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Today’s Thursday hop post with Brian celebrates a life that has just passed, Meya Stark.
This frail little lady was pulled from New York’s ACC with the hope she could be nourished and rehomed. A task Place for Cats undertakes with diligence and pride.
Frustratingly, none of the vets Meya was taken to diagnosed her secret. Cancer of the sinus cavity. Mia Lancaster, the Director of
You will find a full tribute to
I write this today 30th April 2015 – the day I lost one of the best friends; it will be posted after his Peep lets the world know. My fellow AdventureCat and Nip Head has gone where I cannot follow – my heart is full of a deep grief for the loss of a truly great friend, cat blogger and gifted author cat. Today I blog today about my hero………
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‘Nissy’ as he was to his friends, was an utterly committed and fearless promoter of the rescue of cats at New York’s terrible ACC. With total and complete dedication he shared; day in and day out, week after week, the cats at risk there. This takes true heroism and massive courage and commitment. He sat there with his peep and shared each on Facebook and Twitter so they might meet their own peep to rescue them.
Nissy’s family have posted here so please visit Nissy, his brother Seville, and grieving Peeps.
Donations to honour Nissy can be sent to Team TNR via the Canada Helps donation site and this should take you to TeamTNR’s page, Team TNR is a small local Nova Scotia rescue helping neuter
Rest in Peace Nerissa the Cat, writer, blogger, cat advocate and rescuer.
Silver Kitten
AdventureCat Member
Hello Everyone, Silver here. I am writing this blog post because I just lost my best and most special friend, Riley.
I gave him a Christmas gift and his mum and dad just came over to say he died in a traffic accident just before Santa came.
He was rushed to the vet and was rallying but his heart gave out. Riley and I were roughly the same age. Mum, Dad and I are heartbroken, and we grieve with his Mum and Dad who are the loveliest of people.
Riley and I were best friends, we played together, and I visited his house so much I am like one of their family. We had such fun and great times together exploring the letterbox mounted on the wall and making mischief.
My heart is broken, I can’t find my friend. Please, join me in wishing Riley a safe passage across the Rainbow Bridge to wait for his Mum and Dad. Please, you don’t need to respond, you are not obliged – I wanted to record just how important Riley was to me and to my family.
Thank you for reading and your support. I can’t bring myself to add Riley to our In Memoriam page just yet. Forgive me, this is his memorial.
Silver
When we booked our Tree Man do some heavy duty garden work, and plant a New Zealand native palm. It was not meant to be what it has become, a memorial for Dash Kitten.
Our Tree Man rang up yesterday and requested that we bring forward our work as the weather anticipated on our previously scheduled date was expected to be ‘severe’. Today’s weather is down to deteriorate to storm force winds and rain, so we are glad we did.
As a result, the Tree Man visited today and the first thing we did was discuss the siting of our Nikau Palm
He advised semi shade and sheltered, and, the ideal situation turned out to be close to where Dash was found by our neighbour, which seems fitting. The palm is a New Zealand native, just like Dash Kitten. It is about 10 years old at the moment and about 8 feet/2.5 metres tall (about 6ft/1.80 mtrs when planted!)
Our memorial palm will be in excellent native company, both the Kowhai and the Flax nearby are relished by New Zealand native bird the Tui, (the link also lets you listen to Tui song). We are giving local wild birds a helping hand as both provide tasty seasonal nectar. The tree itself took a considerable mount of care and skill to plant, as you may be able to see.
The tree man first put 2 year slow release fertiliser tablets into a ‘bell’ shaped hole – to allow the roots more room to spread out as it grows – then quality compost around the base. The palm was then placed in the hole, braced securely with stakes and hessian ties, with more compost on top.
The result is a sturdy planting that will cope with most weather. We were also advised not to water the tree in as chlorine in the water supply would burn the sensitive roots – but to allow the coming storm rains to do the work for us.
Our beautiful Palm is now in place, our Tree Man has done a skilled job and we have a lasting tribute to our boy. Thank you to Wayne of Pencarrow Tree Services for his skilled help.
