Hai Efurrybuddy!
Today we are ALL going YELLOW in support of LIVESTRONG in their fight to improve the lives of people affected by cancer. Mom prepared this post in advance, which is just as well ‘cos she hadta have surgery on her arm this week and it is painful, and in a sling, which makes it hard for her to type. We will be visiting yoo all over the next few days, to see yoor wonderful yellow posts and comment, and thank yoo for yoor support ~ but we may not be able to post much until mom is feeling better. We hope you understand. Mom is sad ‘cos it couldn’t have happened at a worse time as she wants to visit yoo all.
Please visit our LIVESTRONG page and support us officially (if yoo haven’t done that already)
and please visit our noo We LIVESTRONG Today blog (created by Ann at Zoolatry) which you can all contribute to!
LIVESTRONG is a cause dear to our hearts, because not only has our own fambly been affected by cancer, but judging by the comments we have received over the last few weeks, many of yoor lives or those yoo love, have been affected by cancer too. And some of yoo reading this will sadly have cancer in their fambly right now, even as we meow. Cancer stinks an’ it needs to be kicked in the butt!
This ”going yellow on yoor blog“ event is dedicated to Vic at Zoolatry (who is currently fighting cancer) and all humans and animals who are currently fighting cancer, have fought cancer and SURVIVED, or who have lost their brave battle. This includes Mom who is a cancer survivor, first diagnosed with CHONDROSARCOMA (a rare type of primary bone cancer) in 1995; she had her latest bone surgery in 2009. And Dad who had surgery for skin cancer earlier this year. It also includes Dad’s lovely mother who died of pancreatic cancer, Mom’s beloved father who died of prostrate cancer ~ and Mom’s two best friends who died of cancer (one of liver, one of Malignant Melanoma). And Mom’s uncle who is currently terminally ill with prostrate cancer, also Mom and Dad’s daughter-in-law’s father who has prostrate cancer. Mom also lost her first ever beloved cat Confucious, to Feline Leukemia ~ and we would particulary like to mention our blogging friends Maxdog and Sniffie (and other beloved blogging friends ~ we hesitated to list yoo all in case we accidentally missed anybuddy off the list) who recently went to the Bridge because of cancer.
Mom also asked us to make a very special reference to all her dear friends from the CHONDROSARCOMA support group who are currently fighting cancer or are survivors. And importantly she wants to remember and honour those in the group who sadly have lost their lives to this terrible disease; there are too many names to list out ~ but she will never forget any of yoo. You each have a place in her heart.
BUT it is important to remember that people and pets can and do SURVIVE cancer (we never spell it with a big C as we don’t want to give it power) ~ mom has many friends and aquantainces who have had cancer and still live healthy, happy and fulfilled lives, decades later ~ and we know of beloved pets that have survived cancer too and gone onto to live a full life span. With this in mind we would like anyone who is a cancer SURVIVOR, or hoo knows a cancer SURVIVOR to mention it in the comments below.
Our message is FOCUS, NEVER give up HOPE, Have a FIGHTING attitude, have COURAGE and if yoo are fighting cancer, know we ALL SUPPORT yoo. Let’s LIVESTRONG together! We believe in the POWER of the PURR!
Ways yoo can help:
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Go YELLOW to help raise awareness, by WEARING YELLOW, or turning yoor blog YELLOW today or during October!
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Or donate via the LIVESTRONG website (there are lots of giving options).
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Attend a LIVESTRONG EVENT in yoor area.
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Do a fund-raising event for LIVESTRONG yoorself!
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Make a purchase from the LIVESTRONG online store (or a store near yoo selling LIVESTRONG items)
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Wear yoor LIVESTRONG wrist band wiv pride.
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Say a PURRayer for Vic at Zoolatry and ALL the other hoomans and animals fighting cancer.
Ferst, we are sending special healing purrs to Poppy ( Vic at Zoolatry) hoo is currently fighting cancer ~ and LOVE to the entire Zoolatry fambly, and every other hooman, cat, dog or animal hoo is fighting cancer or has a loved one with cancer.
