I am sure my cat will be okay. I have a lot of faith regarding hydrogen peroxide and puncture wounds. Once I found pink on the paper towel I dug down deeper under the fur and broke a few scabbings (picking up only a single bite in the process) and poured more peroxide. Like I wrote, I will check the wounds again in a few hours and in the morning too. Vet is always an option if needed. The cat has had his rabies shots, so I am hoping he will be fine.
Regarding the animal crawling into a hole at the end of his life. I think it is like people. If the cat thinks of you as the jailer, then maybe it will just crawl into a hole when sick. One the other hand I have heard of cats barely still alive crawling long distances back to their owner and leaving a bloody trail behind them to where a mishap happened only to die in their owners arms or at least on the steps of their house. In those cases the relationship with the cat was deep and emotion filled on both ends.
It has been 40 something years since I have had a cat not come back from going out. Those cats were in a city environment and twice I found their flattened bodies on the street. One game of tag with a car two often.
Here in the country I feel if my cats don't come back it is because he can't. They know me and know I will care for them. I will consider being stuck up a tree (I have some big ones) or stuck in a hole (I have small cave openings in the limestone rocks all around here and more than one small skeleton is visible by flashlight beam at the bottom os some of the deeper ones) and if one is missing all night, I will look for them in the morning. However, I am also aware I do have critters that eat cats, and maybe if he doesn't come home, he is simply gone.
Replaying the noises in my mind (and also that the cat survived), I am fairly confident this boy tangled with a fox. Probably a red rather than one of the larger greys. Both kinds are around here. I am also fairly sure it wasn't an Eastern coyote as the much larger animal would probably win.
Perhaps this will convince him not to start fights with fox?
The day center? What is 3 Allegheny? Is that part of an address? Pittsburgh is a fair sized town. Are you saying there is only ONE daycare center in that whole city?
This war has been ongoing since the days of the Peter Zenger trial (1735). Nothing new about it. Those of us who advocate Freedom of Speech sometimes forget this sword cuts (as it should) both ways. The other side gets to make cartoons too. That is cool with me.
I have had too many years dealing with the darker side of humanity. I am hoping there were impartial witnesses (or a video) and the distance of the body from the bottom of the cliff is consistent with a fall vs. a push.
Very sad story either way, but I hope it really was an accident.
Nam, it is a culture thing. A lot of stone age cultures still haven't emancipated their females and feel they have the right to order who the woman will marry. Some see their world crumbling as technology and freedom enter their lives. Fiddler On The Roof - Tradition, tradition..
I took most of the data off the SSA.Gov site. You may wish to visit there and check out the pdf publications.
The Obamacare is a bubble that will soon probably be popped by this new Congress. It seems a lot of the stuff they didn't bother to read before voting to approve it has costs they didn't take into account.
Mimi, I agree natural is good. However, we see here the potential of how a new hairdo coupled with a change of color generates a totally different person.
Okay, not really, you is still you. However, blond? Va va voom. Ask you friend to also send you one as a red head. We wonder how that would look..?
Ummka - OWWW! I thought my picture below (a few years ago, 40 something inches) of a heavy snow here was bad, but you beat me easily.
Well what is in your picture (only the snow pushed through the mail slot inside the house) probably wouldn't happen here because I think my front LR picture window would burst from the weight of the snow (thereby giving me much more snow (and glass too) to cope with inside the house). I can see the door in your picture bulging. Ouch!
That homeowner may wish to invest in a) a mop for when the entry hall is covered with water from melted snow, b) a door brace like one of these.
Many years ago high up in our Rocky Mountains I was in a small village where every building had both a roof overhang all around the house on any side with windows or doors (to keep the snow a few feet away, and also a second floor veranda with it's own entrance way. That is because in that location, incredibly deep snows were not uncommon. So the first floor door was used in the summer time, but when it was obscured by snow in the winter time, every one just switched to the second (or even 3rd) floor for exit and egress into the home or business. Every home had snowshoes. <LoL, that was the year I learned that like skis, there are several different types of snowshoes, with different designs for different purposes.> The whole town was built like that. This google photo is not from that town, but it shows what would have been fairly typical there, which is also a reason why I later on chose to not settle there. It is very easy to die and be found during the spring thaw, if you live in a place like that. Not my cup of tea. :)
It is two different illnesses, neither one do you need around you. The first illness is an inability to put down the phone for more than 20 minutes. The second is a compulsion to flirt. When the two mix, any attempt at a mature relationship is doomed.
My best advice is say it once, then if she pays no heed. Hang up when she calls and hook up with someone more interested in a relationship that works.
Well both the old tales and the Bible mention the ability of the God and the Angels to cause humans to just fall asleep by command, as we see Lucy doing at 2 minutes 23 seconds. :)
LoL, not shown in this particular trailer, the guy with the gun, she looks at it a second later and all the bullets just fall out and onto the floor. Priceless.
Ekself, that is my point. Very inefficient and weak. As this movie suggests, they shouldn't have been able to even touch him. Not to mention the absurdity of needing the Israelites to be his minions, versus simply thinking those unliked out of the script, as easily as a Director cuts scenes.
