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Title: Queen Eva's Gotcha Day
Post by: Middle Child on August 15, 2014, 07:13:47 PM
SUBJECT TITLE:  Gotcha number changes each year.  :)

 I met her in a very bad situation when she was only 4 weeks old and after telling me her name was Eva she demanded I take her home. It took another four weeks for me to manage to get her out of there, while I worried about her day and night. In the car on the way home she informed me very loudly that her name is QUEEN Eva.

I'll never forget that first day.  I was up all the previous night preparing for her (a story all by itself)

I had to pick her up early in the morning, and it was a long drive. I brought her home and rushed her straight to the bathroom and the bathtub.  She had had diarrhea and had vomited in the carrier on the way home. As I washed her in the tub (she was also covered in fleas, and I mean covered) she screamed and screamed and screamed. After I washed her and dried her I shucked my clothes before stepping out of the bathroom (leaving Queen Eva in there of course).  I expected to see three adult cats sitting at attention at the door wondering what all the noise was about.
Instead all three of them were in their various spots, sound asleep!  I just couldn't believe it!  I mean..I had been telling them about her for weeks, but...it was so strange how they just instantly accepted her arrival, and all I had to do to her that first day.  (Back into the bathroom every half hour to comb fleas off of her)

First Day home:
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Title: Re: Happy 4th Gotcha Day Queen Eva!
Post by: Middle Child on August 15, 2014, 07:14:58 PM
The next day, I dropped her off at the vet in the morning, where she spent the day being tested for disease, and being de-flead and stuff like that.  She also spent the day charming everyone at the clinic.  Though they did claim anyone that had to handle her was deaf by the end of the day!

Home from an exhausting day at the vet, now de-flead she could have a stuffed animal, her White Bunny
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Havok rekkin started early................................................the solution
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Tolly :angel: and Mazy and Jennie accepted her right away.  Such fun and games and cat piles!  I have a thousand pictures of Tolly and Queen Eva piled together, but here I'll just post some initial getting acquainted shots.

Tolly :angel: and Queen Eva.  Tolly loved her immediately of course.  Tolly loved all cats.
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Tolly was sick that week, and Queen Eva took care of him.
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Title: Re: Happy 4th Gotcha Day Queen Eva!
Post by: Middle Child on August 15, 2014, 07:15:40 PM
Mazy and Queen Eva
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Jennie and Queen Eva
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One Big Happy Family!
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Title: Re: Happy 4th Gotcha Day Queen Eva!
Post by: Middle Child on August 15, 2014, 07:16:37 PM
It's was a bumpy road health-wise, even after we got rid of the fleas and roundworms,  with a back injury, ingesting of non-ingestibles, a week in the hospital and then two weeks recovery in the crate after a spay complication, and her digestive/intestinal problems.

For her first week she wasn't even allowed to play.

Finally she got the green light and was allowed a toy in her Castle.

http://youtu.be/Y9LVszM-p9g


Queen Eva had her own ways of doing things and growing into things.


For her first week she lived in her Castle by day (after she was de-flead),
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and I put her in the bathroom at night. It was a very busy week for me and I couldn't keep her shut up in that hot bathroom all day long. So she was in her Castle (large dog crate) set up in my bedroom. But at night, I wanted her to have more room to play and jump and I wanted to sleep, so she went into the bathroom.

By the fifth night though I was letting her loose in my bedroom

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http://youtu.be/OKSWS6mq2gQ

Title: Re: Happy 4th Gotcha Day Queen Eva!
Post by: Middle Child on August 15, 2014, 07:17:35 PM
Her second week I was home on vacation and the integration began.

All day long she stayed out and about with me and the other cats.  On a nice day, when I wanted to take the cats out, we would wait until she fell asleep in the bedroom, then I would close the bedroom screen door, and take the big cats out.

At night, still concerned for her safety, I continued to put her to bed in the bathroom.  And she went, willingly.  In fact she would actually put herself to bed.  I would go into the bathroom to brush my teeth, and she would follow me in and curl up in her bed.

On the seventh night after her integration (and after being here two full weeks) she decided she no longer needed to be shut in the bathroom at night.  You know how I knew?  I knew because that was the night she didn't follow me in, to be put to bed.  Instead I found her here:

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From then on she slept with me and the rest of the cats.

