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  • I have cats

    As a lifelong dog lover this is new for me.

    A semi wild cat, a tortoise shell, had two kittens under my porch. She started feeding them on my steps. She was so weak and the kittens so small I put some milk out for them. I wanted them to feel safe and feared the mother would abandon them if she didn't have milk.

    Now they hang around my porch all the time. I give them milk twice a day. She leaves the kittens in my chair when she goes to hunt. They are safe from the stray dogs there in our yard. She hides them when the tomcat comes around.

    One is ginger and white, the other is black with tawny flecks. Initially I named them after people I don't like but now I call them Romulus and Remus. I made a toy out of a piece of wool and a bottle cap this evening, and they enjoyed playing with it. The mother I call Julie.

    They have all put on weight and look healthy after a month of a little care.

    I don't pat them. They have all kinds of fleas and worms, and are still wild. Sometimes the ginger one hisses at me, which is hilarious because it is still tiny.

    We're getting along just fine

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    Romulus and Remus
    Last edited by Alexander's Horse; January 12, 2015, 04:29.
    Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..

    Look, I just don't anymore, okay?

  • #2
    Kill them now.

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      • #4
        Dogs are nice, but cats rock.
        Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
        "Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
        He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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        • #5
          I miss having a cat.
          Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
          "We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La Rochefoucauld

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          • #6
            Rescue one, or even better, two.
            Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
            "Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
            He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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            • #7
              I'd love to, but my landlord doesn't allow pets and I don't really have the money to take care of one.
              Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
              "We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La Rochefoucauld

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              • #8
                Most likely, you also have toxoplasmosis.
                “It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”

                ― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

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                • #9
                  why I don't touch them
                  Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..

                  Look, I just don't anymore, okay?

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                  • #10
                    and I'm sure they appreciate that you don't.
                    Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
                    "Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
                    He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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                    • #11
                      It's kind of interesting Sloww. They want to be wild, which I like, but they also want to be friendly. You can see that. They run over when I come on the porch, even after being fed.

                      We're at this kind of crossover point. Did you ever domesticate or tame a cat?
                      Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..

                      Look, I just don't anymore, okay?

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                      • #12
                        Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..

                        Look, I just don't anymore, okay?

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Alexander's Horse View Post
                          why I don't touch them
                          It's the best explanation for why you find them cute now. Pretty soon, you'll start to like the smell of their urine.
                          “It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”

                          ― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

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                          • #14
                            Pictures or this thread is useless
                            In Soviet Russia, Fake borises YOU.

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                            • #15
                              I took some, just have to work out how to get them off my phone....
                              Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..

                              Look, I just don't anymore, okay?

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