On Sun, 22 Jun 2014 14:19:15 -0500, "MaryL"
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"Mack A. Damia" wrote in message
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On Sun, 22 Jun 2014 13:33:18 -0500, "MaryL"
wrote:

I have always thought that one
reason Duffy does so well is that he has always been blind. He did not
lose
his sight due to aging to illness. So, to Duffy, everything is normal. He
does not consider himself “handicapped,” and he just goes ahead and does
everything that any other cat can do. He is an absolute delight and the
love of my life. Duffy is approximately 16 years old. He is an active,
happy little boy.


All of life is amazing. Duffy's other senses have sharpened to
compensate for his loss of vision. Nice story!

Thanks! Here is Duffy's photo album:
http://tinyurl.com/cslwf

This is over fifteen years ago, but he looks like a delightful cat
that my mother adopted, "Dixie" - because she had originally come from
North Carolina. Mom lived in PA.

My mother complained because Dixie was not affectionate and would not
come up on her lap. I live in Baja, Mexico, and I visited for a week
or two circa 2002.

One evening as I was sitting in the big Lazy Boy recliner, I began to
sing a silly song based on the Stylistics - "You are Everything".

"Today I saw somebody
Who looked just like you,
She meowed like you do,
I thought it was you......."

Dixie looked at me, jumped up on my lap and began purring and loving
me.

Mom was so jealous, and I really was annoyed when later on, my mom
gave her away. I was over 3,000 miles away. I think about Dixie,
because the song goes through my head a lot.

I have my two sweethearts, both females, Pookie and Bubba.

Pookie appereared in my "closed-in porch" one morning. Somebody had
abandoned a box of kittens in our community, and to this day, I do not
know how she got into my porch. Bubba is a "Valley Girl" - comes from
Valle de Guadalupe about fifteen miles away. Given to as a kitten by
my personal assistant after I decided that Pookie needed a playmate.

Here is Bubba when she was a kitten looking a little disheveled, but
she is a beautiful cat. I brush her several times a day. I keep them
both indoors.

http://dc263.4shared.com/img/0dIR9wl...68344368784775

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