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"Cat lovers" (LONG)
Hi all
I was reading Kelly's email about her wonderful friend who needed some purrs and it got me thinking about something which I am sure everyone has encountered- "Cat lovers" Now I don't mean the slaves gathered on this list but people who make that claim and then come out with things that make you stare at them and wonder how the Hell could they claim to love cats and yet they still say they are cat lovers. Take my co-worker (PLEASE!) I am sure I have mentioned somewhere on this list that the guy is strange....Well when he first started here he claimed to have grown up with cats and really liked them. The reason he grew up with cats was " the cat just kept getting pregnant and mum sold the kittens to good homes." At one point the house contained about 15 kittens under 6 months. Why didn't they get her spayed. She must have been continously either pregnant and/or nursing. Apparently she died aged about 4 after about 10 or so litters. The poor cat must have died of exhaustion. Okay that was his mum's fault, he was only a kid but he's worrying me now.(To the point where any advice about what I can do under UK law would be appreciated) Basically he is spending a fortune on having his car done up and he's worried about "Stamford" (The cat that seems to have sort of adopted where I work) will sit on it and ruin the paintwork. He even said that he would have to bring his airgun in (And this guy is scary enough to make me think he would do it, he vastly prefers cars to people) so I sent him the information from Skippy that pointed out that a cat's claw can damage car finishes only if the finish is a mess anyway. "Oh well" he dismissed, "All the same if I see that cat get it's claws out on my car I'll take a pair of pliers and take its nails out, that'll solve the problem" And he still says he's a cat lover! The other one was someone I worked with ages ago, she had 3 cats with pedigrees as long as your arm and talked knowledgeably about cats so I thought she was okay but there's just a couple of incidents that left me thinking about what she meant when she said "I am a cat lover" The first was one day when we were looking at a book on pedigree cats and I saw my first Maine Coon. "Lovely" was my verdict. She told me that although at the time, they weren't recognised to show in the UK, she could put me in touch with a breeder and get me a kitten for about £500. "Hmm" says me, "I already have two cats who might have something to say on the matter" She shrugged, "They don't count they're only mongrels, you can just dump them." A few months later she was complaining because she wanted a Devon Rex and her parents had drawn the line at 3 cats. "Ahh well" she finally concluded "My Siamese is nearly 14, he won't be around much longer and then I can have the Devon Rex." And yet she'd probably still say she was a cat lover..... Anyone else run into these "cat lovers" Lesley Slave to the Fabulous Furballs |
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