The LUCKY Muffin Spoke to Me - Halloween at WDW & Summer 2011 at DLR - 01/09/11

[Leeanne]

Still hanging in here with ya and totally understand about LSAT. Focus on that and breathe in and out...then prep!! And super excited about your new Macbook!

 

[Tiger.Lily]

Hang in there! I'm sure your DH will find something awesome soon!

And congrats on the new toy!

 

[WDWRocksMySocks]

Oh, Heather, I'm so sorry about your DH! And on a Post-It?!?! Seriously? I mean...seriously?! That's crazy. I know things will work out for you guys. But, in the meantime, I'm sending some extra pixie dust your way.

That was so sweet of your mom! What a great gift.

 

[exwdwcm]

Heather- so sorry to hear about DH- what an awful way to do it too- i remember that SATC episode! I'll keep my ears out in case i hear of anything!

Yeah for the early gift!!! how fun is that? i bet you are enjoying playing wiht your new mac now! enjoy it.

hang in there- just keep thinking of after the LSAT......all the hard work and effort will pay off soon. just keep your goal and target in mind. plus, you will have WDW to look forward to as a reward!

 

[panbeast614]

Thank you for all your concerns about my professional well-being...and thank you for the wishes and encouragement to my wife on her upcoming LSAT. I know she has nothing to worry about while taking the test, especially since she has a professional tutor helping her with the Logic Games section . I'll try to keep her away from her new toy as best I can, but thank you all again for you thoughts, prayers, and encouragement.

 

[OhioDisneyLover]

I'm still here too.

So sorry to hear that DH got laid off.

 

[Hallowishes]

OH MY GOSH! What a rough week and what a TERRIBLE way for your DH to find out he lost his job! that is the worst way ever to find out you are laid off!
on a happier note, what an awesome present a mac book!!! that is so awesome and it will be so useful for you!

 

[PopArtGal]

Sorry about it all sweetie.

Hopefully, the stars have something else planned for you guys.

 

[SOUTHERNtinkerBELLE]

Oh my gosh, I can't believe they did that to your DH! I'm so sorry. I remember that SATC episode - it's hard to believe something like that would happen in real life. On a happier note, congrats on the MacBook! I'm a total Mac girl - I absolutely love my MacBook.

 

[Simba22]

OMG LOOK AT MY TICKER!!!!!

 

[HeatherBelle614]

You know I'm not going anywhere! I'm so sorry about DH's job...that really stinks. I know the perfect teaching job for him is out there somewhere! And whoever hires him is going to be very lucky!

I can't imagine how stressed you must be right now with everything you've got going on, but just keep telling yourself that in just a few months you will be at WDW with all of this LSAT stuff behind you having a wonderful time with your DH at MNSSHP!!

Congrats again on your new Mac Book! That is so awesome!

Thanks for all of the kind words!!

I'm just ready for October 10! I'll be done with the LSAT and able to start applications/getting those submitted. After that, it'll be WDW time! (And, waiting to get my score back on November 1, which is not fun, but oh well!)

Ughhhh, I'm so sorry about your DH being laid off. And on a post it! I definitely remember that SATC, I love that episode! I hope he finds something soon, I know it's hard for teachers, my friend has been looking for over 2 years, she's an art teacher and can't find anything right now.

Congrats on your Mac Book!!! And try not to get too stressed out with everything you have going on!!

Are you a SATC lover too? I'm obsessed; I can recite lines from most episodes! DH actually bought the series (the one in the pretty, pink velvet case) for me when we were dating!

Do you remember Charlotte's dog - Elizabeth Taylor? That's my Wendy!

Ugh, that sucks that he got laid off...and by post-it note?? How unprofessional! The two of us are both getting laid off sometime next year and the job market is terrible. If I want to get a job that I actually like, I need to be able to travel to NYC. We are too far from there where we live now and we can't afford to live anywhere closer to the city because it's just too expensive. So chances are good that we are both going to get stuck in jobs we hate again, just so we can pay the bills.

Yay for the Mac Book, though! My sister got one a few years ago and loves it (she's also in law school BTW!). I want to get a laptop to replace my desktop...maybe when we come back from WDW....

We're almost there!!!!!!!

Definitely unprofessional! I hope things work out for you both soon, too! It's so discouraging out there right now!

I love Macs! Unfortunately, I haven't had time to take mine out of the box, though!

I'm still reading!!!

