knotzen Posted September 9, 2005 Posted September 9, 2005 They took her out back and shot her. No! She just took a little nappy-poo and...never woke up! Oh, and Quote
sobo Posted September 9, 2005 Posted September 9, 2005 sobo..you sail too?? Maybe you are my kinda guy! A sailboat guy that is! I was raised on a boat for the first 5 years of my life! I now have my own little Cat!! I have some friends at the Tacoma Yacht Club who let me crew on their boat from time to time. They used to have an Olson 30, then they traded up to an Express 37. We do pretty well in the Puget Sound races, Whidbey Island Race Week, and up at Snake Island/Nanaimo. While I haven't yet been invited to go with them (yet), they placed really well in several recent Vic-Maui and Trans-Pac races. Check 'em out here. Quote
sobo Posted September 9, 2005 Posted September 9, 2005 Yours truly is on the far left in this 2002 post-Whidbey Island Race Week celebration photo. While we only placed 3rd in our class, no one present doubted that we won the post-race party. "Socially Fearless" is our team motto! Note the team jerseys... cute, huh? Quote
Kitergal Posted September 9, 2005 Posted September 9, 2005 Funny! That's the exact picture I looked at when I said HOW FUN!! Yeah...LOVE IT! Quote
archenemy Posted September 9, 2005 Author Posted September 9, 2005 No psudoporn on the nonfluff thread. Either make it hardcore or start a fluff thread. Quote
gregm Posted September 9, 2005 Posted September 9, 2005 "magic button" (cal 39) will beat kahuna's butts in any future races. or at least try. Quote
Kitergal Posted September 9, 2005 Posted September 9, 2005 what the hell is she holding in her hands?? k. I'm outta here..I'm going home to take a nappy-poo.. Quote
selkirk Posted September 9, 2005 Posted September 9, 2005 Do I get something special for hitting 100 posts?? That depends, what would you like? Quote
sobo Posted September 9, 2005 Posted September 9, 2005 Nice website! I see you've found the "Kahuni of the Week" link, cbs... Quote
sobo Posted September 9, 2005 Posted September 9, 2005 "magic button" (cal 39) will beat kahuna's butts in any future races. or at least try. You're on! Kahuna will paint her hull with the pigment that is the dust of Magic Button, wrap your dead in your spinnaker, and send them all to Davey Jones's locker! Aaaarrr! Aaaarrr! Quote
selkirk Posted September 9, 2005 Posted September 9, 2005 what about fluffers? Saw a dude a latino dude in pimped out ride in downtown seattle with "fluffer" on his lisence plate! wtf? Quote
sobo Posted September 9, 2005 Posted September 9, 2005 Did he have pink shag carpet on the dashboard? If so, I'd believe the license plate. Quote
archenemy Posted September 10, 2005 Author Posted September 10, 2005 what the hell is she holding in her hands?? k. I'm outta here..I'm going home to take a nappy-poo.. those are tampon strings Quote
Greta Posted September 10, 2005 Posted September 10, 2005 Whoa. Bad idea. I was really enjoying the thought of this babe dragging a net load of pescado up to the campfire. You know, she's proficient at cleaning fish and.... thanks, you're definitely my enemy. Quote
EWolfe Posted September 10, 2005 Posted September 10, 2005 I DID have a cat, but she peed all over the house, and I took her to Humane Society, and they "put her to sleep." Potential Suitors take note! Your aim better be good! Quote
sobo Posted September 10, 2005 Posted September 10, 2005 I DID have a cat, but she peed all over the house, and I took her to Humane Society, and they "put her to sleep." YOWSA!!! A bit extreme, wouldn't you say? Couldn't you have have put an ad in Pet Finder, Animal Friends, or Best Friends? Check out any one of those on the web next time, before you release the guillotine... Quote
knotzen Posted September 10, 2005 Posted September 10, 2005 I DID have a cat, but she peed all over the house, and I took her to Humane Society, and they "put her to sleep." YOWSA!!! A bit extreme, wouldn't you say? Couldn't you have have put an ad in Pet Finder, Animal Friends, or Best Friends? Check out any one of those on the web next time, before you release the guillotine... I didn't know they were going to do that. They only put down, OK, kill pets that they think will not have a chance at being adopted. I had taken her to the vet to see if this was a health problem or behavioral, and the vet said there were indications she had liver issues (elevated liver enzymes, which I didn't understand). After a round of antiobiotics to try to address the liver problems, the vet was going to have me put her on Prozac, but she wasn't a cat I could pick up and push a pill down her throat, and she wouldn't eat food that had the pill mashed up in it. So that didn't appear to be a viable option. Humane Society said they would do a complete health evaluation. When I called a couple of weeks later to see if she had been placed (I was very much hoping she could/would be placed in a home where she could be outdoors or in/outdoors), they said she had multiple significant health problems and had been euthanized. I was really shocked. She didn't deserve to die. I hadn't expected they would do that. But, I know that their whole purpose for existence is to protect animals, so her conditions must have been more extreme than my vet had been able to discover. I asked for information on her conditions, so I could try to feel like maybe I did the right thing, taking her in there, but they never called back. I finally figured, it's done, and it wouldn't change anything if I knew. Before that, I had tried to find her a home through craigslist, but my vet strongly discouraged me from placing her somewhere without telling about her urination problem, b/c she might end up being abused for it. And who wants a cat who pees on your couch, your clothes, your sleeping bag, right in front of you? I had called NOAH in Arlington, Homeward Pets (where I adopted Lucy from), and Purrfect Pals to see if they had resources for finding an outdoor home for her, and only NOAH replied, saying they only work with pets who come directly from shelters, who would otherwise be euthanized (which, it turns out, was precisely Lucy's situation). Purrfect Pals in Arlington is a true 100% no-kill cat shelter, but I did some volunteer work there once and it's really a pretty horrible life for a cat. They have a house converted to a "cat house," and hundreds of cats live there. It's just astounding--cats everywhere, and even though they clean the place every morning, by the next morning it's a pig sty--food and vomit and excrement on the floor, b/c they take cats they have the worst health problems. I didn't think Lucy would be happy there. Poor Lucy. It took me a couple of weeks to fully realize she was really gone from the earth. I feel pretty shitty about it, actually. Quote
sobo Posted September 10, 2005 Posted September 10, 2005 After reading your post ^^, I apologize for my crassness, knotzen. It was unitentional. From the tone of your OP, it originally appeared to me that you just dumped her off there, problem solved. I can see now that that wasn't the case. I'm surprised that the HS didn't call you back before she got the needle. And that vet sounds like he/she could use some sensitivity training. I had a dear cat for years named Trango, that outlasted several girlfriends. He ultimately developed CRF (kidney disease), but I worked with my vet and gave him several more years of high living. For me, it amounted to giving him subcutaneous injections 2 to 3 times a day, special foods, and picking him up and putting him down from the couch (CRF eventually leads to muscle atrophy in the hind quarters) whenever it seemed like he needed it. And I found a pet-sitter who'd do the same for him, so my climbing never really suffered as a result of my kit's illness. Again, I apologize. And I'm sorry to hear how your reationship with your kit ended. Quote
knotzen Posted September 10, 2005 Posted September 10, 2005 It's OK. I quite understand. Too many people are careless with animals' lives. Quote
Alpinfox Posted September 10, 2005 Posted September 10, 2005 It's OK. I quite understand. Too many people are careless with animals' lives. You mean like using them as letter openers? ZING! How's that for fluff!?!? OK, this wank is going climbing now. Quote
EWolfe Posted September 10, 2005 Posted September 10, 2005 Going to get that "direct" on the Tooth? Quote
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