Title: Re: Happy 4th Gotcha Day Queen Eva!
Post by: Middle Child on August 15, 2014, 07:19:31 PM
Queen Eva has had other milestones that first year.  That first fall, after her shots I did start taking her out with the rest of the cats.  She took to the harness with no trouble, but I still wasn't ready to have her running loose in the yard.  So, since she wasn't using it in the house any more, I brought her Castle down to the yard, and every time I took the cats out, I set up her Castle, and she played in that, while we were all out side.  And she was perfectly happy with that.


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http://youtu.be/eUXSmQ-7bxI


I took her in and out via a carrier.  I put her harness on, she got in the carrier and I carried her out, opened the carrier door facing the Castle so she went from the carrier to the Castle..  When it was time to go in, I put her back in the carrier and carried her in.

The first time I let her out of the Castle was at the end of an outing in late November.  It was cold then, and after a quick run (at headlong speed) around the yard, she came inside willingly with the other cats.

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Mazy, it seemed, wanted to see what it felt like to be Queen Eva
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During the winter I took them out, because there wasn't any where for her to go, but the shoveled paths.

In the Spring, I let her come out without the Castle. However, in order to prevent any kind of door dashing behavior, I continued to take her out in her carrier.  I put her harness on, she walked into the carrier, then I took the carrier out to the yard, opened it and let her out. I also continued to bring her in, the same way. I wasn't quite ready for her to associate that door with the outside yard.

After a couple of weeks, one day, when it was time to go in, instead of getting in the carrier, she ran inside with the other cats.  So I stopped using the carrier to bring her in, but continued to use it to bring her out. 

Then, one day while they were all outside, they were startled, and all ran for the door.  I followed them in and shut the door, and waited for the noise that had scared them to abate, then I opened the door again, and that was the first time she walked through the door to go outside.

The next time we went out, when I got the carrier down, instead of getting in it, she went over to the door and stretched herself up against it.  That was how I knew she no longer needed to be taken out in the carrier, she told me she could be trusted, and she was. I was so proud of her!

Title: Re: Happy 4th Gotcha Day Queen Eva!
Post by: Middle Child on August 15, 2014, 07:21:01 PM
One of my favorite memories is of the day she discovered the Big Cat litter boxes. 

She was so tiny, and the first few days after her integration I still had a litter box in her Castle, even though she wasn't being shut in the Castle any more, she was still using the litter box in it.

Then, on the third day I watched her discover the stairs. She plopped down them one at a time as I watched closelly from the top.  Once she got down them she began to explore.  Then she discovered the litter boxes!  Such EXCITEMENT!

 Brrrmph! mrrrpmph! She called to me.  I hurried down the stairs and she ran up to me stretching herself up on my legs brruping a mile a minute. Then she ran back over to the litter boxes, turning to look back to make sure I was watching.  More brrups and mrrmphs as she jumped up onto the platform and walked through all of the litter boxes.

 I could tell just what she was saying. "Look Mom!  Hey mom, lookit, LOOKIT Mom, there's a BATHROOM down here, LOOK, a BATHROOM!"

 Goodness was she excited.  And from that moment on she never used her baby potty upstairs again, so I put it away.

First time on my lap
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First Sunbeam.  She was nine weeks old, it was her fourth day after integration, 11th day forever home
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http://youtu.be/DETTn9-KlB4

Queen Eva is a dedicated Burrower.  She has actual daily Burrow routines, in addition to her many random Burrowing antics.

A Burrower is Born:
Queen Eva's first documented Burrow, August 24 2010
http://youtu.be/xv5k0ZRkNe8

Happy Gotcha Day my precious Baby Girl. I thank Ootay :angel: daily for sending her to us, she is so special and I just love her so much.
Title: Re: Happy 4th Gotcha Day Queen Eva!
Post by: DeeDee on August 15, 2014, 07:24:31 PM
It looks like you're really lucky to have her in your life. And I KNOW she's lucky to have you in hers.
Title: Re: Happy 4th Gotcha Day Queen Eva!
Post by: Pookie on August 16, 2014, 10:41:32 AM
Happy Gotcha Day, Queen Eva!   fireworks1
Title: Re: Happy 4th Gotcha Day Queen Eva!
Post by: Shadow on August 16, 2014, 12:10:43 PM
Happy Gotcha Day Eva!  HeadButt
Title: Re: Happy 4th Gotcha Day Queen Eva!
Post by: Middle Child on August 17, 2014, 08:24:03 AM
Thanks everyone.  I love re-doing this story every year, because it always fascinates me, how well Queen Eva communicates with me, even as a Baby.  she always foujnd ways to let me know when she'd out grown one of my pre-cautions, you know?

She still does that, telling me what she can or can't handle, but of coure now she's more training me thaan the other way around.

