I can't get this face out of my mind....REVISITED
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genie
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 Posted: 01/08/06 - 16:39 Post subject: I can't get this face out of my mind....REVISITED
Somebody stop me. NOW. I thank God this shelter is closed on Sundays..... 
The story: I was talking to a friend of mine in St. Louis who does "foster parenting" for dogs. She sent me the link to her shelter and showed me a pic of the latest dog she is hosting. My house is not really dog-friendly and since our yards here are common ground, I was really leaning toward not getting one--that mandatory walk at 5:30AM in the freezing rain with a poop bag just doesn't do it for me. A cat--if I liked them--which I really don't--would be an easier pet to have where I live. I ended up googling to see if there are any no-kill places in this area. Just thinking, mind you, not expecting to find anything I might be remotely interested in. I was actually thinking more of volunteering there than adopting. Honest.
Need I mention again that I don't really like cats? (RR, if you tell them I have a soft spot for those four legged children of yours I will deny this vehemently  ) Sigh.....but look at that pitiful little face.
Somebody slap me--hard--and remind me about all the bad things about cats and why I don't want one. PLEASE. Preferably before tomorrow after work, they are open til 7:30.....
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Posted: 01/08/06 - 16:43 Post subject:
cats = the death sneeze
and hives....
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Posted: 01/08/06 - 16:45 Post subject:
I blame you for this.....if you had sent Taz home with me when I first met him, I wouldn't want a cat now....
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Posted: 01/08/06 - 16:55 Post subject:
| genie wrote: | | I blame you for this.....if you had sent Taz home with me when I first met him, I wouldn't want a cat now.... |
hides her dog in the closet
What dog?
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Posted: 01/08/06 - 17:00 Post subject:
Whoa! That looks like Trish's cat, who also gets on with dogs. One of the few cats that I can stomach, excluding the allergy factor, which is still horrific with Smash (her cat's name) that bears a strikingly twin-like resemblence to this beast including the whiskers.
You're a semi-dog person. Meaning you love to play aunt and spoil them, not deal with the daily walks in the cold rain in your climate. Unless you get, god help you, a mini-pup. Then you could use poopie pads. You don't want an animal that poops inside. That's one of the many reasons you hate cats. Dogs are like children, more than cats. As someone who has had (and has a dog now) both, trust me. I've been blessed with a very well-behaved trained animal, who works around my schedule. If you think she can be a pain, you have not seen bad dog behavior, trust me.
Why not get a boa? Or a guinea pig? Guinea pigs are cute, cuddly, and not a whole heck of a lot of work.
Actually, small dog wise, you would do well with a Bichon. And aren't there some sort of allergy free Mexican hairless cats? Where is RR? She would know about this sort of thing. I can ask my friend Rachel (the one with the thirteen rescued formal feral cats) if she knows of any good no-kills for this type of breed in your area if this is not a whim. She would know, and god knows has the time to do it.
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Posted: 01/08/06 - 17:02 Post subject:
Look at your choices. You have no boyfriend, correct? Need I continue?
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Posted: 01/08/06 - 17:07 Post subject:
Get a video game.... easier to take care of and they don't ask togo out in the middle ofthe night.
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Posted: 01/08/06 - 17:09 Post subject:
| JACKED UP wrote: | | Look at your choices. You have no boyfriend, correct? Need I continue? |
A cat would be FAR less aggravating.....although that image of crazy cat lady old maid does scare me.......no offense pfffffff
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Posted: 01/08/06 - 17:11 Post subject:
| genie wrote: | | JACKED UP wrote: | | Look at your choices. You have no boyfriend, correct? Need I continue? |
A cat would be FAR less aggravating.....although that image of crazy cat lady old maid does scare me.......no offense pfffffff |
Just do it.  OK, this could be the wine talking.
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Posted: 01/08/06 - 17:11 Post subject:
| JACKED UP wrote: | | genie wrote: | | JACKED UP wrote: | | Look at your choices. You have no boyfriend, correct? Need I continue? |
A cat would be FAR less aggravating.....although that image of crazy cat lady old maid does scare me.......no offense pfffffff |
Just do it. OK, this could be the wine talking. |
just go pick up a bum or something....
