What goes around comes around
When your guardian puts food out on the patio for a hungry homeless kitty, and after a year the kitty is finally approaching the patio while your guardian is there, and you make it your business to ensure the kitty doesn’t come any closer than 20 feet, it’s not too surprising if, once the guardian manages to bring the kitty into the family — no, it’s absolutely to be expected — that the kitty will remember you and leap at you whenever she gets a chance, despite her cute little innocent face.
The story of Sydney and Tutone.
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Posted by Sandra on July 20, 2009
Horses wearing hats
My favorite line in Naomi Novik’s Black Powder War:
“Laurence,” Temeraire said to him, as he climbed down to join the others, “this horse I am eating looks very odd to me; it is wearing a hat.”
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Posted by Sandra on June 13, 2009
And Tutone makes three
Tutone -- July 24, 2008
Tutone has been hanging around since 2007. She wouldn’t let us get near her, but she’d wait for us to go inside and then come to the patio to eat from the neighborhood kitty buffet.
Lately Sydney had been noticing that Tutone was looking at us in a way that Sydney thought was too friendly, so she’d sit outside to guard the food dish.
It didn’t seem right to bring in that new cat Stumpy when she’d been here a lot longer, so we got a cat trap and baited it one night. Oops. The first cat belonged to the neighbor. The second cat was the one we wanted.
What a love bunny! If I’d known how tame Tutone would be . . . She loves to wrap around our legs, and she has the softest fur, just like a rabbit.
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Posted by Sandra on May 5, 2009
Introducing Stumpy
We have a new addition to the family. No photo, though. He said he wants his fur to grow out first. I’d sort of like to get that tube out of his cheek, too.
Stumpy was one of the strays hanging around our place. He’s a pretty big cat, but his legs look stumpy in comparison to the rest of him. He finally decided he would let me get close enough to pet him. Uh oh, what a big swollen cheek he had.
It was late in the afternoon, so into the garage he went until the next day. He let me pick him up and take him inside, and we locked him up until the next morning.
It was a two-person job catching him. One person had to sweep under the car with a broom, and the other had to catch him when he ran out. He was too fast for me, though, and got on the workbench (not behind the dryer, thank goodness).
Between the two of us we cornered him and — literally — scared the shit out of him. But I got him safely into the carrier and to the vet.
Yup, he had an abscess, a nasty one. We had to irrigate under his skin for the next week. Ick! Ick ick! Our hall bathroom turned into a kitty clinic, where he stayed as an inpatient.
I tell you, that boy loves to eat.
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Posted by Sandra on April 24, 2009
R.I.P. Hobbes
Hobbes, July 2008
1991-2009
We took Hobbes to the vet to have her put to sleep. Continue reading “R.I.P. Hobbes”
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Posted by Sandra on February 10, 2009