Yeah true the last. It is a 40 hour trip by plane from here to Indonesia. That's if no planes are late. That's a long ride just for a meat and greet at McDonalds.
If we get drunk, then fall down, what is the problem? Is this not supposed to happen when we get drunk? Are there people who get drunk, then grow wings and fly away?
LoL, if so and someone else drunk sees it, no one will ever believe it.
Yes, men (and women) who fall behind on their bills should be banned from CS. Why are real people allowed onto CS? Only very rich people should be allowed here.
Most of the great guys (and gals) drink, fall down but have no problem doing so, mostly pay their bills, but sometimes they are late, and sometimes the company they work for shuts it's doors and they need a new job.
"If you look at politics in the west in general and the US in particular, the extreme left does not really exist anymore."
Please then explain the continued presence of President Obama, Diane Feinstein, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton and many others with financial roots and ties going back to the days of the USSR?
It would not for the other person be about you remembering your little crocodile, it would instead be about how much you let that memory destroy the new relationship. Hopefully not at all. :)
Sure absolutely. But why tweak the odds. The new rulers of Yemen still have as one of their slogans, Death to America. This morning some of them fired shots at one of the US Embassy cars caught on the street by them. Evacuations by US Marines are probable. Not a good time to be an American tourist there.
LoL, yes you did. "we'll simply eliminate them (Iraq, South America)" That said, sure we have both done direct assassinations and coups, and also quietly asked others to do it for us. No one denies the price of Americans enjoying the life style they have is that some small group of Americans has to wade neck deep in blood to make some things happen. Things come at a price. If my one of my great great great grandparents hadn't (along with many other early Americans) been willing to wipe out Indians America would look totally different today. Have you ever used products made out of rubber? You do know that before plastics replaced rubber we supported colonialism so we could get cheap supplies of it and WW2 in the Pacific arena (and also the Vietnam conflict) were as much about controlling rubber as any other resource? If my memory serves, wasn't it the US Ambassador himself who pulled out a pistol and assassinated the President of Nicaragua and when the populace revolted we sent in the US Marines to rule that country until we could get a new puppet installed, which of course led us to Samoza. You can't put it on Regan. This stuff been going on since Monroe and of course Jackson. McKinley had no problem with Hearst's lies about Spanish saboteurs blowing up the Maine (it was most probably static build up in the forward powder room) and using it to launch a War with Spain so we could seize the Philippines. Can you say, Howling Wilderness? Sure in several places we have done assassinations to put people in power, then turned around and arranged assassinations to take the same person out of power. What's your point? Just about every country that stands more than 6 feet high does that. Money or the resources to make the money with are almost always at the bottom of the pile. I went to school with a kid named Jiminez. His Dad was put in power in that SA country by some guy called Rockefeller. That was done so my parent's parents (and every other American) could have oil for their car cheaply. I blame an incompetent Congress for allowing the large corporations to become players in their own right. Anyone else remember AT&T and Chile? Of course they weren't' the first company to make money off War. Everyone knows about Maxim, but how many know about IG Farben and their role in WW2? Some of what you say is indeed obvious truth, i.e., the world hasn't changed much. It probably never will. Fixed amount of resources coupled with an always increasing population means someone has to die so someone else can eat. Darwin does rule.
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Letting the cats out
I am sure my cat will be okay. I have a lot of faith regarding hydrogen peroxide and puncture wounds. Once I found pink on the paper towel I dug down deeper under the fur and broke a few scabbings (picking up only a single bite in the process) and poured more peroxide. Like I wrote, I will check the wounds again in a few hours and in the morning too. Vet is always an option if needed. The cat has had his rabies shots, so I am hoping he will be fine.Regarding the animal crawling into a hole at the end of his life. I think it is like people. If the cat thinks of you as the jailer, then maybe it will just crawl into a hole when sick. One the other hand I have heard of cats barely still alive crawling long distances back to their owner and leaving a bloody trail behind them to where a mishap happened only to die in their owners arms or at least on the steps of their house. In those cases the relationship with the cat was deep and emotion filled on both ends.
It has been 40 something years since I have had a cat not come back from going out. Those cats were in a city environment and twice I found their flattened bodies on the street. One game of tag with a car two often.
Here in the country I feel if my cats don't come back it is because he can't. They know me and know I will care for them. I will consider being stuck up a tree (I have some big ones) or stuck in a hole (I have small cave openings in the limestone rocks all around here and more than one small skeleton is visible by flashlight beam at the bottom os some of the deeper ones) and if one is missing all night, I will look for them in the morning. However, I am also aware I do have critters that eat cats, and maybe if he doesn't come home, he is simply gone.
Replaying the noises in my mind (and also that the cat survived), I am fairly confident this boy tangled with a fox. Probably a red rather than one of the larger greys. Both kinds are around here. I am also fairly sure it wasn't an Eastern coyote as the much larger animal would probably win.
Perhaps this will convince him not to start fights with fox?