Below: The Zoolatry grandbeans and Maggy and Zoey:
OUR THANK YOOs:
A special Thank Yoo to Ann at Zoolatry for the lovely images of Alfie and Milo (below) and for all yoor time and hard work making images and badges for LIVESTRONG supporters. And THANK YOU to other sweet friends who have helped in all sorts of ways (see below). And thank you to our Dad for doing technical stuff to create the Honor and Memory badges below (from the official site but in a changed format). And THANK YOO to each and every one of yoo hoo have displayed our LIVESTRONG badge, or have gone yellow! And especial THANKS to all those hoo helped behind the scenes to make this day a success ~ including Cheryl and the crew from Cats of Wildcat Woods, Linda and the crew from The Ozark Mountain Cats, Chandra at Life from a Cat’s Perspective.
We salute yoo ALL.
To visit Cats of Wildcat Woods CLICK HERE!
To visit The Ozark Mountain Cats CLICK HERE! This what the LIVESTRONG Team said about the beautiful blog (created by Zoolatry, managed by Cheryl, and contributed to by us all):
I visited your website and I LOVE it! As a LIVESTRONG Supporter and animal lover I think your way of supporting LIVESTRONG is wonderful and very creative! Thank you so much for taking time to do this, it means a lot! Have a wonderful day …
Edith Marshall
Organizational Support Volunteer
LIVESTRONG
www.livestrong.org
To visit Life from a Cat’s Perspective CLICK HERE!
To see the beautiful SLIDE SHOW created by Chandra for us cats an woofies on the CB, to support LIVESTRONG, see below ~ have a hanky ready, it made mom cry. Please take your time as you watch it and reflect on what today is all abowt (mom tried efurry thing to get this on the blog ~ even using HTML code ~ but she failed ~ she’s not very tekknical!) :
Alfie’s beautiful gerlfriend Lola Fannola supports LIVESTRONG wiv a YELLOW name tag!
Milo supports LIVESTRONG:
Milo’s beautiful gerlfriend Dommy has dressed YELLOW to support LIVESTRONG!
Our sweet cousin, Gorjuss Ginger Gizmo (Gorjuss Ginger Gizzy for short) is YELLOW (ish) ~ well OK he’s ginger but that sort of yellow! An’ he supports LIVESTRONG ennyway ~ so it counts!
Leo (our little cousin) support LIVESTRONG by playing wiv YELLOW toys!
Lily (Leo’s little sisfur) supports LIVESTRONG by playing in a YELLOW sunbeam!
Addi and Izzy play YELLOW for LIVESTRONG!
Baby Pumpkin plays YELLOW for LIVESTRONG!
Dad goes YELLOW for LIVESTRONG and even wears a SILLY hat!
Mom goes YELLOW for LIVESTRONG and wears a NICE hat!
We all support LIVESTRONG together!
Love Milo and Alfie xx
PS: Please don’t forget to add yoor post to Mr Linky if yoo are supporting LIVESTRONG ~ so we can all share it.
We were going to add the communal Mr Linky to our blog ~ but then we discovered that WordPress only takes HTML code ~ and Mr Linky is in Java script! DRAT! So please visit our dear friends at Cats of WildCat Woods and use the MR Linky there. Smoochies and Purrs to yoo all!
I thought I had to go pink for October for cancer awareness? There are just too many colors so I will have to support them all with my usual colorful self!
You guys look fantastic in your yellow for LiveStrong!
Fabulous, fabulous post.. I am so glad that you are survivors of the dreaded cancer and pray with all my heart that our dear friends fighting right now are survivors too. Mum was one of the lucky ones, grandad wasn’t. Mum lost two cousins in their 50′s and many other family and friends. We must all have hope and courage and most of all never give in.. You have done a fabulous thing in starting this LiveStrong.. I hope we do you justice.. Get well.. With thanks and love Carol, Barrie and GJ xx
Fantastic post, guys, wonderfully done. Kudos to Mom Jan for all the work in getting this started and carrying it through. And to Linda and Ann and Chandra for all that they’ve done–we’re quite sure it’s been a huge undertaking.
We will be yellow tomorrow for LIVESTRONG, of course. Our human knows a number of people who have had or currently have cancer, including her dad (melanoma on his nose!), his second ex-wife (skin cancer), her first cousin Laurie (breast cancer), a third cousin (also breast cancer), her childhood best friend’s mom, and various acquaintances, friends of friends. Tonight she found out that a good friend of her own mom’s was diagnosed with breast cancer today.
