Selfies from the Past and Remembering Flash at Hanukkah

Hiya Furry Friends, Chiquita here having a nice Easy Sunnyday selfie and the last night of Hannukah be tonight. Katie Mom am doing much better from last Sunnyday - turns out may have been an allergy to seasoning or sumpin in the food her ate.

We are doing flashback selfies as this selfie of me was taken on 2017 8th of April. Hanukkah today we remembers Flash who went over the Rainbow Bridge May 2017. Hanukkah 2016 was Flash's furst time to celebrate Hanukkah and him asked lots of questions...

So without purr-thur adieu stuffs, Here am our Flashback from Hanukkah 2016, furst posted here on 2016 31 of December:

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... At the Secret Ninja Hideout where all the Mewzers meet from different family locations...

Katie Kitty Too

Katie Kitty Too Finished helping Mama blog and jumped down from the computer chair. Her went to join the singing practice fur the last night of Hanukkah.

Flash the Hero Cat

Today, Flash the Hero Cat was joining the Mewzers and him didn't know much abouts Hanukkah so him kept interrupting with questions....

 Katie Too Started the Mew Song...

On the First Day of Hanukkah my True Love gave to me...

Others joined in... A Picture of Judah Maccabee!

Flash: Wait... Who is Judah Maccabee?

Angel

Angel the Fetch Kitty: Is he the guy who Whacked Bees with Hammers?

Katie Too: No! Judah Maccabee saved the Jewish People from the mean King Antiochus Eppiphaneez...who wanted to sacrifice a pig at the temple.  Judah Maccabee and hims brothers fought the Greeks and made them go home. Then they rededicated the temple and found oil for one day to light the menorah, but it lasted 8 days!Judah was called The Hammer, that's what Maccabee means.

Angel: but Joey said he whacked bees.

Lulu and Joey

Lulu: Yep that's what Joey said.
Joey the Nike Cat Hero, Flash's half brother: Oh, I thought his name was Judah Whackabee.
(Joey snuggled with Lulu, waiting to sing again)

Angel: Can we whack mousies when we done singing?
Katie Mom: sure... lets start again.

On the Second Day of Hanukkah, my True Love gave to me, Two Matzah Balls and a Picture of Judah Maccabee!

Flash: What are Matzah Balls?
Katie Too: That's like a dumpling made of flour and cooked in chickens. Bear likes chickens.

Lil Bear: but Joey said they were bouncy balls that didn't bounce.
Katie Mom: Depends on how hard the dumplings are... On to the third verse. 


 On the Third Day of Hanukkah my True Love gave to me, Three Sufganyot, Two Matzah balls and a picture of Judah Maccabee!

Flash: What am Sufganyot?

Bootsie Woo

Sufganyot

Bootsie rolled around on the floor and lost her kippah again: Dats yummies fur humans with jam and stuffs.  Dey eats dats in Israel at Hanukkah.

Lil Bear

 Lil Bear: But Joey said sufganyot was soup to go with chickens in it for the bouncy balls that don't bounce.
Katie Too: Joey!!
Joey: Sounded better than jelly. Unless am catnip jam...

Katie Mom: Sufganyot and matzah balls are not in the same dish, Joey. Okay, on with the fourth verse.

On the fourth day of Hanukkah, My True Love gave to me... four potato latkes, three sufganyot, two matzah balls and A Picture of Judah Maccabee!!

Flash: Okay, what are potato latkes?

Maxwell Tigger

Maxwell Tigger: That's potato pancakes and they taste goods with tuna.
Lulu:  Joey said they were potato latch keys made to open the door to the cat food closet.
Joey: or to the tzedakah box - the giving box fur donations and stuffs.

Katie Mom: Joey, you can't make keys out of potatoes... Fifth Verse!!

On the Fifth Day of Hanukkah, my True Love sent to me...
FIVE GOLDEN GELT!!!  Four potato latkes, three sufganyot, two matzah balls... and a Picture of Judah Maccabee!

Flash: ummm... what are gelt? (wondering what Joey has to say this time)
Joey: oh that's just money made of chocolate... we can't eat those.  Now if someone would make them out of cheese...

On the Sixth Day of Hanukkah my True Love Sent to me... Six dreidels spinning, FIVE GOLDEN GELT, four potato latkes, three sufganyot, two matzah balls... and a Picture of Judah Maccabee! 