It sounds like you guys have had a rough week. I'll deffinetly be keeping you guys in my thoughts and prayers.

Thank you!!!

Ugh, sorry to hear about your rough week. I hope your DH finds a fantastic new job soon!

Good for you for resisting the temptation to play with your new toy! With self control like that, you're gonna be just fine in prepping for the LSAT!

Haha; I sure hope so. I still haven't let myself open it! I was swamped at work and didn't get to study (like I'd hoped to do) during lunch, so I was busy at home every night. Hopefully, I'll be able to un-ground myself next week!

So sorry about your DH-- it's awful now, but a friend of mine just got a job teaching, with amazing pay. It CAN and WILL happen!
A Macbook is a pretty sweet gift! Kudos to you for being so dedicated to studying for your LSAT! I'm sure you'll doing amazingly!

Thank you!! It is definitely bad out there for teachers (and attorneys, actually.) You know the economy is bad when teachers and attorneys can't find work; I'm just hoping it's better by the time I graduate!

Still hanging in here with ya and totally understand about LSAT. Focus on that and breathe in and out...then prep!! And super excited about your new Macbook!

Thanks for sticking with me!!

Hang in there! I'm sure your DH will find something awesome soon!

And congrats on the new toy!

Thanks!!

Oh, Heather, I'm so sorry about your DH! And on a Post-It?!?! Seriously? I mean...seriously?! That's crazy. I know things will work out for you guys. But, in the meantime, I'm sending some extra pixie dust your way.

That was so sweet of your mom! What a great gift.

I know; DH is still perturbed about it! I think we should have sent it off to some comedy website or something, but he threw it up and tossed it in to the trash can.

Thanks for the support!!

Heather- so sorry to hear about DH- what an awful way to do it too- i remember that SATC episode! I'll keep my ears out in case i hear of anything!

Yeah for the early gift!!! how fun is that? i bet you are enjoying playing wiht your new mac now! enjoy it.

hang in there- just keep thinking of after the LSAT......all the hard work and effort will pay off soon. just keep your goal and target in mind. plus, you will have WDW to look forward to as a reward!

Hiii!! I can't wait to finally meet up!! I'm going to steal a ton of DLR ideas!

Thank you for all your concerns about my professional well-being...and thank you for the wishes and encouragement to my wife on her upcoming LSAT. I know she has nothing to worry about while taking the test, especially since she has a professional tutor helping her with the Logic Games section . I'll try to keep her away from her new toy as best I can, but thank you all again for you thoughts, prayers, and encouragement.

Don't I have such a sweet DH?

I'm still here too.

So sorry to hear that DH got laid off.

Thanks for the hug!!!

OH MY GOSH! What a rough week and what a TERRIBLE way for your DH to find out he lost his job! that is the worst way ever to find out you are laid off!
on a happier note, what an awesome present a mac book!!! that is so awesome and it will be so useful for you!

Thanks for the support!!

Sorry about it all sweetie.

Hopefully, the stars have something else planned for you guys.

I know; hopefully they'll align themselves real quick, though.

Oh my gosh, I can't believe they did that to your DH! I'm so sorry. I remember that SATC episode - it's hard to believe something like that would happen in real life. On a happier note, congrats on the MacBook! I'm a total Mac girl - I absolutely love my MacBook.

I knowwww! My first thought was about that episode; thankfully, it made DH laugh a bit!

I'm so ready to play with my new Mac, but I just haven't had time!!

OMG LOOK AT MY TICKER!!!!!

WOHO!!! Mine is still over 2 months! Coooome on, trip!!!

 

[HeatherBelle614]

It's been another crazy week! We have a month+ long trial coming up out-of-state, so work has been nuts. There's been a lot of stressing and getting things finalized as the attorneys leave on Tuesday (and, my paralegal buddy on Wednesday). They'll all be living in a hotel the entire time, so the entire office has been stressed out trying to get them prepped (from the trial documents to the computers being shipped for the rooms to the hundreds of dollars of office supplies being shipped to the hotel, the whole office has been swamped!)

And, we had another bit of a blah week concerning one of our fur babies. She's the one that I've talked about was sick when we got her and the vet says we're lucky to still have her here. She's had this little bump on her head that just suddenly got bigger this week. The way our luck has been, I've been terrified all week that it was going to be the "C" word.

DM and I took her (along with the cat that is getting over a bladder infection) to the vet this AM. They had to poke my poor puppy in the head/on her bump to do blood work. After some stressful waiting, it turned out just to be a cyst! She's on antibiotics for a while to help it go away, but I've been stressing and worrying (without sleeping) about her.