It seems that this disease touches us all, in one way or another.
We send purrs and healing Light and universal Blessings to All Beings.
And extra purrs to your mom, Jan, for a speedy recovery and healing from her surgery!
I’m working on my Livestrong post now.
So sorry to hear about your mom’s arm surgery. My mom is still in a sling and that’s why I haven’t been visiting too much.
BRAVO!
What a pawesome post!!
We are set fur our midnight!!!
We weren’t brave enough to go TOO yellow on the blog but we did make effekhtive use of the kholour
Hugz&Khysses,
Khyra and Her Mom Phyll
We’re getting ready to go yellow tomorrow too! We love your yellow post! We’re so thankful your mom and dad have conquered cancer and we send wishes to all those fighting it now. We hope your mom’s arm gets better soon too! Sending her purrs and hugs!
I am yellow today! But when I went to Cats of Wildcat Woods to add to Mr Linky, it’s not up yet, so I’ll go back soon.
Hope your mummy feels better soon. Like Huffle, we went to Cats of Wildcat Woods to add to Mr Linky but it’s still not up yet. We’re half way round the world from all of you and can’t figure out if you’re still in yesterday or tomorrow!
Our Linky is up and running – I will list blogs on it as I see their post is up. Sorry you could not put it on yours but hopefully others will do it too.
What a great post, Milo, Alfie, and your mum and dad! We will be yellow- not quite Saturday here. A young man where our mom works recently went through cancer treatments and is back at work – he is a survivor. We especially think of him now. Our doggy bro is a survivor too.
Purrs from us for your mum to be healed up soon.
-Pip, Smidgen, Minnie
Hello Milo and Alfie! Sorry we’ve been MIA this week…Mommy is busy doing HER stuff on her vacation. HMPH. We send your Mom TONS of healing purrs and love from alla us!
Your LIVESTRONG post is amazing and wonderful. Our Mommy lost three of her Grandparents to smoking related cancers, and her Dad is a prostate cancer survivor. Tomorrow is Mommy & Daddy’s wedding anniversary, so we did a post about that…but we are planning to visit your new blog and comment!
You guys are the greatest! We lubs you lots.
[...] join with our friends Milo and Alfie in dedicating our blog post today to Vic of Zoolatry who is currently battling cancer, and to all [...]
Hi Milo, Alfie and Jan, fantastic post! We think you are amazing for moblizing the entire blogosphere to go yellow and help raise awareness.
Too many people have been touched by this terrible disease. My brother is fighting pancreatic cancer and my mum is a breast cancer survivor. We join with you to “kick cancer in the butt!”
LIVESTRONG and LOVESTRONG too!!!
PS – sorry to hear about your arm and I wish you a speedy recovery
LIVESTRONG!!
SUPER post friends! Thank you for all your hard work in making Livestrong Day a catblogosphere event. Well done!
We LiveStrong with you and we StandStrong with you in the battle against this horrible disease and in honor of the valiant soldiers who have rode into battle to beat down this detestable foe.
God bless all those we have lost to this miserable disease and God bless who are now fighting the good fight. You are all giants in our eyes.
What a beautiful thought provoking and inspiring post. We only hope that our post can even come close.
Everyday we continue to purr and pray that one day Cancer will be made ancient history.
Oh dear, Lola looks a little grumpy in that picture. You’re more then welcome to use the picture Ann from Zoolatry did of Lola for Livestrong. It’s on our blog today.
we are yellow GOOD LUCK with the day. Thinking of you all. Love Darcy and Bing xxx
We join you in the fight against the big C by posting for today’s LiveStrong in our blog here:
http://piappies.blogspot.com/2010/10/piappies-live-strong.html
We thank you for this very meaningful event.
Love,
Piappies Fudgie, Princess, Frappie, Mocha, Sugar, Wai-Pai & Wai-Max
We couldn’t finds Mr. Linky, so pleez come see us thinking and purraying and Living Strong here:
http://4ever-feline.blogspot.com/
Hooray for a wonderful and successful LIVESTRONG day! I am proud to wear my yellow hoodie for such a great cause. One day, I know we will have a cure!