Read from Left to Right

Flash: What are dreidels and they spin? Sounds like fun
(Now Flash had Joey's attention. He sat up excitedly)

Joey: Yes they are lots of funs... They are spinning tops and when humans spin them, you can chase them til they fall over. Dreidels in America have the Hebrew letters Nun Gimmel Hay and Shin which stands for Nes Gadol Haya Sham. (typo fixed), that means A Miracle Happened There. In Israel the Dreidels have a Pay letter instead of Shin for  Nes Gadol Haya Po, A Miracle Happened Here.

Flash: Where did Dreidels come from?

Joey: Well tradition says the game started as a way of memorizing Torah when reading Torah was outlawed by the Greeks, yet the game really didn't start then. There am a good site to reads about that. http://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/the-origin-of-the-dreidel/
 
Katie Mom: Let's finish this song and then we can look at the website.

On the Eighth Day of Hanukkah my True Love Sent to me
8 candles glowing, 7 Golden Menorahs, 6 Dreidels spinning, FIVE GOLDEN GELT, 4 potato latkes, 3 sufganyot, 2 Matzah Balls... AND A PICTURE OF JUDAH MACCABEE!

Oreo and the Hanukkiah

Flash: Okay, I really like this song... one more question. The menorah is a candelabra and has 9 candles for lighting. There are eight candles for the eight days of Hanukkah. What is the ninth candle for?

Kitty Menorah

Oreo: That candle is called the Shamash or servant candle and lights all the other candles in the Menorah.

Flash: Thank you everfurry one fur letting me sing with you!
Now Joey and I must be off to save the worlds before the Mew Year!
   (Flash and Joey run off at the speed of Light to finds hero things to do to saves the worlds, one kitty at a time.)

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Thanks so much fur joining us on Flashback to Hanukkah 2016... We still miss our Dear Flash the Super Cat who was killt by evil minions wanting to take over the world...  





 






Purrz from Chiquita who wish she could have met him.

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Furry Orange Kittens Update and Mom am Furry Sick

Hiya Furry Peeples!  Chiquita here helping the Mom fur Blogging today.  Just figures though that I finally gotted her up reelly early to gets a blog post dun and her was sick!!  Her throat am all swollen up and don't know why - plz purr fur our Mom. Might be strep. Her has to do lots of talking at work as a telephone interviewer and was going to gets a really goods amount of hours this week. and now her can hardly talk.  Thank you fur you purrz and stuffs.


Now abouts those furry five orange kittens from the last post! Here am some more Furry Goods orange Selfies!

Kittens crawling all over Katie Mom

Kitten & Lady who came to pick them up

Well the lady who losted her mommy cat, she kept one kitten to loves and Katie Mom kitty-sat 4 kittens until a rescue picked them up... They just visited fur one day. The Mom found out that three are boys and one seems to be a girl. And her decided the girl was Halo as suggested by Bella Dharma in commints in last post in the photo of the kittens in blue tub! They are 5 weeks old and the boys are over one pound, but the girl was only 15 ounces, and all her wanted to do was sleep in Mommy's shirt! 


They was only with us fur one night and then a wonderful lady from a rescue called Wichita Animal Action League picked up the furry sweeties and tooks them to one of their fosters with lots of room until they are big enough to get fixed and find furever homes!


Here am the four orange kittens under the Christmas Tree at their mew foster home.


We sure hopes they all finds the bestest furever homes fur Christmas and the Mew Year!


Purrz of Loves and Stuffs,
Chiquita, 
KFM Sunday Selfie Newz 

 










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Orange Orphaned Kittens Need Your Purrz

***We inter-purrts our regularly scheduled Sunday Selfies...*** 

Look who need furever homes fur Christmas!!
Katie Mom am furry sads that their Mommy died mysteriously recently.

They are 5 weeks old and this am their furry furst group selfie and dey will need names too!

 The Lady they belong to said we could see them tomorrow. We were possibly going to see them this morning - that's why we hadn't posted yet. They won't be staying with us, they just visiting until a rescue picks them up.

Speaking of colds it am snowing here today so we are not going out on the covered porch with all the frosty snow there... brrz.

