BS: Now that's strange... 'pet' story

Subject: RE: BS: Now that's strange... 'pet' story
From: heric
Date: 05 Sep 09 - 10:01 PM

Have you put the little sweater on him yet?

Subject: RE: BS: Now that's strange... 'pet' story
From: Melissa
Date: 05 Sep 09 - 09:55 PM

are you absolutely certain he's a male?
calicos usually aren't..

Subject: RE: BS: Now that's strange... 'pet' story
From: Alice
Date: 05 Sep 09 - 09:54 PM

neuter

Subject: RE: BS: Now that's strange... 'pet' story
From: gnu
Date: 05 Sep 09 - 09:52 PM

Hmmm... well... in the first place, I have no experience with male cats. Lived with three female cats over 13 years, 5.... you know.

I know lots about pussy, but I have heard that males are trouble. They piss and moan and... hmmm.

Nevermind.

Subject: RE: BS: Now that's strange... 'pet' story
From: ranger1
Date: 05 Sep 09 - 09:37 PM

Yep, uh-huh. I was going to come back and post pretty much what Jeri just said. So, to repeat what Jeri just said...Give it up now, find Blaze a comfy bit of fleece or a wool blanky and join the ranks of all of us non-cat people who somehow end up with them anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: Now that's strange... 'pet' story
From: gnu
Date: 05 Sep 09 - 09:33 PM

Oh... radio... I will call Rock 103 and report a found kitten... ??? and L'Acadie Country and a half dozen other stations? Hmmm. This is beginning to become a chore.

Subject: RE: BS: Now that's strange... 'pet' story
From: gnu
Date: 05 Sep 09 - 09:29 PM

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.... I'll go out and....

Oh my... I typed that ten minutes ago but had to answer the doorbell... strange indeed...

A girl of maybe 14 was at the door and a half dozen of her friends were on the sidewalk... "Is this your kitten?"

She said they were walking by and the cat ran to them from under my truck and followed them until they were about to cross Mountain Road (a hundred metres away and four lanes of idiot speeder drivers) and they thought they should bring it back. That warmed my heart.

I told them it had followed me home just a while ago. She asked if I had named it. I said, "No, I never saw it until it followed me home." She said, "Blaze. That's a good name for him." She had an odd look, a smile, on her face. And they left.

Blaze is eating canned salmon in the crook of the fireplace in the driveway. But, no way is that mangy cat coming in this house....

Subject: RE: BS: Now that's strange... 'pet' story
From: Jeri
Date: 05 Sep 09 - 09:28 PM

Gnu, I'm guessing you wouldn't have told us all this if you didn't intend to melt like a plastic pancake flipper and end up with the little bugger in your house and your lap. Give up now. (That guy's dog probably ate the poor little thing's mama...)

Subject: RE: BS: Now that's strange... 'pet' story
From: GUEST,Peace
Date: 05 Sep 09 - 09:23 PM

PLEEZE ????

Subject: RE: BS: Now that's strange... 'pet' story
From: ranger1
Date: 05 Sep 09 - 09:23 PM

Gnu sweetie, cats are much easier to live with than women. Just ask my Jason. Some cats even earn their keep by catching vermin. Mine doesn't, but she makes up for it in the entertainment department.

Subject: RE: BS: Now that's strange... 'pet' story
From: Peace
Date: 05 Sep 09 - 09:19 PM

C'mon.

Subject: RE: BS: Now that's strange... 'pet' story
From: Peace
Date: 05 Sep 09 - 09:06 PM

Yeah. What she said.

Subject: RE: BS: Now that's strange... 'pet' story
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 Sep 09 - 09:04 PM

Actually, gnu, it is cruel of you to leave us here worrying about the poor abandoned kitty in your back yard. DO SOMETHING! NOW!

Subject: RE: BS: Now that's strange... 'pet' story
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 Sep 09 - 09:02 PM

Gnu - the dog was telling youthat your cat was waiting for you to pick him up. At least give the little beast some water and a bit to eat. And a name...

Subject: RE: BS: Now that's strange... 'pet' story
From: Peace
Date: 05 Sep 09 - 08:59 PM

That wasn't a cat you were married to. It was a human. Cats ain't like humans.

Subject: RE: BS: Now that's strange... 'pet' story
From: gnu
Date: 05 Sep 09 - 08:55 PM

No way. I was married for 13 years, 5 months, 17 days, eleven and a half hours... no more cats for me.

Subject: RE: BS: Now that's strange... 'pet' story
From: catspaw49
Date: 05 Sep 09 - 08:55 PM

Go get the damn cat! Tami is right....they choose you....and besides, calico cats are good luck.


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Now that's strange... 'pet' story
From: Peace
Date: 05 Sep 09 - 08:53 PM

I do NOT like cats. I have only ever kept a few (maybe a dozen or so) until such time as I could find them good homes.

However, gnu, the kitty think you're the cat's a/uh, lemme rephrase that. The feline likes you. Ya got a problem, buddy.

Subject: RE: BS: Now that's strange... 'pet' story
From: ranger1
Date: 05 Sep 09 - 08:51 PM

Oh, Gary, just let the kitten in. Remember, you don't choose cats, they choose you. Besides, gnus need love, too.

Subject: BS: Now that's strange... 'pet' story
From: gnu
Date: 05 Sep 09 - 08:49 PM

Twenty minutes ago, I could NOT TAKE IT ANYMORE! I marched over to Ches' house, two doors away and asked if his dog was gonna bark ALL night like it barked ALL DAY. Told Ches I cannot handle it anymore... over two years of the yap from as early as 6:30AM til well after I was trying to sleep at night.

Ches went NUTS! He started screaming at me! He said his dog was on his property and could bark as much as he wanted to bark. I said, "Ches, buddy, it's against not only common manners and decency, it's against the law. You have to listen to reason." He brought the dog in and slammed the door... AFTER he said, "You are young and you don't have a dog to love you."

As I was walking away, I started to tear up. For Ches, and his ailing wife, somewhat... but more for the dog because it's not the dog's fault that Ches and his wife treat it so poorly.

That is when it happened. As soon as Ches shut the door and I turned to go home...

My foot hit sommat. I looked down and an absolutely beautiful male calico kitten of about 8 weeks old was "after" me. It walked with me and threaded between my feet and ran in front of me and rolled on the ground and "wanted me". It followed me in the same manner to my door. It mewed profusely. I had stopped several times and tried to shoo it away... even growling and hissing at it... it paid no attention... it just kept after me. A message?

As I type this, it is in my yard mewing. My heart is aching. I can only think I am being punished for upsetting elderly Ches and his wife.

Then again, that fucking dog isn't yapping now like it was for the past two hours. And, the cat will be better off without me. Dunno about me. >;-)

Strange.