Grow Your Blog 2015

I am joining in with the Grow Your Blog party again this year which is hosted by the lovely Vicki at 2bags full. If you haven't visited her blog please do and join in meeting and greeting all the lovely bloggers who are participating.

This blog is where it all started for me as a blogger. Initially it was a blog all about welcoming a new boy-kitten called Red coming into our lives and his first year as he made it from a pom-pom with legs and a cute face to an adult cat. It also features Magic who is now an eleven year old Tortoiseshell girl-cat.

Way back in 2009 

 

Five years along the line it kept rolling and this is now their exclusive home.

The boy - all 'growed' up...

...but still as floofy!

 

Red is just the sweetest natured cat and a delight to have around. He is very bold around the house and with his favoured humans but is terrified of visitors or loud noises.

He is getting better, though he still bolts when the door is knocked, but will come out for a nosy once his curiosity gets the better of him. We live in Glasgow, Scotland and rarely get any decent snow so it's always an event for the snow lovers here.

Magic is a wise, loving and wonderful soul companion.

She is also having a very tough time right now. She is an insulin dependent diabetic on a very high level of insulin which is having little effect.

This is due to acromegaly from a pituitary tumour and she is awaiting neurosurgery which is scheduled for next month in London. 

Due to her uncontrolled diabetes she is voraciously hungry, constantly and screeches at me to tell me so including overnight which is difficult for all.   

 

She is such a sweet and loving little cat that she has borne her illness with amazing grace and my heart melts with love for her as she has always been there through some very rough and testing times for me too.

  

I am planning, where time allows, to blog about her surgery journey as we will be travelling to London which will be a bit of an adventure as I have a knee problem so a lame human and a sick cat is not the ideal combo. The surgery is fairly cutting edge stuff by all accounts as this is not yet a mainstream treatment. I am praying all goes well and this is a success story and so far the odds are that 21 cats have been treated and 18 have survived. However, I will update and share what knowledge I have acquired, come what may.

I will have a giveaway but just haven't planned what to give as yet so will announce it in the next few days. I am thinking something to please the cat in your life and something for their willing human servants. Even if you don't have a cat you wont lose out and it will be open worldwide.

Thank you so much for visiting and please feel free to leave a comment if you'd like. I have another blog over at Gone Beading which the cats allow me to use as my own space and you'll be just as welcome there! I'll look forward to visiting everyone's blogs and saying hello.