You know, how's she's taught me to feed her lunch in the bathroom with the door shut.  Why?  I don't know, but every day when I come home for lunch to feed them, Queen eva isnsits on eating that meal in the bathroom, with the door shut.

In the old days, before I started raw, and I was desperate to get her to eat enough, she taught me to swipe her left-over food on her body so she could lick it off.  She still does that sometimes.  I scoop the food out onto the spatula, saying "here Queen Eva just finish this last bite" and she turns her body sideways too me, looks down her flank and says "just put it right there, and I'll take care of it".

It's not often necessary any more, but she still likes to do it sometimes.

Queen Eva is pure delight and I am so grateful to have her here. I am positive Ootay sent her to us, because Ootay knew Tolly would be leaving us soon. Tolly's cancer and death were all so quick, I was in shock as it was, but Queen Eva helped us all cope with it.  (Well Jennie didn't need any help, but Mazy and I did)

She is s special girl.

Oh did you know she has WINGS?

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Title: Re: Happy 4th Gotcha Day Queen Eva!
Post by: Pookie on August 17, 2014, 11:29:44 AM
Oh did you know she has WINGS?


That is so COOL!  thumbsup1
Title: Re: Happy 4th Gotcha Day Queen Eva!
Post by: Lola on August 17, 2014, 12:32:15 PM
I added her "Gotcha Day" to the calendar.
I got a kick out of her first day home... all the ruckus... and the others were sound asleep during it all.  lol
Queen Eve sure had a ROUGH start!  Poor baby.  Glad she found you.
The picture of her sprawled on the bed, with the others... does she ever look looooooooong and skinny!
The dog crate...what a great idea!
LOVED the stories.  All of them.  Thanks so much for sharing.  What a smart (an adorable) kitty, Queen Eva is!
Wings?
Title: Happy 5th Gotcha Day Queen Eva!
Post by: Middle Child on August 16, 2015, 08:38:35 AM
Well it's a day late, and Lola's post came a day early  funny2 but here's the story:

Most of you know the story, I met her in a very bad situation when she was only 4 weeks old and after telling me her name was Eva she demanded I take her home. It took another four weeks for me to manage to get her out of there, while I worried about her day and night. In the car on the way home she informed me very loudly that her name is QUEEN Eva.

I'll never forget that first day.  I brought her home and rushed her straight to the bathroom and the bathtub.  She had had diarrhea and had vomited in the carrier on the way home. As I washed her in the tub (she was also covered in fleas, and I mean covered) she screamed and screamed and screamed. After I washed her and dried her I shucked my clothes before stepping out of the bathroom (leaving Queen Eva in there of course).  I expected to see three adult cats sitting at attention at the door wondering what all the noise was about.

Instead all three of them were in their various spots, sound asleep!  I just couldn't believe it!  I mean..I had been telling them about her for weeks, but...it was so strange how they just instantly accepted her arrival, and all I had to do to her that first day.  (Back into the bathroom every half hour to comb fleas off of her)

First Day home:
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The next day, I dropped her off at the vet in the morning, where she spent the day being tested for disease, and being de-flead and stuff like that.  She also spent the day charming everyone at the clinic.  Though they did claim anyone that had to handle her was deaf by the end of the day!

Home from an exhausting day at the vet, now de-flead she could have a stuffed animal, her White Bunny
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Title: Re: Happy 5th Gotcha Day Queen Eva!
Post by: Middle Child on August 16, 2015, 08:39:42 AM
Havok rekkin started early........................the solution
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Tolly :angel: and Mazy and Jennie accepted her right away.  Such fun and games and cat piles!  I have a thousand pictures of Tolly and Queen Eva piled together, but here I'll just post some initial getting acquainted shots.

Tolly :angel: and Queen Eva.  Tolly loved her immediately of course.  Tolly loved all cats.
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Tolly was sick that week, and Queen Eva took care of him.
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Title: Re: Happy 5th Gotcha Day Queen Eva!
Post by: Middle Child on August 16, 2015, 08:40:12 AM
Mazy and Queen Eva
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Jennie and Queen Eva
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One Big Happy Family!
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Title: Re: Happy 5th Gotcha Day Queen Eva!
Post by: Middle Child on August 16, 2015, 08:40:59 AM
It's was a bumpy road health-wise, even after we got rid of the fleas and roundworms,  with a back injury, ingesting of non-ingestibles, a week in the hospital and then two weeks recovery in the crate after a spay complication, and her digestive/intestinal problems.

I thank Ootay :angel: daily for sending her to us, she is so special and I just love her so much.

