Your topic of the day....?

Yeah, I'm still doing LOST stuff. In fact, I probably won't finish until Friday morning, so pick a few topics, DISCUSS AMONGST YOURSELVES, and I'll join in this afternoon sometime...

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[lwt]

just saw a piece on the news about a side effect of the foreclosure situation. when people leave their homes, they frequently leave their pets behind. some of them take their pets to a shelter. some simply leave. i hope those of you who have pets have had them spayed or neutered. those of you who don't, please consider getting one or two, from a shelter. we have two shelter cats. they are sisters. the one came right up to the front of her cage and was purring and was so friendly. the other one just sat on top of a box in the back of her cage, with her face to the wall. this was one unhappy cat. i fell in love with the friendly one and took her sister as well for her to have company. they have been with us for more than a year. the unhappy one has turned out to be the most loving, playful cat. she does not seem like the same depressed cat i saw in the shelter. i have never regretted my decision to take her.

[Tom McAdam]

Good morning, lwt. How's your car?

I, too, got my pet from a shelter. We got her almost 3 years ago, from Ramapo Bergen Animal Refuge. Her name is Sara (she came with the name, and my daughter wouldn't let me change it--I've always wanted to name a dog Hubert H. Humphrey), and she's now a nearly 6 year old basset hound. When we got her, she was a 3 year old pomeranian--shows what a proper diet can do. Wish I could post a picture of her, because she has the sweetest, most adorable face. She is a loving, sweet-tempered pup, who thinks every human being is her friend. She has at least 3 boyfriends in the neighborhood who she positively swoons at the sight of (yes, she is neutered--I agree that that is the most important thing you can do for your pet)and a devoted fan club that stops and plays with her wherever we go.

Did I say good morning, lwt? I think I must have, but I've been typing for so long I've forgotten.

[lwt]

you did, tom and good morning to you. had to bring it back to the gas station because the brakes started grinding and i noticed that my inspection sticker read 2007. upon closer examination, i found, to my horror that i was nearly a year overdue! between the brakes, inspection and the water pump, that's a 'grand' chunk from my retirement fund. when i got home, my husband could not believe that my inspection had lapsed. well, my van is blue and my inspection sticker was blue, no one ever noticed the year. it just blended in. he said, my sticker is blue. i told him he was overdue, too. he insisted he was not. discussion settled when my son went out to look. november, 2007. today is my day off. guess what i am doing today?
sigh. it was so much easier years ago. you mailed in your renewal, received your registration and went down to the mechanic. done.

[nan]

Okay--3 cats here.....one adopted from a shelter, one from someone's basement, one caught as an under year old feral outside my school....they are all wonderful in different ways--even with baggage from previous lives...I have them posted on my flickr photo site but wish we could share this here...Bill - we saw the doggy--can we reciprocate?

[Debbie from Lyndhurst]

Okay...3 cats here also! One adopted from the shelter, one ababdoned in a neighbors garage as a kitten and the other born of a previous cat adopted from a different shelter! Tiger, Marley & Chloe!

[Debbie from Lyndhurst]

Also, ALL spayed or neutered.

[Debbie from Lyndhurst]

Also, ALL spayed or neutered.

[lwt]

i knew my fellow bloggers were good people!

[m.b.]

I adopted 2 cats from a foster mom shelter called Cause for Paws. They are twin brother and sister, so of course I had to get them altered. ;) Having only had dogs as a kid I treat(ed) my cats like dogs. They respond when you whistle and call their names. It's too funny.

My sweet little niece just got a big Girl Scout award for donating a huge amount of items she collected to the Bloomingdale shelter. For Super Bowl, instead of bringing food to their family/friend party, every one was asked to bring items for animals. Some family friends brought high end dog shampoo, Iams food, vitamins, etc. The animals will receive some great treats while they wait for their new homes.

