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Gregg Axley

I'll Lock Up
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Agreeing with the others Lizzie.
Sorry to hear about your loss.
We have a ferel Heeler from a farm, they are hard work to domesticate but well worth the effort.
 

HadleyH

I'll Lock Up
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Keesa
2000-2011

"Where you used to be there is a hole in the world
which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime
and falling in at night."
--Edna St. Vincent Millay


(( Rest in Peace sweet Keesa ))
 

Octavia

Familiar Face
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63
Location
New England
LizzieMaine, I'm so sorry to hear about your loss. She was gorgeous. May she rest in peace.



I lost my Pumpkin hardly a month ago, though it feels like it's already been too long. So I made room for another friend just days ago:

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I named her Olive. She was at a local shelter. She had been wandering around an apartment complex for weeks, looking for food and a little affection. The shelter guessed her owners had left her behind when they moved. She's doing wonderfully in her new home and has really become a lively, spirited girl. She seems to be loving the newfound companionship.
 

LizzieMaine

Bartender
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Olive is gorgeous. When I was growing up we called kitties with that coloring "money cats," for reasons that nobody quite seemed to understand.

You're absolutely right that it's important to make room for a newcomer -- you can never replace them, but you can always help another. This is Carol, my new housemate.

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She was named after the animal control officer who captured her and brought her into the shelter -- she was a member of a feral colony, and was pregnant when they brought her in four months ago. She was wild and ferocious at first, but settled down a bit after being treated for a cold, and now seems much more comfortable. I went over to the shelter on Friday and sat down in the cat room -- exactly as I did ten years ago when I adopted Keesa -- and Carol came over and sort of nudged me, just like Keesa did. I took that as a sign.

She's still pretty wary about her new home -- most of the time she's hiding under the guest bed -- but she comes out to be fed, and I sit and talk with her, and she appreciates and enjoys the attention. We just took a little nap together -- the first time she's ever been on a bed, I think -- and I think she realizes that this domestication racket might be better than she first thought.
 

LizzieMaine

Bartender
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The tip of her ear was removed surgically -- apparently this is something done in some trap-and-release feral-cat programs to indicate that the cat has been spayed or neutered. When they brought her in, they were expecting to return her to the colony, so when the vet spayed her he also clipped her ear. But when she got sick they decided she might be adoptable and kept her until I came along.

I didn't realize this when i adopted her, but she looks almost exactly the same as my very first cat, a feral kitten I found in my grandmother's henhouse when I was 3 years old, and insisted on keeping. We don't have any pictures of that cat, and all I remember is that she was a small grey tabby. But my mother looked at the picture and said immediately "That's Hank!" (I went in for unusual cat names even at a very early age.)
 
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Location
Portage, Wis.
Carol is absolutely adorable. So happy to hear the she's warming up already. She sure lucked out in getting a good home!

Olive is gorgeous. When I was growing up we called kitties with that coloring "money cats," for reasons that nobody quite seemed to understand.

You're absolutely right that it's important to make room for a newcomer -- you can never replace them, but you can always help another. This is Carol, my new housemate.

Carol sm.JPG


She was named after the animal control officer who captured her and brought her into the shelter -- she was a member of a feral colony, and was pregnant when they brought her in four months ago. She was wild and ferocious at first, but settled down a bit after being treated for a cold, and now seems much more comfortable. I went over to the shelter on Friday and sat down in the cat room -- exactly as I did ten years ago when I adopted Keesa -- and Carol came over and sort of nudged me, just like Keesa did. I took that as a sign.

She's still pretty wary about her new home -- most of the time she's hiding under the guest bed -- but she comes out to be fed, and I sit and talk with her, and she appreciates and enjoys the attention. We just took a little nap together -- the first time she's ever been on a bed, I think -- and I think she realizes that this domestication racket might be better than she first thought.
 

Miss Golightly

Call Me a Cab
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2,312
Location
Dublin, Ireland
Octavia - what a beautiful cat - and what colouring!

Lizzie - Carol is absolutely gorgeous - and so lucky to have ended up with you.

Feral cats seem to get a bit of a bad rap but our two cats were from a colony and they are the most gentle cats I have ever come across - even when our daughter was pulling at the fur/licking their legs/shoving her face into their furry tummys - they have never once hissed at her or tried to scratch her.
 

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