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12-13-10, 08:58 PM
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12-13-10, 09:00 PM
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12-13-10, 09:03 PM
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Any recommendations for a good vest? Preferably one that doesn't flap like a garbage bag...
12-13-10, 09:05 PM
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12-13-10, 09:07 PM
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My wife does it all.
Usually she'll feed them for a few days to see how feral they are. All have been wild as deer. The shelter's here euthanize feral cats immediately. Unadoptable. All have been in urban settings with no sign of being around humans. We first take them to the vet to make sure they don't have anything contagious or terminal. We get them vaccinated, spayed/neutered then bring them home. They go into a spare bedroom where my wife spends days/weeks rehabbing them and socializing them. They then get adopted out or we keep them. More so of the latter.
She is getting ready to capture one now hanging out at local Chik-fil-A. She already has an adoptive home lined up for it.
12-13-10, 09:11 PM
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the kitten I posted on the last page I found scared stiff in the middle of a busy intersection, on my way home from work. no feckin way I could have just left him there...and anyone who just passed him by can drop dead.
12-13-10, 09:11 PM
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My wife does it all.
Usually she'll feed them for a few days to see how feral they are. All have been wild as deer. The shelter's here euthanize feral cats immediately. Unadoptable. All have been in urban settings with no sign of being around humans. We first take them to the vet to make sure they don't have anything contagious or terminal. We get them vaccinated, spayed/neutered then bring them home. They go into a spare bedroom where my wife spends days/weeks rehabbing them and socializing them. They then get adopted out or we keep them. More so of the latter.
She is getting ready to capture one now hanging out at local Chik-fil-A. She already has an adoptive home lined up for it.
Usually she'll feed them for a few days to see how feral they are. All have been wild as deer. The shelter's here euthanize feral cats immediately. Unadoptable. All have been in urban settings with no sign of being around humans. We first take them to the vet to make sure they don't have anything contagious or terminal. We get them vaccinated, spayed/neutered then bring them home. They go into a spare bedroom where my wife spends days/weeks rehabbing them and socializing them. They then get adopted out or we keep them. More so of the latter.
She is getting ready to capture one now hanging out at local Chik-fil-A. She already has an adoptive home lined up for it.
12-13-10, 09:19 PM
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12-13-10, 09:23 PM
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12-13-10, 09:25 PM
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Speaking of coyotes and cats...When my wife (girlfriend at the time) moved in with me she had two cats...both were house cats and declawed. I lived in the foothills near Angles Crest and had never had cats before. My dog PJ (god rest his soul) a then young and energetic Jack Russell was used to being able to run in and out of the house whenever he pleased...and me, not used to having house cats or any cats would just leave the back door open to allow good ole PJ his free run of the place. Well one of my wife's cats got out...and was duly eaten by a coyote. My wife was not pleased. She said she wanted to get another cat so the one cat that didn't get out and eaten by coyotes would not be lonely. I warned her not to get a kitten because PJ had a tendency to kill them..Jack Russell's are like that. So she comes home from the shelter with....you guessed it a kitten. She named him Chief. Chief was actually a pretty cool cat...not skittish at all and had zero fear of PJ..this, in the end, was his undoing. It was about week after Chief arrived that I got a phone call at work..my then girlfriend wife was hysterical...the only words I could make out were "your f'cking dog killed my cat' and I'm going to kill that stupid dog!" I left work in a hurry...at this point you would hope that my then girlfriend wife, a very intelligent woman, would remember my warnings about leaving Chief alone with PJ...she did not. I got home and she demanded that I get rid of that stupid little dog...I tried to reason with her, explaining he was a terrier and that's what terriers do...they kill things...it's kinda their job. She wouldn't listen...so PJ went into exile...kinda like Michael Corleone in the God Father. I sent him to stay at friends till things cooled down and it was safe for him to come home...eventually my then girlfriend wife calmed down and PJ lived another relatively happy 10 years as my dog...I miss him still.
12-13-10, 09:34 PM
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I saw an older kitten carrying a proportionally sized mouse in Prospect Park after dark the other day. It was pretty adorable.
12-13-10, 10:05 PM
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This is nice.