Needless to say, I'm a bit behind with my studying plans, but working hard to get caught up today! I do have some WDW news, but need to finalize the new plan before I post them! In the meantime, I thought that I'd post our fur babies since I haven't shown them all off yet. (When people ask if I'm a mom, I respond "Yes, but my children are all covered in hair." )

Wendy - our newest addition; I have talked about her in an earlier post, but she was a spur of the moment purchase, and we basically saved her life. She was one sick puppy dog that our vet tells us we're lucky to still have with us! Everyone that meets her absolutely adores her; she's quite certain she's royalty, too. (For those of you SATC fans, Charlotte had the same breed.)

I swear, she walks around on her hind legs all-the-time! DH has taught her how to tackle her stuffed puppy, and she's learned to go "It's GOOD!" (This is her "It's GOOD!" pose; she's ready for football season!)

Our other dogs - the boys - Casanova and Max. They live with grandma and grandpa since they're large dogs, and my parents have a lot of outside space for them to run around. Originally, the chocolate one was ours, and my parents bought the yellow lab from the same litter. You can't separate them now or they would be beyond depressed, so they're technically both our dogs now. I'm not sure if they'll get to live with us or not since we don't have plans to buy a home until I'm out of school, but they're still our boys (born on Christmas Eve!)

This is the first cat that I got on my own; long story short, but she is a rescue. She is the only surviving member of her litter; a bunch of little boys used her (and her litter mates) as baseball bats and slammed them in to brick walls. She has an issue with her eye that never healed, but she's grown up with it so she doesn't know any better. When I found her at a pet store, they said she was terrified of people, but she walked up to me, looked at me, licked me, and I was a goner. She's very dependent on me (cries when I leave, and has to be with me at all times when I'm home.) She still doesn't trust many other people, but she's such a sweet girl to her mommy! (Notice in the picture that she's holding my hand; she likes to lay and touch my hand all the time.) Her name is Baby - after Dirty Dancing - since she had such a bad experience but didn't let anyone put her in the corner!

Like I said, Baby is very dependent on me, and got really depressed when I was in school/working full time. I wasn't home much, so she just stopped eating. The vet said we could try anti-depressants or I could get her a friend. I was at my parent's house that day, and heard this sad little cry outside, went to look, and found a lost kitten. Turns out that my parent's neighbor let his less-than-a-year old cat get pregnant (left her outside all the time), and her little body didn't make it giving birth. So, here was this mamma-less kitten, and Baby needed a friend. I present to you Meeko (after the raccoon in Pocahontas). He is fully convinced that I'm his real mom as I bottle fed him from his first day of life. He's the funniest cat you'll ever meet, and keeps us cracking up at all times. (He has a toy that is like his security blanket and will freak out if it breaks or he can't find it; so, we keep them fully stocked for when such an emergency occurs. Last year, we were bringing the cats to my parent's house for a pet-sitter to watch while we all went to WDW; DH forgot the toy - a stick with a furry ball tied to the attached string - at our apartment. Meeko screamed for about 10 minutes until I realized the stick wasn't in his cage; we had to turn around to go get it. As soon as he had it with him, he was perfectly content for the rest of the 45-minute ride.)

This is DH with Meeko and his stick last Christmas:

And, this is a better shot of his raccoon tail:

Obviously, we're definite animal people! Those will be our only kids for a while!!

I'm hoping to be back soon with our WDW updates and to catch up with everyone's PTRs, but for now, back to LSAT studying it is!

 

[DisneyFirefly]

Awww, I love your pets! I'm not really one for small dogs (we've always had big dogs in my house, and our neighbor's dog is insanely annoying), but your dog is adorable I like the picture of her in the blanket Meeko and Baby are adorable, too That's so sad about how Baby came to you, but at least she's in a good home now That's how we feel about our Delilah, actually. She was abused by her old owners and now she's the most spoiled dog we've ever had.

 

[HeatherBelle614]

Awww, I love your pets! I'm not really one for small dogs (we've always had big dogs in my house, and our neighbor's dog is insanely annoying), but your dog is adorable I like the picture of her in the blanket Meeko and Baby are adorable, too That's so sad about how Baby came to you, but at least she's in a good home now That's how we feel about our Delilah, actually. She was abused by her old owners and now she's the most spoiled dog we've ever had.

