Mrs Maisel - No Longer Lost In France

15/11/2025

Her ladyship's been giving me near heart attacks again this week.... Her new favourite place to have a grooming session, is on the beams high up in the dining room!
This girl will be the sodding death of me. 😹.

27/08/2024

UPDATE! This lovely girl is now on her way home in Chez Cartaud. Love a happy ending. X

Just another day in France, with random wonky donkeys passing by the house..🤣.. Seriously, if any of our friends in the area know of anyone missing a rather raggy girlie, please let me know. I've caught her and have her secure in a field with Heather and Gordon for now.

18/06/2024

Hi lovely hoomans, Mrs Maisel here.
My servants friend Zoe has started a rescue for abandoned kittens around Chef Boutonne and desperately needs help with funds for food and their doctors bills too.

Whilst it's Obvs I'm quite clearly not of feral lineage, my annoying adopted baby bother Denis-Pen*s-Le-Menace is. So whilst he's quite annoying, he's not as bad as those idiot Bursian boys i also live with, so I will tolerate him as Denis had a bit of a rough start.

What would be quite fab though, is if you could offer support by giving funds to their gofundme campaign, donate food, or share the posts from Chef Boutonne Kitten Rescue, so these little tykes can go on to be as lucky as our annoying sh*tten is, living his best life, being loved adored by my servants.....

They shall however be verily and regularly punished for such disloyalty to their No 1 princess in residence. 😹😹😹

Today we have rescued 3 kittens, follow their story with us ❤️ Aujourd'hui, nous avons sauvé trois chatons. Suivez leur histoire avec nous.

12/06/2024

Hi everyone. Mrs Maisel was loving being outside again today for the 1st time in 7 weeks..... we still can't believe how well she's recovering.
Her mobility is amazing, particularly considering the extent of her injuries. Dr Robin and Dr Paris at Beaulieu Clinique in Poitiers did the most amazing job and we can't thank them enough.

All round, a day of joy and happiness seeing our girl happy and playful once again.....🩷😻🩷

25/04/2024

Just a quick update...
Our beautiful funny girl and her fabulously naughty brother "Pongo playing in the stars" are 3 years old today.

Mrs Maisel is spending her birthday in the care of the neuro specialist vet in Poitiers who will be operating on her ladyship tomorrow morning.

He gave us some amazing news...….. she was actually trying to use the previously paralysed leg, so that was just bloody fantastic. She also had some control of her tail too, of which she had none on Monday. The down side is, she's still fully incontinent.

He talked us through the whole complex procedure he's got to carry out to rebuild her rear end, as not only has she got multiple breaks to her hip, she has also got a broken p***c bone, a dislocated leg, plus he found a gaping hole under some blood / poo matted fur which our original Vet hadn't even seen.....

She'd got blood and poo smeared down the side of her flank from the accident, which had crusted dry and not been cleaned off by the original vets, so Dr Robin of the Clinic Beaulieu in Poitiers was cleaning her off and inspecting the wound when we got there...… we're livid that no one from our usual vets had even bothered to clean her up and see this gaping hole which needed 2 staples to close it.

So because of this, Dr Robin put her on a course of IV antibiotics too.
He was absolutely brilliant and we feel totally confident in him, but there is a price to pay and which we will be finding a way by hook or by crook, but I've told him to do whatever it takes to get our baby girl back home again.

Please send all your kind healing thoughts to Maisel and bless my beautiful blue eyed boy in heaven ###

24/04/2024

Hi you wonderful kittie loving friends. Just thought I'd share a quick update following our visit to see Maisel yesterday.

Sadly, the damage is worse than we were initially told.
The ilium joint is broken too and on both sides, as is the sacrum, so she has to be operated on urgently and we won't know for weeks, once the swelling has subsided, if there is permanent nerve damage. At the moment, she does respond to touch on her left rear leg, but nothing in the right leg and tail. Nor can she control her bladder either.

So, it's not good news I'm afraid, but on the positive, she was far more alert, responded when she heard our voices and purred when I loved her.

We have our medical at the OFFI in Poitiers this morning, so my dear friend Linda Davidson is collecting Maisel from Melle, then meeting us at the clinic Beaulieu also in Poitiers, where the specialist neuro-surgeon will be operating on her on Friday.

After everything she's been through, this is a bloody nightmare we never thought we'd go through, as she rarely leaves the garden since she found her way home.

So our focus now is to get Maisel back home, get this house ready for sale ASAP and try to keep our new business moving forward.

Sending our deepest gratitude, plus love and hugs to you all. ###

23/04/2024

Please can I ask you lovely friends & to send all your healing thoughts and love to our beautiful baby girl, the much loved Marvellous Mrs Maisel ❤️

Maisel was run over on Monday by some utter bastard who callously drove over her, then left her on the road. Our poor broken baby then dragged herself 20 yards, getting halfway as she couldnt walk, but screaming in agony.

She's at the vets and alive, but not in a good way at all
From what the vet can see, she has a completely snapped hip, her spine seems to be OK, but he's concerned about the base of it where it meets the hip.... it looks damaged, but still attached, so she can't use one leg and no feeling in her tail either.

He says she's in a critical state and deeply in shock, her gums are pure white.

They did an ultrasound and couldn't see any internal bleeding at the moment, but may be a haematoma on her bladder.
He's given her morphine, anti-inflammatories and fluids for the shock.

Vet says if she can poo and p*e, it will be a good indication if there's a chance she'll survive and should know within 3 days, but right now, it's not looking great for this amazingly funny beautiful girl.

Martin and I are beyond devastated once again and leaving her when shes in such a terrible state was just heartbreaking. 💔💔💔

Having already lost Pongo on this (not awfully busy) nearby road, so I'm selling this bloody bad luck bungalow asap.

21/03/2024

She'll be the death of me this one will! 🙀😹😹😹

06/02/2024

Can't park there mate.

11/11/2023

Morning fantastic feline fanatic friends.
We've had a few messages kindly asking how Mme Maisel's doing, so wanted to share a quick update and she's doing brilliantly.
She's put all her weight back on and now weighs more than ever, as she doesn't want to go off hunting any longer, so only nips outdoors for a few minutes fresh air, then wants to come back indoors.

Her Savannah instincts have returned though and she needs to climb high up on anything she can, so she now has 2 beds sat on top of the kitchen cupboards, as that's her happy place.... plus Albus and Lilac Len can't get to torment her up there either. 😹.

Thanks so much to everyone who's enquired about our gorgeous girl, you're all so kind and we're blessed to be part of a community of such wonderfully kind people in France. X