We don't know what to do. JJ has been crying A LOT! It is a little bit scary. We love on her as much as we can. And we know it helps, but it doesn't make her stop crying.

Jinx said there is this song she has heard that is really old. And the song says "Only love can break a heart...Only love can mend it again." So we will keep loving JJ as much as we can.

Lots of JJ's friends have come, too. And they give her lots of love also. And, she has been riding that bicycle and lifting weights with her "Why" friends (we don't know why they are called "why" instead of "who" but that's what it sounds like -- JJ says "o.k., bye dog and cats, I'm going to the Why").

JJ and her committee are making her calendar again with all the animals on it and that will raise a lot of money for AARF and all of the homeless, hurt and sad animals they save. That's where I came from -- and look at me now, I've got the best home ever! I've even started letting the cheewawa chase me! Whoooooooooa - not that's fun!

We went in the closet yesterday and tried to get the bird feather toy out because we thought it might make JJ happy if she played with it. We knew it would make us happy. Of all our toys we love the light and the bird toy best.

I have to go and get in JJ's lap and knead her arm so that she knows we are here for her.

We will always love you JJ, and so will all of the animals you have saved -- Ulysses and Scamp and Nikita and Max and Gracie and Beignet and Antoinnette -- and more. And we know a lot of you folks who love JJ too, ya'll keep on calling, it really helps her a lot.

Love, Oregano

JJ has a new bicycle -- which, she has the audacity to store in the official "CAT Room" where Oregano and I eat. It is red and falls over easy if you run into it. JJ kind of got mad the last time we knocked it over so we are trying to stay away from it :-0.

Anyway, JJ takes this thing out of the house, then a couple of hours later she comes back limping and bleeding. Next day, off she goes again -- same thing. Jinx said it had something to do with her feet. Now this bicycle (JJ likes to call it a bicicletta which Spooky says he "thinks" is her favorite Italian word) has wheels on it so it seems to me her feet would not have to do any work. But Jinx says the bicycle has petals and JJ's feet hook onto them and sometimes they don't unhook and that is when JJ falls over. I guess it is sort of like when my claws get hung in the curtains -- whoa -- sometimes that is a little scary.

Don't tell JJ that I told you this but she has a GREAT BIG BRUISE on her butt!!! I don't know if she can see it or not but it looks pret-tie bad. And, she's got one on her knee right beside the skinned place.

JJ said that she could get a basket and put it on her bicicletta and carry Techichi around in it and Techichi said in her squeaky dogspeak "No way, I'm not getting on that thing!" I don't think I would want to go on it either!

Yesterday, Melody went out on the patio. She isn't really supposed to but, she does anyway. Mellie is so bossy and cranky that we usually just let her do whatever she wants to. She was only out there 2 seconds and she got scared. JJ was upstairs and Mellie ran around the house and jumped on the front door and started climbing up it and shaking it. JJ thought the cheewawa was trying to knock the baby gate down and get in our room to eat our food (or, our you-know-what -- from the litter box -- eeeeek). Mellie was meowing like crazy (of course THAT is nothing new -- Mellie is a really weird cat -- we think we are going to put her up for adoption on www.catswithmentalhealthproblems.com). She had to come and rescue that silly Melody.

Furballs Ya'll! Tita

Folks, I've got to tell you that my faith in human beings has been shaken. You know that man, Mike, that has been hanging around here and acting like he loves JJ and us? Well, he doesn't. He was faking it. I guess he just didn't have any love in his life and he wanted to come over here to our house which is FILLED WITH LOVE and try to get some. Maybe he thought that if he hung around JJ long enough that he could learn to love. I guess it didn't work.

JJ says he is gone and won't be back to visit us any more. She said he told her some lies and that it really hurt her feelings. She also said something about him having some balls but not enough to face the truth. Now what could that mean? I would guess that he has at least SOME balls at his house because he has those big old dogs that need some to play with -- and goodness knows we have plenty around here. We have hard balls and soft balls, leopard skin balls even, jingly balls, furry balls -- we could probably start a ball store if JJ would get all of the ones that are under the bookshelf and the stove!

So Mike, if you read this, and it will help, we will be glad to give you some of our balls because we don't need them all to play with. Melody might complain but we can take care of that. We sure wish that you had not made JJ cry!! That makes us kind of mad at you and Jinx says, if you ever come around again, she is going to pee on your shoes!!

I am glad that that little rat-size dog is here. She has been real good about staying close to JJ and making sure she knows she is loved. I actually am starting to like the little one (but don't tell her that). She is very true to JJ unlike "someone we know" ;-)

Well, we don't really care what happens as long as we get to live here with JJ and she is happy. And, she says everything is o.k. Next time we're going to do a better job of warning her about bad people --- because he fooled us, too.

Tita

I have not written in a long time because I have been too busy. You will not believe what I have been busy doing!! You will not believe what JJ did!!
Three weeks ago, she came home with this, this animal! It wasn't even as big as me but it sure was not any cat -- and it didn't make noise like that animal that lives on the kitchen counter. I ran away and hid but Tita was brave and went and sniffed noses with it and she came back and told me the news -- IT WAS A DOG!!
Our JJ brought a dog into the cat condo -- and she didn't even ask us first!! You would think that she is in charge around here, going and doing something like that. After all, she only buys the food and cleans the litter boxes and pays the bills -- she doesn't get the final say -- this condo is run by us cats!!
So, this dog stayed. I didn't come out from under the bed for a LONG time because even though it was little, just smelling it made me scared. I don't know why because there was another dog, Echo, that lived here before -- and she was actually the boss of the house when I came.
Tita told me that the dog was not scary at all and that I probably outweigh it so I finally came out to check out the situation.
Well, JJ says this dog is a Cheewahwah. Its name sounds like what it is -- CheeChee. JJ is always talking to it and telling it what a good dog it is. JJ says this dog came from a place where she wasn't taken care of and that she had had to have babies more than once. Now, she won't have to have babies any more and she is sure lucky to have come to our house because we just think it is the best. CheeChee follows JJ all over and sleeps with her, too -- sometimes she trys to chase me off the bed when JJ isn't looking!
But I guess she is o.k. I even let her chase me the other day. She is kind of fun to run from and she is such a shrimp that if she caught me, I wouldn't even be scared!!
See ya'll down the road!! Oregano