I may complain a lot about certain things (my human’s ineptitude, the annoying camera, occasionally being forced to wear outfits, etc.) but I do acknowledge that I have a lot to be thankful for. For one thing, I live in a big vintage home and the humans don’t have to struggle to pay the mortgage! They do have to work to pay it (if you can call being a writer and a musician work), but they are lucky to not have been affected much by the bad economy of the past few years. And if any of us kitties gets sick and runs up a big vet bill, my human might gripe about it, but she is able to pay it. We get quality cat food and toys — and companies even send us some to try out for free! That is a lot to be grateful for when so many others lack so much.
As you can see, all us kitties here have everything we need — and more — so when the Fairy Hobmother from Appliances Online UK visited the Katnip Lounge cats a few weeks ago, I wasn’t going to ask for anything, because I thought that would have been selfish and silly. But then I realized that I did not have to ask for anything for myself — I could ask for a donation to one of my favorite cat rescues or sanctuaries. I have been able to help out a number of them this year, but I haven’t yet had a chance to give anything to one of my favorites, Tabby’s Place. I decided to ask for a donation to them… and the Fairy Hobmother came through and gave them $50! So this week, I am especially grateful to the Fairy Hobmother for doing this.
If you haven’t yet been visited by the Fairy Hobmother and you’d like to make a wish for yourself or to help out a rescue group, just mention it in the comments below. Maybe you will receive a visit and your wish will be granted!
That Fairy Hobmother sure is nice! We love Tabby’s Place, and we are so pleased that she gave them such a generous donation. And we’re glad you thought to ask. 🙂
If the Fairy Hobmother granted a wish for us, we would love to have a donation go to PAWS (the shelter we volunteer at) in Norwalk, CT, and/or to Alley Cats and Angels of North Carolina.
That is wonderful that the Fairy Hobmother made a donation to Tabby’s Place. We too think it would be nice if she could send something to Marg as she does such a good job taking in the homeless ones.
I too love Tabby’s Place and Marg’s home where she so unselfishly cares for these feral babies and gets them used to human company. And Cats of Wildcat Woods. There are so many wonerful foster homes for ferals that deserve some help..more than deserves it. I wish I had a lot of momey..but being a Tortie pays me minimum wage. Drat! I give some of my Tortie monies away when some kitties need it so much.
Thank you so much for coming to see me while I was in the hospital. xoxoxox
Wow that’s great noos!
Here in Liverpool there’s a great shelter called “Freshfields Animal Rescue Centre” http://www.freshfieldsrescue.org.uk/
Terrific Sparkle! Fairy Hobmother is so generous!
Oh hurray Sparkle! My Human has been lucky in this terrible recession too–so far, at least. She still has a good job and if we really need anything she can pretty much get it, even though she gripes also. We feel very fortunate. I hope the FH finds some good causes!
Good work, Sparkle! There are wonderful charities out there that deserve our help. I’m glad the fairy hobmother came through for yours.
Tom
xoxo
Great idea, friend!
We is always missin the elusive Fairy Hobmother! How pawsome that your favorite rescue got a gift card! That’s alot to be thankful fur. The Fairy Hobmother is wonderful. xoxo
How nice of the Fairy Hobmother! I would love it if she granted my wish — green papers for Annie’s surgery.
http://gooeylounge.blogspot.com/2011/09/miss-annies-surgery.html
I have a wish for the Fairy Hobmother that I’m sure she can’t fulfill, unfortunately. I just want a job for TW so she can afford to donate to her favorite causes and buy me a new cat tree. It can even be a part-time or freelance job.
You are blessed Sparkle! My wish is for the Fairy Hobmother to help the feral cats of Rome with a donation to Torre Argentina. http://www.romancats.com
I wish the Fairy Hobmother would help my human find a job! She has one but with cuts in pay we’re not doing so good right now. But we don’t need a handout- just a hand. So if you can help her line up a job we’d be mighty grateful!
