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- From: sjs@naucse.cse.nau.edu (Susan Starr)
- Date: 20 Nov 92 17:53:30 GMT
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- Organization: Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff AZ
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- I am also a college student who is a responsible pet owner. I got my
- cat when he decided to move in with me. I had thought he lived with
- the crazy lady who lived next door to me. She had about 30 cats and
- they were breeding out of control. There were always new kittens
- there, and after they reached about two months they disappeared. I
- knew she was probably taking them to the shelter, which disgusted me
- but there was nothing I could do about it. She was not a very
- friendly person and she never spoke to me. I would have a fantasy
- that I would come into a lot of money and I would sneak all her
- cats to the vet and get them fixed. I would take scraps from
- the restaurant where I worked and put them out for the cats
- because they looked sort of undernourished.
- One of my crazy neighbors cats was very striking. He was an
- enormous black long haired cat. Everyone who came to visit me
- admired him. He is the largest cat I have ever seen. My
- roommate called him Big Black Fuzzy Kitty. We made up descriptive
- names for all the neighbor cats since we didn't know their real
- names. Along with Big Black Fuzzy Kitty, there was little gray
- kitty, 3-legged kitty, striped kitty and so on.
- Big Black Fuzzy Kitty must have sensed my admiration for him
- and he decided he wanted to live with me. If I ever opened my
- apartment door he ran in. At night he perched on my bedroom window
- ledge and cryed. I fell in love him. My roommate found out that
- he did not belong to the crazy neighbor. He wandered into her
- house because she left the window open during the day so her
- cats could go in and out. When I petted Big Black Fuzzy Kitty
- I noticed how pitifully thin he was.
- I took Kitty to the vet and the vet estimated that he was 3
- years old and he was already nuetered. I think it is kind of
- ironic that my neighbor had all those animals breeding out of
- control and I took the only one who was already nuetered.
- The vet weighed Kitty and he weighed 16 lbs. when he was
- starving. I don't want to think about how much he probably
- weighs now.
- He has been wonderful pet and I think the people who
- abandoned him must have been insane.
- Since I have gotten Kitty I have moved 6 times. I took two
- semesters off to work full time in Phoenix. I go to school in
- Flagstaff. He seems happier when we live in Flagstaff. Maybe
- it is the lack of trees and the ubearable heat in Phoenix. Or
- maybe he senses that I hate to live in Phoenix and adopts my
- mood.
- I never meant for this to be so long but I get carried away
- when I start talking about Kitty. It is nice to find a place
- where I can talk about Kitty, most of my friends are dog people.
-
- Sue & Big Black Fuzzy Kitty
- sjs@naucse.cse.nau.edu
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