And the Mom am staying home from work cause we only gots old scrap truck fur transportation today. The car that Uncle Mike and Mom used to take Giselle and her kittens to Manhattan broke down last Sunday, just two days after the trip! We now need to buy another car. Both cars are down fur the count (the other car was totaled in accident July 4th with Mom driving- other car ran red light).

Good Mewz though about our former foster kittens! Natalie at Cattails Rescue told the Mom that Giselle's kittens - all the Cheese boys, (Cheddar, Colby, Pepper Jack) and daughter Heather found furever homes at Petco Manhattan, Kansas yesfurday!! If you haz Facebook, you can see a video of Cheddar who can Haz Cheezburger toy. MOL Cheddar and Hims Cheezburger. To reads about Giselle's kittens who are not pictured here, please see Giselle and Kittens Posts

Dats all fur now... we will keep you posted about this latest develorpurrment. 

Purrz from Miss Peach and Chiquita,
KFM Sunday Newz

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Friday in Manhattan Kansas Kittens in Carriers Selfies

Heather and Colby

Cheddar and Pepper Jack

Katie the Mom helped us take our selfies just before we went into the K-State Mobile Vet unit in Manhattan, Kansas... on Furry Day - 10 o'clock Friday Morning.

Now we are at Cat Tails Manhattan getting loves and yummy foods... We will be fostered furry soon to help us keep socializing til we visit Petco where we will wow the sockies off uf evfurry bodies who meets us!!!  Please purr fur us dat da bestest furever mommies and daddies find us furry soon!



Please purr fur our Mommy Giselle who is Katie Mom's mew kitty. Giselle needs checked cause her mammary glands are too full...  Purring that her not has fever and stuffs. Katie Mom wants to take her to vets fur checkup.

Purrz from Giselle's kittens

and Katie the Foster Mom. 

From Katie the Mom:
Please keep Silvia's Mama Cat Narcisca in your prayers. She has quit eating and has become lethargic.  She needs checked to find out what is wrong...  
  

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Giselle's kittens love to play

Hiya internet peeples. Did you see one of my kittens whizz by behind me? That was my daughter Heather. She and Cheddar have two speeds - full speed ahead and stop. Even tho it am Blog Blast fur Peace Day, Furry hard to get kittens to stay calm and peaceful furry long!!!

Yet they am furry goods and Katie and I am purring that they will finds wonderful loving and caring homes.

Yes they loves to play and make messes with paper...

Would you like to see some photos of my kittens playing?

They just can't get enough of wrestling with Katie's blue jeans.  From the upper left going clockwise, Cheddar, Colby and Pepper Jack on top of Katie's leg.

Heather and Cheddar love to wrestle.

Pepper Jack aka P.J.

Colby

Cheddar

Heather

Thanks fur stopping by... Please keeps me and my fur kids in your purrz... Very soon we will be going to Manhattan, Kansas for shots and getting fixed. My babies will stay there to find mew homes. I will be coming back to Katie's Mom so her will not be lonely without Bibi.

Purrz,
Giselle, aka Gigi.

Please keep Chiquita in your purrz, Her rash started reappearing two days ago... just started diminishing her prednisone down to half a tablet every other day. Had to increase the dosage back to half tablet every day. I hope this is food related. Will look for a single source protein food for her. -Katie the Mom.

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More Kitties to Honor and Chiquita at the Vets Selfie

More kitties haz goned over the Rainbow Bridge... Hi ever furry one, This am Chiquita today, and down below you will finds my going to the vets on Friday selfies. First, the Mom just founded out that Purrince Sidhartha at the Purrfect Pad has goned on August 28th and Friends Furever Madi went home a few weeks ago too... 

We honor them today and ifs you didn't know already, please visit their bloggies... The Purrfect Pad and Friends Furever

Howsumever, A furry good fing happened at The Purrfect Pad...

Purrince Sidhartha helped Lady Mum find a mew companion... another beautiful black kitty girl Bella Dharma! Now Lady Mum won't be sooo lonely and Bella will finally haz a furever home - Bella had two homes previously and they didn't work out. Cause she was meant to be with Lady Mum!! https://nylabluesmum.wordpress.com/2018/09/11/finding-belladharma-find-a-new-home/

Also, There is a special blog hop on September 26th to honor Madi. Please join them when they host a special Blog Hop for Madi. Post anything you want to do with a Box...such as stand up comedy, a joke or pun, Recite a poem...karaoke, just a picture with a box, etc...anything goes no rules except RED!, There will be a link set up at Living Laughing and Barking in our Backyard so Madi's Mom and Dad can see all your wonderful posts.  