Queen Eva had her own ways of doing things and growing into things.

For her first week she lived in her Castle by day (after she was de-flead),
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and I put her in the bathroom at night. It was a very busy week for me and I couldn't keep her shut up in that hot bathroom all day long. So she was in her Castle (large dog crate) set up in my bedroom. But at night, I wanted her to have more room to play and jump and I wanted to sleep, so she went into the bathroom.

By the fifth night though I was letting her loose in my bedroom

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Her second week I was home on vacation and the integration began.

All day long she stayed out and about with me and the other cats.  On a nice day, when I wanted to take the cats out, we would wait until she fell asleep in the bedroom, then I would close the bedroom screen door, and take the big cats out.

At night, still concerned for her safety, I continued to put her to bed in the bathroom.  And she went, willingly.  In fact she would actually put herself to bed.  I would go into the bathroom to brush my teeth, and she would follow me in and curl up in her bed.

On the seventh night after her integration (and after being here two full weeks) she decided she no longer needed to be shut in the bathroom at night.  You know how I knew?  I knew because that was the night she didn't follow me in, to be put to bed.  Instead I found her here:
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From then on she slept with me and the rest of the cats.

Title: Re: Happy 5th Gotcha Day Queen Eva!
Post by: Middle Child on August 16, 2015, 08:41:15 AM
Queen Eva has had other milestones over those first two years.  That first fall, after her shots I did start taking her out with the rest of the cats.  She took to the harness with no trouble, but I still wasn't ready to have her running loose in the yard.  So, since she wasn't using it in the house any more, I brought her Castle down to the yard, and every time I took the cats out, I set up her Castle, and she played in that, while we were all out side.  And she was perfectly happy with that.
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I took her in and out via a carrier.  I put her harness on, she got in the carrier and I carried her out, opened the carrier door facing the Castle so she went from the carrier to the Castle..  When it was time to go in, I put her back in the carrier and carried her in.

The first time I let her out of the Castle was at the end of an outing in late November.  It was cold then, and after a quick run (at headlong speed) around the yard, she came inside willingly with the other cats.

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Mazy, it seemed, wanted to see what it felt like to be Queen Eva
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During the winter I took them out, because there wasn't any where for her to go, but the shoveled paths.

In the Spring, I let her come out without the Castle. However, in order to prevent any kind of door dashing behavior, I continued to take her out in her carrier.  I put her harness on, she walked into the carrier, then I took the carrier out to the yard, opened it and let her out. I also continued to bring her in, the same way. I wasn't quite ready for her to associate that door with the outside yard.

After a couple of weeks, one day, when it was time to go in, instead of getting in the carrier, she ran inside with the other cats.  So I stopped using the carrier to bring her in, but continued to use it to bring her out.  Then, one day while they were all outside, they were startled, and all ran for the door.  I followed them in and shut the door, and waited for the noise that had scared them to abate, then I opened the door again, and that was the first time she walked through the door to go outside.

The next time we went out, when I got the carrier down, instead of getting in it, she went over to the door and stretched herself up against it.  That was how I knew she no longer needed to be taken out in the carrier, she told me she could be trusted, and she was. I was so proud of her!

One of my favorite memories is of the day she discovered the Big Cat litter boxes.  She was so tiny, and the first few days after her integration I still had a litter box in her Castle, even though she wasn't being shut in the Castle any more, she was still using the litter box in it.

Then, on the third day I watched her discover the stairs. She plopped down them one at a time as I watched carefully from the top.  Once she got down them she began to explore.  Then she discovered the litter boxes!  Such EXCITEMENT!  Brrrmph! mrrrpmph! She called to me.  I hurried down the stairs and she ran up to me stretching herself up on my legs brruping a mile a minute. Then she ran back over to the litter boxes, turning to look back to make sure I was watching.  More brrups and mrrmphs as she jumped up onto the platform and walked through all of the litter boxes.  I could tell just what she was saying. "Look Mom!  Hey mom, lookit, LOOKIT Mom, there's a BATHROOM down here, LOOK, a BATHROOM!"  Goodness was she excited.  And from that moment on she never used her baby potty upstairs again, so I put it away.

First time on my lap
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First Sunbeam.  She was nine weeks old, it was her fourth day after integration, 11th day forever home
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Queen Eva is a dedicated Burrower.  She has actual daily Burrow routines, in addition to her many random Burrowing antics.

