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Posted on 01/02/2007 9:57:39 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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She was :~)
A poor grey striped kitty with four white paws got run over RIGHT in front of our house. We discovered him when we went out to walk. The dogs were very disturbed - all their hackles went up and they stared, and stared, and sniffed, and stared.
I guess it's because they have a kitty of their own. I took them back in and then buried the poor guy.
A fund raiser would be an excellent idea. You see little cans in groceries stores all the time for people. Is your community close enough to host a dance, bake sales or raffles for her? How about a horse club? People are really generous to those kind of things. Just a thought.
Not even corneas?
Our weather in GA is heavily affected by the Appalachian mountains that run across the very top end of the state from SW to NE. The weather circles around the bottom of the chain and moves northeastward across the state. So Carrollton, which is almost due west of us (and a little south), is slated to get sleet and freezing rain, but the freeze line slopes NE and it passes us well to the north, at Dawsonville.
The freeze line has to get down to Columbus GA, a good hour and a half south-southwest of Atlanta, before we get much snow or freezing rain.
Too bad he and Ruby can't run and wrestle together -- they could wear each other out and we all could get some rest.
Re gross stuff in the freezer -- Home Depot has some REALLY cheap small chest-type freezers on sale. If you want to look really redneck, you can keep it on the porch . . . < g >
You'd think the powers that be would try to help folks who're doing their best to work and not be a burden . . .
They won't take anything from a Cancer patient, I guess.
She's a wonderful person and I think the community would help her but she's very private. I don't think that many people even know that she has to deal with dialysis. She's had a fairly difficult life and lets very few people in. She hasn't even told the folks she works with that she is in line for a transplant finally.
Oh the poor kitten - and to think that someone hit it and didn't stop.
Blue could use a buddy to play with :) Tessa keeps thinking about it but he still hasn't figured out that min pins are dogs, I think he thinks they are rats or something. He trys very hard to pretend he doesn't see them.
This lady brings 8 or 10 MinPins to agility class, a lot of them rescues, and keeps them in crates. Everytime anybody walks by they have collective hysterics.
I must just be a big dog person, I just can't see the point of having nearly a dozen of the little things yap-yapping all day long.
My daughter named him Benedict before we buried him, thought it would be a good word at the Pearly Gates.
Such a shame, there's a big hill by our house and people just RACE down it and never look.
Up until I got the min pins, the smallest dog I ever had was my queenslands. Before that my doberman. It's possible that on the evolutionary tree min pins did decend from rats and not wolves. :)
Here's the "poor lonesome me" look -
The dog trailer behind her belongs to the guy who said, "Just put her in that fourth door there - I'll bring her back when she's two - "
I think he's afraid I'm going to spoil her!
My min pins bark at everything, sometimes two of them are barking before they figure out why the third one started the barking. I really can't believe my son conned me into rescuing three of them (well, two and then taking his). They are good as hot water bottles on the bed on a cold night. They are probably good for something else.
Of course, she's a Siamese. I should talk about barking, when I have the proud possessor of the world's most hair-raising MEOW in my bed . . .
The Lilac Point lies down with the Labrador (she's desperate - our two older cats died late last year, and it's any old port in a storm. She's still afraid of the puppy though - and I don't blame her.)
Oh she is beautiful. If Ruby is half as active and clumsy as Blue I don't blame her for being afraid of the pup.
She really belongs to my daughter, who's at college. She's the "Morse Code Kitty" - my husband rashly promised my daughter a kitten of her own if she could pass the Amateur Radio exam (and this was back in the days when they had to pass a 5 wpm Morse Code test). He figured she couldn't do it, she was only 8 -- but she did it and he had to pay up.
I'm glad we have her, because my other kitties died at 15 and 16 in November and December. I can't do without at least ONE cat, since I bred and showed Siamese for so many years!
An interesting thing happened this week, though - instead of leaping up and running after the cat, Ruby stopped and sat while looking at the cat hopefully. The cat still ran away! She sits on the laundry room counter and showers down horrible Siamese curses on the puppy.
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