[Magdalen] Idiot cat

James Oppenheimer-Crawford oppenheimerjw at gmail.com
Wed Jan 27 17:45:09 UTC 2016


Were there pictures?

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 11:27 AM, Molly Wolf <lupa at kos.net> wrote:

> Faced with the prospect of leaving Oliver on Gloria's roof for a second
> night, and also considering Gloria's need for peace, I ended up employing a
> ladder and my tall, long-armed, experienced-with-cat-wrangling son Ross to
> get the idiot cat down.  Oliver seemed completely unfazed and unrepentant.
> But his reputation is shot.  He is a wussy-cat.
>
> I paid Ross back with dinner.  Usually works.
>
> Molly
>
> The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no
> other way. -- Mark Twain
>
> > On Jan 26, 2016, at 4:29 AM, Sally Davies <sally.davies at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > ROFL, Sib.
> >
> > Sally D <nursing some wounds from earlier attempt to "protect" cat from
> dog
> >
> >> On Tuesday, 26 January 2016, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> And just how do you suggest that Molly get him to bring him indoors?
> >> That's why God gave him a fur coat, which nobody has yet succeeded in
> >> banning.  Would you shave him (if you could get your hands on him)?
> Anyway,
> >> Molly and Oliver aren't under the jurisdiction of the idiot laws of
> >> Illinois, they're safe in Canada, which probably has sane laws about the
> >> attempted herding of cats.  I'm sure that when he actually _wants_ in,
> >> he'll present himself at the door.
> >>
> >>
> >>> On 1/25/16 2:19 PM, Eileen Kinney via Magdalen wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I am sure this is pretty cold weather to just leave a cat sit on the
> >>> roof.
> >>>  Here in Illinois there is now a law against leaving an animal  outside
> >>> for
> >>> a long length of time in freezing weather.
> >>>
> >>> Eileen In Northern Illinois
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> In a message dated 1/25/2016 2:17:23 P.M. Central Standard Time,
> >>> roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com writes:
> >>>
> >>>> On  25/01/2016 19:18, Susan Hagen wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> I had one who used to do  that.  If I tried a rescue by ladder she
> >>>> would retreat.  If  I managed to grab her she would shred me.  I
> >>>> finally left her to  figure it out on her own.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Best  way
> >>>
> >>> Roger
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Sibyl Smirl
> >> I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
> >> mailto:polycarpa3 at ckt.net
> >>
>


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