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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

3149.0. "Something to warm your heart" by CSC32::K_KINNEY () Sun Dec 17 1989 03:14

    
    	I have been reading with interest the notes in here
    	about people who have their pets leashed in the cold
    	and freezing weather, abandoning them to fend for themselves
    	in the harsh wintertime and telling vets to put them
    	down cause they (the humans) weren't committed enough
    	to continue with the responsibility they apparently
    	forgot having assumed to begin with. 
    
    	Well, today I was walking downtown in Colorado Springs
    	just enjoying the wonderful snowfall we have waited so
    	long for this winter and I saw something that I would 
    	like to balance those other stories off with if I could.
    	I was walking out of a bookstore and right next to the
    	door, just out of the snow, I saw what looked like a
    	bundled up mans heavy cordoroy jacket with fleece lining.
    	I did a double take on it when I saw a little nose poking
    	out of it. It was someones DOG!  He was snuggled in and
    	keeping himself warm while his master was inside the nice
    	warm store not needing the jacket just then. It just warmed
    	me to my toes thinking that someone would have cared enough
    	that his dog had to wait outside in the snow that he would
    	take his own jacket and bundle the little critter up in it!
    	I know this is the feline notesfile but, it's Christmas
    	and at this time of the year, we are all looking for some
    	hope and happiness, right?
    
    						Merry Christmas Gang!
    
    					Kim (and Catnip who sits by the
    						hearth and dreams of the
    						 coming Springtime!)
    
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3149.1Thanks for the StoryGVA02::CEHRSMon Dec 18 1989 06:195
    Kim,
    Thank you so much for putting this lovely and really heart-
    warming story into this notesfile.
    Martha
    
3149.2I enjoyed this!CGVAX2::LANDRYLet it snow,let it snow,LET IT SNOW!Mon Dec 18 1989 10:319
    Kim and Catnip,
    
    That was a real nice story.  Let's hope this starts the week out with
    all good stories - we could use a good week for a change.
    
    Merry Christmas all you furfaces out there!  (oh, and you humans, too)
    
    Anna/Zildjian/Spunks
    
3149.3So nice to hear....this time of year!SHARE::WESTONMon Dec 18 1989 13:5815
    
    			Merry Christmas to YOU!
    
    Love to hear Heart-Warming stories of ANY animal.  My heart goes out to
    them all.
    
    I'm keeping my strays in our neighborhood here, in Berlin,MA from the
    cold as much as possible.  We are experiencing the COLDEST December in
    all of MASS. history.  (Boston area).  I have an old dog house with Hay
    and Blankets and a box with hay in it.  Seems to be working O.K.  will
    have to replay the box soon.
    
    Thank you for the nice note!
    
    
3149.4Thank you , sir!ISLNDS::SOBEKMon Dec 18 1989 19:4029
    Things got sort of reversed in my situation ...and one of my critters
    decided to help me out. ...Must have taken pity on my having to trudge
    through the early morning darkness to carry water and hay to my
    miniature horses ...and haul the manure away in a sled. (People
    who know me don't waste their time feeling sorry for me ..because
    they know I love it!)
    
    Anyway, the other day I was in a particular hurry to finish my chores
    as the wind was fierce and my hands ..which had accidentally gotten
    soaked in one of the water buckets ..were literally freezing. Trapper,
    short for Better Mousetrap, usually 'helps' me by grabbing the rope
    on the front of the sled in his teeth and running away up the paddock 
    with a load of manure flying behind him.  On this particular day he gave
    me a break and left the sled in place until I was finished cleaning
    the stalls. As I reached for a hammer to start chipping ice out
    of his frozen water bucket ..I looked up and there was Trapper ..with
    the hammer in his mouth looking for all the world as if he had intended
    to pass it to me to help me out. I thanked him kindly ..and he looked
    very pleased with himself. It's the funny little moments like that
    that stand out in my mind when I think of my fur-family. I wouldn't
    miss them for anything.
    
    ...and of course, the feline members of the family were only too
    glad to stretch and yawn as I hurried back into the warm house.
    ..showing me that they know how to live 'the good life'. None of
    that snow and ice stuff for them!
    
    Linda  ...whose day was brighter for having read the story of the 
           thoughtful friend in the base note...   :^)
3149.5AHOY::NDCDTN: 297-2313Tue Dec 19 1989 10:253
    Yes, thanks for that story.  It made me smile - which is definitely
    something we can all use!
      Nancy DC
3149.6thanks!FRAGLE::PELUSOThere's ALWAYS room for ONE moreTue Dec 19 1989 11:165
    re: .0
    
    Thanks for the story....it was real nice, and helped make *monday*
    go a bit better ;^)
    
3149.7Did us all a world of good!SAGE::ZAMZOWTue Dec 19 1989 11:3810
    
    
    I love a good story, it certainly did wonders for my Monday!  (I read
    it Monday and didn't have time to reply!
    
    Feline Wonderful, I love to start a week with a smile!
    Sue & Panther (Who has asked santa for a fur coat, hers is thin)
        & Spot (Who has asked Santa for a Puppy, she doesn't know that they      
                become dogs!  ;-)
    
3149.8Speaking of warming the heartTPMARY::TAMIRACMS design while-u-waitFri Dec 22 1989 15:4811
As you know, Robin was a feral baby who has taken up residence in my house and
in my heart.  Last night, I returned home from a 4-day business trip and I was
totally exhausted.  The wind outside was blowing and it was incredibly cold.
Just after I got settled in bed, I heard a little meow and it was Robin, who
for the first time came into bed with me.  She snuggled up inside my arm, 
wrapped a paw around my neck, gave me a quick lick on the cheek, and purred
me to sleep.

You know, I think she's gonna be OK.

Mary
3149.9PENPAL::TRACHMANExotic Shorthairs=NO GroomingFri Dec 22 1989 15:526
    Mary, if she lives with you, yes, she will be fine!  She sounds
    like a sweetie.  Cats know who love them, they really do.
    
    E.
    
    p.s. I really love your baby names
3149.10g'nite mummyAIMHI::MCCURDYFri Dec 22 1989 16:013
    .. Oh Mary, .. that brought tears to my eyes... sweet little  thing..
    Kate