Text 39386, 36 rader
Skriven 2010-06-23 22:42:31 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
  Kommentar till text 39319 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: Smoke 'N Bacon
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-=> Quoting RUTH HANSCHKA to NANCY BACKUS on 21 Jun 10  23:10:28 <=-

 -> My experience with farmers, OTOH, is that cats are strictly outside
 -> animals, definitely not part of the family.  I can see where onboard
 -> ship they might become part of the larger community.  :)  And we expect
 -> our felines to be mousetraps as well... ;)
 ->  
 RH> My grandmother was on a farm and she was like that. Cats were working
 RH> animals just like all the others.  Later on in the family bakery they
 RH> had a cat that was much more of a pet.  She was also the bakery's
 RH> mousetrap.   

Raised from working animal to working family member...  :)

 -> The former was a stray that a
 -> couple of my friends adopted at a church retreat we were all at (the
 -> theme was the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete)... neither of them thought
 -> their husband would let them keep the kitty, I was prevailed upon to see
 -> if I could do better with mine...  We intended to call him Parakleo (I
 -> comfort), it came out ParakAleo, later we found out that Kaleo (which we
 -> often called him for short) meant beggar... which was very apt... 

 RH> Beggar is about the size of it, although I'll bet he turned into a
 RH> ghost when it was time to get his nails clipped!  

Actually he liked getting them clipped... as have most of our kitties. 
Beats having them get too long, caught in everything, and causing
pain... to them as well as us... ;)  But they also certainly like(d)
their treats... we'd call him the cannibal, since his "use-animal" was a
pig, and his favorite meat scraps/juices was pork...  ;)

ttyl       neb

... Peeping Tom: A perverted cat on stilts.
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