LOL My Othello was "Ophelia" until he went to get "spayed" :0)
elizabeth On 4/3/07, Melissa Lind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ha! Ha! The vet called me with interesting news—Cassidy fooled us all! He is now neutered. Luckily, I named him after a fictional cowboy, so the name will stay. I appreciate all the info on mixed households, but I'm still leery about trying it. We'll see how the search for a home goes…and then I'll make a decision when the time comes. I've found places in Minnesota and Iowa that might be able to take him, but I haven't contacted the one in Utah yet. The ones in MN and IA are both sanctuaries for cats, and they are no-kill. The one in Minnesota is the Feline Leukemia Care Center http://www.felineleukemiacarecenter.org which only takes FeLV cats, but I haven't heard back from them. The one in Iowa can be viewed at www.rustichollowshelter.org. but they have a waiting list. I'll just have to wait and see. I apologize for not responding to the other posts at this time—I'm swamped with following leads for Cassidy, but I want to keep active on this mail list even if I don't have a FeLV baby in the future. My poor students…but right now I care about cats more than them! Wendy, I should have known that I'd find other English people on here! I think all my English professors in undergrad had cats—some with an entire household of them. I'll write down what you're reading, and look into it later—I'll add it to my must-read list. Why is it that English-minded people (or literature enthusiasts) are so compassionate with animals? Maybe it's because our studies (and our paychecks) have taught us that not everything valuable and honorable involves a price tag. Linda Hogan has a great book called *Intimate Nature: The Bond Between Women and Animals*. Perhaps many of you would find it comforting. Well, back to work for Cassidy the Cowboy Kitty! I'll let you all know how it goes… Melissa, Osmond, NE "To give a thing a name, a label, a handle; to rescue it from anonymity, to pluck it out of the Place of Nothingness, in short to identify it--well, that's a way of bringing the said thing into being." --Iff, the Water Genie