A Burrower is Born:
Queen Eva's first documented Burrow, August 24 2010
http://youtu.be/xv5k0ZRkNe8

I thank Ootay :angel: daily for sending her to us, she is so special and I just love her so much.
Title: Re: Happy 5th Gotcha Day Queen Eva!
Post by: Middle Child on August 16, 2015, 08:51:09 AM
This of course is how she used to get into her hammock in her Castle.  Wish I hadn't turned the camera sideways, I never was able to figure out how to rotate the view.

https://youtu.be/eUXSmQ-7bxI

Title: Re: Happy 5th Gotcha Day Queen Eva!
Post by: Middle Child on August 16, 2015, 09:00:49 AM
Here's another favorite Gotcha Week video

https://youtu.be/OKSWS6mq2gQ
Title: Re: Happy 5th Gotcha Day Queen Eva!
Post by: DeeDee on August 16, 2015, 09:22:20 AM
I still think panfurs are the most beautiful of all. She just helps prove that.
Title: Re: Happy 5th Gotcha Day Queen Eva!
Post by: Lola on August 16, 2015, 02:22:01 PM
GREAT story.  Great pictures.  Great video.  LOVED it all!!!!  Thanks for sharing.
Title: Re: Happy 5th Gotcha Day Queen Eva!
Post by: Lola on August 16, 2015, 02:24:07 PM
My eye keeps going back to this picture... and the story behind it.
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Title: Re: Happy 5th Gotcha Day Queen Eva!
Post by: Pookie on August 16, 2015, 07:58:50 PM
Such a beautiful girl!  Thanks for sharing her story and the pics/videos!  CatPurr
Title: Re: Happy FIFTH Gotcha Day Queen Eva!
Post by: Lola on August 16, 2015, 08:31:23 PM
BTW Mazy looks GIGANTIC in Queen Eva's "cage" outside. 
Title: Re: Happy 6th Gotcha Day Queen Eva!
Post by: Middle Child on August 15, 2016, 05:38:50 AM
Happy Gotcha Day my precious Baby Girl!  Actually it's her sixth now but this thread already has the story and pictures and videos. Last year's thread does too, but this one has more of them.

She is so precious and beloved and brings joy to this house every day.  Her capacity for inventing new Games is never used up. She's such a loving cat, loves to lean into me or brush against me with her tail as she's walking by.  Communicative and responsive.

Now, if only she would let me trim her nails without screaming down the house.  funny2

Later I might scroll through youtube and add some more videos to this thread so watch this space!

Lola maybe you can change the title to say "6th"?
Title: Re: Happy 6th Gotcha Day Queen Eva!
Post by: Lola on August 15, 2016, 04:02:40 PM
I can combine the two threads, if you want. 

She is a beauty.  Glad you two found each other.  Enjoy your special day today.
Title: Re: Happy 6th Gotcha Day Queen Eva!
Post by: Middle Child on August 15, 2016, 04:07:44 PM
I can combine the two threads, if you want. 

She is a beauty.  Glad you two found each other.  Enjoy your special day today.

Thanks but they are exactly the same anyway, except this one has a few more videos than last year's thread.  I have the original story and photo-bucket pictures saved.
Title: Re: Happy 6th Gotcha Day Queen Eva!
Post by: Pookie on August 15, 2016, 07:38:02 PM
Happy Gotcha Day!   love1 love1 love1 love1 love1
Title: Re: Happy 6th Gotcha Day Queen Eva!
Post by: DeeDee on August 16, 2016, 10:13:14 PM
Yeah. I still love black fur most of all.
Title: Re: Happy 7th Gotcha Day Queen Eva!
Post by: Middle Child on August 15, 2017, 03:53:52 PM
HAPPY 7TH GOTCHA DAY QUEEN EVA my precious Baby Girl!
Title: Re: Happy 7th Gotcha Day Queen Eva!
Post by: Pookie on August 15, 2017, 07:28:09 PM
So beautiful!  CatPurr

Happy Gotcha Day (to "The Lookout"  :D)!  multistars multistars multistars
Title: Re: Happy 7th Gotcha Day Queen Eva!
Post by: DeeDee on August 15, 2017, 10:26:08 PM
Happy getcha, gotcha, good kitty!