What an awesome post! We hope you don’t mind but we’d like to put a link in our post to direct people here….
And we’ll pop over to do the McLinky thing. Purrs to your Mom, we hope her arm feels better soon!!
Your post is wonderful and going by all the other yellow blogs I see out there, the event you have organized is a huge success. We are very sorry for your family’s losses, and pray that your Mom and Dad will continue as survivors of cancer. My Dad had surgery for skin cancer on his ear nearly 3 years ago, as well as radiation. He is doing fine now. We know quite a few other survivors, so though our family has lost loved ones, there are also happy, success stories. LIVESTRONG!
Please thank your mum for all her time and commitment to Livestrong – she has done an amazing job.
We hope her arm will be less ouchie soon and she will feel better.
Luv Hannah and Lucy xx xx
That is one wonderful post Milo and Alfie. We want to thank your Mom so much for doing so much work to make this day such a big success and so far, it is a huge success. Everyone seems to have gone yellows which is great. Our Mom has cancer and is a survivor for four years so far. And she is going to make it, that is for sure. She couldn’t possibly leave us.
Your poor Mom having to have surgery on her arm. We hope she will feel better soon. No fun being hurt. Take care and Happy Livestrong day.
Marg,
We have tried several times to leave a comment on yoor wonderful LiveStrong post today ~ and it won’t let us. We’ll try again later or e-mail you.
Hi Milo & Alfie!
We are yellow for Livestrong day! Mommy’s mom and grandma are both cancer survivors (from leiomyeosarcoma and breast cancer, respectively), and others in the family have died of various cancers (lung, stomach/intestinal, esophageal). We also lost our Skylar and Lydia to cancer.
Our post is at http://pdxpride.blogspot.com/2010/10/go-yellow-for-livestrong-day.html
Milo and Alfie, thank you for bringing this all together! Together…united…there isn’t anything we can’t do! We can beat this terrible disease. We purr for all of those we have lost and for all of those who still are fighting this terrible disease. LIVESTRONG!!
Jan ~ Peter ~ Milo ~ Alfie … and all your wonderful extended family of children, adorable grandchildren… and
kitties here ‘n’ there:
What can we say? From our hearts, we can only say a humble and sincere Thank You.
You all are very important to us; you have pulled together an amazing and important event; you’ve posted awesome photos of all; and you’ve written thoughtful and caring words.
LIVESTRONG Friends…
Thank you for all of your hard work organizing LIVESTRONG Day for all of us, Milo and Alfie (and Mom and Dad) Marshall. What a great way for us all to bring awareness about cancer and work towards a cure.
Your pals at Animal Shelter Volunteer Life,
Kevin, Tracey, Sammy, Maggie and Moosey
Jan- I am kickin it in the butt, believe me!
Thank you for including Sniffie in your post!
We hope that one day this terrible disease will be gone and there will be no more need for a day like this. Until then, we LIVESTRONG.
The Florida Furkids and Angel Sniffie
Wonderful post, friends! We thank you for bringing us all together for this important event, and we’re sending BIG HUGE purrs for your Mum for her surgery.
Unbelievably wonderful post! I join you today and EVERY DAY. Sending strength and hope and love. Thank you so much for allowing all of us to be part of such a great event!!
A mellow-yellow-hellow again to the Meowin’ Marshalls:
it’s the Z-Girls here, writing on behalf of Poppy Vic… who
signed in and left a comment not once, but twice. And
not once, but twice… it disappeared. So we are here to
post his comment for him:
“Dear Ms Jan & FurFambly… I am kickin’ butt… fur sure,
each and every day! Thanks, and XXOO, Poppy Vic”
Wonderful job on this post and in organizing it all – you Mom is a real trooper doing this with her arm out of commission. Sending loving purrs and healing light to her and all who are dealing with cancer today.
Lots of kitty cuddles from us both to you two and your Mummy and Daddy. We think that this event is a great idea and we are proud to be taking part and Mummy is honouring everyone she knows who have had to deal with cancer in their lives.
Oh, dear, we thought we left a comment last night but we evidently fell asleep first.
We want to thank you for being a catalyst among the blogs. And we’re very glad your mom is a SURVIVOR!
