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Emma @redheadconfetti.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Happy Mum's Day to all of you Mums! And If you're going through it because you didn't have a Mum, or becuase you want to be one and can't/aren't, I see you too. <3 Today can be a super sad day, so I'm hoping you can find a bright spot out there.

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Emma @redheadconfetti.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

It's gotta be ok to just want to stop, right? I feel like everything is hitting us in the face 24/7, and we're all so fucking exhausted. #TakeGoodCareOfYourself we're in the trenches together ❤️

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Emma @redheadconfetti.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Said good bye to this boy this morning. Freak heart attack. He was 15 months old. His name is Turmeric, and he was the best golden retriever cat in the whole world. Hug your furbabies <3

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Emma @redheadconfetti.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Two, because I've been remiss :) Turmeric loves sleeping in my computer chair like this (left), and Allspice needs her Princess Pillow in order to snooze in the red recliner (L) <3 They're spoiled, and I love them!

Ginger cat laying on his back in a computer chair, twisting the front of his body toward the camera

A tabby w/white markings laying in a red chair, resting her back on a white pillow, and her shoulders on a red embroidered pillow

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Emma @redheadconfetti.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Don't believe them-- they have another huge bowl of kitty food on the patio... My community cats are just as picky and bossy as my inside cats! They claim they are staaarving!! They are not <3 These three have been TNR-ed-- so ask me if you want to know more about it!

Clockwise from top- a Calico, torbie and brown/silver tabby are all three sharing a bowl of cat food, on a patio

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Emma @redheadconfetti.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Not kitty photo today, just Superman ice cream. It's a Michigan thing-- delicious, tastes like sugar and vaguely fruity, reminds me of my childhood <3 We got it from a Michigan-centric store in Mesa, of all places :) Worth the drive, and we'll go back.

Small cup of "Superman" icecream that is multi-coloured, blue, orange, pink, yellow and green

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Emma @redheadconfetti.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Got a two-fer for ya: on the left we see the attemped Churu-napping marks. Investigators say it might be "The Littlest". And on the right, we see said Littlest pouting because he has to wear jammies, but still wanted scritchies <3

Lickable kitty treat box with a visible cat bite in the plastic

ginger kitten wearing tiger striped jammies and laying on the legs/casters of an office chair getting ear scritchies

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Emma @redheadconfetti.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Allspice is a great workout partner, as long as you don't need to use the bench <3

Brown tabby w/white face and legs is laying on a workout bench facing away from the camera, and looking over her shouler at the lens

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Emma @redheadconfetti.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Wanna help kitties? The shelter I work for is participating in AZGives Day this year :) check us out! www.azgives.org/story/Oh64wf

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Emma @redheadconfetti.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Allspice likes taking naps in the magical space called "The In-Between"! That part of the bed between her human parents, right by our pillows <3 And she gets crabby when we move :)

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Emma @redheadconfetti.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Because healthcare saves lives. Abortion is health care. Ergo, abortion saves lives @ppfa.org

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Emma @redheadconfetti.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Not only is Pippin a fierce hunter of dino toys, she likes to roll in catnip before biting said dinos <3

Three-legged brown tabby playing with a purple dinosaur cat toy

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Emma @redheadconfetti.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

We start them young, battling for the Fortress (TM), or well, the laundry basket. One rule is: wait until it's empty-- and ask you can see, these two were still learning. I took this one back in October <3 Saffron (calico) is fierce, and Trouble (ginger) is, well Ginger <3

a ginger kitty and a calico kitten playing in a laundry basket with some clothing visible

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Emma @redheadconfetti.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Turmeric wanted to help me work and so took over "mouse" duties :)

Ginger tabby with his paw on a computer mouse

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Emma @redheadconfetti.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Pippin, aka Pippers, is peeking out of the cubby. She's my tripod, and also has an auto-immune disorder. She's on atopica and flupoxitine, and will be 12 very soon! <3 Sometimes cat's health is complicated, but her purrs and snuggles (and bitching!) make it worth everything!

Brown tabby peeking out of a cubby in a cat tree

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Emma @redheadconfetti.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Got two more "Hashbrown" kitties. When I say, "Oh, Finn is a hashbrown!" and he looks at me like that (left) or if I sing 🎶"WindWave is a hasbrown" 🎶 he looks at me like that (right). They both have their best "Whatever Mother" faces on <3

Grey/Brown tabby with green eyes laying on a hashbrown box looking at the camera

Ginger kitten sitting in a hashbrown box looking at the camera

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Emma @redheadconfetti.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Lullaby was not amused when I told her she couldn't have her food at the kitchen table. She looked at me like this for 5 minutes before harumphing herself out of the room. Ah, torbies <3

Torbie kitten sitting in a chair looking over a table like she's waiting for a plate

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Emma @redheadconfetti.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Behold! The last dose of WindWave's FIP medicine <3 He's done with his series and he's beaten FIP!! Woohoo!! On the right is a reshare of WindWave, him handsome self :)

prescription bottle of medication for "WindWave [feline]" and half a white pill

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Emma @redheadconfetti.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

FIP was a killer, and now it's treatable. Hooray Science! Hooray Vet Med! Hooray Shelter Med! And Thank you to all the vets, scientists, and pet parents out there who are making this journey with WindWave and me (and my family). We're making medical history and that's pretty awesome!

