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> From: owner-bardroom2{at}tantech.com
> [mailto:owner-bardroom2{at}tantech.com]On
> Behalf Of Kestrel
> Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 4:13 PM
> To: bardroom2{at}tantech.com
> Subject: Re: [BR-2] ...till the dogs come home to play
>
>
> It has been reported that Osama bin Laden was captured
> That's how the shelters work here too -- and I'm all for it!
> Responsible pet
> ownership entails more than just a good bed and food.
> I was watching one of the vet shows on Animal Planet the
> other day... some
> ppl brought their cat in because it had a nasty discharge.
> Turned out it had
> recently given birth -- only there was one that died still inside, and
> caused the infection which required an emergency spay. Get
> this...it had had
> TWO LITTERS A YEAR for TEN!!!!!! TEN!!! years!!! They
> "couldn't afford" to
> get the cat spayed!!!.... WHAT!?!?!?! There are places that
> will do it for
> FREE... and that's completely aside from taking measures to
> isolate the cat,
> or paying attention to when it's in heat....
>
> all that said... I don't have cats. Maybe it's hard to tell
> when they're in
> heat. but jeez o pete... 10 years, 20 litters of kittens...
> that just reeks
> of abuse to me
and a whole lot of neglect.  We see cats in our neighborhood here, out in
the freezing cold.  It just breaks my heart to see that, let alone the sound
of a dog barking for hours in someone's back yard when its freezing outside
(-15 to -20c)

> anyway... glad to hear Tuck is back home where she belongs,
> and safely cared
> for :)

so am I.  she was only really gone for a day, but it was a long one.

> it probably reassured her everything was as she left it 
> It's cool how
> observant some animals are... change a single thing in a room

yeah, they both are a little confused by the fact that their crates are now
downstairs.

> while Sairi
> was out of it, and *instantly* she went to it when she came
> back in. She
> *always* knew and had to check it out instantly. Inyuk notices the big
> things... like furniture  but all the normal doings of
> life... bah, not a
> big deal to him.

does he go nutso with the vacuum?  It's like WW3 here when that beast comes
out to terrorize them.  :-)

>
> Have you decided if you'll show Zoe? I saw some fine looking
> boxers last
> weekend... not sure if I have pictures of them tho. Still
> have to put the

we have been thinking about it, however 2 obstacles stand in our way.  Her
training isn't going as "smoothly" as we hoped it would be, she's
pretty pig
headed, but slowly coming around to our way of thinking, and secondly, the
%^%{at}!#! breeder is jerking us around with her papers and registration.
She's got to the end of the month to make good before we go to the CKC with
a major complaint.  

if we show her, we can't show her as a purebred now, without papers.  *sigh*
I would love to see the pictures when you get them though.

> film in, but I've been sick (again) since the shows :/

HUGS


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