My Own Bed

Okay. I'm home to spend the night with my own kitties. It's going to be wonderful. The kits are full of themselves and have been running around like mad. Rosie and Remy were wonderful this morning. And Maisie, her owner, and I had a doggie conference with Kathy Goldstone and her two dogs, and ChiChi, the little Westie, came and joined us, too. Lilly and Tessa were their usual marvelous selves; and the kitten is continuing to recover. She's well enough to fight having the syringe placed in her mouth to feed and hydrate and medicate her now. Poor thing, her nose is still so full of junk that she breathes through her mouth, so she can't smell food or water. We've been putting chicken broth, and holistic remedies mixed with water into her, as well as Clavimox, and I've been placing Gerber baby food (turkey and gravy, pureed) on her tongue to make her eat. It's been a fight since she got home on Monday morning. Thank goodness she is doing better! She has gone to the litter box by herself, and this evening, when Lynn came home, I went out to greet her, and the kitten was sitting right next to the door when I returned to the den (which we've been using as an isolation ward).
In the horse world, Hollywood Park is having a Zenyatta Appreciation Day on December 5th. The great Z will be shipped to Lane's End Farm in Kentucky to begin her life as a broodmare the first week of January. Goldikova, the mare who won her third Breeders' Cup Turf Mile this month, has been named Cartier's Horse of the Year (the European equivalent to America's Thoroughbred Racing Association's Horse of the Year). And jockey Mike Smith, the jockey of Zenyatta, has been awarded the 2010 Big Sport of Turfdom Award from the Turf Publicists of America.