 shadow1 PookieLove CatPurr PookieLove shadow1
Title: Re: Happy 7th Gotcha Day Queen Eva!
Post by: Lola on August 16, 2017, 12:23:57 AM
What a SWEEEEEET picture.   Happy Gotcha Day Queen Eva!! HeadButt
Title: Re: Happy 7th Gotcha Day Queen Eva!
Post by: Middle Child on August 16, 2017, 05:13:19 AM
 love1 love1 love1 love1
Title: Re: Happy 7th Gotcha Day Queen Eva!
Post by: Middle Child on August 20, 2017, 05:48:42 PM
Lola could you please edit the title of the thread to say 7th? I meant to ask before.  thanks xx
Title: Re: Happy 7th Gotcha Day Queen Eva!
Post by: Lola on August 21, 2017, 01:38:56 PM
Lola could you please edit the title of the thread to say 7th? I meant to ask before.  thanks xx

Did you want me to change the thread title on all the posts in this thread, back to the ones from 2014?  Or just the ones from the posts from this year?
Title: Re: Happy 7th Gotcha Day Queen Eva!
Post by: Middle Child on August 21, 2017, 04:28:50 PM
Did you want me to change the thread title on all the posts in this thread, back to the ones from 2014?  Or just the ones from the posts from this year?

Just the main title.  I'm pretty sure you did it for me last year too.  It originally said "Happy 4th" Somewhere there's a Happy 5th, but I stuck to this one because it has more pictures and stories now.
Title: Re: Happy 7th Gotcha Day Queen Eva!
Post by: Middle Child on August 27, 2017, 06:05:22 PM
Just the main title.  I'm pretty sure you did it for me last year too.  It originally said "Happy 4th" Somewhere there's a Happy 5th, but I stuck to this one because it has more pictures and stories now.

The reason I wanted you to change the thread title to 7th, is so next year I can find it by searching for it. Then I don't have to start a new thread.  I can just relive everything by reading this one.   When you have a moment.Thanks Lola.
Title: Re: Happy 7th Gotcha Day Queen Eva!
Post by: Lola on August 27, 2017, 07:36:18 PM
Changed the subject line to "7th."  Also found the 5th Gotcha Day thread and merged it with this one.
Title: Re: Happy 8th Gotcha Day Queen Eva!
Post by: Middle Child on August 10, 2018, 05:41:33 AM
Happy EIGHTH Gotcha Day Queen Eva, my precious Baby Girl!

 love1 love1 love1

Once again I ask dear Lola to change just the title of the thread to say 8th instead of 7th. Her story is on the first page of course.  I've been collecting current pictures of her busy doings to post on her Gotcha Day but haven't yet got them sorted.  I meant to but...  Here's a few anyway.

Look at her thumb! And tail, always in motion
Title: Re: Happy 8th Gotcha Day Queen Eva!
Post by: Middle Child on August 10, 2018, 05:51:38 AM
OOPS! I am 5 days early hahaha! Good now I have time to sort more pictures.
Title: Re: Happy 8th Gotcha Day Queen Eva!
Post by: ThreeStep on August 10, 2018, 07:15:00 AM
It was such a pleasure to read Queen Eva's story this morning. You have a big heart and a lot of patience.
Title: Re: Happy 8th Gotcha Day Queen Eva!
Post by: Pookie on August 10, 2018, 07:58:24 AM
LOL at the 3rd picture!  She's such a beautiful girl.  Happy (early) Gotcha Day!

multistars multistars multistars multistars multistars
Title: Re: Happy 8th Gotcha Day Queen Eva!
Post by: Lola on August 14, 2018, 02:02:52 PM
Happy early 8th Gotcha Day Queen Eva and MC!
Title: Re: Happy 8th Gotcha Day Queen Eva!
Post by: Lola on August 15, 2018, 02:25:13 PM
We did Happy Gotcha Week  Silly7  Now, it is Happy Gotcha Day!   BanWooHoo
Title: Re: Queen Eva's Gotcha Day
Post by: Middle Child on August 15, 2018, 05:51:59 PM
Thank you! I've been telling Queen Eva stories all day at work!
Title: Re: Queen Eva's Gotcha Day
Post by: Pookie on August 15, 2018, 06:18:43 PM
Happy Gotcha Day!  multistars multistars multistars CatPurr
Title: Re: Queen Eva's Gotcha Day
Post by: Middle Child on August 15, 2018, 07:34:35 PM
 love1
Title: Re: Queen Eva's Gotcha Day
Post by: Middle Child on August 15, 2018, 07:46:47 PM
 love1
Title: Re: Queen Eva's Gotcha Day
Post by: ThreeStep on August 16, 2018, 06:45:51 AM
There is nothing like a paper bag and a cat - instantaneous attraction.
Title: Re: Queen Eva's Gotcha Day
Post by: Lola on August 16, 2018, 01:20:16 PM
Ohhhhh I forgot about the picture of her on top of the door.  That is a FAV!
Title: Re: Queen Eva's Gotcha Day
Post by: Middle Child on August 16, 2018, 03:48:15 PM
Ohhhhh I forgot about the picture of her on top of the door.  That is a FAV!

