Her name Is *Snickers* and she is a bona fide member of the big, hairy Maine Coon breed. She doesn't actually "shed" cat hair as drop clumps of fur on much of the carpeting or sometimes a clump gently wafts across the linoleum in the kitchen.
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AgelessAnnie
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Posted 1:25pm July 24th, 2009Here I go again. Now. I saw your comment in my Inbox back home at Yahoo, OK? (Simply Deb)-----I wrote a note to YOU, thanking you for the compliment to my fuzzy kid.
Then it was gone. To another place I guess. I have no idea where I dumped it.....I mean, where I typed a reply to you.
So I went somewhere else, where I had three images of the place where my grandkid is going to be wed. I wrote about the possible rain. I am so frustrated I could spit.
Where the heck am I? And where is the note and images I just came from? This is ridiculous.
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Posted 10:28pm July 23rd, 2009Snickers is a BEAUTY!
Do you use anything special to help her with the hairballs that usually plague long-haired cats? Our Swiffer hacks up some yucky wads.
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Posted 1:49pm July 20th, 2009Well OK then, I think I will comment myself. Hope it shows up on this page. I always did love the Maine Coon, so imagine my surprise when I saw this furry beast sitting on top of a carpeted pedestal in her "guest lodging" at my city's great Humane Society.......and just staring at my daughter and me with her pretty green eyes.
She was a lost/stray the H.S. picked up and brought in. I could never afford to actually buy a pure-bred Maine Coon......but since I would never, ever consider a pet from any other source than adoption from a humane shelter, seeing Snickers at the shelter was still a pleasant surprise. Another lady had her sights on Snickers but no way was she going to get MY cat.....no sireee!
Snickers qualified as a "freebie" adoptee, as she was over one year old (that is the policy of our Humane Society, all cats over a year old are free, kittens have to be paid for, I think they go for, like, $75. Snickers was not quite two years old. Perfect.
One basic rule about the furry kid you bring into your home. DO NOT BUY FROM A BREEDER (or a "pet store", where do you think those shops get their poor sickly puppies from?).....Why would you willingly give Big Bucks to someone who breeds their pets just to make money for *themselves*?? Buying from a breeder just assures that ONE MORE PET SITTING FORLORN AND LONELY IN AN ANIMAL SHELTER will be killed, there just is not room to keep them. Too many cats, too many dogs. Every year, at least two million+ dogs and cats are euthanized because there is no "forever" home for them. I cry every time I think of that.
Puppy Mills -- The abomination of all that is good and kind and humane! Thank goodness some progress is being made around the country to weed out these Horrors from Hell "businesses". This is, I have decided, my No. One Absolute Hatred for the Lowest Form of Humanity who treat living, breathing dogs like so much garbage. It is the filthiest, vilest, HELL on earth for innocent creatures.
Since I pretty much drift into the paths of like-minded do-gooders -- mostly by joining up with animal welfare/rights groups and non-profit organizations who concentrate on keeping track of legislation having to do with animal *rights* (yes, animals have some rights, believe it or not, but not so many anyone is noticing. LOL) Like, I'll discuss "downer cows" with anyone who wants to learn?
This darn machine! Time goes way too fast when I am sitting here in front of the monitor, doggone it. I need food. My gosh, I am even out of my favorite cookies!! I'm outta here!