[TheForge] cats

[Andrew Vida]

Jerry Smith wrote:
> I had a very well loved cat named Sam, he was taken from me when he was about 7. 

Sorry to hear it.  I am OK with things when they are old, but whe 
young... not good with it.  The first of mine to go was PJ - the 
sweetest cat you could possibly imagine.  She contracted feline AIDS and 
died a more unpleasant death than she had to because I was holding on to 
her very frantically.  She was only 8.  She died in 1990 and I still 
miss her. And the oddest thing is that I have only one photo of her and 
you can hardly make her out - almost like the lemon juice in the cut.

> Rufus is my house dog as well as my farm dog. The cats are not domestic so they 
> don't live in the house. Some of my barn cats are cats that city people drove 
> way out in the country to drop them off because they are not wanted. 

That is how we acquired Miss Kitty last year - about 18# and I call her 
"football" because she is basically shaped like one, only supersized.


> These 
> feline warriors keep the mice and the bugs down plus I have to defend my barn 
> cats from the local Coyotes. 

I hope to smoke a few of those bastards this year.  I have come to 
dislike them quite a bit.