We are not rich, but we have more than a lot of people, so we’re definitely thankful for that. We wish you could mend our Mommy’s broken heart, but we know that is not possible. Even better would be a donation to Marg from Marg’s Animals for the recent rescue of Mahoney and her Mom.
Or even better we would send it to Marg at Marg’s Animals for all the good stuff she does for her animals. That’s the ticket! She REALLY needs a boost!
You are indeed very lucky Sparkle. We are lucky Farm cats too. While we don’t get as much as we used too at least we have a good warm home and foods to eat. We always want more though ’cause we are cats. It is a wise cat like you that shows us the way to be better. We would give to the Cats Exclusive because we learned about it from our other friend, Daisy
We think this is fabulous Sparkle.
Our wish would be to add another brick to Winnie’s Walk to help Chrystal’s cat house.
Chrystal is a one woman rescue and she always needs things for the kitties and puppies she rescues. She is building a walkway to help raise funds and it is also a way to memorialize an angel animal. We hope we can help her complete her walk in Winnie’s memory.
purrs
>^,,^<
♥Abby♥Boo♥Ping♥Jinx♥Grace♥
Having a Fairy Hobmother sounds great! What a wonderful idea to donate to Tabbys Place. I’m thankful for my new forever home, but the economy and mom’s (and Sweet Praline’s) health over the past few years have been a challenge in our household. We are surviving and I love my mom, but it does get hard at times.
Truffle
What a great idea sweetie. So nice of you to donate to your charity. I’m going to have to do that too. I really has enough stuff also and my peeps, so far, have been able to provide all the food and care I need. Good idea.
The Fairy Hobmother certainly was very generous! The cats and people at Tabby’s Place will be overwhelmed! 🙂
We can’t think of a better place for a donation than to Tabbys Place. They are such a great shelter. That Fairy Hobmother is such a great fairy. What a kind person she is. Thanks Sparkle for doing that. Take care.
This Fairy Hobmother sounds like a wonderful angel !!! My human mom is on a fixed income and is unable to make donations at this time. My wish is for any small organization in the U.S. to receive a donation.
Oh now that’s a great idea! What a good one!
How wonderful! We are so glad your wish was granted.
You are sooooo sweet to think of other needy kitties despite your blessed life. You’re wunnerful and with such a big loving heart!
That Fairy Hobmother sure is something special.
I’m gonna make 2 wishes and hope at least one of them comes true. I haven’t been able to donate to #nipclub & #pawpawty and the other causes right now cuz mom’s out of green papers. I wish I had some money for my paypal account so I could make more donations. I also wish the Fairy Hobmother would give green papers to the chip-in for @hemmingwayscat so she & her family don’t wind up homeless. (chipin widget is here: http://lynx217.blogspot.com/)
Dat Fairy Hobmother gets around….We are glad Tabby’s Place got a donation!!
Hooray for the great gift to Tabby’s Place! The Fairy Hobmother is such a wonderful gift to all of us.
The Fairy Hobmother does such good work, just like yous Sparkle! My wish is for the Meow Foundation in Calgary! MEOW Foundation (Make Each One Wanted) is the only Calgary-wide no-kill registered charity that rescues and cares for stray and abandoned cats, matches rescued cats to suitable adopters and fosters, and provides Trap Neuter Return services.They has had 5086 Cats Adopted Since 2000.
http://www.meowfoundation.com/
Thanks for letting us know Sparkle, yous is one wonderful cat!
Nellie
We were visited by the Fairy Hobmother earlier this year too and she donated to a local senior woofie shelter. It’s wonderful Tabby’s Place received a donation too! You’re right Sparkle, we have a lot to be grateful for even though our daddy lost his job nearly two years ago so went back to school and our mommy doesn’t like her job but so many homeless animals need much more help than we do. Our mommy would like to be a writer too but of course she’d never be as good of a writer as you are!
