Important Stuff -- Or Not: Back to Normal

Thursday, September 13, 2007

Back to Normal

It is really quiet around here this afternoon. Ginger and Gwen are snoring away in their beds. There are no sounds of things crashing as they are tipped over or things thumping as they are pushed off the table. No sound of furry paws tearing around the apartment like a little tornado. Chito is gone. After breaking up four fights before breakfast today, I decided this situation wasn't fair to any of us. Chito was bored every day, my other cats were terrorized every day and I spent every day cleaning up after him. Oddly, after I made my decision, his mood changed. Suddenly, he got all clingy and started following me around and rubbing up against me. He never does that. So, I got his medical records together and waited for PetSmart to open.I put him into the same carrier I brought him home in and made the two-mile drive to the pet shop. There isn't a cardboard box made that he can't break into or break out of, so he poked his little head out and looked around all the way. It didn't make the drive any easier. When I pulled him out of the carrier, several employees came running to see him. They seemed happy to see him back. They called him "that big, golden cat." He had the most bewildered look on his face when I put him into the same cage that I took him out of four months ago. It was just heartbreaking. They offered to refund my adoption fee, but I had to get out of there and told them to keep it. Now, all I have to do is wait for the heartsickness to go away. I wonder how long that will take.

6 comments:

Tonto said...: I'm sorry about that. But if it's not working it's not working. I know that hurt.

Do you notice a change now in your girls?; 2:49 PM
Lone Ranger said...: It's been only seven hours, but they're not nearly as jumpy as they used to be.; 4:14 PM
Anonymous said...: I'm really sorry.; 12:42 AM
Trader Rick said...: Dog and cats are mysterious and wonderful. They can sense your mood. I had a pack of a half dozen or so barn cats, who continually either took off for greener pastures, or to to the highway with fatal results, but regularly replenished themselves. There was always one Top Cat who had the privelege of following me around closely when I was outside, and the others had to lurk at a respectful distance. Whenever that Cat disappeared, a number two would take his honored place. It was some sort of cat hierarchy-tradition thing I suppose. Or maybe they elected a token who had to be the ambassador to the hated human, I don't know. Had one who liked to perch on my shoulder whenever I was up on a ladder--felt he had to be that close, I guess.

Patrick the Dog can tell when I'm upset. If I'm weeping over a TV special about 9-11 for example, he senses this and ceases to growl and snarl at me and acts all affectionate just like he does when he WANTS something. But, then again, he rarely lets me get more than ten feet from him when we're inside, so he's used to my vibes.

You'll get better--It's like a love affair gone bad. After a decade or two, you won't even remember her name...; 6:16 AM
Anonymous said...: I'm sorry. It's *so* hard when it doesn't work out :-(; 10:20 AM
Lone Ranger said...: Well, I've learned my lesson. No more walking past the adoption cages at PetSmart and PetCo. Luckily, I'm fully stocked up on food and litter cartridges, so maybe he'll be adopted before I have to go back there again.; 1:07 AM

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Talking Points

I don't use talking points, I create them.

1. Hate makes people stoopid.

2. There is nothing so impenetrable as a closed mind.

3. A stupid person is not someone who can't learn, but someone who refuses to learn.

4. It is a small mind that has no room for God.

5. You can take Stalin out of the gene pool, but you can't take Stalinism out of liberals.

6. The best way to sabotage a bad plan is to follow it to the letter.

7. The race card is the first refuge of people who have nothing to say.

8. Ignorance is the cornerstone of arrogance.

9. Which is more racist, to hate someone who is not white or to assume someone is racist because he is white?

10. Children are not stupid. If a child is taught, the child will learn. If a child is not learning, the child is not being taught.

11. To express righteous indignation, one must first be righteous. And that's a label that doesn't stick to liberals.

12. Profanity is ignorance made audible.

13. An open mind is a liberal's worst enemy.

14. Paternalism is the purest form of racism.

15. People who bend the truth, usually bend it in their favor.

16. If you always stand in opposition to liberalism, you will never be wrong.

18. Life is simple. People who make it complicated usually have an agenda.

19. Getting your news from the corrupt, liberal media is like sticking your head in the sand, except you don't get grit in your teeth.

20. Liberals' emotional development stops at the age of 16.

21. To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell the truth.

22. Idealism seldom matches up with reality.

23. Those who don't hate communism have never lived it.

24. This was a much more civil country when men walked about heavily armed.

25. This economy will never heal as long as Obama keeps picking at the scab.

26. Liberals don't think outside the box; they ARE the box.

27. You cannot change the hearts and minds of liberals, because they possess neither.

28. There is no such thing as a kind liberal.

29. Reading Democratic Party platforms is like reading the history of human rights abuses and crimes against humanity in this country.

25 Immutable Truths About Liberals

Over the years I've been writing this blog, I've been throwing out little self-evident truths that seem to have no exceptions that prove the rule. I've made a list of some of them and will add to it as I remember them or make up more. Most of this list I've come up with myself. A few I've borrowed from others.

1. Always expect the worst from a liberal and you will never be surprised.

2. Never try to reason with a liberal. They disregard any evidence that conflicts with their beliefs.

3. You can always tell what liberals are up to by what they accuse conservatives of doing.

4. Liberals don't debate, they argue.

5. The only standards liberals have are double standards.

6. Liberals feel, conservatives think.

7. Whenever you don't understand a liberal's motives, just look for the money.

8. Liberals cannot be embarrassed. They lack the gene to blush.

9. The Liberal Golden Rule is, "Do unto others but scream bloody murder if they do unto you."

10. Liberals don't have leaders, they have demi-gods.

11. There are no honest liberals. If they were honest -- especially to themselves -- they would be conservatives.

12. A liberal's business is nobody's business, but everyone's business is a liberal's business.

13. Liberals have an inflated sense of self-worth. They are like house flies that criticize the air-worthiness of a Stealth fighter. (Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, ad infinitum are morons.)

14. Liberals lack a sixth sense that conservatives have in abundance -- common sense.

15. Liberals never stop hating.

16. There are only two types of liberals -- the deceivers and the deceived. The difficulty is telling them apart.

17. Every time liberals get on their high horse, they get bucked off.

18. Liberal programs are so wonderful that they have to be forced on people.

19. Liberals always choke on their own medicine.

20. When given a moral choice, liberals always come down on the wrong side of the fence.

21. The only way liberals can build themselves up is by tearing others down.

22. Liberals not only refuse to learn from their mistakes, they refuse to admit them.

23. Liberals have only two political positions -- blind devotion and blind hatred.

24. Liberals are incapable of attacking the message, so they always attack the messenger.

25. Liberal diversity is only skin deep.