They are and they are a royal pain.
On May 29, 2012, at 8:55 AM, Beth wrote:
I have the same problem with opossums. I have started feeding the
ferals in a different place & putting dry food out for the Opossums.
Also I feed the ferals during the day & the Opossums eat at night.
I'm not sure if raccoons are nocturnal like opossums
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From: dot winkler <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 1:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] RACCOON GETTING INTO CAT STATION
Hi there - anyone out there - does anyone know how to construct or
how to keep raccoon out of an outdoor cat colony dry feeder? I am
feeding 7 outdoor cats and now there is a raccoon in the area eating
all the dry food every night in the dry food feeding station. I
feed the cats by day some meat and throw away the plates when done.
But the dry food is a staple food for them which they need to
supplement the one feeding I give. Also, in case I can't get there
to feed them. Any suggestions? I have seen some constructions on
line but the cats have to jump up to get into them and there is one
older cat I don't think he can jump up into anything! Please let me
know. I know this has nothing to do with leukemia, but it does have
to do with helping cats. Dotty - Freehold, NJ
From: Maureen Olvey <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, May 8, 2012 1:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] What could it be?
Had to send this again because it bounced back the first time. I
hate it when it does that.
“I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results
that are profitable to the human race or doesn’t….the pain which it
inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward
it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without
looking further.” – Mark Twain
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [Felvtalk] What could it be?
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 13:40:59 -0400
Ha, ha - I love it!!! You sound as pissed off as I was. Believe me
he is on my shitlist too. I was boiling about it for days. Matter
of fact I was just telling my co-worker about him this morning and I
got pissed off again thinking about it.
I guess he just wanted me to take her home and watch her die. I
don't know. He never did go as far as to say that exactly because I
said I wanted him to give her fluids and do a blood test and then e-
mail this other vet so I could get this experimental drug for dry
form of FIP. I didn't give him a chance to send me away with
nothing. Course, at the time other than the fever she was doing
okay. Although she was wobbly on her back legs she was still eating
and everything although she had lost some weight. So she wasn't in
any pain. But I think with a temperature of 104 he would have
wanted to do something about that anyway. The thing is that like
toxoplasmosis shows the same symptoms as the dry form of FIP and if
it was that it could be treated with some antibiotics that aren't
even that expensive. He's such a dumbass. I didn't know that the
symptoms were the same until a couple days later and when I asked
him about it he said he had thought about it when he was looking at
her. So if he thought about it and didn't suggest a test for it
then he didn't care. He figured with FeLV she's going to die sooner
or later so why spend money doing any kind of tests or treatments on
her. I'm surprised he didn't suggest killing her. BTW - it's not
euthanization unless it's to end suffering so at that point it would
have been just killing her.
I like your answer about doing what you do for the animals. I'm
going to steal it. Most everybody just thanks me for helping the
animals (I feed ferals so I run into different people that see me
doing it plus going to adoptions, etc.) but every now and then I get
someone who asks why I do it, as though it's a bad thing or beneath
me or something. I'll use your answer for those folks. It's
probably better than what I normally say to them, if you know what I
mean!
Maureen
“I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results
that are profitable to the human race or doesn’t….the pain which it
inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward
it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without
looking further.” – Mark Twain
From: [email protected]
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 12:14:58 -0500
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] What could it be?
What the hell is wrong with this vet, that he didn't even want to
help a little helpless suffering animal feel better? And he has the
knowledge and power to do just that!! I'm baffled. Not tooting my
own horn by any means, but when people ask me why I do what I do for
animals, the only answer I have for them is "because I can, and that
obligates me". I make no money of course, but I spend plenty. I
guess it all boils down to caring enough. That vet would and is on
my shitlist and I don't even know him.
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Christmas 2010.
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