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Posted: 01/08/06 - 17:12 Post subject:
what a sweet face.
but, um, i'm thinking allergens and all that stuff.
plus, you can't deny that you haven't been fond of cats really, with the exception of my two perfect angels that you adored.
i really find that absence from the issue is the easiest way to resist. if you volunteer there (altho that this the most bestest thing a person can do) you will be face to face with these homeless sweet things and most likely more tempted to adopt and then adopt again..... i have a friend who works in a shelter and, well, she is sooooooo tempted every time and has caved on a few occasions. (all good endings)
if you go there and if you hold that cat, it will come home with you.
my famous last words: "we're only going to look"
kristin -- i do have a semi hairless cat (big ears and very ET-ish) but he is chronically cold, i mean chronically obsessed with finding warmth and heat and laps and basically a high maintenance guy. he needs alot of attention, almost moreso than a dog in that respect. he is an attention monger but i love his little curly self!
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Posted: 01/08/06 - 17:21 Post subject:
| rolling rock wrote: |
kristin -- i do have a semi hairless cat (big ears and very ET-ish) but he is chronically cold, i mean chronically obsessed with finding warmth and heat and laps and basically a high maintenance guy. he needs alot of attention, almost moreso than a dog in that respect. he is an attention monger but i love his little curly self! |
You mean THIS furry self?? 
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Posted: 01/08/06 - 20:52 Post subject:
| genie wrote: | | rolling rock wrote: |
kristin -- i do have a semi hairless cat (big ears and very ET-ish) but he is chronically cold, i mean chronically obsessed with finding warmth and heat and laps and basically a high maintenance guy. he needs alot of attention, almost moreso than a dog in that respect. he is an attention monger but i love his little curly self! |
You mean THIS furry self??
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Posted: 01/08/06 - 21:00 Post subject: Re: I can't get this face out of my mind....
| genie wrote: | Somebody stop me. NOW. I thank God this shelter is closed on Sundays.....
The story: I was talking to a friend of mine in St. Louis who does "foster parenting" for dogs. She sent me the link to her shelter and showed me a pic of the latest dog she is hosting. My house is not really dog-friendly and since our yards here are common ground, I was really leaning toward not getting one--that mandatory walk at 5:30AM in the freezing rain with a poop bag just doesn't do it for me. A cat--if I liked them--which I really don't--would be an easier pet to have where I live. I ended up googling to see if there are any no-kill places in this area. Just thinking, mind you, not expecting to find anything I might be remotely interested in. I was actually thinking more of volunteering there than adopting. Honest.
Need I mention again that I don't really like cats? (RR, if you tell them I have a soft spot for those four legged children of yours I will deny this vehemently ) Sigh.....but look at that pitiful little face.
Somebody slap me--hard--and remind me about all the bad things about cats and why I don't want one. PLEASE. Preferably before tomorrow after work, they are open til 7:30..... |
That is exactly what my cat looked like. She came to our doorstep on Halloween when I was 7 and I couldn't give her up. Thinking it was a boy, I said, "If it's a boy we'll call him Harry, and if it's a girl we'll call her Harriet." Harriet it was.
Harriet ate my dollhouse dolls, ripped our chairs to shreds and in general just really didn't give a crap about us. She also purred like a tiger, forgave my mother for moving her down to hot Houston, and managed to beat feline leukemia by eating copious quantities of chicken soup.
When my mom went down to Houston, she stayed with her sister for a while and they made a deal that Harriet would be staying after my mother moved into her new house. It became comical to go to my aunt and uncle's for dinner after my mom moved--my uncle would say to my mother, "Geez, will you at least clean the cat hair off the piano bench?" and my mother would say, "No." Apparently the terms of Harriet's new residence were known to everyone except my uncle.
Anyway, here's my advice: I don't feel too warmly toward cats so there's no bias in my words It's something else to love and they're so low-maintenance, unless they get really really sick. You almost never have trouble asking someone to look after your cat when you go away b/c they don't require walking. They're really clean, they don't bark or attack the mailman, they don't crap everywhere. True, you could vomit from opening a can of cat food, if you're squeamish, but dog food smells way way worse.
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Posted: 01/08/06 - 23:31 Post subject:
I'm used to the cat food stench, it's not that bad. Matt has two cats at his new apartment and I feed them whenever I go over. They're inherited from his sister and both could use about 5 years daily psychotherapy but the one's coming around.
The cat POOP stench, now that's another story. 
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