That was wonderful of the Fairy Hobmother, Sparkle. We’re sure Tabby’s Place appreciated it!
We were visited by the Fairy Hobmother in the summer, and we certainly hope someone leaving a comment today will be granted their wish. Shelters/rescues need so much help and of course there’s never enough funds to go around. Seems there’s lots of money to bail out industry and investors when they’re on the verge of “collapse,” but government funding (ALL governments, not country-specific) dries up when it comes to animals or humans living in poverty. (That’s because the politicians can’t get money or power from them, of course, so they have no interest in helping. Boy, is the mom extra cynical today or what?)
That was very nice of the Fairy Hobmother to grant your wish. We wish that we could make a donation to Marg of Marg’s Pets. She has a lot of pets but still took in two more homeless cats and could use some extra green papers.She is a very kind caring person and loves to help animals even tho she is on a limited income.
We wish that the Fairy Hobmother could help with a donation to Redgate Animal Sanctuary, 233 Shaw Lane, Markfield, Leicestershire, UK – they look after all pets and farm animals too that need somewhere to spend their time in old age.
Luv Hannah and Lucy xx xx
That is just so pawsome! We keep on hearing about the Fairy Hobmother granting wishes and it’s just so wonderful. My wish is that the Fairy Hobmother can help with a donation to my favorite cat charity, United Paws of Tillamook. There is no cat shelter in Tillamook so the wonderful volunteers raise funds and spay/neuter, foster to adopt, and educate where there otherwise would be no services. They saved me and my momma Ellie from a certain horrible demise in the mouths of coyotes…::shudder::
Concats on getting a donation for your cat rescue group Sparkle!
That is just great, Sparkle. If the fairy hobmother gave us a gift, we would want an amazon gift card to be sent to Margs Pets because she feeds and does so much for many kitties there. I am sure she could use it for catfood from amazon.
Wow, Sparkle, that is great!! That Fairy Hobmother sure is getting around the blogosphere and granting lots of wishes! She donated some $$ to our favorite pet charity too!!
p.s. Today is my birthday, so picture me blowing out the candles on my cake as I send this wish to the Fairy Hobmother.
My wish is … that my favorite shelter, PurrEver Ranch Sanctuary, could find a “forever home” where the elderly and abandoned cats in their care could continue to be safe and happy, and that this wonderful one-person sanctuary for “senior kittizens and wayward pussycats” could have all the funding they need to keep up their great work.
http://www.gotcats.org/
OOPS ! I almost forgot to make a wish !
I would like Fairy Hobmother consider my shelter ” Ingrid’s Haven ” her shelter save lots of cats’ life from pound and Death Row in Melbourne Australia. her shelter didn’t register because she would then come under the rules and regulations for laws which affect things like how long you can keep the cats. and that made it hard for her to earn the donation. Because people can’t reduce the tax. ( If they do donation ), her shelter only known by mouth to mouth and most of the money came from her own pocket ( she have to have a career like our human ) here is her website
http://www.ingridshaven.net.au/
My pawrents have to work hard for all sort the same thing as your human too. Not easy but we are the same as you. not so bad ! Lots of time , I saw them so tired ! I feel so sorry for them to be human sometime, but someone have to be ! Otherwise who is going to feed me !..anyhow, Sparkle ! Is this the link to Fairy Hobmother ? http://www.appliancesonline.co.uk/
Ooo, I’d love a chance to make a donation to CARES shelter, they do such good work and they’re helping the Rumblegrandma to find her new forever kitty! I’d love to see them get some money for all their hard work.
http://www.carescatshelter.com/index.html
*crossing paws for Hobmother*
I don’t think I have ever seen a cat that color before! I can tell it is well cared for because of the shiny coat and clear eyes. Stopping by from the blog hop and now following your blog thru GFC and Facebook. I would love a follow back on both of those when you get the chance. Thanks so much for your help and have a great week!
Mary@http://www.mmbearcupoftea.com