Wendy actually got bigger than what we originally thought she would be; the vet said she's on the larger end of her breed. They can range from 15-23, and she weighs in at 22. She's just really long and thin; they're known for getting chunky, so we try to make her run around and play a lot every day.

Baby's story still breaks my heart; I can't imagine kids being so cruel. Makes you wonder what those kids are like now since I've had her 6 years. I'm sure if beating new born kittens against a brick wall is entertaining at a young age that those boys have turned out to be fine, young men. (Sarcasm.)

I'm so glad you rescued your Delilah! Pets are so dependent on humans and don't deserve abuse or mistreatment; you learn a lot about a person by seeing how he/she treats his/her pets, that's for sure!

 

[Joyciemc]

Love your fur babies! Thank you for giving them such a wonderful home, especially considering the rough starts some of them had!

The way Meeko is with his toy is so sweet!

 

[DisneyFirefly]

Wendy actually got bigger than what we originally thought she would be; the vet said she's on the larger end of her breed. They can range from 15-23, and she weighs in at 22. She's just really long and thin; they're known for getting chunky, so we try to make her run around and play a lot every day.

Baby's story still breaks my heart; I can't imagine kids being so cruel. Makes you wonder what those kids are like now since I've had her 6 years. I'm sure if beating new born kittens against a brick wall is entertaining at a young age that those boys have turned out to be fine, young men. (Sarcasm.)

I'm so glad you rescued your Delilah! Pets are so dependent on humans and don't deserve abuse or mistreatment; you learn a lot about a person by seeing how he/she treats his/her pets, that's for sure!

We do the same for Delilah, since she's already very heavy. She's a big breed, though (boxer-mastiff mutt), so she's able to be heavy and still healthy. We play with her and run her around as much as she's able to, since she's got a problem with her hip. We're not sure if it's dysplasia or arthritis, since she's only 4. We think it may have been from her being raised in a too-small crate.

Kids can be very cruel. Some parents nowadays show their kids no boundaries or discipline. Other kids just have no empathy. I feel like crying just watching those animal cop shows on Animal Planet I wish someone had caught those kids who did that to your cat and pressed charges, though. That's so awful

This was Delilah the day we got her in 2008. She was about 40 pounds underweight, according to the vet. He said that she weighed about 70 pounds and that she could have 40-50 more. She ate two and a half big bowls of food in the first hour that we had Pedigree in the house, so that combined with her appearance made us believe that her old owners starved her. She's also terrified of the broom, mop, and vaccuum (no clue why on the vaccuum). She's gotten better about it over the last two years, but at first, she'd run down into the basement as soon as she saw the broom. She's fat and happy and spoiled now, though, and we love her and that's all that matters.

 

[DisneyFirefly]

Oh, and this was Delilah a week or so ago:

 

[HeatherBelle614]

Love your fur babies! Thank you for giving them such a wonderful home, especially considering the rough starts some of them had!

The way Meeko is with his toy is so sweet!

Haha; Meeko and his stick are TOO funny.

Long story, but I'm finally done studying today so I can share!

At one point in time, I had moved back in with my parents right before DH and I got married. DM has a home daycare, and all of the noise and kids really stressed out Baby. During the day, she and Meeko had to be shut up in my old bedroom. One morning, I went in to get dressed for work while one of the babies was crying; Meeko happened to bump against Baby, and she freaked out at him. I mean, all out trying to tear at his throat and bite him. I freaked out and started screaming since I'd never seen her act like that. Of course, me screaming and trying to pull her away from Meeko just made it worse. I ended up in the middle of it (which I know you're not supposed to do, but I couldn't just stand there and watch them hurt each other) and she bit me really, really bad in several areas of my thighs and on one arm.

My mom came running upstairs because I was screaming so loudly, threw open the door, and found Baby biting/clawing at me, and Meeko now going after Baby because she was hurting me. It was a MESS.

I got rushed to the doctor because the bites and cuts were so bad, and the two cats got taken to the vet to be checked so they wouldn't get infected. (BTW, this was a week before our wedding, so I had some awful bruises and bite marks on my arm that had to be hidden with make-up on our wedding day.)

I was distraught because I thought our vet would report what had happened and I'd have to put Baby down, but he said my other option was to have her declawed. He said after everything she'd been through when she was little and just the stress of noise (she's always been jumpy if someone is loud around her), that her animal instincts kick in for protection and she really has no idea what she's doing.

