RE: Tip is Gone-Kathy
Every feral cat story I hear, I just cant stop crying there is a book called Livings in shadows - its a book about how to take care of feral cats the title itself makes me cry because it represents so much of how their life is I had a feral who used to hisses and growls as she ate I just love my ferals I am sure that your big puffy head boy is in heaven - -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of tamara stickler Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 7:10 AM To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Subject: RE: Tip is Gone-Kathy We had a feral for about 3 years that we fed...a burmese mix, all black, big puffy head with a small body and stubby legs. Everytime he saw us he'd hissso of course we named him Hisspuff. After about a year we could pet him while he ate, but he'd still hiss when he first saw us. We tried to get him to come into the house...but he never would, just prefered the straw we put out for him in the bushes out front. He got sick, nose stuffed up and eyes running - but wouldn't ever let us catch him. He showed up at the back of the house one day...just to say goodbye...again we tried to catch him, but he wouldn't have it and went off to die...but he'll ALWAYS be one of my favorites! Hideyo Yamamoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know what you mean, some of my feral hisses and spits at me whenever I am near them but I still love them as much if you know what I mean There is this poem some one of the FIP list sent to the other list member a long time ago when they lost their love one and I found it very soothing and am trying to find it so that I can share with this list member - -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 10:21 AM To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Subject: Re: Tip is Gone - Kathy Thanks Kathy, Seeing them all again will be wonderful. Like you I have had pets of all kinds and I loved them all (even some that were not so lovable.)It makes it easier knowing that they will be there for me when it is my turn to go. Love, Sheila Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard.
RE: Tip is Gone-Kathy
Oh absolutely...uhm...either that or he has already reincarnated into an orange tabby with a big head that as recently shown up at my parent's house. Same body shape...just different color! While this one doesn't hiss, he won't allow himself to be touched or caught yet either, yet he lays in Hisspuff's spot. My mom's freakin' out...she's afraid she'll become a crazy cat lady! She can't help but feed them...but she doesn't even really like cats and certainly doesn't want to have to think about it outside in the cold and wet...esp. when it refuses to come in, but lays infront of the laundry room window shivering. Everytime we rent a trap to catch himhe's a no show. So she is just going to keep feeding him in the hopes that he'll come around like the other two, Tom Jerry, that she refuses to admit are hers, but they have trained Mom Dad to let them in the house at willthey even have their own beds downstairsFor that matter, Mom's dog used to HATE cats...Jerry took two and a half years, but won her over too! What idiot human ever coined the phrase "dumb animals"?Hideyo Yamamoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Every feral cat story I hear, I just cant stop crying there is a book called Livings in shadows - its a book about how to take care of feral cats the title itself makes me cry because it represents so much of how their life is I had a feral who used to hisses and growls as she ate I just love my ferals I am sure that your big puffy head boy is in heaven - -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of tamara sticklerSent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 7:10 AMTo: felvtalk@felineleukemia.orgSubject: RE: Tip is Gone-Kathy We had a feral for about 3 years that we fed...a burmese mix, all black, big puffy head with a small body and stubby legs. Everytime he saw us he'd hissso of course we named him Hisspuff. After about a year we could pet him while he ate, but he'd still hiss when he first saw us. We tried to get him to come into the house...but he never would, just prefered the straw we put out for him in the bushes out front. He got sick, nose stuffed up and eyes running - but wouldn't ever let us catch him. He showed up at the back of the house one day...just to say goodbye...again we tried to catch him, but he wouldn't have it and went off to die...but he'll ALWAYS be one of my favorites!Hideyo Yamamoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know what you mean, some of my feral hisses and spits at me whenever I am near them but I still love them as much if you know what I mean There is this poem some one of the FIP list sent to the other list member a long time ago when they lost their love one and I found it very soothing and am trying to find it so that I can share with this list member - -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 10:21 AMTo: felvtalk@felineleukemia.orgSubject: Re: Tip is Gone - Kathy Thanks Kathy, Seeing them all again will be wonderful. Like you I have had pets of all kinds and I loved them all (even some that were not so lovable.)It makes it easier knowing that they will be there for me when it is my turn to go.Love, Sheila Do you Yahoo!?Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard.__Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
RE: Tip is Gone - Kathy
I know what you mean, some of my feral hisses and spits at me whenever I am near them but I still love them as much if you know what I mean There is this poem some one of the FIP list sent to the other list member a long time ago when they lost their love one and I found it very soothing and am trying to find it so that I can share with this list member - -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 10:21 AM To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Subject: Re: Tip is Gone - Kathy Thanks Kathy, Seeing them all again will be wonderful. Like you I have had pets of all kinds and I loved them all (even some that were not so lovable.)It makes it easier knowing that they will be there for me when it is my turn to go. Love, Sheila image001.jpg
Re: Tip is Gone - Kathy
Thanks Kathy, Seeing them all again will be wonderful. Like you I have had pets of all kinds and I loved them all (even some that were not so lovable.)It makes it easier knowing that they will be there for me when it is my turn to go. Love, Sheila inline: Clouds.jpg
Re: Tip is Gone - Kathy
You're welcome Sheila I witnessed the 3 1/2 hour visit the night before my Tina died - she was 9 1/2 years old, was my first bottle baby - I got her when she was 2 days old (someone had been babysitting her mother, her mother got out, had her litter on the neighbor's porch, and went home before the babies were found. Tina and her sister still had their umbilical cords attached. Their mother refused to accept them when the babysitter took them to their mother, the mother's owner wanted nothing to do with them, so the baby sitter contacted the pet shop I worked at and I ended up with them), andhad been FeLV+ because ofa kitten I brought home and let have run of the house for 6 weeks before he was tested in 2000. Tina had been positive for 2 1/2 years when she passed. Seeing my patient's visit the night before she died, and knowing that he was one of the people who's family dog had been keeping watch for 2 weeks from the other side made her passing bearable -still difficult, but bearable. Where there's Life, there's HopeKathy"There is nothing so strong as gentleness, and there is nothing so gentle as real strength." ~ Sir Francis de Sates