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Emma @redheadconfetti.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Since it became available here in the US the shelter I work for has treated 5 kittens for FIP: Two hit the adoption floor today! They're ready for their forever homes. Two were "staff kitties", so we're celebrating our own personal kitties making it One just started her meds-- and doing great! 🧵

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Emma @redheadconfetti.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

However, the amazing scientists at several vet schools here and around the world made a miracle! An antiviral called GS-441524 has been found to work to treat FIP. It became legal in the US in June 2024. This anti-viral works very quickly, and in 3 days we saw inprovement in WindWave. Three. Days!🧵

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Emma @redheadconfetti.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Until very recently, FIP has been a death sentence. Often a diagnosis of elimination, you got the dx and then were left with "how soon should you schedule the injection and say goodbye?" It was that serious and that deadly. Cats simply did not make it, there was no cure, no real treatment. 🧵

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Emma @redheadconfetti.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

FIP, Feline Infectious Peritonitis is a viral disease caused by some strains/mutations of feline corona virus. Most cats have FCV, it's as ubiquitous as corona viruses are in humans. Ever catch a cold? You'd had exposure to a virus in that family! Kittens are often exposed to FCV in utero 🧵

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Emma @redheadconfetti.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Good news everyone! The Vet cleared Mr WindWave! He has 2 more pills to take in his FIP series, but she says his bloodwork and ultrasound are great! He's beaten FIP! 🎉 A little bit about FIP 🧵

Ginger tabby with amber eyes looking right at the camera

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Emma @redheadconfetti.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Working out is exhausting! Just ask Finn, WindWave and Saffron. They were the cheerleading section, but still, <whew>

three cats sleeping on a red chair; one on the top of the back, two in the seat

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Emma @redheadconfetti.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Turmeric thinks he's a Hashbrown <3 I won't disabuse him of that notion, because I love hashbrowns almost as much as I love cats!

ginger cat curled up in a hasbrown box/case

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Emma @redheadconfetti.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

No spiders were harmed in the making of this photo (or the vid I recorded!) But don't tell Turmeric and WindWave that-- they firmly believe they conquered the spider! Woohoo!!

two gingers kittens playing with a black widow spider toy on a lino floor

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Emma @redheadconfetti.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Lullaby (front, looking at the camera) and Allspice (the tabby in the back) love to help with groceries-- and by help, I mean sniff every single thing, and try to steal the bags <3 May all your chores be complicated by kitties "helping" with purrs and snuggles

Medium haired torbie looks at the camera with grocery bags in her immediate area. Brown tabby w/white markings faces away from the camera exploring the groceries

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Emma @redheadconfetti.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

This is Dinkie-- he's FIV+, sans teefs, and adorable! He's one of my favourite kitties at work, and I call him "My Dinkie Do" because he's perfect <3 He is available for adoption-- as are most of the ~300 kitties in our care.

White cat with a black patch over his right eye and ear, sitting on a counter labeled "Adoption"

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Emma @redheadconfetti.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Allspice and Turmeric are very snuggly siblings-- I hope you have siblings (the birth kind, or the heart-friend kind) who make you feel this safe <3

brown tabby w/white markings in front of a ginger tabby, who has his arm over her shoulder-- laying on the top tier of a cat castle

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Emma @redheadconfetti.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Here Birdie Birdie... we won't eat you.... we just want to bite you! Allspice and Turmeric were talking some mad shit at the doves, but thankfully didn't brain themselves by trying to pounce through the glass

(L) brown tabby w/white and (R) ginger tabby watching a dove through a sliding door

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Emma @redheadconfetti.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Crisp, AKA Krispy Kream, doesn't like homework-- and neither did the Boy. He's graduated a while back, but she still makes this face when she sees my work-laptop <3

black and white tuxedo cat laying in a red recliner next to wireless headphones and a laptop

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Emma @redheadconfetti.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I love this ginger boy so much! My Turmeric was helping me work, by chewing on junk mail envelopes-- and attacking my mouse, and generally getting in the way <3 Ginger cats are ridiculous and awesome!

Ginger tabby in a bowtie with a bell chewing on an envelope

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Emma @redheadconfetti.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

When you're warm, so you put one foot out of the bed <3 Turmeric and all the other kitties love snoozing in this carrier, but he needed just a teeny bit of cooling off

ginger tabby laying in a large cat carrier with his right, back foot hanging out

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Emma @redheadconfetti.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

The kittens love their new box, who cares if it came with a new safty squat bar for their human Dad, it came with styrene for them to jump on, and cardboard to chew! Hooray boxes!

