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- From: klier@iscsvax.uni.edu
- Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
- Subject: Re: Shelter cats
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.093453.9573@iscsvax.uni.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 09:34:53 -0600
- References: <1992Dec16.185850.9467@iscsvax.uni.edu> <BzEy6s.7vG@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Northern Iowa
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- Lenore Levine writes
- > Klier writes:
- >>I still don't quite understand how I got out of there without offering
- >>to adopt everyone. Maybe the extra check I left helped assuage my
- >>guilt _slightly_. (But don't be surprised to hear I've got a couple
- >>more cats soon...)
- >
- > Cats are like peanuts, you can't have just one.
-
- Tell me about it. I went to pick up Nameless at the vet, and while
- I was waiting for Dr. Broshar to try to get her lab coat around her
- (due in 3 weeks!), I was playing with a truly sweet orange fluffball
- that I judged to be about 6 weeks old. "Oh, no! He's 8.5 weeks! He's
- part of a litter that some fools brought here at 3 weeks and tried to
- tell us they were 5 weeks! Those poor kittens were so infested with
- Coccidia we kept them anyhow rather than send them home. We lost two
- of the seven the first day, and there's still one little female who hasn't
- quite recovered. She's partially deaf, and we're hunting for a really
- good home for her. Here she is...."
-
- Yup. That orange fluffball had Catkin's sweet face (Catkin died last
- summer of liver problems), and an incredibly playful nature. Yes,
- Besseya* (aka Bessie) came home with me that day. She immediately
- started playing with Charlotte's kittens (twice her size!) and Hoover,
- my housemate's cocker spaniel, and has charmed the socks off everyone who's
- seen her.
-
- Just to make Christmas even more complicated, we now have a 9 week
- Sheltie puppy bouncing around the house and making spots on the floor.
- Kittens and puppy are playing well together, but Hoover and the senior
- cats want nothing to do with these kids till they calm down... ;-)
-
- Besseya is named for an endangered species of plants in the snapdragon
- family -- common name is "kitten tails". They grow in the area, and
- it seemed an appropriate name for her, and for me, since I've spent
- a good portion of my life in Bessey Hall, the botany building at Iowa
- State.
-
- Besseya is an incredibly stubby cat-- practically spherical. Quite a
- change from Charlotte's long and leggy kittens!
-
- Kay
-
-