Alastriona, The Cats & Dogs

Caturday Art The Calico Edition

Created with Rewards Challenge, remembering my sweet Scylla. We all miss her a lot.

A song lyric Challenge.

Designer Spotlight Challenge.

Progressive Scrap I am not happy with how this turned out as I wound up placing things on top of other things that were not placed correctly. I really wish you were allowed to move things. But overall I think it looks nice. For those of you who do not know Chimera's story we found her as a wee baby on Christmas Day.

Template Challenge with some Thanksgiving pictures.

Use it all Challenge I love this challenge and am really sad that this is the last one Karen Schulz is going to host. She is one of my favorite designers. ~ATCAD

Dreaming of Summer with Fenris

Before Ladybug came to live with us Yin used to follow me around in the backyard. We are hoping once she gets used to Ladybug she will come out in the backyard again.

Yep this is the same picture, Mom lightened it up a lot in the first one so you could see Yin good.

Mom can take some of the most embarrassing pictures.

Hummingbirds love the trumpet vine and best of all it is native to Mississippi.

Mom is trying to plant more Native Flowers.

She says they look great and are easier to care for.

And now I get to go walking with Mom, I thought Lambie would enjoy some fresh air so I took him with us.

Fenris, reporting for ATCAD

Remembering Tuesday

Oh this was a fun day back in June. The Queen of the Nile was blooming. I like it's purple blooms.

And after helping Mom with the yard work we all came inside to chill. I got the top of the scratchy box.

I was really enjoying having it to myself until Yang showed up.

Mom thought we looked cute together.

I thought he took up a lot of room.

Yin and Scylla shared the couch with Mom.

Yang eventually got on top of the entertainment center.

But I had already given up on the box and picked a chair for a snooze. ~Chimera, reporting for ATCAD

RIP Mr Who

Some of you may remember Mr. Who from when he lived with us.

We are sad to report that he passed away December 13, 2024.

December has not been a good month for us. ~ATCAD

Butterflies

Butterflies always cheer us up so we thought we would share our butterfly visitor with you.

~ATCAD

Thank you

We want to thank all our friends for their comforting words and thank Ann and Ingrid for the beautiful cards they made for our Sweet Scylla.

We have buried her with her litter mate Charybdis. They were never apart when Charybdis was alive and now they are together again. As we were burying Scylla I thought of another of Scylla's nicknames but it hasn't been used since she was a kitten Trinity. Because she could literally bounce off the ceiling.

Scylla & Charybdis Do the Name Meme (Flashback)

We are doing the Name Meme. We have to do it together because our names go together. We will explain later.

Here are the rules: Post a link to the kitty who tagged you (that would be Socks, but he got the idea from Angus Mhor and we saw where Dragonheart and Merlin had played today), and post the rules on your blog.

List your real name, how you got your real name, nicknames you like/tolerate, and nicknames you wish your humans would stop calling you.

Tag several kitties, and write a comment on their blog to let them know they have been tagged. We would like to tag anyone out there who hasn't done this meme yet-if you decide to do this meme, would you leave us a comment telling us so? We would love to know about your name!

Our real names are Scylla & Charybdis. When Mommy first brought us home we were foster kitties. But Mommy and the guys fell in love with us from the very first day, so we knew this was going to be our forever home. Mommy wanted to name us Katrina (Scylla) & Camille (Charybdis) cause she thinks they are pretty girl names and they are famous hurricanes, but Daddy said NO. He told Mommy she could keep us IF he got to name us. So she said OK as long as he didn't name us War (Charybdis) and Pestilence (Scylla) and she requested he pick out a girls name. So he looked in Greek mythology for some girl monsters and since Scylla & Charybdis go together and we look so much alike he thought that would be the perfect names for us. Especially since he felt like he was between a rock and a hard place when it was feeding time and he was the only one around. We were bottle feed when we first came to live here. Since the whole family liked it, Scylla & Charybdis became our names.

