Hello all!  This post isn’t about me.  Can you believe that?  All this time and she writes about another cat!  Well I don’t mind because it’s about Sheba, and you know that me and Sheba are almost the same cat.

MB was looking through old photos and she found some photos of Sheba.  She thought that you might be interested in this story.  I said that was OK, but I want to tell the story.

Sheba went out to play one day but, you know what it’s like.  One smell here and another smell there….. she didn’t come home.  She was missing for three days.  M&M thought something bad had happened and that they would never see her again.   Then MB went upstairs to the bathroom and there was Sheba, laying at the door!   She gave a little meow to tell them that she was hurt.  MB called to MM and they quickly wrapped her in a towel and rushed her to see the vet.   He said she would need to be put to sleep so he could check her over and that M&M had to come back the next day.

Later the vet telephoned and M&M knew it was bad news.  Sheba had been hit by one of those big metal things.  He said it must have been going really fast because her back leg had been smashed into so many pieces that he couldn’t even count them! There was no way he would be able to put it back together again.  He said he had to cut her leg off (amputate).   A cat with three legs?  I think M&M were very sad.

Guess what else?   The garden had a six foot high brick wall round every side and that was the only way Sheba could have got home. She must have jumped the wall and then dragged herself up the stairs to the bathroom.  Well, us cats are very brave, so I don’t know why M&M were so surprised by that.

The next morning the vet telephoned again. He had been thinking about Sheba and he said she was such a beautiful cat that he really didn’t want to cut her leg off.  I should hope not, I say.  He said he wanted to experiment on her (there was a procedure that would be experimental but that he would like to try).  Thank goodness M&M agreed. A three legged cat is not good.

He put a big lump of metal in her leg (metal plate replacing the thigh) and then he stuck a giant pin in her leg (a clamp that would remain in for six months).  I ask you - what was that all about?  As if that wasn’t bad enough, she had to live in a cage too!  (After a week or two we could let her out for short periods)  After a while Sheba got used to the pin and she was allowed out of the cage.  I should think so too.

Anyway,  a long time later (six months) the vet took the pin out of Sheba. I don’t know why he stuck it in her in the first place!

Don’t you think Sheba was beautiful?

MB:  This was many years ago so was quite an operation.  Sheba had no limp and no problems at all from her leg in her seventeen year life.  The operation and all the after care was totally free.  Sheba was taken care of by the PDSA, and what a wonderful job they did.

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NER, NER, NER, NERRR, NER!

Think you can shut my blog down do you?  Think again!   Here’s the deal.

MB will have to post photos of me somewhere, right?  Because of all the lovely things my friends said - Do you hear that MB? MY friends, she has decided that here is as good a place as any to post them.

She won’t keep the blog updated regularly, but if those of you who have subscribed, stay subscribed you will know when something is posted.  She will also Twitter it and post it on Facebook.  That way most people will see it.

I think I like that idea a bit better, don’t you?

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You know you want to bigify this don’t you?

This is a sad day for me.  I’ve come to say farewell.  I will let MB tell you all about it.

Hi, Babs here.  I’ve been struggling to keep this blog updated as much as I would like.  Getting photos of the cats is getting harder.  They are either out all day, or sleeping in the evening.  Sukie still won’t allow us in the garden when she is out there. She panics and rushes indoors.  I come in and she goes out again.

I never wanted this blog to become boring, and that’s what I think it’s become now.  Don’t tell Sukie I said that though. I know I’m not doing Simplycats justice any longer and it concerns me.  That is my primary reason for closing this blog down.

I hope you will continue to visit Beetle Blog and I will continue to visit your blogs, even if I don’t always comment, I am reading them in my feed reader.

I’ve had the best time and would like to thank you all for your support and for welcoming me into the cat blogospere so quickly.    I may well post photos of the cats on my Photo Blog and on my Flickr account.  I promised Sukie I would :O)

I will leave the blog up and live for anyone who may want to check out the archives - before it got boring!

So it’s farewell from Sukie xxx, Livvie xxx and Mitzi xxx

MB: Now I’m sad.

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It wasn’t me, that’s for sure!

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I found MB looking at photos and laughing the other day and when I looked, she was laughing at me!  I fail to see what is so funny about me performing a super jump, twist and spin in mid air.  I think it takes a certain nimbleness on my part.  Not everycat can do this you know.  Not Livvie (well, she is too old now) and not Mitzi either!  Mitzi likes to spin, but she must have her feet firmly on the floor at all times.  Me?  I can leap as high as MB’s head, from a standing position, if I want to.  So tell me what’s to laugh at?

Is it my fault if MB can’t keep her camera steady?

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I’m sorry that I haven’t been posting much lately.  MB says she is having problems with bloggers block, whatever that means!  Anyway, yesterday we had some very strange weather.  It was blue sky and sunshine one minute, then snow the next!  This went on most of the day - sun, snow, sun, snow, sun, snow.

I love the snow so as soon as I could I darted out into the garden to sit and watch it for a while.  You can see the snow starting to settle on my back as quick as you like!  After a few minutes I came in.  I was good though.  I shook the snow off my back before I came in the house.

MB says she will try and get back to some normal posting as soon as she gets rid of the block.

Block of what?

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This has yellow in it so I thought it would be OK to post for Mellow Yellow Monday.

If you think this was funny maybe you could vote for me at Blogerella, coz I need votes.

For more MYM photos, click the logo above.

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Today I am very pleased ‘coz I was given this lovely award by Cheri at cats and Dogs Naturally Thank you very much.

Here is the meaning and rules of this award:

“This blog invests and believes the PROXIMITY - nearness in space, time and relationships! These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in prizes or self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers!

Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award.”

Let me see…..I think I will pass it on to:

Vampy Vic •  Eric & Flynn •  JB’s Small World •  Daisy (the curly cat) •  3 Cat Blog •  Chica & Pumuckl •  Meezerboy! •  The Black Cat

Some of you may already have received it but if you have, here it is again!

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MB asked me if I minded posting a photo of Livvie again today.  Of course I don’t mind.  Livvie is my sister and I love her lots, even if I do play a bit rough with her sometimes.  I forget that she is an old lady.  Anyway, here she is.  I think she is still beautiful don’t you?  You can bigify the photo if you like.

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Here I am again, posing for a Mellow Yellow Post.  This is the bathroom rug that I am laying on.  I like to be in the bathroom when MB is in there.  I watch the water running away, but I’m very careful not to get wet!

This is another one to bigify, and I won’t mention my eyes matching this time - honest!

For more Mellow Yellow photos click the logo above

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