OMG!

Ok, it was literally day one w/out Mom & Dad. I came home to find Lola had somehow, someway gotten the safety pin undone that was holding up her new purple outfit that Echo had made! It was sticking out from the belly area...SO I knew I had to get the pin out of the outfit ~ even if that made it too long....I would worry about that later.

Well, Lola, honestly turned into Cujo Cat...you've heard of the dog, well this was the cat version! There was hissing, spitting, ears back, and fangs showing!!!! No kidding, she actually make me sweat! Ok, I told her, leave the pin open, next to your nice soft underbelly...FINE! Those were my thoughts, as I left her room & closed the door!! I got into the hallway & KNEW I had to go back! I could not allow her to poke herself, or bite the open safety pin. I should mention here that she actually bent the pin head! I don't want to know how.

I did manage to get the pin out, but for the rest of the night she HISSED at me, even if I just entered the room...forget about getting close to her & helping her w/the shirt that was now way toooo long. I did manage to get her into her stroller and we sat on the deck in the hopes to cool both of us off! The astute observer will notice a nice glass of wine in the stroller's cup holder...yes, that was for GrandMa!! She stayed in her stroller the rest of the night.

At least by this morning, she allowed me to pet her head, a bit. I put Cali outside...and opened Lola's bedroom door to allow her some freedom. I was on the computer working on this Blog w/Shane laughing himself silly, trying to explain to me how to do this step & that step. I noticed Lola slowly coming out & she stayed by the open door way for sometime. Later I saw that she was inching her way down the hallway...Good I thought, she is getting comfortable.

A bit later I went out to see where she had landed AND OMG again there she was eating Cali's food (yes I had forgotten to move it up) I had to dig in the trash to find out what I had given her earlier in the am... I bet you can guess what it was Market Select REAL Tuna & Shrimp!!!!!!!!!! As some of you know Lola has a food ALLERGY. And you got it, FISH is at the top of the list!

Well, good thing my sister was a veterinarian technician, as I called her & got the scoop...not to worry, as her allergy was a skin allergy...it might make her scratch a bit more, but considering it was a small amount, should be no problem. Was I relieved to learn that as I didn't know if she would swell up, her mouth, etc. NO MOM & DAD that won't happen again. BTW: She's fine.

Can't wait for tomorrow :)

Lola did find a comfy spot for herself inside the dresser drawer...another tight squeeze! She asked me to post the other photos as she wanted to have say: So Mom & Dad bring me to the country & I end up in the drawer, while they have fun looking at sunflowers, eating ice cream & please having sushi for dinner...knowing I am allergic to fish...thanks folks!

The Beginning Photos

I have quite a learning curve here, so be patient :) I uploaded some photos of Lola's trip to CT, but not here now~to try again! Please note Lola didn't seem too happy to be in Shane's old bunk bed~please notice her tongue sticking out at me! But with her parents here, at the time, she was civil.

The Beginning

Lola came up last week to start her 4 month stay with me, here in Norwich, CT, which lets face it, is much different than her digs in Scarsdale, NY~After all she is a City cat, w/two artists for parents. SO her life in the 'country' with GrandMa & our country cat Cali, will be much different:

We had to squeeze her pink stroller into the back seat & I do mean squeeze. I will say she travels well.

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An odd-eyed cat is a cat with one blue eye and one green, yellow or brown eye. It is a feline form of complete heterochromia[1][2], a condition which occurs in some other animals. The condition most commonly affects white colored cats but can be found in a cat of any color, as long is it possesses the white spotting gene.

Cause

The odd-eyed coloring is caused when either the epistatic (dominant) white gene (which masks any other color genes and turns a cat completely white)[4] or the white spotting gene (which is the gene responsible for bicolor and tuxedo cats)[5] prevents melanin (pigment) granules from reaching one eye during development,[3] resulting in a cat with one blue eye and one green, yellow or brown eye. It only rarely occurs in cats that lack both the dominant white and the white spotting gene. [4]

[edit] Kittens

As all cats are blue-eyed as kittens,[6] the differences in an odd-eyed kitten's eye color might not be noticeable save upon close inspection. Odd-eyed kittens have a different shade of blue in one eye. The color of the odd eye changes over a period of months, for example, from blue to green to yellow, until it reaches its final, adult color.

[edit] Cultural reactions and folklore

Odd-eyed cats are popular within several breeds, including Turkish Van, Turkish Angora, and Japanese Bobtail.

In 1917, the government of Turkey, in conjunction with the Ankara Zoo, began a meticulous breeding program to preserve and protect pure white Turkish Angora cats with blue and amber eyes, a program that continues today, as they are considered a national treasure.[7] [8] The zoo specifically prized the odd-eyed Angoras that had one blue eye and one amber eye, as the Turkish folklore suggests that "the eyes must be as green as the lake and as blue as the sky."[9][10]
Deaf, odd-eyed cat.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, who founded the Republic of Turkey in 1923, declared that his successor would be bitten on the ankle by an odd-eyed white cat. This prediction dramatically increased the interest in odd-eyed white cats in Turkey.[11]

Muhammad's pet Angora, Muezza, was reputed to be an odd-eyed cat.[10]

In Japan, odd-eyed Japanese Bobtails are very popular and can carry a high price tag.[12]

[edit] Deafness in odd-eyed cats

There is a common misconception that all odd-eyed cats are born deaf in one ear. This is not true, as about 60%–70% of odd-eyed cats can hear.[4] About 10%–20% of normal-eyed cats are born deaf or become deaf as part of the feline aging process.[4] White cats with one or two blue eyes do, however, have a higher incidence of genetic deafness, with the white gene occasionally causing the degeneration of the cochlea, beginning a few days after birth.[13] See also deafness in white cats.

[edit] Eyeshine and red-eye effect
Flash photography effect on blue eye but not green eye

In flash photographs, odd-eyed cats typically show a red-eye effect in the blue eye but not in the other eye. This is due to the combined effect of the (normal) presence of a tapetum lucidum in both eyes and the absence of melanin in the blue eye. The tapetum lucidum produces eyeshine in both eyes but in the non-blue eye a layer of melanin over the tapetum lucidum selectively removes some colors of light (see Tapetum lucidum).