Ever fall in love with an idea, well I have... Or friends you haven't met
face to face, and yet you feel the loss when they are taken away suddenly by
death.
I have done both in the past two months. Guess it was my way of coping with
the loss of my good friend Teddy.
I met a very friendly 15-year-old feline named "Kitty GreyCat" on
the world wide web, and we became fast friends. She lived in Seminole, Florida,
with her buddy "Ebony BlackCat" and her human being in a 36-foot
fifth wheel. She edited the "Shaffer Online Journals" for her science
fiction, poetry writing, Whiskas buying human being named Larry Shaffer.
Unless you are an animal person, you will not understand that those of us
who are in tune to their animals know what the animal is thinking most of the
time, which is: "why are human beings so good at acting sooooo dumb!"
In the past two months I have looked forward to the daily e-mails on the
trials and tribulations of a feline retiree's life. The sharing of accommodations, the
awkwardness of growing older, and learning the secrets of
"power catnapping" from an expert.
I have been asked to use my influence in the pet industry, to see if I could
get "mousy" and "lizard" flavored Whiskas put on the market
for that discriminating feline who is looking for an exotic dinner.
I have learned to answer questions about why human beans do the things they
do.
Ever try explaining to someone who doesn't speak English why the water glugs
in a bottled water machine or where the water in the toilet goes when you pull
the little handle? It is a mind expanding trip let me tell you.
The hardest thing I think I have ever had to explain was to the human being
that belonged to Kitty GreyCat, and that was why? Why did he lose his best
friend of 15 years.
Annual veterinarian visits and all the available vaccines to keep a kitty
safe each year, and still she came down with Feline Leukemia. Now in these days
of modern miracle drugs and medications, that should never happen, but in this
case it did.
There is a point to this story, besides mourning a friend, and that is even
the vaccines that the veterinarian gives cannot always be effective; so how do
the people who give their own, after buying them through mail order or the
local feed store, expect to have proper protection for their pets?
Other Animal Notes can also be found on PawPrintz and
referenced from More Wisdom from Witchy.
