Grrrrr run and hide

Heard a door slam shut, then grrrr muffled under a kitty's voice and then the sound of little feet running across the carpet of the motel floor - lots of little feet - actually the 'feet' are paws that I hear running across the carpeted floor of the motel room. There will be one or two under the dresser, no doubt there will be lumps under the bed covers, one behind the bathroom door and the rest by the base of the bed letting the bedspread give them cover from whatever the unknown holds.

They are terrified, they don't know what is coming around the corner and that breaks my heart. Where is our sanctuary now - oh my! This is big, and it is just sinking in - our home caught fire and we have basically the clothes on our backs and all of our beating hearts. That's what is most important - the beating hearts - the rest can be replaced. Most of our items can be salvageable from the smoke damage, the water damaged items are completely lost. The fire was contained between the floor of the top level and the ceiling of the second level - where it started -electrical wires being pinched by a settling house.

The firemen took a chainsaw to our home, they cut several holes in our floor, chopped a really big hole in the walls and knocked out a window to enable them to locate the source of the smoke and smell - they found it!

Our little charges are terrified of things that go 'bump' right now and will take a lot of patience to ease out the anxiety they are feeling.

Our Phoebe Peppercorn is on powerful steroids right now and taking more medicine to keep her breathing airways opened up, she was rescued from a high bathroom window that had a bit of 'fresh' air at - but she still suffered smoke inhalation.

Beltania was already on a regime of steroids before this happened so we are keeping it going because of her 'hot spot', we can't stop her healing at this point. We are keeping her tranquilized for everyone's sake, gave a twinkle pill to Lil' Man last night to just keep the peace in room, for if he is in a good place he doesn't go looking to make trouble with Beltania. If he leaves Belle alone, then she doesn't have episodes of pulling out her fur and they are quite towards each other. Usually it only takes medicating one or the other, recently I discovered that if you did both at the same time that the peace felt in their presence was relaxing. It worked I slept all night long and feel very rested now and ready to start pulling pieces of our lives back together and infuse the rescue with some serious healing energy today.

Beltania, when we lived in Greenville

Lil' Man is finding this all very stressful to him, he is our senior kitty and I would like to place him in a more stable home.

If you are wondering where the dogs are - they are all still asleep - in bed - with their daddy and there is peace in here until they all start to stir...