Selina - Man Ray Thanks the Academy

Um ... hi folks.  I'm not used to public speaking and I'm a little shy still, so please bear with me.  I'm Man Ray and I'm really just here to say a very heartfelt "Thank you" to everyone who tried to help me and my sisfur, Rachel, get rescued and put into a safe place and adopted.

We know (because MomKatt told us all the time the last few months) how hard a lot of people were working on our behalf, and we want you to know how grateful we are, and we hope that you don't feel your efforts for us were wasted when it turned out that we were "home" all the time - we just didn't know it!  

Heck, we thought we were going to end up somewhere else, because MomKatt talked about it to us and, when she did, she'd get all teary especially when she looked at me.  You see, she and I formed a very special bond.  I was one scared little guy back in June.  She'd put me in my carrier, just to clean the office for 10 minutes, and I'd cower in the carrier and be in the exact same position when she came to get me out as I was when she'd placed me in the container.  My body was rigid and I didn't make a peep.  

See how scared I was?  I do NOT look like I trust what's about to happen, do I?

MomKatt didn't give up on me, though.  She told me over and over in the beginning, "I'm going to reach you, Ray.  You're going to learn that hands are GOOD things.  And you're going to WANT hands to touch and pet you.  You just see if you don't."  She let me go at my own pace; she pushed me sometimes, but she always seemed to know when to push and when not to.  She says I look just like some kitty named Homer that was blind but didn't let that small detail stop him from leading a very, very full life.  She wanted to help me achieve the same feat because she said Rachel and I were meant to be rescued and loved.

She won my trust, and now I give her massive headbonks, rub ALL OVER her, let her feed me treats from her hands and, yes, hands ARE good things.  I DID learn that lesson.  (Just last week, in fact, I learned what a "lap" was.  MomKatt TOLD me I'd like them:  and I DO!)  Now, I purr and purr (quite resonantly, I might add - though I still haven't meowed) and play, while still being the more laid-back and cautious of the two of us.  Rachel is every kind of crazy there is, but in a good way.  And she takes good care of me, her brother.  (Of course, I just let her THINK that.  Really I'm looking after her.)

You should see me now.  I'm confident.  I walk (carefully) by those new kitties downstairs, especially that really big one they call Peppers (who growls at me) and I don't even hesitate.  It's a pretty big place, downstairs, but I'm learning it and Rachel's helping me explore and get used to it.

So we have lots of fun times ahead of us.


But right now, I want to say a special thank you to Brian's Dad for getting us to MomKatt.  I also want to thank Savannah's meowmy for all her efforts to help get the word out, and Dash Kitten's meowmy also, even though she is all the way in New Zealand.  When Brian was sick recently, those two ladies took up our cause and were totally ready to help.  We are grateful for your work and we know that you three, including a nice couple in England who made a great video about us which was supposed to be used during Brian's Dad's Twitter push on Nov. 1, are the most helpful, generous and kind folks on the planet.  (Next to Mom&DadKatt of course.  MOL)



And there are so many others, people that we don't know, who cross-posted about us on Twitter and Facebook and Blogger and Word Press and Bast knows where else.  We are grateful for you guys, too, and thank you for your efforts.  Rescue kitties need all the help they can get and people like you prove every day that not all humans are bad - in fact, most of them are good.  :)

OK I'm gonna go now.  I think Rachel's gotten herself into some mess somewhere that I need to extract her from.  You'll hear about us here in Selina's blog and we hope there will be more pictures and maybe a video (!!) sometime soon.  But now we can relax 'cause we have all the time in the world and, again ...

Thank you.  From the bottoms of our hearts.

Love
Man Ray

PS - Rachel just told me SHE wanted to write tomorrow's post.  No wonder Selina's hissing at her!  She thinks we've taken over everything, including her blog!  MOL!