LOL. Well do bear in mind, that none of my crew can actually be fired for not doing their job. They have a ton of job security and I do have several that take advantage of that.
TenHouseCats <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
TenHouseCats <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
you mean like my purrsians? you know, stuffed-cats-who-purr?
On 10/5/05, MacKenzie, Kerry N. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
> Your cats sure work for their living! And get plenty of exercise too. They
> would not be impressed by my bunch of couch potatoes--cute & adorable, yes;
> interested in gainful employment, noooooooooooo.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
> Lewis Faye
> Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 2:15 PM
> To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
> Subject: RE: fleas/hypocrisy.../MC
>
>
> Cats do kill roaches but in the south, that is not always enough. Cats are
> not just a love of mine; they are a necessity. I have to have barn cats. I
> cannot exist without them because they eliminate the mice from the barn
> which can cause disease for my horses and feed various poisonous snakes that
> I also do not want around my horses. My land is surrounded by snakes but I
> don't have them on my property. My crew do an excellent job. No pest
> control can begin to do what my cats do so safely and lovingly.
>
> "MacKenzie, Kerry N." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
> >>>>>If I didn't have cats, I would have geckos and spiders as my
> exterminators.<<<< That's very interesting--esp about the spider!
>
> I have a Q tho---do cats kill roaches??????
>
> I have had one roach (abt a month ago)--it was actually dead when I found it
> in my hallway, so I didn't freak out. D'you think it could have been one of
> my cats that killed it? (I have never seen them kill an insect--they just
> play with it, then get bored and walk away).
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
> Lewis Faye
> Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 12:43 PM
> To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org
> Subject: Re: fleas/hypocrisy.../MC
>
>
> I love spiders. When I was in graduate school, my apartment was overrun
> with palmetto bugs which I absolutely hate. One day a large spider moved
> into my room and the roaches disappeared. The spider would drag the bodies
> of the roaches to the drain in my bathtub and I could just rinse them down.
> Eventually, no bugs. Pest control came. Killed the spider. The next day,
> the bugs were back. Found another spider. Bugs disappeared. Pest control
> came and bugs were back....
>
> If I didn't have cats, I would have geckos and spiders as my exterminators.
>
> But then I have always been weird....
>
> Faye
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I couldn't agree with you more on the spider issue!! I've also got an
> irrational fear of them...I wanted to visit Australia at one
> point...until my boss (an Australian) told me about the size of the
> spiders they've got over there...that killed any plans to vacation in
> Australia any time soon...And I can't bring myself to "step on them"
> anymore after I killed a black widow spider here at the office. Ironic,
> yes, but I felt so bad for days after doing the deed...there is a great
> story my dad told me about his dad...back when my dad was a kid, his dad
> discovered a black widow in the back yard...instead of "disposing" of
> it, he set up a stool next to the web and grabbed a notebook to "study"
> its movements...he probably watched that spider for hours on end
> absolutely fascinated by it! One day, the spider was gone and my
> grandfather immediately went to my dad thinking that he had done
> something to it (my grandfather was *so* upset! Dad hadn't gone near
> the spider, however)! Anyway, after hearing that story, my guilt was
> only compounded...
>
> Anyhoo, I'd like to add fire ants to the list of "Why?" :)
>
>
> ****************************************************
> "But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be
> unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world; You
> become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed..." --Antoine de
> Saint-Exupéry
>
> "If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know
> each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them, and what
> you do not know you will fear. What one fears one destroys." --Chief Dan
> George
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: TenHouseCats
> Date: Wednesday, October 5, 2005 11:48 am
> Subject: Re: fleas/hypocrisy.../KIT
>
> > i tend to limit my compassion to critters with four or fewer legs.....
> >
> > as to why fleas and cockroaches exist--i have NO idea whatsoever,
> > but i do
> > believe that they sit around and laugh at us and our attempts to
> > exterminatethem, knowing as they do that that predate us by
> > millenia and can expect to
> > survive long after we are gone from memory!
> >
> > i think spiders are great, in theory, but i'm one of those with an
> > irrational fear of them--has something to do with my being found
> > playingwith a black widow on a vacation when i was about 4, i
> > think; family sort of
> > overreacted.... i don't kill them--part of my fear is that if i get
> > closeenough to them to harm them, they can get me first! so every
> > year when they
> > start to appear, i make a deal with them--if they do NOT crawl over
> > me, nor
> > drop down in front of me on their silk, they get to live indoors
> > with me!
> > they, of course, don't seem to realize that even if they do, i'm
> > not really
> > gonna do anything (see above)--or perhaps they're just humoring me.
> > i always
> > loved the, "they're more afraid of you than you are of them" line:
> > well,i've never seen one of them run screaming from ME! i'm a LOT
> > better now that
> > i used to be--i no longer leave the house when i know there are any
> > in the
> > house, nor jump off of/out of moving vehicles when i see one (did
> > in a bike
> > that way once....)--nor do i keep track of their every movement in the
> > house! hee hee.... had a friend in bangor, ME who called the cops
> > once to
> > get them to come get a big spider out of his house. needless to
> > say, they
> > did NOT respond....
> >
> > --
> > MaryChristine
> >
> > AIM / YAHOO: TenHouseCats
> > MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > ICQ: 289856892
> >
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