| Title: | Meower Power is Valuing Differences |
| Notice: | FELINE_V1 is moving 1/11/94 5pm PST to MISERY |
| Moderator: | MISERY::VANZUYLEN_RO |
| Created: | Sun Feb 09 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Tue Jan 11 1994 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5089 |
| Total number of notes: | 60366 |
I JUST HOUGHT I WOULD GIVE SOME FIRST HAND INFO. ON THE KITTY FRIEND AT TWO
AS I AM THE ONE WHO FEEDS AND TAKES CARE OF HIM.HE HAS BEEN COMING HERE
ABSOLUTELY EVERY DAY RAIN OR SHINE FOR TWO YEARS NOW. I WAS ON MY OUTSIDE
PATROL ONE DAY AND FOUND HIM OUT BACK, HIS OLD FLEA COLLAR WAS CUTTING INTO
HIS UNDERARM AS HE HAD TRIED TO GET IT OFF AT SOME POINT AND IT GOT CAUGHT
I BROUGHT HIM TO THE VET AND GOT HIM CLEANED UP AND GOT HIS SHOTS, ETC.
HE HAS BEEN HERE EVER SINCE,FAITHFULLY CATCHING ALL THE MICE AND RODENTS
ON THE PROPERTY, INCLUDING RABBITS AND BIRDS. I DONT KNOW IF HE'S GOT
A REAL HOME OR NOT,BUT HE SURE IS IN GOOD HEALTH.HE'S ALSO THE FRIENDLIEST
CAT YOU COULD EVER MEET. EVERYBODY LOVES HIM. HE MAKES SURE EVERYONE SIGNS
OUT AT NIGHT, WHEN HE'S NOT SLEEPING THAT IS. HE SLEEPS ON THE EXPENSIVE
LOBBY CHAIRS. HE HAS HIS OWN BLANKET THOUGH, SO HE DOESN'T DIRTY THE
UPHOLSTERY. HE IS GREAT COMPANY FOR THE NIGHT SHIFT. WE ALL SPOIL HIM
TOO. IT'S A GOOD THING HE WORKS SO HARD OR HE WOULD GET FAT. I WILL TRY
TO GET A PICTURE OF HIM FOR THE DTW, SO EVERY ONE CAN SEE HIM.
ARE THERE ANY OTHER FACILITIES THAT HAVE KITTIES? I KNOW THE MILL HAS
ONE. ARE THERE ANY OTHERS?
DENISE
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 105.1 | Collars are dangerous | CTOAVX::DUSZAK | Mon Aug 29 1988 11:54 | 25 | |
Several years ago, we noticed a cat limping through the yards and
once in a while saw it near the garbage cans, but it would not come
near anyone. My kids told me they saw it sleeping in our old unused
dog house and it would run off when it saw the kids. The dog house
was filled with flies when it left. It limped around for a
year and a half and one day I found it lying in our yard close to
the house dying. It was a cold rainy day in the fall and it was
just pitifully lying there near death. It's fea collar had bound
him leg to head and the buckel was imbedded under his front leg
and it was all infected and full of maggots. That's why all the
flies were around him. He was so thin, just literally skin and
bones and probably dying from infection. I picked him up, he did
not move a muscle but just kept looking at me. He had no weight
and was light as a feather. I put him in a box and took him to
the vet to be put to sleep. He was too far gone. I asked the vet
to cut the collar from him before he died, but the vet refused saying
he was too full of infection, but he would put him to sleep
immediately. To this day it bothers me so bad that he was never
freed of the collar. I tried to cut the collar before I brought
him to the vet, but it was to thick to cut and I didn't want to
move it and cause any pain to him as it was embedded in him. It
was the sadest thing I have ever seen.
Mary
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