Now for some furry good mewz about me... and my at the vet again selfies. Like Katie Kitty Too said on Thursday, I am doing so much better, although my right ear is still a little pink. The Mom took me to see Dr. J so he could check my ear and all the former itchy places... For now I will be taking one pill a day instead of two for the next two weeks and then the Mom will help me take less pills until I'm not taking any more for now. And then we will see if I get itchy and rashy again. I sure hope not. We don't know why I gotted a rash so please keep me in your purrs that it not come back... and if it does that we figure out why.

Purrz and Head Butts, Miss Chiquita.
(If you can helps with my vet bill, the Mom will loves your furever... laugh_safely at yahoo dot com to Paypal dot com)



(by the way... I started this post early Sunday... had to run and do some errands... came back home to finish, but was time to get ready for work... so here we are Monday morning... Please keep me in your purrz - I have a cold and making hard to work since I am on the phone all day. If you would like to know how I am doing after the car accident, please contact me privately -Katie the Mom.)

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Healing Purrz and Funds Needed Fur Chiquita

Last Sunday, dear Chiquita was hiding under the bed and would not come out...

Chiqui's red ear deep inside.

When I finally got her out from under the bed, she ran to the laundry room shelf behind the curtains. Her face and nose were red and she favored her right ear. These visible signs of something wrong were not there Saturday. My first thought - she had jumped off the bed in the night when I kicked covers off and banged her head on the metal bath chair at the foot of the bed.

She would not let me near and ran under the bed again. Hoping to her get out later that day, I went on to work. Coming home after nine pm, brother and I got her to run onto the laundry room shelf. I could tell her face and ears were swollen. Brother helped me get Chiquita into a carrier. She and I went to Emergency Vet Clinic. Brother went home to bed - he gets up at 4 AM for work.

At the ER Vet Clinic, found out Chiquita was running a temp and right ear was red and covered in crust and way down inside, right ear starting to get red too. Vet found two mammary glands also swollen. Suspecting mites or fungal infection, vet took samples of dried up scrappings and checked the microscope, yet only found opportunistic bacteria - no mites or fungal problems. ER vet suspected allergy or immune mediated response.

Just made no sense that this much swelling in her ear would happen over night. Apparent that the places on her chest were older so the rash seemed to have spread from her chest to her face.

Before leaving ER Vet, Chiquita received an anti-bacterial shot and Monday morning, I made an appointment for Chiquita to see Dr. Johnson at Willowbend Animal Hospital on Tuesday.

Tuesday, I'm with Chiquita at vets. Doc checked for yeast infection in her ear and found several more inflamed spots on her body besides the two on mammary glands. One on her back by her tail. The sores on her face and infection in her right ear. Ear mites and ring worm were ruled out. If allergy then prednisilone can help yet no telling what the allergen is. Dr. Johnson said that to completely know if this was an immune disease would require biopsy... Too expensive. Re-tested for FLV (she had leukemia shot when spayed) and tested for FIV since he had no records that those tests had been done, did blood chemistry. Got prednisilone pills for the rash and Tresaderm for her ear infection - to be given twice a day for ten days.

Tests came back on Wednesday. Negative for FLV and FIV. CBC blood chemistry did not show anything that explained this sudden onset of rash. At least she takes pills well and has been letting me put the meds in her ear this week. The rash on her mammary glands is much better and swelling on her face is down. 

Her poor ear is much less red. She has lost a lot of fur on her ear that hopefully grows back. All still a mystery as to the cause of the rash. Dr. Johnson suggested trying a different food with a meat protein that Chiquita has not had before. I am hoping to get something to try soon. Has anyone had a similar situation? Thought for sure it was mites, but no sign at all. Until we know what caused rash, could come back.



Chiqui really could use your help in paying her bill. Spent over $400 on my emergency Care Credit. This is all been a shock to us and poor Chiqui as well.

Any amt would help pay on her care credit. Please help with anything at all to Paypal gift to friends laugh_safely at yahoo dot com. Fur Chiquita's sake, thank you so much. Any amount will be sent directly to Care Credit bill.

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