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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

105.0. "TWO CAT FRIEND" by RENOVO::SECURITY () Tue Jun 18 1985 23:11

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
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105.1Collars are dangerousCTOAVX::DUSZAKMon Aug 29 1988 14:5425
    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