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> > Yep.  Food.  A cat will put up with a lot for food.
> 
> He sure did... and the thing about him (compared to 
freaks I have now, which
> are two feral kitties from a litter of 4 we adopted 
from the Ithaca Pet Shelter
> :) ) he never ever scratched or bit a person.. no 
matter what the kids did..
> (like my daughter's babydoll carriage) .. we started 
calling him St. Fred since
> no one in our family could ever think of a bad thing he 
did and he'd obviously
> reached sainthood status after he died to hear the 
tales all of us would remind
> each other of about him :) :)
> 
I had one like that as a baby, named Skipper.  He knew he 
was top cat and just put up with anything we little kids 
did.  

> I remember when he died my dad was even so upset.. and 
he hated cats - he was
> Irish-setter man, or no pet LOL. He put Fred in a 
wooden mahogany box he had,
> and buried him under one of his trees in his yard in 
Warwick, NY where I grew
> up..He said Fred deserves the best. I thought that was 
a trip. I should contact
> the owners of that house now and tell them about that 
saint buried there, but
> they probably wouldn't understand :)

Or if they're cat people, they would.  
 
> > I'm betting she wasn't a total stray either, but 
probably
> > had to hunt for dinner as often as not.
> 
> Yes, not a "stray" as they wander in your yard.. I 
remembered seeing the car
> rip off at high speed after they left her.. what 
creeps.
> 
Ecch.  Throwaway.  I had one of those for a while until I 
found him a better home.  Beautiful little tabby tomcat.
He just showed up one day and didn't leave. 

> > but Fred had a gorgeous
> >> singular mustache haha..
> 
> Oops forgot one. this is important y'know Lol.. there 
was another male calico
> named Sprinkle.. my daughter named him hehe

Accurately?
 
> >  My current two are alley
> > cat gray tigers.  They're also 15.
> 
> That's so neat!  My kitty I grew up with when I was a 
little kid lived to be
> 18... she died shortly after I got married.. Hmm <g>. I 
found her when I was
> 8yrs. old in our basement and she decided I was her 
person Lol

Hello I'm yours.  Yep.  
 
> Fred died of some strange disease the vet couldn't 
identify.. he said to me at
> one point maybe this a form of feline aids because it 
was devasting his body...
> I won't go into gross details, but he had a very rough 
time with one of his
> eyes, and more. Finally with me holding him in my arms, 
we had him put to sleep
> so he didn't suffer any longer. As I held him, I 
remember how he purred... what
> a kitty.

He knew.  It could have been FIV; they didn't diagnose 
that until about 20 years ago.  
 
> > Good kitty. He fought the bandit and won.  Raccoons 
are
> > mean fighters, so that's impressive.
> 
> Yeah they sure are... and happily it was one of those 
situations where you'd
> say, "Yeah, but look at how the other guy ended up" <g>

Yep. Fertilizer.
 
> > Too true.  Just pest the human to open the can.
> 
> meow meow meow in the morning LOL... we can't figure 
out why Lola keeps driving
> us crazy meowing all the time.. she'll just start 
sometimes during the day,
> sometimes at night (she doesn't care if it's 3AM 
<grin>)... it's not food, or
> water or cat box.. and now it's spring so she can go 
outside.. it's like she's
> looking for someone.. Can't figure it at all :) :)

Sometimes they just meow.  One of mine will sometimes 
start letting out what I think is a hunting meow in the 
middle of the night.  There may be some mice in the 
basement, but Howler Monkey is upstairs when it happens.
 
> > It's also natural for the dog.  Most dogs will dig if
> > allowed.
> 
> Yeah it never bothered me.. unless they were trying to 
dig their way out from
> under the fence here :)  We have a 5Ft. chain-link 
fenced section of our yard
> for the "kids" <grin>.  When I work on my earthboxes 
(so much easier for me
> than a garden) I swear they dig like fury trying to get 
out to eh... "help" me
> LOL

They want to know what you buried in there that you're 
going after.
 
> Yeah, I had to seriously soap up a kitchen window in 
our house in Windsor, NY,
> because the "bird brains" were seeing the wrong 
reflections of tree outside
> that window.. it was kind of insane for a while 'til I 
soaped it up with a bar
> of soap.

We hang sun catchers on some windows, which doesn't 
always help.  Dumb birds try to evade them and KLONK.
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