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Conference misery::feline

Title:Meower Power - Where Differing Opinions are Respected
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Moderator:JULIET::CORDES_JA
Created:Wed Nov 13 1991
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1079
Total number of notes:28858

361.0. "No, Aunty Em, you can't let her take him!" by ERLANG::FALLON (Karen Fallon "Moonsta Cattery") Fri Aug 21 1992 14:53

    I just realized how I feel when I have to place a kitten/cat while
    looking at a picture of my little Dunny.
    Think back to the Wizard of Oz and the scene where Ms. Gulch is about
    to take away Toto and put him in the basket.  Dorothy is crying to
    Aunty Em "No you can't take him!" and runs crying into the bedroom.
    Preetty close, I'd say, just add: "only when you can rip him from my
     cold dead
    arms!"    I'd be screaming with tears down my face.  In reality, you
    have to pretend to be somewhat dignified. It will never be easy.
    8...'{
    Karen
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361.1MUTTON::BROWNeverybody run Prom Queen's Gotta Gun!Tue Aug 25 1992 16:376
    I usually try to maintain a certain amount of decorum when a cat is
    leaving my home forever...at least until the new owners are out of
    sight, then a break out in tears and lament that I have chosen the
    wrong new home.  Never fails.
    
    Jo
361.2WR1FOR::RUSSELLPE_STTue Aug 25 1992 17:486
    Jo,
    
    I certainly hope you didn't feel that way when we took Lizette home.
    ;-)  Besides you get to see her at shows.
    
    Steffi
361.3I guess it doesn't get easier...SANFAN::BALZERMAWed Aug 26 1992 00:1112
    
    I am gearing up to "lose" my first born on Saturday.  My little black
    girl will be going to a wonderful home and will get all of the love and
    care that she needs, but that heart wrenching feeling that creeps in
    when I think about her departure doesn't seem to go away.  I already
    warned her new mum not to get upset if I get upset.  I guess we will
    have to open the bubbley and turn it into a celebration of a new
    beginning.  I will have to remember the joy I experienced when I took 
    the Bales home and be happy that I can provide the same opportunity for 
    someone else...
361.4heartless kitten-napperFORTSC::WILDEwhy am I not yet a dragon?Wed Aug 26 1992 17:395
I know i felt like i was removing a kid from the family when I took my
Dilly home...but, i was already so much in love that it didn't matter...
I wanted my baby!  8^}

She is helping me type...so I am not typing well at the momen
361.5DSSDEV::DSSDEV::TAMIRDECforms RoadieTue Sep 01 1992 18:237
    When I took 8 week old Honey home, the breeder's little boy stood at
    the door and cried his little eyes out.  Honey was his favorite and I
    felt like a real creep...  And I cried my little eyes out when Meggie's
    babies went to new homes.
    
    What a softie....
361.6*I DON'T CARRY KLEENIX IN THE CAR*AIMHI::OFFENFri Sep 04 1992 10:019
    OH, Thanks guys !!!!!!!!!!  I have to bring Snowball to her new home
    Saturday.  Is this what I have face???  She's not mine, but she sure
    does act like it...  
    
    I really think I was Physic...  Her new owners name is SNOW.
    
    Sandi (with 2 more strays to go)  any takers??
361.7Goodby Sweetheart!ERLANG::FALLONKaren Fallon "Moonsta Cattery"Fri Sep 25 1992 10:3617
    Well, the time has finally come. Little Moonst's Thunderhead, aka
    Dunny, will be going to his new home this Sunday.  His new mom, Lori,
    has been very excited!  She has been looking for a white male oriental
    for about 3/4 years and sincerely wants him.  She will give him a good
    pet home and may show him as an alter.  He is definately ready to be
    neutered and the poor thing doesn't have a clue as to what is going to
    happen.  I will miss his tremendous ears and bright blue eyes very
    much.  We went through a lot together, I remember giving birth to him
    (you guys know, ASSISTING!)but it seems about the same!  He has
    certainly been a joy to know.  His poor brother Baby and sister Tippy
    will be the only ones left of the litter.  I wonder if they will even
    realize he's gone.  Sometimes in a multi cat household they don't seem
    to care as much.  When they go to another home they can come right out
    of their shells.
    Well, so long Dunny, see you at Christmas!
    Love 
    Karen