• R.I.P. Mama

    From mark lewis@1:3634/12.73 to all on Wed Feb 10 12:24:50 2021
    we're burying Mama cat today :( :( :(

    )\/(ark

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  • From Janis Kracht@1:261/38 to mark lewis on Sat Mar 6 15:31:26 2021
    we're burying Mama cat today :( :( :(

    Sorry I missed your message in here last month, Mark! Sometimes it's hard to lose our furry friends.

    Our two kitties are doing well, though sometimes I swear like heck at Lola :) :) She can be a royal PITA, especially in the middle of the night (she's a real yowler!) Her sister, Lulu is fine and rarely makes a sound all day and night - as long as I _don't_ run out of "Catnip flavored" treats (seriously, the product name is "Blissful Catnip Flavor") :) :)

    Take care,
    Janis

    --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-5
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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12.73 to Janis Kracht on Sat Mar 6 18:34:58 2021
    On 2021 Mar 06 15:31:26, you wrote to me:

    we're burying Mama cat today :( :( :(

    Sorry I missed your message in here last month, Mark! Sometimes it's hard to lose our furry friends.

    it is... since then (2019 actually), i've also buried Tori, Mama's daughter and a tortise shell like Mama was, and friday we had services for my youngest son (33yo)...

    Our two kitties are doing well, though sometimes I swear like heck at
    Lola :) :) She can be a royal PITA, especially in the middle of the
    night (she's a real yowler!) Her sister, Lulu is fine and rarely
    makes a sound all day and night - as long as I _don't_ run out of
    "Catnip flavored" treats (seriously, the product name is "Blissful
    Catnip Flavor") :) :)

    i know the feeling... i still have Mama's last two boys, Tori's brothers... Ice, an orange tabby, and Blue, a solid stocky blue-grey (no stripes) boy... i've been letting them stay inside at times and there are times they insist on having something in their dishes instead of eating out of the huge Jethro bowl* of dry food i keep out for them... so what do i do? i go get a handful of dry food from the Jethro bowl, put it on their dishes, and they're happy...

    they come and get my attention to go out... especially since they have to go out to do their business... i found some treats they like but they look at me like i'm stoopid and my hair is on fire when i offer them catnip... they have nothing to do with it at all... strange but true and weird in a way...



    *Jethro bowl: Beverly Hillbillys reference to the son, Jethro, and the huge bowl he ate his cereal from...

    )\/(ark

    "The soul of a small kitten in the body of a mighty dragon. Look on my majesty, ye mighty, and despair! Or bring me catnip. Your choice. Oooh, a shiny thing!"
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  • From Janis Kracht@1:261/38 to mark lewis on Sun Mar 7 20:37:00 2021
    Hi Mark,

    we're burying Mama cat today :( :( :(

    Sorry I missed your message in here last month, Mark! Sometimes it's hard >> to lose our furry friends.

    it is... since then (2019 actually), i've also buried Tori, Mama's daughter an
    a tortise shell like Mama was,

    Ah.. Tortise shell is the same color that Lulu is.. She's so beautiful

    and friday we had services for my youngest son
    (33yo)...

    That must have been so darn rough. I'm so sorry.

    Our two kitties are doing well, though sometimes I swear like heck at
    Lola :) :) She can be a royal PITA, especially in the middle of the
    night (she's a real yowler!) Her sister, Lulu is fine and rarely
    makes a sound all day and night - as long as I _don't_ run out of
    "Catnip flavored" treats (seriously, the product name is "Blissful
    Catnip Flavor") :) :)

    i know the feeling... i still have Mama's last two boys, Tori's brothers... Ice, an orange tabby, and Blue, a solid stocky blue-grey (no stripes) boy...

    Lola is a calico and she is such a big mouth :)

    i've been letting them stay inside at times and there are times they insist on >having something in their dishes instead of eating out of the huge Jethro bowl
    of dry food i keep out for them... so what do i do? i go get a handful of dry food from the Jethro bowl, put it on their dishes, and they're happy...

    hahaha :)

    they come and get my attention to go out... especially since they have to go out to do their business... i found some treats they like but they look at me like i'm stoopid and my hair is on fire when i offer them catnip... they have nothing to do with it at all... strange but true and weird in a way...

    I'm always amazed when I hear about cats that don't like catnip though I've read about them before.. :) This litter that Lola and Lulu came from have always loved it. They were group of feral kittens the local shelter found, luckily they survived after their mother was killed.

    We have a lot of coyotes around here.. you can here them howling some nights. The shelter found the kittens and we adopted the whole litter. Leo was hit by a car a few years ago... he was the only male.. Lizzie (named after Lizzie Borden the shelter told us <lol>) moved in with a neighbor of our when we lived in Windsor, NY.

    *Jethro bowl: Beverly Hillbillys reference to the son, Jethro, and the huge bowl he ate his cereal from...

    haha :)

    "The soul of a small kitten in the body of a mighty dragon. Look on my majesty >ye mighty, and despair! Or bring me catnip. Your choice. Oooh, a shiny thing!"
    ... C program run. C program crash. C programmer quit.

    :)

    Take care,
    Janis

    --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-5
    * Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38)