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MikeL
Social climber
Southern Arizona
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Feb 25, 2019 - 08:51am PT
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My wife works for a catch-neuter-release cat shelter. They focus on ferals, but they also get abandoned kittens and strays that need cleaning-up and put up for adoption. My wife thinks she’s a cat-whisperer. About 25 days ago, she went after a foster kitten without gloves who gave her a couple of good bites, and to make a long story short, she got a bone infection that put her into the hospital for 5 days about 7 days ago. Granted, she should have gone into the ER sooner when the finger started to swell a bit. She now has 4 weeks of giving herself two different antibiotics by IV 6 times a day. It’s exhausting us.
Although I’ve had maybe 8 cats with other partners, I didn’t know that cat bites are especially troublesome. It seems like every specialist (GP, hand surgeon, infectious disease) we met along the way in the last two weeks all said, “Oh, yeah, cat bites.” Be advised.
One of the last fosters we had stay with us learned to fetch hair bands. It was the cutest thing ever. I’d throw it, she’d run after it, and then come bounding back with it in her teeth like some spirited filly.
One might domesticate a cat, but they are always a wild animal. It’s not like dogs.
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G_Gnome
Trad climber
Cali
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Feb 25, 2019 - 08:56am PT
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One might domesticate a cat, but they are always a wild animal.
Exactly why I have cats and not dogs. And when they decide to bestow a little attention on me then I am grateful. When they don't then I know I haven't worked hard enough to earn any. As it should be.
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TwistedCrank
climber
Released into general population, Idaho
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Feb 25, 2019 - 09:47am PT
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Dogs have owners. Cats have staff.
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Feb 25, 2019 - 10:13am PT
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those tine-like fangs coupled with cat breath germs, yeah, that will do it. best wishes to your partner Mike, that sounds really tough.
I am always kinda tickled by that evolutionary dead end of the dog vs the fact that when we stop neutering em so much, coddling/jailing them indoors, domestic felines seem largely ready to just kinda get back to the business of self supported furtherance of their own evolutionary trajectory
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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That's when feet need to be tickled!!!!
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anita514
Gym climber
Great White North
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Buddy
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Congrats on your new selection of paws to tickle, Ghost.
Thanks. It's been a tough few years, but it just got better.
Both Mari and I have lived with cats all our adult lives, but not long after we moved to a new home in West Seattle in 2011 our cat was killed by a coyote (a neighbor saw the coyote heading for the forest with Mei Fu in his mouth).
To me, keeping a cat locked up inside is cruel, but given that the area we lived in was coyote central, we couldn't see a place for an outdoor loving cat, and decided to try living with no cat at all.
Wasn't fun, but what can you do?
But we moved to a new home in a small city on the BC coast this winter. We have bears and deer in the yard on a regular basis, but, for whatever reason, there are no coyotes here. And no trash pandas. So, the day after I made the last trip from our old home and was living here full time, I headed to the local SPCA.
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Apr 16, 2019 - 01:12pm PT
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Our resident Zen artist produced another of his unique series of temporal landscape artworks this morning. Note the strong decisive strokes in the raw earth, each conveys so much, with so little. We are blessed.
The artist at work on yet another of his evocative masterpieces.
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plund
Social climber
OD, MN
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Apr 16, 2019 - 02:14pm PT
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Quel bon artiste, ce chat Harley....
Handsome, too...
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Fuzzywuzzy
climber
suspendedhappynation
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Does anybody remember the video of the cat in the well who escapes when a guy goes down to help it?
It ricochetes out of there!
Can't seem to find it.
Thanks
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Rcklzrd
Trad climber
Prescott, AZ
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All he needs are some Ruby Red slippers.
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Hardly Visible
Social climber
Llatikcuf WA
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A few weeks ago I went out to rescue a cat from a very bad living situation and two days later it turned out that I rescued 7 cats.
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Fuzzywuzzy
climber
suspendedhappynation
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Found it. Disregard.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there, say, hardlyvisible... wow, say, good for you!!
and-- of course, for the cat...
congratulations, to you, ghost on new 'house' member, :)
nice cats, mike :)
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Rudy loves road trips
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L
climber
Just livin' the dream
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May 16, 2019 - 07:42pm PT
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I had to cut him off after 2 shots of catnip, the lightweight.
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anita514
Gym climber
Great White North
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May 16, 2019 - 07:46pm PT
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Those fluffy toes are just too much
😂
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Michelle
Social climber
1187 Hunterwasser
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May 16, 2019 - 11:47pm PT
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Lola being Lola
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