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Conference misery::feline_v1

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

1651.0. "Can't think of a title..." by JAWS::COTE (I'm not making this up...) Fri Aug 12 1988 09:51

    My mom is up visiting from Florida for 2 weeks. My father stayed
    home (where it's cool!) to take care of their 4 cats that they've
    had for 10 years or so.
    
    The yard is fenced in and the cats have NO desire to roam, so they
    were allowed outdoor privs anytime they wanted.
    
    Well, yesterday, my mum got an early call from home. It seems her
    favorite cat "Winnie", who she saved from a trip down the river
    in a bag 12 years ago, was gone.
    
    Winnie had had respiratory probs for a while, which caused her to
    always take rapid, short breaths. She'd been on medication and was
    comfortable.
    
    Sometime Wednesday my father (a cat lover to rival anyone in this
    file) called outside to the cats for supper. Winnie didn't show
    so he started hunting under the bushes, etc., for her.
    
    Unfortunately, he found her. She had apparently climbed up on
    the deck of their above-ground pool (something she never did),
    fell in, and drowned.
    
    Though my mum and dad were heartbroken, they took some consolation
    in the fact that her respiratory condition probably made the whole
    thing happen very quickly.
    
    Edd
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1651.1... here comes the tears againDRFIX::IVESFri Aug 12 1988 10:0313
    Boy, I can tell it has become necessary to wear waterproof make-up
    to work EVERY DAY.
    
    It seems lately that we start off the day reading a SAD
    feline note first thing in the morning. Being that we are
    all cat lovers each note seems to touch our soft feline spot,
    and down the tears come.
    
    I am sorry for the people in this note and the one before this.
    
    Barbara
1651.2TPVAX2::ROBBINSFri Aug 12 1988 10:328
    
    
       oh boy I don't know how much more of this I can take..... more
    sad news.....  thank god we are the types that can feel that emotion
    though....  My hearfelt condolences are sent their way.....
    
                                                          sniff
                                                                kim
1651.3So sorryCLUSTA::TAMIRACMS design while-u-waitFri Aug 12 1988 10:535
    Oh, Edd, that's so sad.  It's so hard to loose one but that must
    be very difficult for your folks to handle.  My sympathies go to
    you and to your parents...
    
    Mary
1651.4Tears.............SKIVT::P_MARGOLISPaula BethFri Aug 12 1988 11:284
    So sorry to hear of the loved-one lost.
    
    With Support,
    Paula, Schnapps and Tequila
1651.5 more tears and sniffs..AIMHI::MCCURDYFri Aug 12 1988 12:293
    Pookie,Happy and I are so sorry to hear that....
    regards
    Kate and the 2 furfaces..
1651.6BAPTISMALFDCV03::JOHNSONWed Aug 17 1988 12:586
    There is a special place for animals & people that drown.  I know
    for sure cause my son is there.  Now your Mum and Dad's cat is with
    him ......... they're both ok now.
    
    BJ
1651.7JAWS::COTEI'm not making this up...Wed Aug 17 1988 14:246
    I'll bet mum and dad would like .6.
    
    Thanks!
    
    Edd
1651.8AIMHI::OFFENFri Sep 09 1988 12:2123
    I have just recently found out how dangerous pools are to small
    animals.
    
    One morning I let my dog out and for some reason took a look at
    my pool.  Boy was I surprised!!!!!
    
    There was a young skunk swimming around trying to get out.  I 
    couldn't just let it drown so I came up with an idea as to how
    to get the poor thing out without get to close to it.  
    
    I took my skimming net (very long handle) and got it under the skunk
    and got it close to the edge of the pool and then flopped it onto
    the deck.  Of course I didn't get it out on the first try (had to
    get the technique of the flip just right).
    
    I don't know how long the poor thing was in there but I am glad
    that I saw it when I did.
    
    I'm also glad it wasn't the Daddy skunk.  He is HUGE.
    
    SANDI