On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 19:38:06 -0700, Abraham Lincoln
wrote:

Ted Davis wrote:

The bad news: Spooky did *not* come home today. He went out yesterday
during a break in the rain - that surprised me because he never goes
out when it's wet, in fact, he hadn't been out at all in the last few
weeks. I posted back in March that he was getting old, and he's been
deteriorating rapidly lately. I think he went outside to find a place
to be alone to die in peace. I will be very surprised if he returns,
but I hope he does.

I would be too especially since you were dumb enough to let him out -
maybe you should have had a brain and kept him inside since he was
ailing. Or maybe he will get a true home for his last days better than
the one he had.

I bought a place in the country so I could have free cats instead of
captives. The ones that want to be indoor cats are free to be indoor
cats; the ones that want to be outdoor cats can be outdoor cats; the
ones that want to be both can be both, and they can change their minds
whenever convenient. Many of the cats in my clowder were semiferal as
kittens - most of the others were discarded or lost when I rescued
them. Spooky's background is unknown - he came to dinner one night in
October 1992 and stayed. He liked not having to be outside and having
the freedom to go out when it suited him.

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T.E.D. )