting at all and has put on about 5 ounces.

We've reduced her meds to every other day and she is doing great on that schedule, so that's probably where I will keep her until she goes in for a follow up next month. So instead of exercising and cutting the calories, Kely's 'Winter Shape Up' has been pretty, well, relaxing, hahameow!


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Monday, January 4, 2016

Monday Mewsings ... Kely misses Sammy, too ...

Kely and Sammy, two senior Cornish Rex, snuggling in bed

Kely lost her companion ManCat, Sammy on December 21st and we are all coming to terms with his passing, but I feel that Kely misses him most of all.

Kely and Sammy, two senior Cornish Rex, laying in the sun

They were both senior citizens, Kely being just a few months older than Sammy, and while they didn't start out as friends, after a while I think they both depended on each other for affection and snuggling, even if a few whaps came between them from time-to-time ...

Kely and Sammy, two senior Cornish Rex, find a sun puddle

Kely gets to go to work with me almost every day, and I know that is good for her ... she has quite a fan club and get lots of attention and also gets to nap in her heated bed and have tasty snacks hand fed to her ...

Kely and Nolo, two Cornish Rex, sharing a meal

And back at home, I'm trying to gradually introduce her to Nolo, the foster kitty, as I think they both would benefit from becoming friends. But Kely isn't too smitten and this meal they are sharing ended with some cross words being said between the two of them. 

But she was the same way with Sammy in the beginning, so I am hopeful a friendship will bloom here ... Stay tuned for updates!

Friday, December 25, 2015

Merry Christmas from Kely!


I took this photo of Kely, wearing one of Coco's holiday dresses and she just posed with the most serene look on her face...perfect looks for a dress named Peace on Earth...

Kely's not wild about wearing hats, though...so the pretty Christmas Candy hat is placed next to her...It looks like a present, don't you think?


In her Starry Night dress, she let me put on the tiara, but wouldn't look at the camera, but I thought this photo looked very regal anyway...


Here she is wearing Coco's pearl necklace, a lovely piece created by The Domestic Dogdess, looking very elegant and festive! 

We wish for all our friends a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, too!