This is my Olivia the girl that started it all... came from a girl at work that found her under her deck barely 3 pounds, she nursed her 2 health and she ended up with me wrapped around her paw, but it was short lived she died 4 years later, she threw a clot in her back legs and was paralyzed, then she stopped eating - she just wanted 2 go so i let her go eventually but it was very hard (tears happening now) after her i couldn't help myself but 2 try and help the ones living the hard life outside, i have found many of them homes and took a few home myself but i can't save them all and that is what hurts, there r so many suffering out there starving, no shelter in the winter, i find them sick or frozen, i wish people would help more by putting shelter or food / water 4 them

ok i am done ranting now let's get back 2 the kitties!

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this is when she was paralyzed, she had a catheter and a lock in her arm 4 pain

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this is the girl i got right after Olivia died because i couldn't stand the silence, she came from the Humane Society her name is Elle

and this little shit is Jack, because i thought Elle needed company

well, then i came across these guys separately on the streets

Alexander Nevermind (Alex 4 short) and Coco

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But i have 2 keep Jack (top pic) away from Coco (bottom pic) because he wants 2 eat her, he licks his lips and takes a bite and she screams bloody hell - so i just keep them separate all the time

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Alexander Nevermind is my pride and joy, he is the smartest cat, we play ping pong with little sponge balls, he figured out how 2 open the bathroom door - he moves his paws up and down until it opens then he pulls it open with his paw from the bottom opening, he's always molesting the girls even though he's fixed - he goes through the motions anyway

u can c how beautiful his belly is here and so soft - it may not look it but trust me he's fixed!

this little girl, came from outside work and now she has a 4ever home with her new best friend

This little girl i called Angel didn't make it, the vet pulled over 100 maggots out of her paws - her paws were cut up from finding shelter in a caved in shed that had glass everywhere, u would think she's a kitten but she was at least 6 months

she lasted a week, i cried so hard when she passed

the only photo i have is this one, i brought her 2 work and a patient fell in love with her and wouldn't let her go, lol

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This is Midnight, he was a stray found on a hi-way and brought 2 work (nursing home) and they kept him in the building 2 get rid of a mouse problem they had, he loved the chase but could never catch one that we know of anyway - this guy stole the hearts of many, he would console the dying by staying by their side or in the room if the families would allow it, he had a reputation - if he went in a room and stayed there everyone would say look out 4 Betty 2nite because Midnight hasn't left that room

In the end he got liver disease and i took him home 2 try and get him better and it worked, we got rid of the liver disease but he was so far gone, he was a skeleton by that point and he just gave up and died one afternoon

one of the nurses buried him in her backyard and made a short video 4 the people who loved him dearly (her backyard a pet cemetery)

Bless Your Soul Midnight...

This one i found at work (a lot of cats i found there) on a very cold night, i saw her when i looked out the window and grabbed some food and went out 2 feed her and she let me pick her up after she ate of coarse and i brought her in, we were looking at her and she looked pregnant, well i found a rescue group that could take her because i had my hands full and they let me know how she was, it was a couple of weeks still before she gave birth to 5 kittens - we called her Gracie because she was so nice

i could go on 4 a while but i am getting tired,

here's a cutie that was only with me 4 a week before someone scooped him up and gave him a 4ever home

i feed 3 different colonies of cats - they have food and shelter and r fixed so that the hardship of living outside doesn't continue

So get your pets spayed or neutered, just like Bob Barker says!

monkeyrose, u deserve a medal for helping all those kitties!! I don't have one to give u so on behalf of the cats I will just say Thank You!!!!

this is Midnight (he has been an outside cat before

this is Marley... never been outside before

You're an angel monkeyrose xxxxxxxx

Great pics Monkeyrose. Are you one of those cat rescue foster parents?

