I have found a home for Miss Autumn, but not until Thanksgiving. My niece’s friend (a teacher with 2 children) loves orange kitties and has been wanting another! They love her pictures, but live 4 – 5 hours away. In the meantime, she will be spayed this week if she isn’t pregnant. And their kitties are indoors, so she should live a good long life. I will cry my eyes out but it’s better for many reasons, including that I am a renter already over my “agreement” of 4!
OK, you all asked for it, here is the story of The Ghost in the Heating System:When Paul and I first moved to Barrie, we shared a large ground floor flat in a house where you could only access the basement from the outside. I was working late one evening and when I came up the street, saw basement door was ajar and light on and saw a cat disappear into the basement. I went in and asked my daughter (Chris) if the cats were in; at the time, we had three. All three were inside. We went into the basement and checked and couldn’t see any cats anywhere, so we turned off the lights and locked the basement for the night. During the night, we could hear a cat meowing. It wasn’t our three. Paul and I went outside and checked around the house and there were no cats there. We figured it was just a sound effect and some neighbour’s cat was outside. When daughter and I got home next day, my grandson said he heard a cat crying when he got home from school. Later in the evening, we heard the meowing again and my daughter laughed that the cold air return in the living room was haunted by a ghost because that was where the sound seemed to be coming from. We moved the desk out of the way and lifted off the grate and called down “here, kitty, kitty”. The meowing got longer and our reaction was "Holy #*^$, there IS a ghost cat in the cold air return. My daughter put out food and water by the hole left by the grille and camped out in her sleeping bag next to the whole for the next three nights until this skinny, motheaten, slightly battered, grey tom snuck out and started eating the food she had there. She threw a towel over him and put the grille back on the return. We took him to the emergency vet clinic and he was deemed healthy, just half-starved and a little the worse for wear. So, we called him the Ghost in the Heating System, Ghost for short. He kept company for several years with Master Cougar Booger, Miss Phoenix Mew Mew Pretty Kitty and Cuddle Bunny Kitty Kitty Wireless Laptop.
Tomorrow, if nobody minds, I will be transcribing a poem titled “Just a Common Soldier”, written by Montrealer A. Lawrence Vaincourt. The poem is also known as “A Soldier Died Today”. I believe it is poignant and particularly pertinent to the day.
I just had the chance to read yesterdays strip and comments. I work for a Hospice in Texas. If one of our patients has a pet, we make sure it has a real home when the time comes. Some of our people won’t relax and go until they know their fur-baby has a new home. The hardest to find a home for so far was the parrot.
Catzy over 9 years ago
WHAT HAVE THEY DONE NOW!
ORMouseworks over 9 years ago
And just where are all of you silly cats hiding ?! ;)
Linda Solomon over 9 years ago
How I have always felt about Mondays -
Linda Solomon over 9 years ago
Linda Solomon over 9 years ago
Linda Solomon over 9 years ago
Linda Solomon over 9 years ago
Linda Solomon over 9 years ago
This reminds me of my son Jake with his boy Dexter -
rikkiTikki Premium Member over 9 years ago
Kittens watching Lion King too much
SallyLin over 9 years ago
Hoo boy, what have those cats done now?!
rikkiTikki Premium Member over 9 years ago
“I made that”
jessegooddoggy over 9 years ago
I have found a home for Miss Autumn, but not until Thanksgiving. My niece’s friend (a teacher with 2 children) loves orange kitties and has been wanting another! They love her pictures, but live 4 – 5 hours away. In the meantime, she will be spayed this week if she isn’t pregnant. And their kitties are indoors, so she should live a good long life. I will cry my eyes out but it’s better for many reasons, including that I am a renter already over my “agreement” of 4!
ladykat over 9 years ago
OK, you all asked for it, here is the story of The Ghost in the Heating System:When Paul and I first moved to Barrie, we shared a large ground floor flat in a house where you could only access the basement from the outside. I was working late one evening and when I came up the street, saw basement door was ajar and light on and saw a cat disappear into the basement. I went in and asked my daughter (Chris) if the cats were in; at the time, we had three. All three were inside. We went into the basement and checked and couldn’t see any cats anywhere, so we turned off the lights and locked the basement for the night. During the night, we could hear a cat meowing. It wasn’t our three. Paul and I went outside and checked around the house and there were no cats there. We figured it was just a sound effect and some neighbour’s cat was outside. When daughter and I got home next day, my grandson said he heard a cat crying when he got home from school. Later in the evening, we heard the meowing again and my daughter laughed that the cold air return in the living room was haunted by a ghost because that was where the sound seemed to be coming from. We moved the desk out of the way and lifted off the grate and called down “here, kitty, kitty”. The meowing got longer and our reaction was "Holy #*^$, there IS a ghost cat in the cold air return. My daughter put out food and water by the hole left by the grille and camped out in her sleeping bag next to the whole for the next three nights until this skinny, motheaten, slightly battered, grey tom snuck out and started eating the food she had there. She threw a towel over him and put the grille back on the return. We took him to the emergency vet clinic and he was deemed healthy, just half-starved and a little the worse for wear. So, we called him the Ghost in the Heating System, Ghost for short. He kept company for several years with Master Cougar Booger, Miss Phoenix Mew Mew Pretty Kitty and Cuddle Bunny Kitty Kitty Wireless Laptop.
ladykat over 9 years ago
Tomorrow, if nobody minds, I will be transcribing a poem titled “Just a Common Soldier”, written by Montrealer A. Lawrence Vaincourt. The poem is also known as “A Soldier Died Today”. I believe it is poignant and particularly pertinent to the day.
Margaret Rogers Premium Member over 9 years ago
I just had the chance to read yesterdays strip and comments. I work for a Hospice in Texas. If one of our patients has a pet, we make sure it has a real home when the time comes. Some of our people won’t relax and go until they know their fur-baby has a new home. The hardest to find a home for so far was the parrot.