surogate cat mom

Our cat died on Monday night. I'm so upset. She was the best cat ever :-(.

Chris

Would you care for another one or three? I have a goodly number of kittens at the moment, someone dropped off about 10 of them and the momma over the weekend. They are all handleable and just as cute as can be.

Id be happy to supply you a few to make up for your loss.

Gunner

"I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer." -- Benjamin Franklin, /The Encouragement of Idleness/, 1766

Christopher is in England, so shipping, quarantine, etc. is likely to turn those into very expensive cats.

Pete Keillor

On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:28:38 -0500, the infamous Pete Keillor scrawled the following:

Condolences, Chris.

I'm surprise cats aren't outlawed as deadly weapons in the UK. They have sharp pointy things on all sides (fangs/claws), right?

It's ok to let them own you. It's just not a good thing to carry them in public...

Mark Rand RTFM

.perhaps...no..no wetbacks heading that way..they are all coming this way.....sigh

Gunner

"I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer." -- Benjamin Franklin, /The Encouragement of Idleness/, 1766

Least of all...concealed.

"I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer." -- Benjamin Franklin, /The Encouragement of Idleness/, 1766

Thanks for the kind words, guys. Gunner, as Pete says, quarantine would be a problem as I'm in England. I don't think you can UPS a kitten :-). But thanks for the offer. If I ever move out your way, I might take it up. I'd certainly like some of your weather right now!

For now, I've got to bury Sheebs. She's going in a wooden ammo box with a plate with her name on the top.

Chris

Let the Record show that Gunner Asch on or about Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:53:49 -0700 did write/type or cause to appear in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:

Hmmm, the English have a quaint custom of "ferret legging". Set of baggy tweeds and you could just smuggle them in. Or conceal them in a shipment of pot. On second thought ....

"The man in the Cat-Detector Van said he can spot a cat at 100 yards. Eric being so contented, it was a snap."

tschus pyotr

"The fishing boats go out across the evening water Smuggling guns and cats across the English border The wind whips up the waves so loud The ghost moon sails among the clouds Turns the kitties into silver on the border" (W/ apologies to Al Stewart)

- pyotr filipivich Friends help you move, good friends help you move bodies. Really good friends move bodies, bloodstains and hot cars, then collect the IDs, weapons and useful stuff." _After the Dragon's Egg_, the unbegun novel.

On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:53:49 -0700, the infamous Gunner Asch scrawled the following:

I see. Confuse-a-Cat is OK to play, but Open-Carry-a-Cat is not. Right.

Oh, sure! Just TRY that sometime = Shredded Gunner.

?He was very fond of these delightful creatures, quiet, mysterious, with their electric shiver, whose favourite attitude is the prone pose of the sphinxes, which seem to have passed their secret on to them. They prowl with velvet paws through the house, like the genius loci, or come and sit down by the writer, keeping his thoughts company and gazing at him out of the depths of their eyes, dusted with gold, with intelligent tenderness and magical penetration. It seems as though cats divine the thought passing from the brain to the pen, and as they stretch out a paw they are trying to seize it on its way.? ?Théophile Gautier (1811-1872), on Baudelaire and his cats

?There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.? ?Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)

IMHO, some people here give Jeff far more attention than he deserves, but obviously craves. The most appropriate response, and perhaps the cruelest, IMO, is to simply killfile and ignore him. An alternative, if you must, would be to post the same standard reply to his every post, listing the manifold reasons why he ought to be ignored. Just my $0.02 worth.

:-D

Chris

On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:19:39 -0700, the infamous Gunner Asch scrawled the following:

Cool, x2.

Forget the alternative, just killfile and don't respond to others quoting their drivel. That's -much- less painful to all of us.