[Linda]

I can't have a pet here, so I guess I'll have to throw in another subject.....does anyone really believe that story about the woman on the toilet seat for 2 yrs? Who fed her? Was there another bathroom in the house? I can think of a whole bunch of other questions....but I'm a lady.:)

[lwt]

yes, i do think it was quite bizarre but i am upset by the amount of publicity that poor woman is receiving. apparently she was hiding. obviously she has problems, but is it contributing to anyone's well-being by all of the attention? if i had a humiliating problem such as that and it received all that publicity, i would want to hide even more. i believe in respecting peoples' privacy.

[Nancy from Nutley :)]

oh linda, so so sad. i just googled the story and found this follow up.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23618592/

it's easy to point fingers in a story like this however, who's fault is it really? do you blame the boyfriend of "reduced mental capacity" who was caring for her the best way he knew how to? (she rejected any intervention and is still refusing to cooperate in the hospital).

do you blame her family for raising her to never leave the house?

do you blame us/society for allowing these things to happen under our noses while we turn away?

no one wants to take the blame for something like this. i feel we're all to blame. we are all inter-connected. it's easy to say, i didn't even know. but we all do know of injustices every day and most of us (myself included)just walk away. we're being trained, "don't get involved!"

what bothers me most was my first instinct was to LOL at this story. LOL at another human beings suffering...that's sad.

sad, very sad.
i hope and pray we all find awareness. (i just finished reading a new earth-it's changed my reactions)

[KimW]

3 cats here-Male Neutered Daddy-O was found as a stray. We canvassed the neighborhood and nobody claimed him. We found out later one of the elderly neighbors committed suicide and her family turned the cats out to fend for themselves. He is a huge Tuxedo Norwegian Forest love bug. Oreo Double Stuff Puff is also a tuxedo, but with short stubby legs and a white stripe on her back like a skunk. She was abandoned at a few days old, while her mom was moving her brood and was bottleraised, leading her to believe I am her servant. Savannah Fluffanella was adopted from our Second Chance Center for Animals last August after I lost my 20 year old Siamese. Savannah (or 'Nanners) will be a year old this month and I chose her because she was not a cuddler. All her sisters and brothers were adopted, but she was wilder and did not seem to want much human contact (who would after being poked and squeezed at a shelter for months). She has really bonded with me and plays with Daddy-O constantly. Hysterical to watch a 21 pound cat being chased by a 4 pound one. Savannah keeps us laughing with her antics like attacking her reflection in the patio door and swinging around her cat tree like a pole dancer.

[Nancy in Nutley : )]

Bill - on yesterday's column, you are sure one funny cookie! : )

[nan]

Buster---big fluffy gray with white....follows me everywhere, Peanut---beautiful and very fluffy white and tiger petite, and Sylvester--typical tuxedo...Awe.....we're all cat people except Bill...hope you'all are going to be at Bananas with pix of the fuzzy ones

[Linda]

It would be interesting to find out how this story made it into the newscasts in the first place....her boyfriend?

[lwt]

if their town has the same set-up as ours, to get an ambulance you must first call the police. those records are open.

[Evelyn]

Two cats - Monte was adopted by Mom and we inherited him when she moved into a nursing home. Having lived with only an elderly woman, he's scared of his own shadow. Cat #2 was adopted from START II, a local group, and she's Joelle, the cat from Hell. Loves everyone but me, whom she bites and stalks for reasons only she understands. Our 2 dogs were born in our living room to a pregnant dog we adopted from the Friends of West Orange Animal Shelter. We all suspected her condition, but by the time we found our for certain, she was ours, and Molly was a joy, despite the hell she regularly put us through. We lost her last year to lymphoma suddenly, and she's the one name that will make me cry if I see a dog that reminds me of her. Her kids have the same wonderful temperament - but Molly was a cult unto herself, dumped and abandoned by some fool, unfixed, to add to the population of unwanted pets if we hadn't found her. I'd no more dump my kids on the streets than any of our animals, and I have nothing but contempt for people that do that.

[nan]

we are a bunch of animal savers and lovers aren't we...

[lwt]

yup.

[nan]

for all you cat people up above...I just re-found this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JynBEX_kg8&feature=related

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