Re: Re: Raccoons, now male cats

No fooling - that WAS a classic Jim.

Pam Evans
Kemp, TX
zone 8A
----- Original Message -----
From: Zemuly Sanders
Sent: 12/10/2004 6:25:14 AM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Raccoons, now male cats

I had forgotten that one.  Thanks for reminding me and giving me a great big 
laugh!
zem

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kitty" <kmrsy@comcast.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 10:40 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Raccoons, now male cats


> This one rivals the chicken in the bedroom.
> Kitty
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "james singer" <jsinger@igc.org>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 6:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Raccoons, now male cats
>
>
>> My first wife and I had a male cat named Orpheus. He was mostly white
>> but had a black nose/mustache and a black patch over one eye. Looked
>> sort of like--you know--Hitler.
>>
>> Orphy was a sweet cat but definitely a few bricks shy.
>>
>> He often sat in one corner of the dining room and stared at, well, the
>> corner. Like he was a true believer waiting for the second coming.
>>
>> Anyway, when wife one brought son four home from the hospital, and all
>> the neighbor women gathered to appropriately "ooh" and "aah," Orpheus
>> burst through the cat door with a baby rabbit in his jaws.
>>
>> One of the Ooers or Aahers screamed and Orpheus--never the most secure
>> hunter in the wilds--dropped his prey.
>>
>> May I re-focus the scene?
>>
>> Center stage is a woman who is just home from the hospital sitting on a
>> living room couch, smiling and probably feeling kind of weak and out of
>> it, with a babe in swaddling [whatever that is], and suddenly a baby
>> rabbit is racing for its very life all over the living room--hotly
>> chased by a cat the looks a lot like Hitler.
>>
>>   Island Jim
>> Southwest Florida
>> 27.0 N, 82.4 W
>> Zone 10a
>> Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
>>
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