Happiness Is A Warm Puppy (Who Can Shoot) - Beyond Tiki

GT Geeky Tiki Member Las vegas Joined: Oct 15, 2002 Posts: 533	GT Geeky Tiki Posted posted on Thu, Sep 9, 2004 5:50 PM My wife is a vet, so we get some interesting foster pets rotating through the house. My favorite of all time was an orange and white female kitten that was found on I-80 as it goes through Oakland. She was so sweet that she was still purring and nudging with her nose to get petted even though her back leg was mangled. She even tried to play. She ended up losing her leg at the hip joint and then recovered at our house. She was so cool, we kept her. But what to name a three legged cat? We settled on Eileen. Get it? Eileen? Anyway, she developed a great little hop for walking slow and her disability had absolutely no effect when it came to achieving full speed around the house. Anyway, my sis-in-law baby sat her when we were moving and they fell in love, so now Eileen is an "only cat" in that household. To add some Deja Vu, here in Vegas we drove by a little black kitten clinging to the median at our big freeway interchange one hot day. We had to loop around and do some "blinker work" but we met Eileen's soul twin. It was a male shorthair who had been tossed from a car, best we can figure. He had what's called a de-gloving injury - kind of peeling back tissue - under his jaw and one paw. He was near death with hyperthermia and his injuries, but he still wanted to cuddle. Anyway, happy ending, now "Otto" (Get it, Otto?) lives with my wife's mom and dad. Ooh, one time, my wife had a cat come in who got his butt shot off, and she actually built him a new butt - that worked! He made popping (pop pop pop) sounds out his new butt when he farted, so he got named Iggy. Sorry to ramble. I like pets, but this "companion" thing worries me. With some folks it's only a matter of time before I'll meet some person who says, "Well, I was going to have him neutered, but he refused to sign the informed consent, and then he chose not to get vaccinated...so what was I to do? I mean I told him he should do it, but he's his own dog, you know?" [ Edited by: Geeky Tiki on 2004-09-09 17:52 ]

My wife is a vet, so we get some interesting foster pets rotating through the house.

My favorite of all time was an orange and white female kitten that was found on I-80 as it goes through Oakland.

She was so sweet that she was still purring and nudging with her nose to get petted even though her back leg was mangled. She even tried to play.

She ended up losing her leg at the hip joint and then recovered at our house.

She was so cool, we kept her.

But what to name a three legged cat? We settled on Eileen. Get it? Eileen?

Anyway, she developed a great little hop for walking slow and her disability had absolutely no effect when it came to achieving full speed around the house.

Anyway, my sis-in-law baby sat her when we were moving and they fell in love, so now Eileen is an "only cat" in that household.

To add some Deja Vu, here in Vegas we drove by a little black kitten clinging to the median at our big freeway interchange one hot day. We had to loop around and do some "blinker work" but we met Eileen's soul twin.

It was a male shorthair who had been tossed from a car, best we can figure. He had what's called a de-gloving injury - kind of peeling back tissue - under his jaw and one paw.

He was near death with hyperthermia and his injuries, but he still wanted to cuddle.

Anyway, happy ending, now "Otto" (Get it, Otto?) lives with my wife's mom and dad.

Ooh, one time, my wife had a cat come in who got his butt shot off, and she actually built him a new butt - that worked!

He made popping (pop pop pop) sounds out his new butt when he farted, so he got named Iggy.

Sorry to ramble. I like pets, but this "companion" thing worries me. With some folks it's only a matter of time before I'll meet some person who says, "Well, I was going to have him neutered, but he refused to sign the informed consent, and then he chose not to get vaccinated...so what was I to do? I mean I told him he should do it, but he's his own dog, you know?"

[ Edited by: Geeky Tiki on 2004-09-09 17:52 ]

Post #113423 by Geeky Tiki on Thu, Sep 9, 2004 5:50 PM