That's a new one.  She gets up there a lot.  funny2
Title: Re: Queen Eva's Gotcha Day
Post by: Lola on August 16, 2018, 04:11:22 PM
How does she get up there?
Title: Re: Queen Eva's Gotcha Day
Post by: Middle Child on August 16, 2018, 04:56:07 PM
How does she get up there?

 She likes to tightrope on the door top. She used to do it on curtain rods too, but she's too heavy for that now. I have plenty of curtain rod pictures but it would take ages to find them.:D
Title: Re: Queen Eva's Gotcha Day
Post by: Pookie on August 16, 2018, 09:09:58 PM
Ohhhhh I forgot about the picture of her on top of the door.  That is a FAV!

Mine, too!   funny2
Title: Re: Queen Eva's Gotcha Day
Post by: Middle Child on August 17, 2018, 05:09:01 AM
By the way, those stair step bookcases you see there, two of them, the black one, and the tallest one, were hand made by me.  As well as the built in unit in the wall.  I made that one too.

Last night I caught her in the act for you guys, this is an almost nightly event at bed time. Sorry it's a bit blurry I was afraid I would miss the shots.
Title: Re: Queen Eva's Gotcha Day
Post by: ThreeStep on August 17, 2018, 06:34:04 AM
The proof is in the picture! You built perfect cat furniture and are allowed to use it for can opener purposes on the side.
Title: Re: Queen Eva's Gotcha Day
Post by: Lola on August 17, 2018, 08:20:20 AM
Is that a shelf of some kind, above the door frame?
Title: Re: Queen Eva's Gotcha Day
Post by: Middle Child on August 17, 2018, 01:00:48 PM
The proof is in the picture! You built perfect cat furniture and are allowed to use it for can opener purposes on the side.

 funny2

Is that a shelf of some kind, above the door frame?

You mean in the 1s pic where she has her left paw?  No, that's just molding/tim around the door frame. Doesn't stop her from trying though.

Title: Re: Queen Eva's Gotcha Day
Post by: Lola on August 18, 2018, 08:52:22 AM


You mean in the 1s pic where she has her left paw?  No, that's just molding/tim around the door frame. Doesn't stop her from trying though.



Yes.  In time, she will probably hang by her front paws and make her way around the door frame that way.  :)
Title: Re: Queen Eva's Gotcha Day
Post by: ThreeStep on August 18, 2018, 08:54:32 AM
So she is a Treckie - going places where no one has gone.
Title: Re: Queen Eva's Gotcha Day
Post by: Middle Child on August 18, 2018, 09:29:38 AM
Yes.  In time, she will probably hang by her front paws and make her way around the door frame that way.  :)

Well there is this......but that was when she was tiny, and confined to the bedroom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKSWS6mq2gQ

So she is a Treckie - going places where no one has gone.

 funny2
Title: Re: Queen Eva's Gotcha Day
Post by: Middle Child on August 18, 2018, 10:49:52 AM
 funny2

The clothes drying rack..she still does that.  Climbs into it up the rungs.
Title: Re: Queen Eva's Gotcha Day
Post by: Lola on August 18, 2018, 09:38:38 PM
Your place is definitely a fun place for cats, especially ones that climb!  I kinda feel like a party pooper.  We have everything strategically placed so the cats can't climb up on anything, other then cat trees.  Refrigerator excluded.
Title: Re: Queen Eva's Gotcha Day
Post by: Middle Child on August 18, 2018, 10:08:03 PM
Your place is definitely a fun place for cats, especially ones that climb!  I kinda feel like a party pooper.  We have everything strategically placed so the cats can't climb up on anything, other then cat trees.  Refrigerator excluded.

But I don't have room for cat trees.  I live in a tiny space with multiple cats, it's kind of crucial that I provide adequate climbing and elevated spaces for them to keep them feeling happy and non stressed.

Since there is no room for cat trees I had to sort of turn the entire living space into a cat tree.  :D They can go around the entire apartment without ever hitting the floor if they want.

I always tell people who are looking for help with behavioral problems in multicat households to be sure they have enough climbing and elevated spaces for every cat.

