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A brief history of my cats....
My effort to increase 'legitimate' RPCA posts. (A lot of this has been
posted before, quite along time ago.) I had Lucky for less than a year or so when I decided to get a kitten. (I got Blizzard when she was far too young to be weaned, but I didn't know better back then. She had worms and ear mites. I thought Lucky would like a companion, but although Blizzard was just a tiny thing and only wanted to play, it took *six months* for them to become friends. It was funny to watch: after about 3 months, Lucky would be sitting on the sofa, and Blizzard would jump up and slooooly approach Lucky, and then reach out one paw and just tap Lucky on her side. Blizzard would then scamper off the sofa and look back to see if Lucky would follow; she wanted to play tag! Later, for until Lucky went to the RB, they were always together. They would wrestle around the living room, and though Blizzard was younger, Lucky had been a barn kitten, and was faster and much smarter than Blizzard. But Lucky would let Blizzard 'win' about half the time, and they were great company for each other when I worked long hours, (as I still do). When I got home, they were both consummate lap fungi, keeping me warm on winter nights while my 75 year old furnace (coal converted to natural gas; always barely working) struggled to heat my little house. After Lucky went to the RB, I thought she seemed awfully sad, looking for Lucky, and I decided to get another cat or kitten. Kenzie was about 3 years old, and her humans were desperately seeking a good home for her. Their 7 year old son had developed severe asthma, and they had been looking, with no success, for several months. They wouldn't give her to a no kill shelter, insisting they wanted to know where she went. I learned of her through my previous volunteer work at another no kill shelter, and made the 35 mile drive, with my carrier, to meet her. I talked to one of her humans for probably 2 hours on the phone, and I think she decided they couldn't do much better than me. I had volunteered at one of the local no kill shelters, and evenings and some Saturdays, I volunteered at my TED's clinic, assisting with surgery. (That's when I learned about declawing, and what finally drove me away, unfortunately.) I remember seeing Kenzie down the length of a hallway, and thinking how pretty she was. Her human called her, and I got down on my knees, and Kenzie came right up to me for scritches and petting. She has a very loud purr, and she started immediately. Her humans kept asking me if I liked her, and if I would like to keep her. I think they were afraid if I didn't take Kenzie, they would have a hard time finding someone else. Of course I fell in love with her, even if Blizzard never did. Kenzie isn't a lap fungus, like Lucky and Blizzard; it took me about 2 years to get her to jump up on the sofa, she had been trained not to. (Why? Don't sofa's *exist* for cats to rest and sleep upon? Now, on occasion, after 6 years, on relatively rare occasions, Kenzie will jump up on my lap while I'm watching TV, for a long session of scritches. She doesn't stay much past a half hour or so, but a few times she has curled up and taken a nap. Both my RB kitties slept on my lap at every opportunity; now that it's such a rare event, I appreciate it all the more. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Life without cats would be only marginally worth living." -TC, and the unmercifully, relentlessly, sweet calico kitty, Kenzie. How you behave towards cats here below determines your status in Heaven. - Robert Heinlein Life is very difficult. Once you understand that, life becomes easier. -Buddha |
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Karen bent over and whined:
I think liar |
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Psychopath troll
Mr. Kwaaazy Caaatz Executive Vice President UTB 5b2x7m 0x4j6w.awe wrote: Path: newssvr19.news.prodigy.com!newsdbm03.news.prodigy. com!newsmst01b.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!newsco n02.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!nx01.iad01.newsho sting.com!newshosting.com!216.196.98.140.MISMATCH! border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!lo cal01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.rcn.net!news.rcn. net.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 21:54:01 -0500 From: Mr. Kwaaazy Caaatz Executive Vice President UTB 5b2x7m 0x4j6w.awe Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats.anecdotes,rec.pets.cats.health+behav ,rec.pets Subject: A brief history of my cats.... Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 19:54:03 -0700 Organization: U,,,,,,T,,,,,,B References: 43262d05.128734 news.iphouse.com 200509122054351575%kchuplis alltelnet Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: 2fKdnctIa7_UorveRVn-hw rcn.net Lines: 5 NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.15.35.136 X-Trace: sv3-81XzL2jX9AruFbZmcG2w3oneIQH7pQ5eLsL5RNYaf/SNHWpqOl9YBos3dnr1lpZU4TA5Mal0QPvJS6+!jGs2GxMcvyzl GP+YPunljjE+S1m3LfC500JFN20G/RWG7wjb+l5JSxJ+GDYZn0t2 X-Complaints-To: abuse rcn.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse rcn.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Xref: newsmst01b.news.prodigy.com rec.pets.cats.anecdotes:384805 rec.pets.cats.health+behav:397737 rec.pets:71792 Karen bent over and whined: I think liar |
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John Doe bent over and whined:
Psychopath troll Stalking netKKKop Mr. Kwaaazy Caaatz Executive Vice President UTB 5b2x7m 0x4j6w.awe wrote: Path: newssvr19.news.prodigy.com!newsdbm03.news.prodigy. com!newsmst01b.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!newsco n02.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!nx01.iad01.newsho sting.com!newshosting.com!216.196.98.140.MISMATCH! border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!lo cal01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.rcn.net!news.rcn. net.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 21:54:01 -0500 From: Mr. Kwaaazy Caaatz Executive Vice President UTB 5b2x7m 0x4j6w.awe Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats.anecdotes,rec.pets.cats.health+behav ,rec.pets Subject: A brief history of my cats.... Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 19:54:03 -0700 Organization: U,,,,,,T,,,,,,B References: 43262d05.128734 news.iphouse.com 200509122054351575%kchuplis alltelnet Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: 2fKdnctIa7_UorveRVn-hw rcn.net Lines: 5 NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.15.35.136 X-Trace: sv3-81XzL2jX9AruFbZmcG2w3oneIQH7pQ5eLsL5RNYaf/SNHWpqOl9YBos3dnr1lpZU4TA5Mal0QPvJS6+!jGs2GxMcvyzl GP+YPunljjE+S1m3LfC500JFN20G/RWG7wjb+l5JSxJ+GDYZn0t2 X-Complaints-To: abuse rcn.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse rcn.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Xref: newsmst01b.news.prodigy.com rec.pets.cats.anecdotes:384805 rec.pets.cats.health+behav:397737 rec.pets:71792 Karen bent over and whined: I think liar |
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