Re: Fwd: Narrow Crotches.....

No kidding - what a frightening experience!!  Poor angel.

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Kitty" <kmrsy@comcast.net>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date:  Sat, 10 Jan 2004 23:23:22 -0500

>How sad for the poor little guy.   I'm glad to hear his problems are only
>temporary.
>Another reason not to grow Bradford Pears.
>Kitty
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "cathy carpenter" <cathyc@rnet.com>
>To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
>Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 10:24 PM
>Subject: [CHAT] Fwd: Narrow Crotches.....
>
>
>> We discuss cats so often, I thought you might wish to see this.
>> Cathy
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>> > Resent-From: mailinglist@victoria-adventure.org
>> > From: "Larry  Earl" <duckisland22@earthlink.net>
>> > Date: Fri Jan 9, 2004  9:26:42 PM US/Central
>> > To: <mailinglist@victoria-adventure.org>
>> > Subject: Narrow Crotches.....
>> > Reply-To: "Larry  Earl" <duckisland22@earthlink.net>
>> >
>> > HA! Made you look!
>> >
>> > Not exactly water gardening, but a good lesson for cat lovers, and
>> > another reason to remove all narrow crotches on trees.......
>> >
>> > Two nights ago, sometime during the night, my smallest orange cat,
>> > Kumquat, was climbing one of the Sycamore trees.
>> > But he evidently slipped and got himself wedged into a long narrow
>> > crotch on the tree.
>> > Two small branches were growing vertically, and only one inch apart,
>> > for about four feet.
>> > I found him at 6:30 the next morning in 30F weather, hanging by the
>> > hips, head down and motionless. He was so cold, I thought sure he was
>> > dead when I unstuck him. But then he twitched ever so slightly, so I
>> > rushed him to the Vet.
>> >
>> > After spending a night there he is now home, and alert, but with some
>> > hopefully temporary kidney damage, and very sore rear legs.
>> >
>> > I hope this may save another kitty somewhere in the world a similar
>> > fate.......
>> > Thanks for reading,
>> > Larry Earl
>>
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX/zone 8A



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