On 17 Dec 2006 12:45:15 -0800, "bookie"
wrote:



Still, with so many people who won't complicate their lives to take
even one cat, venom towards those who do seems a bit misplaced. I'm
quite sure the OP feels terribly about stepping on the kitty and will
try to be more careful. Let he/she who has never stepped on their
kitty cast the first hairball.
nope, never stepped on any of my cats, always very careful to look
where they are, particularly small kittens as i was told from a very
young age when my family got a kitten that they follow you around and
to be careful where you tread as you may step on kitty if you do not as
kittens may not be able to move out of the way fast enough. Was also
told horrific story by my mother of when her clumsy sister speared a
small kitten they had with a stiletto heel by stepping on it and how
her kitten had to be put to sleep (if it wasn't already dead) an that
was a tale I will never forget, certainly not the graphic way my mum
told it anyway.

I learned by someone else's bad mistake, unfortunately this individual
has had to learn by their own, just as long as they do learn that is.

I'm always amazed at what cats will do. Just yesterday a friend is
watching TV while I'm fixing a bike wheel and suddenly I hear an
exclamation, my friend looks under his chair, and Espy has crawled
into the mechanism and is comfortably peering out. He could just as
easily gotten pinched a bit when my friend got up.

They do get places where we would never think of.