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MichaeltheGreat
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mooning the house that Ruth built.
Oct 1999
time: 21:18
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Originally posted by The Mad Monk
Smiling would have helped.  <---(see!)
Sorry MtG, but you look as if you ate something that didn't agree with you.
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As I said over the weekend, I'm fighting off the flu, but Horse kept pissing and moaning. I figured I'd just snap something on the way out the door to keep horse from whining like a ***** in heat.
I've got tonsils like golfballs, lymph glands up, some festering alien presence in my upper lungs and chest, and generally have felt like **** for the past five days or so, getting what Ian got just got rid of when he gave it to me. To top it off, I have to cross the border at around 5 am tomorrow, to get far enough ahead of the rush hour crowd that I don't have to wait in line behind 1000 pinche peasants, since the powers that be decided bicycles now have to cross on foot with pedestrians. Hour and a half to cross on foot, or two and a half to drive....
That and the fact that Wednesday I have to take my cat Patches back to the vet to be put down completes the overall picture.
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MichaeltheGreat
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Apolyton Grand Executioner
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mooning the house that Ruth built.
Oct 1999
time: 21:18
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The irony is this the is one who showed up on my back door ten days after i lost one I'd had from six weeks old to 13 and a half years - had to loan that one out at different times depending on where I was living and working, but I always got her back, and she was the sweetest cat that ever lived - even confirmed cat haters liked her.
She got cancer, and couldn't be saved despite intensive treatment, and I was catless for all of ten days, when Patches showed up insistently at my back patio, like she'd been locked out. I opened the door, and she immediately walked in like she owned the place - turned out she'd been dumped by neighbors a couple of doors down who'd moved out of the same exact floor plan of condo, but it was kind of eerie the way she looked at me the same way as the cat I'd just lost, and the way she just knew the place.
Those two cats between them outlasted my first marriage, a few girlfriends, several jobs, moving, "friends" real and so-called. I've always found animals to be far more honestly giving and loyal than 99.9% of the human race, so losing a good one is tough - especially when it's slow and lingering like this, and I can't spend enough of her last time alive with her, because I've got people who's jobs and livelihood are dependent on me not taking time off from work right now.
The time does fly away - my son Ian's walking and running all over, talking away.
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Jon Miller
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I had an extremely good cat
he died the christmas of my senior year, right befire I returned home from visiting relatives (the body was still lying in the street and was not badly damaged)
I had his mother who was an OK cat (well she was my mom's) and took him for my own when he was much to young
he would put up with most anything from people and loved people (wouldn't put up with dogs and other dreatures that bothered him though)
he got ran over twice (the first time we saved him, he got put on a machine to breath for him) and drank antifreeze a few years before his death (the vet gave him a couple of months)
the last few years because of the antifreeze his coat went from a nice gray/brown to a sicly yellowish brownish color
he was in pain but I just could not let him go
his name was Sam
Jon Miller
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ravagon
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Australia
Sep 1999
time: 13:18
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quote:
Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat
when Patches showed up insistently at my back patio, like she'd been locked out. I opened the door, and she immediately walked in like she owned the place - turned out she'd been dumped by neighbors a couple of doors down who'd moved out of the same exact floor plan of condo, |
Almost exactly the way I got my last cat. Neighbours 2 houses down were leaving for England and were going to have to find a new home for her. It was almost as if the cat knew it and found herself a new home just before the time came...
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