I always thought having them declawed was cruel, but I never realized that there was a new laser method to have claws removed, which is what my vet started using a while ago.

So, we had her declawed. She's lived at my parent's house for a bit and been around screaming children since, and has had absolutely no issues. She's realized she has no way to defend herself, so she better keep her little mouth shut and just move on.

But, we decided to have Meeko's front claws removed so he wouldn't be able to ever get aggressive with Baby and she have no way to defend herself. (Worst possible instance.) Meeko went in the week before our wedding, right after Baby came home perfectly fine from her surgery. (She knows she doesn't have claws, but she had no issues and no pain, at all.)

During our honeymoon, DM kept finding Meeko doing weird things (after she brought him home from his surgery.) He would lay in the sink and prop his paws up on the edge (like he was elevating them) or find other places to do the same thing. (He'd lay on the floor next to the litter box, and prop his paws up on the box, too.)

She thought his surgery must have bothered him, so the true test came with stick. She drug stick around and hid it all day, and he never cared to find it or walked around screaming (like what normally happens) when he didn't have it with him.

She called the vet and told them his paws were bothering him, so they said to bring him down ASAP. She took him there, drug him out of his crate, pulled stick out of her purse, held stick up and said "This is stick; he won't play with it. Sometime is wrong with him. Fix him!"

Turns out one of his little pads was a bit infected and not healing properly, so they put him on antibiotics and had my mom bring him back a few days later. When he went back, my mom opened the crate door, and out walked Meeko....with the stick in his mouth, meowing at the vet until the vet flipped the stick around to play for a bit. Mom said "See? He's better now."

It's a running joke with our vet now! We've had so many pets that we're close with our vet anyway. (He came to my parent's house when our older dog had to be put to sleep earlier this year; he brought my mom's favorite vet tech, and they put Sassy to sleep while she was at home, then took her to have her cremated for us.) They're a WONDERFUL office, and I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse, but they know all of us on a first name basis!

We do the same for Delilah, since she's already very heavy. She's a big breed, though (boxer-mastiff mutt), so she's able to be heavy and still healthy. We play with her and run her around as much as she's able to, since she's got a problem with her hip. We're not sure if it's dysplasia or arthritis, since she's only 4. We think it may have been from her being raised in a too-small crate.

Kids can be very cruel. Some parents nowadays show their kids no boundaries or discipline. Other kids just have no empathy. I feel like crying just watching those animal cop shows on Animal Planet I wish someone had caught those kids who did that to your cat and pressed charges, though. That's so awful

This was Delilah the day we got her in 2008. She was about 40 pounds underweight, according to the vet. He said that she weighed about 70 pounds and that she could have 40-50 more. She ate two and a half big bowls of food in the first hour that we had Pedigree in the house, so that combined with her appearance made us believe that her old owners starved her. She's also terrified of the broom, mop, and vaccuum (no clue why on the vaccuum). She's gotten better about it over the last two years, but at first, she'd run down into the basement as soon as she saw the broom. She's fat and happy and spoiled now, though, and we love her and that's all that matters.

Oh my gosh! That's awful! You have to wonder what they did to her with the vacuum! I bet they would just run over her with it. That's terrible!

She looks so thin! You can definitely see her ribs; that's pathetic. People that treat animals like that need to have the same thing done to them!

Oh, and this was Delilah a week or so ago:

Oh gosh! She's adorable! Look at her smile!! She's so much better off with you!

 

[DisneyFirefly]

Haha; Meeko and his stick are TOO funny.

Long story, but I'm finally done studying today so I can share!

At one point in time, I had moved back in with my parents right before DH and I got married. DM has a home daycare, and all of the noise and kids really stressed out Baby. During the day, she and Meeko had to be shut up in my old bedroom. One morning, I went in to get dressed for work while one of the babies was crying; Meeko happened to bump against Baby, and she freaked out at him. I mean, all out trying to tear at his throat and bite him. I freaked out and started screaming since I'd never seen her act like that. Of course, me screaming and trying to pull her away from Meeko just made it worse. I ended up in the middle of it (which I know you're not supposed to do, but I couldn't just stand there and watch them hurt each other) and she bit me really, really bad in several areas of my thighs and on one arm.

My mom came running upstairs because I was screaming so loudly, threw open the door, and found Baby biting/clawing at me, and Meeko now going after Baby because she was hurting me. It was a MESS.

