Posted on 04/18/2015 1:30:14 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
Agreed.
Nope, you don’t.
Lord almighty
If ever a thread tailor made for the legions of cat ladies here
This one is it
I noticed fine bosom and flat tan tummy
Excellent form
I wish I was young again
I do keep my cats-and dog-indoors, but that is because I don’t want them to become food for some wild hogs, a pack of coyotes or a mountain lion. My Husky is 16, and I’m pretty sure she would rather end her days in comfort in her sleep than be dragged off and eaten.
There is a neutered male cat that I feed every day, and he sleeps here nearly every night-he belongs to a neighbor down the road who is hardly ever home to feed or care for him. When I move to more acreage, I’m putting him in a carrier and he is getting a change of address-he will have company, food and a cushy life-all he has to do is what my three do now-keep out the rodents and such...
I switched my cat to an indoor cat in the 1990s when a diseased looking feral male cat showed up, and I didn’t want my cat getting sick.
I lived on a alley at the beach and built her a little bed and cage that stuck out into the alley about 5 feet off the ground, and with permanent access through the window, she had an opening that she could stick her head through to be petted and cooed at by passerbys.
The beach is heavy with cats and cat people, and she got tons of attention from all the people going back and forth to the beach and the pier.
I came to see that indoors was best, and probably won’t have an outdoor cat or dog again, that cat made it to 18 years with only one early vet visit for spaying and the initial shots, that really impressed on me the importance of keeping them indoors.
When everyone’s pets were outdoors in the distant past, pets didn’t seem to last long.
You’re welcome.
My next door neighbor brought an Arabian Sand Cat home with him when he returned from a job he had in Saudi Arabia. It’s not a house cat, it’s as wild as any raccoon, it won’t go indoors, and it runs wild in his yard and mine and in any yard it wants to in the neighborhood.
I once had a snake and rat infested creek running down the edge of my property, but no more. The Sand Cat made short work of them.
I once had moles and voles tearing up lawn, but no more. The Sand Cat took care of them too.
The raccoon that enjoyed turning over my garbage can has now found some other form of entertainment.
That Sand Cat has been a welcome addition to our community.
I remember shooting a bow in BSA summer camp, and refusing to use the leather inside forearm guard. I paid the price for that by not holding the contraption correctly and removed some serious bark. It was ‘colorful’.
So how are they going to keep the rodents out of the barn then?
The few neutered and feral cats out here keep the pests down, and the people who have livestock give them food, water and shelter in their barns. This house and acreage where I live is a former vacation place, and had not been occupied for a long time-full of mice, rats, etc. My cats disappeared into the return air opening of the A/C after one of them got the grille off-I assume it was the Maine Coon, who weighs 22 pounds and is huge. By the next day, the kitchen floor was littered with murdered mice of all sizes and several medium rats, being guarded by three very smug cats-haven’t seen a rodent since...
My cats live to be 18 on the average, but a lot of them make it to 20 and more-outdoor cats don’t have lives that long-even if they do have nine of them...
But I, my next door neighbor and a couple of others got together, got traps and captured the feral cats one by one and took them to a local vet, who at a steep discount, sometimes even for free with coupons we got from the Humane Society, spayed and neutered them, gave them rabies shots, etc., and we got the most of the last litter of kittens adopted - problem solved. And my neighbor eventually befriended and tamed one of the feral cats and eventually he became an indoor only cat and was for a once feral cat, a very sweet kitty, very happy to become a fat and lazy house cat.
This however was not a feral cat. This was someone’s, from what I understand, an order couple’s very beloved pet cat, her neighbor’s cat. It is not clear to me whether Tiger’s owners allowed him to roam free or not or whether Tiger was a like a cat I once had - a “door dasher” even as he was strictly and had always been an indoor only cat, but evidently this cat had “gone missing” earlier that day so it doesn’t sound to me like a cat that roamed for days on end.
And even if he was on Ms. Lindsey’s property and being a nuisance to her, especially considering she is (or was) a veterinarian, she could have talked to her neighbors about the problem before deciding to use Tiger for bow hunting target practice. And I also find it very hard to believe that she didn’t know this was not a wild/feral cat.
And even if one is going to defend her and share her opinion that feral cats are nuisances that need to be culled/killed, she demonstrated IMO, a high degree of poor judgment and immaturity in posting and bragging about it on FB.
