"Do not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind."
~Charlotte Mason
Saturday, October 14, 2006
The Cat: Everywhere You Want to Be
Honestly - on my computer chair, on my bed, on my fave TV seat. . .then yesterday am Carolyn said that she "couldn't" brush her teeth because:
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welcome to what used to be my life. you should throw him outside at the cabin this spring/summer. There will be legends and horror stories of a feral gray cat by the time we get back.
nah the psycho cat didn't make the cut. It lives at Big B's house. I didn't want to pay $90 to have a cat that would likely cause our friendship with italy to end.
$90 plus whatever it cost to get him to a vet and get a cert. of (ill)health signed. yeah, we told my mom that if he was too irritating, she could have dad employ the $0.12 cure.
strangely, he and the dog get along fine. eat at the same time in bowls next to each other. I have no idea what this means. Em gets the cat back when she returns. or else.
dare I ask what the $0.12 cure is? (I feel like this is the time the pastor told me he killed his gerbil who had a fungating tumor by putting it in a brown paper bag and hitting it's head with a hammer. I told him to freeze it next time-death by hypothermia is much more pleasant!)
oh brother. may I also please introduce the concept of a syringe filled with potassium? also painless-relatively, as the heart goes wacky and stops. I tell ya, there are more "humane" ways to kill a dying animal then a shell or a huge vet bill.....
but you have to know someone with a syringe and potassium, right? are you volunteering? actually, that fool cat just jumped in the car to go over to the garden while we were digging horseradish. when we were done, I called and he hopped back in and rode home. maybe he thinks he is a dog or something.
yeah...it's downright frightening how much y'all know about killing animals....... but at the same time...it's a bit on the entertaining side...whatelse ya got?
yeah, but I think that's what Grandpa had to do as a child (I seem to recall him telling me he had to do it once) and I think that scarred him for life about having animals/pets. Anyways, Jim, there's this old joke in medicine that a non-medical husband (married to a medical wife) told a class I was in: "My wife, who is a doctor, knows 20 different ways to kill me without leaving a trace." We all laughed, but when I thought about it afterwards I decided he was wrong because everyway I could think of....you leave a trace. Now, hibernating Gerbil, that could happen, but not if you coat them with water after they're frozen and throw them back in, right? Of course, you could just snap their necks like my old high school chem teacher used to do with her mice that she fed to her rats-she'd snap the neck and throw them in the freezer, then defrost them before feeding them to her snakes. And as we say in medicine: "you're not dead 'till you're warm and dead" (enter aa with her story of Chad and the tadpole) and one last note: don't drink water while you're reading all these comments because when you start to laugh at them, it comes back out your nose. Incase you were wondering...;) And Darryl and Jami: here's what else we got: syringe and insulin. Works like a charm, don't have to hit the heart. I wonder if injecting enough potassium under the skin would work instead of into the heart as enough of it would overload the system and cause the heart to go into ventricular fibrillation anyways. people who get overloaded with potassium: we dialyze them so they won't die.
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welcome to what used to be my life. you should throw him outside at the cabin this spring/summer. There will be legends and horror stories of a feral gray cat by the time we get back.
he isn't feral now? he doesn't have legends now?
wait a sec, i thought that psycho cat was shiiped off to Europe???
nah the psycho cat didn't make the cut. It lives at Big B's house. I didn't want to pay $90 to have a cat that would likely cause our friendship with italy to end.
$90 plus whatever it cost to get him to a vet and get a cert. of (ill)health signed. yeah, we told my mom that if he was too irritating, she could have dad employ the $0.12 cure.
strangely, he and the dog get along fine. eat at the same time in bowls next to each other. I have no idea what this means.
Em gets the cat back when she returns. or else.
dare I ask what the $0.12 cure is?
(I feel like this is the time the pastor told me he killed his gerbil who had a fungating tumor by putting it in a brown paper bag and hitting it's head with a hammer. I told him to freeze it next time-death by hypothermia is much more pleasant!)
last I knew, it was ten cents... inflation, I guess, but 10 or 12 cents will get you a .22 shell
oh brother.
may I also please introduce the concept of a syringe filled with potassium? also painless-relatively, as the heart goes wacky and stops. I tell ya, there are more "humane" ways to kill a dying animal then a shell or a huge vet bill.....
but you have to know someone with a syringe and potassium, right? are you volunteering?
actually, that fool cat just jumped in the car to go over to the garden while we were digging horseradish. when we were done, I called and he hopped back in and rode home. maybe he thinks he is a dog or something.
technical details, I tell ya'! ;)
You people know way too much about killing animals. I should report you all.
yeah...it's downright frightening how much y'all know about killing animals.......
but at the same time...it's a bit on the entertaining side...whatelse ya got?
the old burlap bag, cinder block and body of water trick always works
Somehow i think that cat would climb out and beat you with the block....
no, see you tie the bag up with the cat and the brick inside it and then throw that into the body of water. Ta da no more cat
yeah, but I think that's what Grandpa had to do as a child (I seem to recall him telling me he had to do it once) and I think that scarred him for life about having animals/pets. Anyways, Jim, there's this old joke in medicine that a non-medical husband (married to a medical wife) told a class I was in: "My wife, who is a doctor, knows 20 different ways to kill me without leaving a trace." We all laughed, but when I thought about it afterwards I decided he was wrong because everyway I could think of....you leave a trace. Now, hibernating Gerbil, that could happen, but not if you coat them with water after they're frozen and throw them back in, right? Of course, you could just snap their necks like my old high school chem teacher used to do with her mice that she fed to her rats-she'd snap the neck and throw them in the freezer, then defrost them before feeding them to her snakes. And as we say in medicine: "you're not dead 'till you're warm and dead" (enter aa with her story of Chad and the tadpole) and one last note: don't drink water while you're reading all these comments because when you start to laugh at them, it comes back out your nose. Incase you were wondering...;)
And Darryl and Jami: here's what else we got: syringe and insulin. Works like a charm, don't have to hit the heart. I wonder if injecting enough potassium under the skin would work instead of into the heart as enough of it would overload the system and cause the heart to go into ventricular fibrillation anyways. people who get overloaded with potassium: we dialyze them so they won't die.
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