I got rushed to the doctor because the bites and cuts were so bad, and the two cats got taken to the vet to be checked so they wouldn't get infected. (BTW, this was a week before our wedding, so I had some awful bruises and bite marks on my arm that had to be hidden with make-up on our wedding day.)

I was distraught because I thought our vet would report what had happened and I'd have to put Baby down, but he said my other option was to have her declawed. He said after everything she'd been through when she was little and just the stress of noise (she's always been jumpy if someone is loud around her), that her animal instincts kick in for protection and she really has no idea what she's doing.

I always thought having them declawed was cruel, but I never realized that there was a new laser method to have claws removed, which is what my vet started using a while ago.

So, we had her declawed. She's lived at my parent's house for a bit and been around screaming children since, and has had absolutely no issues. She's realized she has no way to defend herself, so she better keep her little mouth shut and just move on.

But, we decided to have Meeko's front claws removed so he wouldn't be able to ever get aggressive with Baby and she have no way to defend herself. (Worst possible instance.) Meeko went in the week before our wedding, right after Baby came home perfectly fine from her surgery. (She knows she doesn't have claws, but she had no issues and no pain, at all.)

During our honeymoon, DM kept finding Meeko doing weird things (after she brought him home from his surgery.) He would lay in the sink and prop his paws up on the edge (like he was elevating them) or find other places to do the same thing. (He'd lay on the floor next to the litter box, and prop his paws up on the box, too.)

She thought his surgery must have bothered him, so the true test came with stick. She drug stick around and hid it all day, and he never cared to find it or walked around screaming (like what normally happens) when he didn't have it with him.

She called the vet and told them his paws were bothering him, so they said to bring him down ASAP. She took him there, drug him out of his crate, pulled stick out of her purse, held stick up and said "This is stick; he won't play with it. Sometime is wrong with him. Fix him!"

Turns out one of his little pads was a bit infected and not healing properly, so they put him on antibiotics and had my mom bring him back a few days later. When he went back, my mom opened the crate door, and out walked Meeko....with the stick in his mouth, meowing at the vet until the vet flipped the stick around to play for a bit. Mom said "See? He's better now."

It's a running joke with our vet now! We've had so many pets that we're close with our vet anyway. (He came to my parent's house when our older dog had to be put to sleep earlier this year; he brought my mom's favorite vet tech, and they put Sassy to sleep while she was at home, then took her to have her cremated for us.) They're a WONDERFUL office, and I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse, but they know all of us on a first name basis!



Oh my gosh! That's awful! You have to wonder what they did to her with the vacuum! I bet they would just run over her with it. That's terrible!

She looks so thin! You can definitely see her ribs; that's pathetic. People that treat animals like that need to have the same thing done to them!


Oh gosh! She's adorable! Look at her smile!! She's so much better off with you!

The story about Meeko and his stick is so cute My best friend has three cats and one of them thinks he's a dog. He actually plays fetch with little toy mice! I'm thinking about buying him something from the pet things they sell at Disney

Yeah, she was extremely thin. She has anxiety issues and hates being alone. Since I have an air conditioner in my room, when my parents were out of town, I kept my door open, but hung a blanket there so that she could come in whenever she wanted to. It's still there because otherwise she headbutts the door until I let her in But when we first got her, she literally got up and followed us if we left her alone in a room. She's very loved here, and she knows it

Oh, btw, I sent you a PM with pictures of that computer bag I told you about. Did you get it?

 

[Nermel9]

I love all of your animals! That story about Baby breaks my heart. I almost couldn't read the whole thing but I made myself, I seriously cannot deal with animal cruelty stories, even if I don't know the animal or didn't see it for myself. My DH told me the saddest story last week about a puppy he saw once that was a runt and ended up dying...this was YEARS ago, when he was a kid and I was traumatized all week thinking about this poor runt.

Your Meeko reminds me of my Nina:

Same coloring and little raccoon tail! I always talk about her little raccoon tail to her! She is my baby, she likes my DH, but she is my kitty. In the winter, she sleeps under the covers with me! I have 2 other cats who I love just as much, but like I said, Nina is my baby! She's a rescue as well...actually, all 3 of my cats are! I looked for a really cute picture of Nina, but I couldn't find a good one! She is so ridiculous, I swear she knows what a camera is because it's almost like she makes faces so she can't take a good picture!

I hope your babies are ok after their vet visit! Wendy is so cute...I want a Cavalier soooo bad...but i don't think my cats would allow me to get a dog!