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| Title: | Meower Power is Valuing Differences |
| Notice: | FELINE_V1 is moving 1/11/94 5pm PST to MISERY |
| Moderator: | MISERY::VANZUYLEN_RO |
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| 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 |
470.0. "They haven't fought...yet" by USRCV1::FOLEY (Vote Early, (and often)) Sun Feb 08 1987 14:21
The saga of "Tabby" and "Shadow" begins! For the past week(?) my
wife has ocasionally inquired, "Do you hear a cat?" I'd check, and
Shadow (large lazy Burmese) would always be peacefully napping on
the bed. Then we happened to be on the front porch together and
BOTH heard a plaintive "meaow!". What sems to have happened, we
had a visitor under the porch prior to my cleaning another foot of
snow of the driveway, and I plugged up the entry hole the skunks
had dug sevreal years ago.
So now we seem to be the humans of another kitty, a beautiful male
Tabby with all the options! (Declawed and fixed). Calls to the SPCA
and PET-FINDERS produce no results, scanning the want-ads for the
timeframe involved are negative. So, here's my dilemma; how far
to push the quest to find the original humans of this
oh-so-affectionate kitty. He's everything that Shadow isn't, He'll
calmly fall asleep on my chest, purring his little brains out! My
wifes Tabby (1972-1980) and this guy are near clones but for some
small color changes. Needless to say, my daughters are ecstatic!
How far does one search for an obviously indoor pet who's gone astray?
I know I'd have an ad in the paper, minimum. Martha canvassed the
neighborhood, to no avail, so... looks like a "keeper" to me!
.mike.
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| 470.1 | Some suggestions on how to find the owner | PUZZLE::CORDESJA | | Mon Feb 09 1987 17:43 | 18 |
| A lot of papers will publish "pet found" ads for free as a public
service. I would probably run the ad for a couple of weeks and
put up notices at local supermarket bulletin boards, and wait and
see what happens.
A cat that is already declawed has had a prior home and most people
who have had their cats declawed no the importance of not letting
that cat outside. For this reason, additional effort might be made
to locate the owner. Try asking kids in the neighborhood if they
recognize the cat. I have found that the kids usually know who's
pet is who's in my neighborhood.
I would also put up notices at the vets in your area. They may
recognize the cat and know who it belongs to.
After that, it sounds like you have gotten yourself a wonderful
new cat!
Jo
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