TYall 4 ur magical catpics! *purrpurr*

monkeyrose, I feel ur big and caring purple catlover heart & send u a big hug & ur sweeties gentle touch. *purrpurr*

I love this one! When I post photos of our cat on Facebook, my husband often replies by posting this picture.

monkeyrose said:

No, black cats are not bad luck. Black cats are BEAUTIFUL!!!

monkeyrose said:

All of your cats are darling, but look at Coco, she is so precious! Is she a black shorthair?

monkeyrose said:

But i have 2 keep Jack (top pic) away from Coco (bottom pic) because he wants 2 eat her, he licks his lips and takes a bite and she screams bloody hell - so i just keep them separate all the time

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Rest in feline heaven, Olivia. Look at her posture...so cute.

monkeyrose said:

This is my Olivia the girl that started it all... came from a girl at work that found her under her deck barely 3 pounds, she nursed her 2 health and she ended up with me wrapped around her paw, but it was short lived she died 4 years later, she threw a clot in her back legs and was paralyzed, then she stopped eating - she just wanted 2 go so i let her go eventually but it was very hard (tears happening now) after her i couldn't help myself but 2 try and help the ones living the hard life outside, i have found many of them homes and took a few home myself but i can't save them all and that is what hurts, there r so many suffering out there starving, no shelter in the winter, i find them sick or frozen, i wish people would help more by putting shelter or food / water 4 them

ok i am done ranting now let's get back 2 the kitties!

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Black Cat

CandaceS said:

monkeyrose, u deserve a medal for helping all those kitties!! I don't have one to give u so on behalf of the cats I will just say Thank You!!!!

there r animal people out there that r doing way more 2 save the animals, i am just caring for 3 groups and it's hard 2 turn away from a little luv that needs u, anyone of u would do the same i'm sure, but there r some people made of stone and would have no problem looking the other way

Guitarhero said:

You're an angel monkeyrose xxxxxxxx

i know u r but what am i!

babynoz said:

Great pics Monkeyrose. Are you one of those cat rescue foster parents?

no, just a person that cares about animals, but i do try 2 find them homes if possible because it's a hard life on the streets and 4 is enough for me

I can feed them and give them outside shelter but i cannot protect them against bad people and predators (we have coyotes around here)

I really don't thing that we do enough 2 help them, as the most intelligent species we sure r dumb when it comes 2 helping outside our own kind,

I would not want 2 live in a world without animals. Would u?

riot said:

TYall 4 ur magical catpics! *purrpurr*

monkeyrose, I feel ur big and caring purple catlover heart & send u a big hug & ur sweeties gentle touch. *purrpurr*

u also luv

206Michelle said:

All of your cats are darling, but look at Coco, she is so precious! Is she a black shorthair?

monkeyrose said:

But i have 2 keep Jack (top pic) away from Coco (bottom pic) because he wants 2 eat her, he licks his lips and takes a bite and she screams bloody hell - so i just keep them separate all the time

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she has very thick hair but short, i am 4ever brushing it but she luv's it! She was underweight when i got her, nipples hanging, i looked everywhere 4 her kittens but i could not find them and there were teenage boys saying how they're going 2 catch her on Devil's night (Oct 30th) 2 kill her just because she was black,

i told them when they die 2 comeback as a animal so they can see how hard their life is outside, after that i had 2 take her home without the kittens before they hurt her, so i have a specail spot 4 Coco

206Michelle said:

Black Cat

Rainer Maria Rilke, 1875 - 1926

A ghost, though invisible, still is like a place
your sight can knock on, echoing; but here
within this thick black pelt, your strongest gaze
will be absorbed and utterly disappear:

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just as a raving madman, when nothing else
can ease him, charges into his dark night
howling, pounds on the padded wall, and feels
the rage being taken in and pacified.

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She seems to hide all looks that have ever fallen
into her, so that, like an audience,
she can look them over, menacing and sullen,
and curl to sleep with them. But all at once

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as if awakened, she turns her face to yours;
and with a shock, you see yourself, tiny,
inside the golden amber of her eyeballs
suspended, like a prehistoric fly.

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Translated by Stephen Mitchell.

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Source: https://www.poets.org/poe.../black-cat