-
Ernie
Location: Dripping Springs, Texas, USA
My husband found Ernie and his brother, Bert, in the middle of a parking lot - no where a momma would leave them, so we assume abandonded by cruel humans. We bottle fed them for weeks, weaned them, and found them a happy home together! The scab on Ernie’s head was an infection he came to us with, but it was treated and gone when he was adopted.
168 Comments »
Ernie is the cutest creamsicle EVER
I love his neatly curled little tail, especially. It matches his whisker curl so perfectly.
Ernie is very cute. so sweet.
I noticed the tail too. The elaborated curl made me Awww aloud.
Thanks for saving such cute kitties! I can’t let em go!!
Thank God Ernie and Bert were found by such a wonderful and kind person. Seeing the scab on Ernie’s head makes me want to cry. Such a sweet face and so young to have to felt abandonment. It just makes me cry. Need a snuggle with some kitties.
Sooooooo sweet!! Shame on people who throw away animals!!
awwww so sweet
lets not forget….”VOTE FOR GIMPY” http://www.arcamax.com/catsanddogs/galpic-36210 also the weekends have almost half the clicks for the animal rescue site so click to help feed homeless animals http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=3&link=ctg_ars_home_from_ars_thankyou_sitenav
Grrrump. That site won’t let me vote for Gimpy! What gives? Or is it that you can only vote 5 times in total for one kitty????
That’s it, Sammy’s Mom-only 5 votes per day per computer. If you have access to another computer, you can vote 5 more times, though.
Gotta love little Ernie-would like to see Bert, too.
How did everyone in Michigan fare with that nasty storm last night? Hope you’re all ok.
Love to all TDK friends, and have a great weekend.
24 hours after you vote, you can vote again. I have to wait until tonight. Since school has started I don’t get to visit until late. Such in the life of a teacher.
Unfortunately, we aren’t at work to vote again. So five for Gimpy today.
Sox’s mom, aren’t you near Phoenix?
I am in New Mexico, but part of my family live in Tucson. I spent some of my summer there. I try to spend July there. No one else is crazy enough to vacation in Tucson during that time. Too hot and the monsoon season starts.
New Mexico. Now I remember. I’ve got a friend out there whose an engineer and also a popular up and coming singer.
Who?? I love hearing new singers. Here in Clovis we have the Norman Petty Studio–start of many older musicians. Due to the studio we have a concert celebration every year. Looking forward to it. Although most of this type of music was from before I was born–just barely.
you can vote 5 times a day everyday but it has to be at the same time or a little later than when you voted yesterday. thanks for voting for Gimpy and keeping him 1st. dont forget starting on the 1st we all need to vote for Bob. later everyone.
Oh My, what a cutie! Cuddles for me… of course I’ll bring him back when I’m done
Love the names–Bert & Ernie! Did they find them on Sesame St?
First thing, I brought an URN of coffee today! Hot, steaming and loaded with caffein, –do you take cream or sugar, Great Dane? Been up all night again with pain level in the high level. Got a doc appt today to see if meds can be adjusted. Has to get better, huh? In tghe meantime, coffee will keep me awake for the appt, so will join the “breakfast club” this morning with y’all!
Voted for Gimpy this morning, too! What a sweetie! Mitzi has a HUGE crush on him!
Rainingwolf I really am praying for assistance with the back pain. That is the most miserable pain in the world! As for the coffee–I just made esspresso. I love a shot in the dark. Actually a double shot of esspresso in my coffee! Went to the bakery this morning too–had to clear cobwebs–so I have blueberry donuts. Chaperoned a dance last night. It was like a night club in Ibiza! What middle school has that kind of DJ and entertainment at a school dance. I was a little blown away. I really have become OLD and I think I am now OLD enough to enjoy it!
Rainingwolf, I will be praying for some relief for your pain. High level, or even mid level, pain is so horribly draining and I really hope your good Doc can provide you ease.
Purrs and good wishes sent to drive the pain away. You’ve had the back pain for a long time now, haven’t you?
Fingers crossed that the doc can help you! Let us know how it goes, okay?
Hope you feel better. Sharon can’t get started until I have two cups of coffee down her. How are your son and dtr-in-law, Rainingwolf?
It’s not even near Halloween - shall we bring our own coffins? It would be kind of macabre fun to mix milk/cream to coffee with a sugary femur.