Her comment on the picture she posted: "My first bow kill, lol. The only good feral tomcat is one with an arrow through it's head! Vet of the year award ... Gladly accepted.", was bad enough (not to mention the poor grammar of using “it’s” when it should have been “its”) but then following up the criticism with "No I did not lose my job. Lol. Psshh. Like someone would get rid of me. I’m awesome!" What? Is she a 12 year old girl or a college educated professional woman, a woman with a DMV? It sounds more to me like a young woman very impressed with herself, but now that she’s out of a job, perhaps she is rethinking just how “awesome” she really is and I for one would never use her as my vet.
I adopted a stray cat, or more precisely she adopted me, an amazingly sweet and gentle female tabby that I think the people renting the house up the street abandoned when they suddenly moved out before being evicted and obviously she not a feral cat as night after night she’d show up at my kitchen sliding glass door, meowing and begging for me to let her in, which I eventually did, at first much to the distress of our Husky, but after a time, they got to become good friends.
It turned out Zelda was pregnant and she had a litter of 3 kittens in my bedroom closet a few weeks later. I tried to get all 3 kittens adopted, but long story, I kept 2 of them along with the mom and I loved them so and the stories I could tell, especially about the scary smart and goofy male orange tabby who thought he was a Golden Retriever – “Willie the Wonder Cat”…. : ), And my cats were strictly indoor cats – no way that I would let them out to get run over by a car or a snack for one of the foxes or tangle with one of the mean “city” raccoons and opossums – which were a bigger problem that a few stray cats.
Some years after I was adopted by Zelda, after my divorce, I put my house in Baltimore up for sale. My realtor let me know when he or another real estate agent was showing the house to prospective buyers and if it was on a weekend or in the evening, I was expected to leave the house during the showing.
One Saturday afternoon there was a showing and I left, met a friend for some coffee, did some shopping but when I got home a few hours later I was horrified to find one of my cats – Willie the Wonder Cat in my driveway, and he looked very confused absolutely terrified.
I had to chase Willie around the outside of the house and yard until I finally coxed him to come to me and got him inside. But when I got inside, my other two cats were nowhere to be found and I soon learned why.
The real estate agent, not my agent BTW, and whoever she was showing my house to, had left my kitchen sliding glass door wide open. I was needless to say irate beyond words not only because my other 2 strictly indoor cats were missing but because – well DAMN! They left the door wide open and anyone could have come in and stolen stuff while I was gone. Fortunately I soon found Zelda hiding at the back of my one neighbor’s detached garage and Nonie in my other neighbor’s yard and got them in the house and thankfully no one, none of my neighbors had decided to kill them for the safety and betterment of the neighborhood / s
And yes, I called my real estate agent and told him what happened and told him that under no circumstances was he to allow that agent to show my house again and I filed a complaint against her with the local real estate board.
"Her comment on the picture she posted: "My first bow kill, lol. The only good feral tomcat is one with an arrow through it's head! Vet of the year award ... Gladly accepted.", was bad enough (not to mention the poor grammar of using “it’s” when it should have been “its”) but then following up the criticism with "No I did not lose my job. Lol. Psshh. Like someone would get rid of me. I’m awesome!" What? Is she a 12 year old girl or a college educated professional woman, a woman with a DMV? It sounds more to me like a young woman very impressed with herself, but now that she’s out of a job, perhaps she is rethinking just how “awesome” she really is and I for one would never use her as my vet."
“The right breast of the young girls was bound or removed so that it did not hinder them from being excellent archers. The left breast was left intact for their future babies. By folk etymology, this practice is where the name “Amazon” (Greek, a- meaning “without” and mazos meaning “breast”) comes from”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lampedo
HARDCORE!
if it was a stray there is little to no difference.
“...Amazon women of old had a work around...”
I wasn’t sure I wanted to know what it was, but I kinda knew it was going to be some radical stuff. Hardcore warriors!
Lets shoot you in the head with an arrow and you can tell us if it hurt or not. Cats are one of God’s creatures and those who torture, maim and treat them like garbage will answer to the Almighty one day. Man can be judged by how it treats the animals.
You will be blessed for your efforts.
Do you wear one?
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