OT we adopted two cats

Margaret St. John · 2008-04-28T11:11:23+00:00

I am so excited, after loosing our cat to cancer a year ago, the househas felt empty. We've been looking around at the local shelters,andfound a pair that was perfect. The adoption paperwork came through yesterday, so we were able to bring them home as part ofmy birthday. They are about 8 or 9months old. The feamle's name is Carlyshe's had a rough start to life. Her litter was posioned. They think she wasthe only one not to get very much food, so she was able to survive. The maleHarpo was caught outside, and they think he was dropped outside. He doesn'twant to go outside and is friendly, also he was in perfect health. The twohave been living together for a few months, so they get along fine. Carly isshy, but did come out last night and sit on their condo, watching me work onmy homework. Harpo on the other hand already owns the house. He has exploredeverywhere, and sat on our laps all night. He also joined us upstairs.They are both black and white with yellow eyes. When I get a chance, I'llpost some picks.-Margaret

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Margaret St. John 18 years ago

Thanks for all the good wishes. They are still setteling in. The male likes to sit on your lap if you put him there. You have to go to him. The female is still very skittish. The slightest noise or fast movement scares her away. This morning before work she actually sat in my lap for 5 minutes, so we are making progress. She still won't let DH near, but I think that will change in time. To answer Pat's question we did not have a Maine Coon. The cat we lost to cancer looked like a Russian Blue. He was also a stray.

-Margaret

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lucretia borgia 18 years ago

Everything may be changing - I am several km away looking after a friend who had knee replacement surgery ten days ago. My youngest grandson texted me to say he saw an ambulance and cop car at my condo building.

Turns out a woman - 83 - five floors above me died of a massive stroke while sitting in her chair stitching. Great way to go except nobody knew for several days.

Anyway she had a very retiring, timid Siamese. Our super believes a cousin who is taking the cat doesn't really want it but feels she must. So when I was back there today for a couple of hours I told her to tell the cousin that if they are having problems about it, there is someone who will take the cat.

So we will see, maybe this is the cat that will find me lol

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bungadora 18 years ago

Too bad for your neighbor. Well, the consolation is that if they didn't find her for a few days, she's dead, so it isn't really her problem.

I hope things turn out for the best for all concerned.

Meanwhile, I've been cleaning up the garden all day, and I ache, oh I ache. Dora

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Dawne Peterson 18 years ago

"lucretia borgia" wrote

Seems as if it might be! What happens to me is that if I have a cat, I have

3 cats. That's where the number settles. Right now I have 2, as my dear Evil Louise died last fall, and Not Dead Fred is still hanging on (he was supposed to die 4 years ago). But there will be another one---or two, depending on how Fred fares---and I will not have to go looking for them. Dawne

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Karen C in California 18 years ago

Sounds like it to me. :)

The Divine Miss Em says she's happy as an only child, and that's fine with me.

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Bruce Fletcher (Stronsay, Orkn 18 years ago

Here in the UK we have the Cinnamon Trust which exists to help elderly folk and their pets. If the pet's owner dies then the pet is looked after by the trust.

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Cheryl Isaak 18 years ago

I like Siamese. They have so much personality. Sorry for your neighbor's passing.

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lucretia borgia 18 years ago

We have 90 condos so I didn't actually know her. Truth be told, there were complaints about smell and thats why the super entered with a key and found her. Second time that has happened in the four years I have been there - the other one died at Xmas, slipped in the bath and smashed her head in. Dangerous places bathrooms, so I keep a cordless 'phone there now, low down on the side of the bath, reachable from the floor. Unfortunately one would never be heard as the building is a concrete construction and noise does not pass from one unit to another, exactly the reason I chose it lol

The cat is timid and the super told me they (the relatives) couldn't find her so she went up later and sat quietly until the cat emerged from the closet and finally had something to eat.

Aah, I remember it well - in fact when I saw the garden company aerating the grass I was happy it was not my task. I miss seeing my own flowers etc but not the task part - have a nice soak in the tub, with a soothing glass of wine.

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Dawne Peterson 18 years ago

"Bruce Fletcher wrote

What a good cause. It must be a relief to elderly people to know their companion will be cared for. Actually, that' s how I got Fred; his owner died, and her widower couldn't cope with Fred, who hates men. The Humane Society deemed him too old to be adoptable, as he was 10 then, and most people want kittens, which are unfortunately always in good supply. Fred is now past 18 and still cantankerous. I tell him I have lost count of which life he is on, but must be at least # 12. Dawne Dawne

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