Y’know, I never thought about how weird it is to have a “coffee urn”! It’s actually one of those really big stainless steel coffee pots that people use for parties.
And Ernie is SO CUTE!!!! I want to see Bert too!
Sorry you are in so much pain, Rainingwolf. Healing thoughts coming your way. Hugs and purrs.
Ernie is a handsome little guy, glad that both he and his brother, Bert went to the same home together….
Rainingwolf, sorry to hear that you still in pain….may the doctors find something to give you some peace…
well its into the last hour (many, many long hours it seems) of work, so will be going home….ciao
Well done for finding them, taking care of them and getting them good homes! He’s gorgeous.
Ernie, if you aren’t the cutest darn furbaby in the world (next to my Tommy), I don’t know who is. (feeds kitten sausage link) I have the breakfast buffet open. There’s scrambled eggs with cheese, Eggs Benedict, sun-dried tomato chicken sausage, spinach-feta chicken sausage, grilled chicken tenderloins, grits, oatmeal, hash browns with chicken gravy, toast, bagels, chocolate croissants, blueberry juice, grape juice, tea, and Tequila Sunrises. Who wants eats?
I have never heard of spinach-feta chicken sausage, but you have my attention! It sounds really good. Not a big sausage person, but love anything with spinach. Too early for a Tequila Sunrise, although it is my favorite.
Yum, spinach and feta - I just love both. I am a vegetarian but started as a vegan, had to readjust my thinking because I could not imagine life without feta cheese.
Milk and eggs humanely collected are okay. Be lacto-ovo vegetarian.
Exactly - just hard to find milk from humane farm. Eggs are getting easier due to pressure for free range. Because I started vegan, but decided I could not continue for many reasons, I just satisfy myself with not eating anything that had to die. Because of recent health issues I was forced to make a comprimise and eat salmon and turkey once or twice a week. Once I get my health back to normal I will again be 100% lacto-ovo vegetarian.
I am a true carnavore but when I had surgery was unable to eat many things and meat was at the top. I couldn’t drink those powder mixes with protien because I have lactose problems and the whey in the mix couldn’t be digested. Reason I am telling you this is I found a liquid protein (supposedly cherry flavored) that gave me the protien I needed. Wondered if that might be something you could use instead of salmon and turkey? I get it from a small health food store in town.
When I get a chance I’ll have to do a web search. I suppose I could use alternative, been advised against too much soy, and flax seed oil for omega’s. Thank you for sharing the information.
It’s 4:00 somewhere……
Time for the tequila sunrise.
Wait a second… I have to unbutton and unzip first.
Ladies and Gentlemen, it’s Buffet Time!!!
I read this out of context, just skimming through the comments, and I have to admit that made my raunchy mind double-take.
What inhumans these humans be.
Bert and Ernie. How cute is Ernie???
Love fuzz butts ….
Purrs my TDKers. In in for the eggsbennies, tequila sunrise and bringing raisin/cinnamon toast.
voted for Gimpy…now to find the one for Bob…..on to searching…
Here you go Deb
http://www.arcamax.com/catsanddogs/galpic-37927
Good morning TDK family…
I’ll take Eggs benedict with spinach-feta sausage (I will share with my Tiger and Little Bert and Ernie!) and a large coffee (iced as it is already 90 degrees here) and I will bring the mimosas!!!
Hi Alex!!
Awwww, little Ernie is precious. So nice to get the warm fuzzies here after perusing the other news. I also found my latest kitten, Wolfie, in a parking lot. It was the local Kroger (food store) and he was crying under the Christmas trees on a cold day in December. My 18 year old son caught him and brought him home in a banana box. He was meowing his head off. He tamed faster than any animal I had ever seen, after I spoke to him softly for a few minutes he began purring and came out from his hiding place under the cabinet. I found out later that he had been out under the Christmas trees for three days. Heartless humans! Choosing your Christmas tree and leaving a frightened helpless kitten there while you take the tree back to your warm house. Some Christmas spirit.
It’s disgusting the way people treat animals, abandoning them in the most dangerous places. I swear, if I ever witnessed a case of animal cruelty, may the gods help the fool. I’d probably hurt them. I guess I just like animals better than people!
Maybe you just like animals better than nasty evil cruel people.
That sounds right. Applies to us all, Elene.
