Spyrit Dancers' Musings On All Things Wiccan

This past few weeks has been tough as far as my cats go.  First, Momma Amelia and Two Tone show up after what looked like being tortured, and and Two Tone doesn’t make it and has to be put to sleep.  Meanwhile, her brother, has a genetic defect, and has to be put to sleep.

Then Friday, I went into the garage to feed the cats, and found the cat we trapped and had fixed on Tues, curled up dead.  So I buried her on our property, feeling terribly guilty for taking her in.  I tell myself, she might have had other issues going on, or been sick, as all the rest have survived the surgery no problem.

When Jim and I talked about Two Tone was on the other side of the veil, helping his brother and sister that remain become more domesticated, so we can move them in the house, inspiration was born.  The idea of “Cat Angels” came to me, and although not a new idea, I brewed it in the back of my head.

At the same time, I’ve been trying to come up with a craft item I could use cat food cans for, as we are going through dozens a week feeding the strays and our kitties.  So while burying our last stray on Friday, and praying to the Goddess over her, I came up with the idea of Cat Angel Candles.

I’m currently working on the first batch, which is a labor of love.  We take the labels off, clean them really well, then soak them in bleach water for a few hours to get any lingering traces of food off them.  Then we clean them with acetone to get the label glue off them.  Then the fun begins, as I take a dremel and patiently grind down all the left-over bits of the lids to make them purrrfectly smooth inside.

I had gotten about this far with the first batch, when I found out my Son was in the hospital Friday afternoon, and his Fiance was also having health issues.  So my candles have evolved into Cat Angels helping with healing.  My first candles are for the two of them.  I gathered every healing herb I have on my property (a bit of mesquite for healing, lemon balm,  and blackberry) then added cinnamon and Myrrh and ground it with a mortar and pestal.   I also added rosemary and pine essential oils for healing too.

I’m using a blend of soy and candelilla wax for vegan candles.  Finally as the candles set, I placed rose quartz chips in the top of the wax for further healing energies.

The outside of the can will be personalized with their names, the rune URUZ for healing, and of course, cat paw prints.  I’ll post up pictures later on today when I’m finished.

Once I finish theirs, and set them on my working altar along with their pictures to send them healing energy, I’ll start making some to sell in my online stores.  I plan on donating 25% of the proceeds to Pahrump SNAPS, a wonderful local organization that is helping me get all my stray cats spayed/neutered for me.  They also provide discount shots for pets, which I took advantage of yesterday and dragged my 4 indoor cats down and got all their shots updated.  I helped fill shots for the vet, and will be volunteering once a month to help out doing it for them.

So although we have had a lot of heartache this past week, from our cats to my son (who is doing much better, and hopes to be out of the hospital today…I’m hoping my healing prayers have been helping), sorrow has spawned a craft idea that will help us raise money for a worthy charity, and raise money so we can continue to feed stray cats no one else would love but us.

As I posted earlier, we have been trapping stray/feral cats and having them fixed.  I’m also now an official volunteer for Pahrump S.N.A.P.S  (Spay and neuter all pets and strays) and am building their website.

Unfortunately, little Two Tone didn’t make it.  His paw started necrotizing. A large hole developed you could see into the tendons and bones, and he was put to sleep on Friday.  It was a heart breaker.  We are still not sure if Mom and baby were tortured or not.  Denise, the head of S.N.A.P.S is looking to have his paw sent to be analyzed to see if we can figure out if it might have been a bite (like a black widow or brown recluse) or if it was something someone human did.  I still don’t know how anyone could harm a cat and a 4 month old kitten.  Very, very sad.

Here is a pic of Mom, her neck is healing nicely, but they shaved it when they fixed her since her hair was matted into her wounds pretty bad.  She has put on a bit of weight, and getting more and more domesticated as she now wants a lot of petting.

Two two remaining kittens are Creamsickle, a little boy, and Smoke, a little girl. Just a few days ago Creamsickle now wants to be petted a lot, and Smoke more so, so they are getting more domesticated too. They are fun to watch playing with each other in our garage.

We have been taking care of feral cats for a little over a year, and starting this week, have been trapping them, and working with our local S.N.A.P.S chapter, getting them spayed and neutered.

During all this our Mom cat, who has been living on our porch with 4 kittens, took off with the runt of the litter, Two Tone.  Tues they finally showed back up.  Two Tone almost died before we could get him in to see the wonderful angels at the animal shelter.

Now I find out that their wounds were “odd”.  Mom looked like someone tied a rope around her neck, that she tried to get out of, and had cuts all over her neck.  Not scratches like an animal would make, but scrapes and cuts.

Two Tone’s paws were swollen 2 – 3 times their size.  I sat on the floor of the shelter yesterday, holding him wrapped in a cloth while we got an IV and fluids into him.  He was dehydrated, and looked like he had been wet down, then rolled in dirt.

But when the vet tech injected a solution into his paws to clean out the infection, the water poured out of multiple tiny holes…like someone took a needle and repeatedly stuck it in his paws.  We think now he was tortured, neither of their wounds look like they were caused by a wild animal, but human caused. What kind of sick bastard would torture a 4 month old kitten?

They were safe on our property! But we were afraid that Denise (woman from S.N.A.P.S.) who spotted Amelia hiding in the catnip, might have spooked her, and since Two Tone always followed her, went with her.

We have already made a vow that if Two Tone makes it, we will bring him into our home and not let him out again, so that no one ever harms him like that again.  I ask for prayers for my kitty and Mom.

I am a white witch, and have protection spells around my property.  This is the first time in my life I have ever felt like violating the “harm none” law.  I just hope whoever tortured my cats, karma catches up with them.

Mom moved the kitties about two days after we saw them last.  I was worried about them, visions of hawks or crows attacking them.

Well this morning, it is only 37 degrees out, and the babies are back!  They were out drinking water there wasn’t one speck of dry food left in the feeder for them to eat.  So I put a can on two plates and I no sooner got in the door and all four babies were eating, and mom was guarding them.  I got this pic.

I have no idea where the fourth one was before, although since two look so much alike, one may have been hiding while the other ate and vice versa.  At least we cleaned the windows so the picture came out better.

The babies ate every scrap of food.  I carried out another can spread on two plates, plus their dry food feeder I had taken in to fill up, and now mom is chowing down when I looked last.  It feels so good to be able to help a family in need out.