I still feel bad about taking Queen Eva's box spring mountain away from her.  She drooped and mourned for weeks after it was gone. But I need access to that closet it was blocking!
Title: Re: Queen Eva's Gotcha Day
Post by: Lola on August 19, 2018, 12:45:02 AM
Cat trees... one way up and one way down.  Not nearly as exciting!
Title: Re: Queen Eva's Gotcha Day
Post by: ThreeStep on August 19, 2018, 09:16:32 AM
Your place is definitely a fun place for cats, especially ones that climb!  I kinda feel like a party pooper.  We have everything strategically placed so the cats can't climb up on anything, other then cat trees.  Refrigerator excluded.

Counter depth and built in. Cabinets go to the ceiling. No mor getting a ladder out at midnight because ChaCha calls for help then changes her mind.

I love the cat house thumbsup1

Four big trees all in front of windows and in use. Book shelves, furniture, open closet doors, .... . Barely any wall space and that is being used by humans to hang paintings. Downsizing and open floor plan has its pros and cons.

ShadowCat was never interested in anything up there. The first year she slinked along the walls, hid in closets. ChaCha on the other hand - we opened the box she came home in and the little dervish was on top of the grandfather clock. Her hide out is a cat bed on top of the washer.  Izzi got into the book shelves and has discovered the windowsills in the bathrooms.
Title: Re: Queen Eva's Gotcha Day
Post by: Pookie on August 19, 2018, 02:09:36 PM
Well there is this......but that was when she was tiny, and confined to the bedroom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKSWS6mq2gQ

 funny2


Have you considered having her try out for the US Gymnastics Olympic team?   Olympic1
Title: Re: Queen Eva's Gotcha Day
Post by: ThreeStep on August 19, 2018, 02:48:17 PM
Have you considered having her try out for the US Gymnastics Olympic team?   Olympic1
To teach them a trick or two?
Title: Re: Queen Eva's 9th Gotcha Day
Post by: Lola on August 15, 2019, 02:06:06 AM
Happy Gotcha Day, Queen Eva!!
Title: Re: Queen Eva's Gotcha Day
Post by: Middle Child on August 15, 2019, 05:50:49 AM
Oh my gosh that snuck up on me! Thank you Lola!

Happy Gotcha Day my precious baby girl!
Title: Re: Queen Eva's Gotcha Day
Post by: Pookie on August 15, 2019, 08:13:49 AM
Happy Gotcha Day!  All Hail the Queen!   :)

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Title: Re: Queen Eva's Gotcha Day
Post by: Middle Child on August 15, 2020, 07:31:20 AM
HAPPY 1OTH GOTCHA DAY QUEEN EVA!!!!!!!!!

Celebrating in our new home.
Title: Re: Queen Eva's Gotcha Day
Post by: Pookie on August 15, 2020, 04:42:15 PM
Congratulations! 

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Will there be a parade for Her Royal Highness?  Jugglers?  Acrobats?  Buffet?  ThxGiv6 Eat2 pizzagif eat1
Title: Re: Queen Eva's Gotcha Day
Post by: Middle Child on August 15, 2020, 05:08:29 PM
Congratulations! 

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Will there be a parade for Her Royal Highness?  Jugglers?  Acrobats?  Buffet?  ThxGiv6 Eat2 pizzagif eat1

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Poor Queen Eva didn't get any of that lol. A co worker came over this morning to change out my door locks for me. She stayed 2 hours, though some of that time was spent outside. While we were doing the door locks the cats had to be in their safe room. Mazy cat had never met this person before and she did not run or hide or ANYthing. Even when someone else knocked on the door.

Before, and after, the co worker being her I was doing a bit of moving stuff and unpacking and things.

Then I went out and mowed.

I did set up a nice bed in front of a window for her, since the sill is too small.

She's all curled up in the chair now. It's been a busy day!
Title: Re: Queen Eva's Gotcha Day
Post by: Middle Child on August 23, 2022, 06:10:28 AM
Poor neglected Queen Eva hasn't had her Gotcha Day thread updated in 2 years!  August 15th...I did notice it mentally in passing this year, but forgot to commemorate.

So happy Belated 12th Gotcha Day Queen Eva!  HeadButt
Title: Re: Queen Eva's Gotcha Day
Post by: Pookie on August 24, 2022, 10:28:41 AM
Happy Belated Gotcha Day, Queen Eva!   :) Hug1
Title: Re: Queen Eva's Gotcha Day
Post by: Middle Child on August 15, 2023, 06:17:52 AM
Happy 13th Gotcha Day Queen Eva  Still Burrowing after all these years.....
Title: Re: Queen Eva's Gotcha Day
Post by: Pookie on August 15, 2023, 08:34:49 PM
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