12-13-10, 10:29 PM
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My wife grew up in the foothills of Glendora, CA. Growing up they had a series of cats. Snack 1, Snack 2, Snack 3....
No need to get too attached. I guess this has something to do with our pet-less home.
No need to get too attached. I guess this has something to do with our pet-less home.
12-13-10, 11:07 PM
Making a kilometer blurry
Coyote != fox. There was a family in my town in CO who had a pet coyote (I know, wtf). Well, they were at a park and had it chained to the tree next to their picnic. Some idiot lets their pit bull off leash (I know, wtf) and it makes a growling snarling b-line for the coyote. The coyote killed it in about 15 seconds, and that was the first domestic critter it had ever bitten.
Just sayin'.
Just sayin'.
12-13-10, 11:29 PM
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Thank god I'm not a mets fan.
12-14-10, 04:16 AM
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12-14-10, 07:22 AM
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We've got a sinkhole that's a straight shot to 70-75' at a state park not too far from here, and of course there's 40 fathom grotto which is only 20 miles south of my house.
I can not even fathom what it takes to do that..
Oh Tanya's dad just turned the big seven oh. I need to send him a card, and maybe book a plane to go see him for new years too.
12-14-10, 07:25 AM
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12-14-10, 07:29 AM
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The world couldn't see us consuming and consuming. Or hear us. Or taste some of our wares. But communication by cinema, satellite, radio, television tape, these have been like a light turned up like on a rheostat control in a dark cellar where all of mankind used to live. Now it is blinding bright, cruelly bright. And they can all look over into our corner and see us gorging ourselves and playing with our bright pretty toys. And so they want theirs now. Just like ours, God help them. And what is the only thing we can say? 'Sorry. You're a little too late. We used it all up, all except what we need to keep our toys in repair and running and to replace them when they wear out. Sorry, that's the way it is.'
Meyer made one of his surveys of the elderly couples in the Ft. Lauderdale area, the ones being squeezed between the cost of living and their Social Security. They were very bitter about it. They were very accusatory about it. America should give them the financial dignity they had earned. Meyer's survey was in depth, relating income over the working years to the pattern of spending. Meyer radiates compassion. He is easy to talk to. He ended his survey after forty couples chosen at random, because by then the pattern was all too clear.
He said, 'I'll put it all into appropriate and acceptable jargon later, Travis, but the essence of it is that all too many of them were screwed by consumer advertising. Spend, spend, spend. Live for today. So they lived out their lives up to their glottis in time payments. They blew it all on boats and trailers and outboard motors, binoculars and hunting rifles and department store high fashion. They lived life to the hilt, like the ads suggest. Not to the hilt of pleasure, but to the hilt of spending. They had bureau drawers full of movie cameras, closets full of record players and slide projectors. Buy the wall-to-wall carpeting. Buy the great big screen. Visit all the national parks in America. Funny thing, they had started to lay away some dollars for old-age income, but when the SS payments got bigger and the dollar started shrinking they said the hell with it. Blow it all. Now their anger is directed outward, at society, because they don't look back and think of how pathetically vulnerable they were, how many thousands they blew on toys that broke before they were paid for, and how many thousands on the interest charges to buy those toys. They don't know who screwed them. They did what everybody else was doing.
He said, 'I'll put it all into appropriate and acceptable jargon later, Travis, but the essence of it is that all too many of them were screwed by consumer advertising. Spend, spend, spend. Live for today. So they lived out their lives up to their glottis in time payments. They blew it all on boats and trailers and outboard motors, binoculars and hunting rifles and department store high fashion. They lived life to the hilt, like the ads suggest. Not to the hilt of pleasure, but to the hilt of spending. They had bureau drawers full of movie cameras, closets full of record players and slide projectors. Buy the wall-to-wall carpeting. Buy the great big screen. Visit all the national parks in America. Funny thing, they had started to lay away some dollars for old-age income, but when the SS payments got bigger and the dollar started shrinking they said the hell with it. Blow it all. Now their anger is directed outward, at society, because they don't look back and think of how pathetically vulnerable they were, how many thousands they blew on toys that broke before they were paid for, and how many thousands on the interest charges to buy those toys. They don't know who screwed them. They did what everybody else was doing.
12-14-10, 07:39 AM
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