People can be horrible, can’t they? I got Rumpelteazer when she was a tiny kitten because she rode in to work under the hood of a co-worker’s car. The co-worker knew where she came from - her neighbor’s barn cat had some kittens that had been running around - and she called the neighbors to let them know that she had one of the kittens. The response? “Just leave it in a 7-11 parking lot, someone will pick it up”. I kid you not. There was NO WAY that I was letting that kitten go. She was my companion for over 17 years after that.
Sob - I want an orangie! All the stray cats seem to find me, but never any orangies.
–Nibs and Nora’s Mom–
I sure wish we lived closer together. I have a beautiful orangie kitten up for adoption right now. He’s so orange that we named him Rusty. He’s alittle more shy than his brother & sister because he was trapped 3 weeks later than them. But, other than that, he’s alittle sweetheart.
By the way, I was born in Pontiac Hospital, & we lived in Union Lake, Michigan till I was 5,when my dad moved us out to California for better employment & warmer weather.
How wonderful that your son rescued him and you gave him a home.
You know, I’d love to believe in reincarnation and that in our next lives, we get treated the way that we treated the innocent and helpless.
“People that hate cats will come back as mice in their next
life.” —-Faith Resnick, author
Forgot to add - in the home of a multi-cat lover.
I like that thought, ILoveMyCats, and hopefully have the worst life one can experience for being such a cruel human.
Grrrr to the negligent Christmas shoppers and warm hugs to you and you son!
That’s why we shop at Kroger. Never know what a bargain you’ll find.
As for breakfast, I would like eggs with feta, tomatoes and spinach and a pot of Assam tea brewed from real tea leaves for 4 minutes.
I love making tea! Getting leaves and putting them in the cozy and then pouring the boiling water leads to the ultimate pleasure of the scent at it steeps.
Have you ever brewed Jasmine Pearl tea, Sox’s Mom? It smells wonderful but it’s even fun to watch because the “pearls” open like flowers as they steep. I got some from the Tao of Tea and am hooked!
I get my jasmine tea from a local oriental shop called K. Not sure what the letter stands for, but she owns a shop by the school. She also keeps me in rice wraps. They are very thin and less carbs than bread. Since I had stomach surgery I find bread and pasta difficult to digest, and they irratate my stomach. Oriental teas have been a main stay just to sooth me. My favorite tea is oolong.
Jasmine Tea is the most expensive tea to purchase in my area. I guess it hard to create??
Some kind of Scrooge, I suspect. God bless us everyone-especially you for saving your little Wolfie.
Oops, this was supposed to follow Catwoman’s comment!
What a cute little lion cub!
Sesame Street FUZZ
I do NOT have a bald spot! FUZZ
He would look cute even with a comb over.
What a cute little bundle of joy. Too bad you don’t still have him. I would pop over and have a few cuddles with him.
Dripping Springs is just minutes away from where I live in Spring Branch, between San Antonio and Blanco.
Oh, what a sweet baby. Thanks for saving these kittens and taking such good care of them.
Good Morning and Afternoon to my TDK family. Hope it turns out to be a fantastic weekend for you and yours.
Ernie is one very lucky and adorable kitten. I am so glad you were able to get these two babies off the streets and into a loving home together. Thank you so much for your kindness toward Bert and Ernie.
Catwoman, the poor little baby Wolfie. I could just cry to think he was out in the cold for 3 days and no one thought to rescue him. Wolfie started purring at your soft voice because he knew you were his Christmas present from olde St. Nick. Your son sounds like a wonderful person with a big heart too. Happy endings are always good news.
What a cute little orangie..I have to say that all of my kitties are special but Gir (Big Orange) is definitely tops of the special chart.
Chuck, you are so right about the orangies. My Charlie is not only the most beautiful cat I’ve ever been adopted by, but also one of the sweetest. I now have 3 orangie baby boys too, and at least 2 of them are incredible purring machines.
My orange tabby is also named Charlie, and he is the mellowest, sweetest fellow — he wants nothing more than to sleep in the crook of my arm while I’m reading online. He also shares toys with the foster kittens, and lets them snuggle next to him and chew on his tail. I wish I could get some of our other, more self-centered kitties to learn from Charlie.
And the purr! When Charlie was little, his purr could be heard a block away. He’s quieter now, but just as loving.
Ernie, meanwhile, is so cute I’d pick him up even knowing I have waaaaay too many kitties. Good thing he has a home!
Angela - I emailed you, did you get it?