This is about the Scylla in Greek Mythology
Scylla was a nymph, daughter of Phorcys. The fisherman-turned-sea-god Glaucus fell madly in love with her, but she fled from him onto the land where he could not follow. Despair filled his heart. He went to the sorceress Circe to ask for a love potion to melt Scylla's heart. As he told his tale of love to Circe, she herself fell in love with him. She wooed him with her sweetest words and looks, but the sea-god would have none of her. Circe was furiously angry, but with Scylla and not with Glaucus. She prepared a vial of very powerful poison and poured it in the pool where Scylla bathed. As soon as the nymph entered the water she was transformed into a frightful monster with twelve feet and six heads, each with three rows of teeth. Below the waist her body was made up of hideous monsters, like dogs, who barked unceasingly. She stood there in utter misery, unable to move, loathing and destroying everything that came into her reach, a peril to all sailors who passed near her. Whenever a ship passed, each of her heads would seize one of the crew.

Scylla is also the name of a daughter of King Nisus of Megara.
Scylla could bark like a dog (according to some skulax, "young dog").

Our Scylla has a very LOUD MEOW, so we guess you could compare it to a dog barking. Scylla likes to think she is the beautiful nymph Scylla before Circe turned her into a monster.

This is about the Charybdis in Greek Mythology.
Charybdis was once a nymph-daughter of Poseidon and Gaia who flooded lands for her father's underwater kingdom until Zeus turned her into a monster and caused her to suck in and out water three times an day. She lived in a cave at one side of the Strait of Messina, opposite the monster Scylla, the two of them forming a dangerous threat to passing ships.

Charybdis sucked down her bottle so the name suited her to a tee.

Here are Scylla's nicknames

Miss Piggy ~ cause she is fat.

Roley-poly ~cause she is fat.

Baby Girl

Princess Scylla ~ because she acts like royalty.

Madam ~because she likes to boss everybody around.

Queen Bee ~ because she likes to boss everybody around.

Sweet thing/Sweetheart/Love ~ because Mommy loves her.

Trinity ~ because she jumps around like Trinity on the Matrix.

Here are Charybdis' nicknames

Sweet thing/Sweetheart/Love ~ because Mommy loves her.

Energizer Bunny ~ because she is full of energy.

Baby Girl

Odie ~ Because she reminds Mommy of the dog Odie in the Garfield Comics.

Silly girl ~Because she acts silly sometimes.

Crazy Charybdis ~ Because she acts crazy sometimes.

Charyb ~ because it is short for Charybdis.

Our combined nicknames (they use these when they are referring to both of us)

The Monsters

The Girls

We used our baby picture so you could see how adorable we were when they named us. We don't think we looked anything like monsters.

RIP Scylla

I can't believe my sweet girl is gone. She had a lot of nicknames over the course of the 17 years she spent with us. She and her sister Charybdis were known as The Monsters, The Grumpy Girls and The Calico Twins. Scylla was known as Silly Scylla because she was a silly little thing, Love Bug because she loved to be petted and never got enough petting and when she was overweight Kitty Cow and Cow Kitty a name that stuck even after she had lost weight.

I keep thinking that if I had just taken her to the vet sooner maybe she would still be with us. But there wasn't any real indication that anything was wrong. I did notice that she seemed to be losing weight but she had been skinny for a long time. She was still getting around helping me in the garden back in October when we put the green house together and put the plants in it.

And Thanksgiving she was still getting up on the dining room table and the kitchen counter tops.She did seem to be having a little trouble walking Thanksgiving but I put it down to the cold snap and arthritis she always came first thing in the morning for her Churu and thyroid medicine

In fact she was back to climbing up on the dining room table the next day. And helped me make a start on getting the Christmas decorations out. And Chimera had the abscess on her face, I guess I will always wonder if Scylla would still be with us if I had taken her in at the same time I took Chimera in. But Scylla seemed fine. She was walking OK again, eating and drinking good. But she did seem really thin. I was letting her stay in the infirmary (the spare bed room) with Chimera as it was cold in the garage and she seemed to enjoy that.

But yesterday she seemed really weak and wasn't using her hind legs. It wasn't that she couldn't she rallied this morning and stood up after stuffing herself with canned cat food bought especially for her last night and this morning but her kidneys were failing and we had to let her go. But oh how I wish we could have had one more Christmas together.