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To: gpapa

That looks like MY cat “Stinky” and that is a bunch of BS. Stinky was a stray. All of our cats were strays except the Siamese we got at animal shelter in 2000. I see fewer and fewer strays all the time. About 11 or 12 years ago they were all over the place and we adopted some of them. Now we rarely see them. That is how we used to get our pets, strays that showed up. Now it is so rare for a stray to show up. And we have been living in three homes. Denver, So California, and Gulf Coast Texas. We had three homes. Now we are just on Gulf Coast. I always try to catch every stray cat and either keep it or take it to humane society. Been doing this since 1972.


7 posted on 06/06/2007 1:26:53 PM PDT by buffyt (We are all melting, melting, melting... algore says so, must be true LOL!)
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To: buffyt

Maybe PETA’s killing off all the strays now.


12 posted on 06/06/2007 1:33:36 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Will I be suspended again for this remark?)
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To: gpapa

By the way, we adopted
Gretchen in 1972 in Stillwater Ok (deceased)
Ginger 1984 Clute Texas (deceased)
Georgie 1993 Lake Jackson Texas (deceased)
Alexander BoBo 1995 Lake Jackson Texas (deceased)
Kirby 1995 Lake Jackson Texas
Oliver 1995 Clute Texas (deceased)
Stinky 1997 Brazoria Texas
Squirt 1999 Lake Jackson Texas (she lives in Austin with my daughter)
Jasmine 2000 Houston Texas
Sambo 2002 Claremont California
Carl 2004 Clute Texas
Graybaby and Spot 2005 Lake Jackson Texas
Logan and his sister 2005 Lake Jackson Texas (gave them to other owners)
All strays except the late BoBo and Jasmine whome we bought.
The rest were strays we found on the road or near our home.

Not all of them are still living. They are all neutered or spayed. Well fed fat fluffy house cats who are not allowed to roam outdoors at all unless we are right three with them in our own fenced in back yard. Too many huge alligators here on the coast. They do attack. Biggest one in this neighborhood was 11.5 ft long, chasing neighbor’s dog in his yard, not fenced in. He lives on a lake. Lake Jackson is basically a swamp like Houston.


14 posted on 06/06/2007 1:34:50 PM PDT by buffyt (We are all melting, melting, melting... algore says so, must be true LOL!)
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To: buffyt
I see fewer and fewer strays all the time.

That's because they are all going to the shelter, they heard they have to share humans at your house, LOL!

18 posted on 06/06/2007 2:13:21 PM PDT by ravingnutter
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To: buffyt

OMG..please help us down in florida. There are so many homeless cats it’s unbeleivable. I try to catch and fix what I can....but the animal control people are much better at getting them and put down hundreds a day between the few counties down here. HUNDREDS A DAY. All because people are to cheap and lazy to get their pets fixed. They are born to die.


42 posted on 06/07/2007 6:16:31 AM PDT by Fawn (If it wasn't for FR, I'd be having an Existential MELTDOWN..............right now)
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