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Skriven 2015-05-20 17:48:52 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av JANIS KRACHT
Ärende: Re: weathering weather 27
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> Hi Ruth,
> 
> >> reached sainthood status after he died to hear the
> > tales all of us would remind
> >> each other of about him :) :)
> >>
> > I had one like that as a baby, named Skipper.  He 
knew he
> > was top cat and just put up with anything we little 
kids
> > did.
> 
> hehe.... I wonder it that was why fred was so angelic.. 
he was also the top cat
> in the house.
> 
Top kitty and male. The larger ones especially can do 
that.  

> > Or if they're cat people, they would.
> 
> Maybe..  They seem a bit private from what we've seen 
driving past the house in
> recent years. It looks like they let all the shrubbery 
grow to tree heights all
> across the front of the yard.

Possibly just as well; maybe they walk around naked 
inside.(LOL)
 
> > Ecch.  Throwaway.  I had one of those for a while 
until I
> > found him a better home.  Beautiful little tabby 
tomcat.
> > He just showed up one day and didn't leave.
> 
> Aw.. we had one like that - she was a solid black adult 
cat who possibly never
> got enough food as a kitten since she seemed so stunted 
in size. She also had
> gotten pregnant, but had aborted the litter since she 
was a mess with
> infections, etc.  We took her to the vet and tried to 
save her.. she lived
> maybe a year or two after that.

Poor kitty. We had one stray who was coaxed indoors by my 
dad, after we'd been feeding him for a while of course, 
who had to be put to sleep.  He wasn't inside long, but 
was positive for FIV and back then you couldn't take 
chances. He had a sore on one leg and...RIP Hoover. We 
named him for his vacuum-like ability to absorb food.
 
> > was another male calico
> >> named Sprinkle.. my daughter named him hehe
> 
> > Accurately?
> 
> haha yes.. his coat was mostly dark with spurious 
orange throughout.

That's technically a tortoiseshell cat. Calicos are all 
female.

> >> 8yrs. old in our basement and she decided I was her
> > person Lol
> 
> > Hello I'm yours.  Yep.
> 
> Yeah that's exactly right :)

Done that before.
 
> > He knew.  It could have been FIV; they didn't 
diagnose
> > that until about 20 years ago.
> 
> Ok, I missed that they'd done so, but it makes sense 
with how fred went.

Sounds like it.
 
> LOL  yes... the vet had us bring in that raccons head 
so it could be tested
> for rabies, thankfully that turned out negative.

I'd have made a hat out of the rest.  Or a cat bed!
 
> > Sometimes they just meow.  One of mine will sometimes
> > start letting out what I think is a hunting meow in 
the
> > middle of the night.  There may be some mice in the
> > basement, but Howler Monkey is upstairs when it 
happens.
> 
> I hadn't thought of that but it could be why she's 
howling.. This is an old
> house in the country with the kind of basement mice 
love... Please cat, go down
> there and have at it :)
> 
Yes please.  You need a couple of somewhat reformed barn 
cats.  

> > We hang sun catchers on some windows, which doesn't
> > always help.  Dumb birds try to evade them and KLONK.
> 
> Yep..  for a while there was just no way to leave the 
glass clear.  Then I
> guess the 'family' moved and I was able to clean up 
that window, but it took a
> while.

I get a KLONG once in a while to this day.
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