Three kittens playing in a long box with styrene forms,(front to back, ginger kitten, torbie kitten, ginger kitten) while their sister peeks out of a round cat tunnel (tabby to the left)

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Emma @redheadconfetti.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Allspice loves her red blankie-- you'll see it a lot if you look at my cat photos, it's the "cat's blankie" on my bed. But, she loves nip more, and if you look under her adorable face, you'll see a red and black toy-- it's a "nip blanket", basically a square pocket for catnip :)

Brown tabby, with white markings, snuggling with a black & red toy on a fluffy red blankie

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Emma @redheadconfetti.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

The Twins, Finn (back butt elevator) and Bavard (front butt elevator) decided their Dad needed to give them attentions Right Now! Saffront-- the calico on the left was trying to decide what Mum should make for dinner out of the Betty Crocker cookbook <3

A man sitting in a red chair, one cat behind him with "butt elevator" and one on his lap, doing the same; there's a calico kitten in the background on the left by a baker's stand with booze, cookeries and plants; there are large weight plates on the right in a "tree"

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Emma @redheadconfetti.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Now, Pippin is a tri-pod, and hops around just fine (even chases that wily red dot, enemy of cats the world over!) Just remember, mammals are weird. Auto-immune diseases are weird! And cats can get them, too! Anyway, weird sharing time is over, enjoy her adorbs tongue-blep! <3

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Emma @redheadconfetti.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

In the end, for her quality of life, we amputated the limb. If we could have found the right combination of medication and therapies, I would have done it in a heartbeat! Instead, we did the best thing for her and lopped it off. Since then, she's been great! 🧵

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Emma @redheadconfetti.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Her body just couldn't heal the wound on her leg, properly. We tried all sorts of things, from stretching her own skin and moving it (to give her body a "latice" to regrow skin on), to a fish-skin skin-graft (which was so cool!) to daily hydrotherapy and honey bandages🧵

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Emma @redheadconfetti.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Did you know cats can develop auto-immune disorders, just like humans? It's harder with cats, as the testing is brutal, and you often don't have any real answers at the end. This is Pippin, in June 2021. 🧵

a brown tabby sleeping on her left side; her tongue is "blepping" and her back left leg is in a green cast-like bandage

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Emma @redheadconfetti.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Happy New Year! May 2025 be as awesome as the first "walkies" of the year for Turmeric and Lullaby! Or, more likely, may be work together to build a better world than the one the Orange Menace and his supporters want for us. Remember that kindness is fucking radical! #KindnessIsPunkAsFuck

Ginger tabby in an orange harness with a blue leash, ourside in a desert back garden

Long haired torbie in a bright pink harness and pink leash, outside in a desert back garden

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Emma @redheadconfetti.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

This is Teak, one of the kitties at the shelter I work for. He's an office cat, meaning he rules over the Admin office. He's also on meds for a sensitive tummy-- did you know cats can get fecal transplants? They also deal with IBS/IBD... just like humans. #AdoptDon'tShop

Brown tabby inside a cardboard box peeking out

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Emma @redheadconfetti.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

No kittens yesterday because my own kitten (who is 25!) had her first kitten at 10:20am! Serious though: my daughter and her daughter are fine, and should go home today! Hooray!! So have some ginger kittens to celebrate <3

Two small ginger kittens sleeping in a bed on a rainbow blanket. Front kitten is all ginger, kitten on the left is orange and white, sleeping on her side

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Emma @redheadconfetti.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

No kitties pics from me today, but you should totally check out this funny vid-- you can watch Episode 0 for background <3

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Emma @redheadconfetti.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Pippin, Bavard and Finn (l-r) lounging on the bed, being "all that is cat", and generally being gorgous! These three are siblings, and they've been my babies since they were 3 weeks old <3 I "foster failed" meaning I adopted my foster kittens. Best idea, ever!!

three brown tabbies looking toward the camera, lounging on a dark bedspread with a red lap blanket in the background

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Emma @redheadconfetti.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Allspice wishes you a very safe holiday season. She hopes your brother doesn't get on your nerves and you don't have to push him off the snoozing spot with your foot. Turmeric says he's tired and so sends purrs only. Be safe out there, whether you celebrate or not <3

Brown tabby w/white markings looking directly at the camera, with her right back foot on her ginger tabby brother's face (as he's trying to sleep)

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Emma @redheadconfetti.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

This is Bernadine, she lives at The Hermitage where I work. She will honk if she wants food, and lives to make happy feets 🥰 FeLV+ kitties are amazing, you should meet some!

Brown tabby with white bib laying in a bed

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