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Skriven 2015-12-31 11:37:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HANSCHKA
Ärende: Re: apples  was: sausage
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-=> Quoting Ruth Hanschka to Nancy Backus on 12-30-15  18:25 <=-

 >  >  > At least as long as the effects persist...  ;)
 >  >  RH> Since they can't fix the underlying problem, and the "repairs"
 >  >  RH> aren't guarenteed permanent, I'd say it would be hard to forget.
 >  > True enough...  :)
 >  RH> OTOH repairs beat the alternative.
 > Which... not fixing the repairs...?   The other alternative holds
 > promise for not dealing with any of it any more, and having it all fixed
 > forever...  ;)
 > 
 RH> A lack of repairs in this case could mean constant pain or emergency
 RH> surgery.  Not fun either way.

Nope... not fun at all... 

 >  RH> Most of ours have been taken elsewhere.  If they're suffering, I'd
 >  RH> rather they went quickly.
 > Ours rarely have let on when they were suffering... One that did, at the
 > end, quietly slipped away overnight just before we were going to take
 > him in in the morning... hadn't even mentioned it out loud to him...  :)
 > Of the two that did go elsewhere, one was there to be stablized and it
 > didn't work, and the other was truly bad enough to not just let it
 > ride... For her, we were all there, my son (her person) holding her to
 > the end...  :)

 RH> I'm not sure I'm going to be able to handle that one, but as the kitty
 RH> mama it's part of the job. 

Yup.
 
 >  >  RH> (LOL)  That'll teach you to feed milk to an adult cat! A lot of them
 >  >  RH> can't handle it.
 >  > Oh, he wasn't an adult... probably no more than about 6 weeks old... :) 
 >  RH> Oops.(LOL)
 > He always wanted it anyway, so we only let him have little tastes... we
 > obviously knew better (as did he, if he'd think) than to let him gorge
 > on it...  ;)

 RH> He wasn't thinking; he was smelling protein.  Protein means cat food. 

Nah.... he was smelling ambrosia...  or the kitty equivalent of Turkish
delight or something else addictive...  ;)
  
 >  > from a placid kitty into a terrified one)....  He might have only been
 >  > dumped there a short time before the weekend our church spent there...
 >  RH> I've heard of people doing that.  Makes you want to beat them. Or tie
 >  RH> THEM in a plastic bag and leave them by the side of the road. 
 > Yeah... One wonders what they are thinking...

 RH> They weren't.  That's the point.

They don't...  And they don't really care....

 >  > That's sad...  We had one stray that only stayed inside for less than a
 >  > day, but then that was because she decided to escape back into the great
 >  > outdoors because indoors was too scary for her... ;)
 >  RH> Truth!  She was probably claustrophobic.
 > Definitely too feral, at any rate... 

 RH> Some are. Some cats weren't born feral, so they'll calm down indoors. 
 RH> Adult ferals and some barn cats don't adapt well.

She was born feral...  My neighbor took in a number of ferals that did
fine, eventually.. but some just don't want the indoors....

ttyl       neb

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