Thanks so much to both of you and your mom for helping organize this event! We’re sending many purrs to all of you (and special purrs to your mom to help her through her arm surgery!)
Our humans know several cancer survivors who have been cancer-free for at least 5 years, so we know it’s very much possible!
Love and (((hugs))) from Franklin (Alfie’s doppelganger!), Dobby, Tasha, and mom Katie
Wonderful post!!! Thank you for sharing this event with us!! We LIVESTRONG today and everyday with you all!!! Purrrrs for Your Mom’s arm! And we pray everyday for a cure to caner for all!!
(((((((HUGGGGSSSS))))))))) from your TX furiends,
We came by to thank you for today. It is a very emotion-filled one for so many of us, but it is so wonderful to see the support and love. You have a beautiful post here today. Thank you for letting us share in this special day.
Woos ~ Phantom, Thunder, and Ciara
Except for one cat who rarely blogs any longer, we wanted to come by and say EVERY SINGLE CAT BLOG in our reader was LiveStrong this morning (and those that went up last night again I think all were LiveStrong).
Hey there Milo and Alfie and the Marshall humans…
Thank you so much for all your hard work in organising this amazing event. We are indebted to you.
A wonderful post! You guys are truly an inspiration.
Sending lotsaluv and live strong!
MAXMOM AND THE GANG IN SOUTH AFRICA
That is a lovely post!!!!
Yellow is a happy ,hopeful colour
Livestrong and live well
Purrs Mickey,Georgia & Tillie
A wonderful post in support of todays event. Cancer seems to affect so many of our friends in one way or another. Our thoughts for those you have lost.
What a wonderful post. Our Mama’s Mother is a colon cancer survivor. We pray for everyone to be cancer free!
Our Angel Snickers had cancer in the nasal cavity and did not survive. We still miss her every day. And our blogging buddy Tucker sadly lost his battle just yesterday.
Wirey Hugs, Purrz & Licks,
Butchy, Katie, Ruby, Sylvester, Scuby & Hootie
Milo and Alfie
Whaty a fantaboolous post fow Livestwong Day!!!
I’m pawticipating too and I cwoss my paws in hopes that we can beat this howwibull c .
My love and tewwiew stwength to all youw fwiends and family who awe living stwong evewy day
come visit me if you can
smoochie kisses
ASTA
A big THANK YOU for all your work. My post is dedicated to Faith and Autumn, 2 beautiful little girls, who went OTRB due to cancer and to Gramma and Grandpa, who we lost to that insidious disease.
Hope your Mom’s arm is better soon.
What an inspiring post and thank you for working so hard to make this day happen. We have been blown away by all the bloggers who have participated.
Such a beautiful post, it brought tears to the mom’s eyes here.
Together we all show our support in making cancer awareness today. Too many lives have been lost. Hopefully some day cancer will be something of the past never to worry about again.
Sorry you mum is all hurty. Most important thing for her is to get better and continue to LiveStrong.
FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT!!
Blessings to you and all of your family. It’s a journey we either walk or walk along side with someone we know. Trusting the journey and believing there will be a cure is what we must continue to fight for.
10 year breast cancer survivor and friend/family to several who fought hard and now wait for us and to several who are trusting their journey here.
Shelly
You did such a wonderful job organizing this. What a lovely post. We’re so glad your family has survived!!
We made our way over here the long way … but we arrived. We did a lot of walking and talking today about LiveStrong. And we wanted to thank you for the VeryImportantPart you played in making this VerySpecialEvent happen. Your post is amazingly beautiful. And moving. And now we need to quit pawing out this comment, ’cause Moma can’t see through the tears anymore to help us with the words.
Together. LiveStrong.
Jake and Fergi
Well done, you rounded up the crew and together gave cancer a big kick in the butt! Bravo to your Mom!!!=^Y^=
Oh no! We left a comment on Friday night before we went to bed because we knew we couldn’t do any visiting on Saturday but it has disappeared. (It was your first comment).
This is a fantastic post and you have done yourselves proud! You have put a lot of work into it and it shows.
Although our mum’s parents lost their brave battles, mum has several friends who have beaten the evil disease, and we hope that very soon everybody will be survivors, or better still that a widespread immunisation programme can be discovered and developed to eradicate it forever.
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