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A Pet Rescue Story

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You’ve been good, and we’ve been slacking on the pics, so here you go:

01aaa-kimba

The story:

You would never guess that this beyond handsome cat with one blue eye and one blond eye came into our lives at roughly six weeks of age when we discovered him cowering under our back deck with his feral mother. His eyes were glued shut because of a discharge, he was riddled with fleas, all skin and bones and pretty much not long for the world.

We had one other rescue cat at the time. Kiko was a deceivingly gentle looking little puffball. She was quite territorial and despite her small size was a ferocious hunter who would drag home prey twice her size — or maybe just the creature’s head — as an offering. Kiko could have killed Kimba in a heartbeat, but he brought out her nurturing side and he was soon doing quite well, thank you.

Today Kimba is seven years old. He’s a couple cards short of a full deck, but loves us unconditionally. Last winter, we had one other rescue cat, Chin, who is mute and basically toothless, when Kimba started making a fuss. We investigated and there was a semi-feral cat of about 10 months staring in through the sliders below the deck. This cat kept coming back each evening for the food and water we left outside for him and he too seemed like he might not be long for the world because nighttime temps in the mountains were dipping down to zero and beyond. We eventually trapped this clawless kitty, whom we named Taj, a loveable lug who today also is prospering.

So there you have it: A cat with no teeth, a cat with no claws and a cat with no brains.

Enjoy.

BTW, since this is an open thread, I had one of the best salads I have ever made, and it was kind of an accident. I’m going out of town for business Friday morning, so I was sort of just trying to clear out the fridge so nothing would get wasted before I get back and do a grocery on Sunday, and used the following items:

some red lettuce
an avocado
the rest of a bin of bean sprouts
a half a papaya
a couple cherry tomatoes
a little bit remaining in a block of colby/monterey jack cheese
a half a small container of crab meat leftover from crab cakes
a taco shell

Threw it all in a bowl, added a little olive oil, some salt and pepper, a 1/2 a lime’s worth of juice, and the rest of a container of salsa verde.

It was awesome. Also, don’t forget our own Rus has his radio show tonight on Radio Kaos. That is always worth a listen.

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  2. 2.

    glocksman

    After the bullshit of the last few weeks in the news, that is a heartwarming thing to read about.

  3. 3.

    Chat Noir

    I was thinking it’s been awhile since we had a kitty or pet thread.

    What a lovely story and what a gorgeous cat! Of course, gorgeous cat is redundant.

  5. 5.

    glocksman

    And as long as it’s an open thread, let me post a couple pics of my boxer.

    Pic 1

    Pic 2

    I really need to get a bounce hood for that flash.

  6. 6.

    MikeJ

    His eyes were glued shut because of a discharge, he was riddled with fleas, all skin and bones and pretty much not long for the world.

    Damn that Rahm! Is there anything he won’t do?

  9. 9.

    glocksman

    @panicbean:

    She. Her name is Haley.
    The big problem with getting pictures of any boxer is that they’re all so rambunctious and want to play all the time.

    I must have shot a dozen out of focus pictures because she just won’t stay still long enough.

    I even tried laying on the floor to get a shot with an upwards perspective.

    Big mistake as I soon had 60 pounds of Boxer wanting to play tug of war.

    Thank God for digital. :)

  12. 12.

    SiubhanDuinne

    What a lovely kitty, and what a wonderful story.

    I have always heard that cats (generally white cats) with different-coloured eyes are deaf. Does anyone know if that is true, or an Urban Cat Legend? (Yeah yeah, I know I could look it up, leave me alone.) If it is true, it could explain the “couple of cards short of a full deck” thing. I mean, he probably *wants* to do your bidding but he just can’t *hear* you, doesn’t mean he’s lacking in the brains department.

    Anyhow, he is a gorgeous boy and looks full of personality.

  13. 13.

    Demo Woman

    The cat looks so content and comfortable. What do you suppose the cat is thinking while peering out the window, so this is what it’s like to win the lottery?

    It’s nice to see Iam’s advertise on the site. What a perfect blog for advertising pet care.

  17. 17.

    General Winfield Stuck

    and a cat with no brains.

    Brains are not required here in the blogosphere. She looks sweet, furry, and lovable. That’s more than enough.

  21. 21.

    panicbean

    @glocksman:

    Thanks for the laugh! She is a beauty. We would love to have a dog, instead we have our daughter’s Siamese, who is a rescue, and he is extremely emotionally fragile. I have come to love him beyond measure, but I so wanted a dog. :(

    Haley sounds like loads of fun!

  22. 22.

    John Cole

    The other thing that is cool about Charlie is that he LOOKS like a Charlie. I mean, the name just fits. He has the essence of Charlie.

  23. 23.

    CaseyL

    That’s a terrific story. I have a great deal of respect for people who adopt multiple abandoned/feral kitties.

    Now here’s my chance to finally show off my kids (provided I used the link button correctly):

    The late great Ariel I

    Ariel II

    ETA: The links work, but I’m in moderation, probably because I had too many links. So I deleted the ones of Oscar and Jean Gray, and will put them in a second comment.

  24. 24.

    John O

    Christ, this is the stuff keeping me from opening a vein, as I don’t suffer fools well and boyohboy does the ‘sphere do well with exposing me to fools.

    Gorgeous kitty, great story, bless you for taking in so many, and may they make you happy forever.

  25. 25.

    SiubhanDuinne

    O/T but John Cole, I must have missed seeing where you said you were really busy/tired/sick/watching football and therefore we were on our own and not to expect much from you, because by my count you personally have front-paged *thirteen* threads so far since this morning.

    I love it when you’re too busy to give us the time of day. Can’t keep up.

  28. 28.

    scav

    minor OT comment as I totter off to some stiff drinks in radio silence. JESUS, did somebody forget to pay the sanity bill today. Declarative statement. Whose turn is it this week?

  30. 30.

    Mumphrey

    Since we’re talking about rescue pets…

    My mother lost her dog of 11 and a half years last week. We took him from the Eastern Shore of Virginia, where she lives to our place, near Washington, D.C., so he could get some help at one of the best vet hospitals on the east coast, but he was just too far gone. We had him put to sleep in my mother’s arms. It was pretty sad, and we’ll be a while getting over it.

    I brought him from Tela, Honduras in 1998. He was the saddest looking dog I ever saw: bald with mange, all scabby, with weepy eyes and a limp. And he was tiny. Full grown he wasn’t more than 12 or 15 pounds. He lived under a pickup truck that was almost always parked on the town square, and he lived on chicken bones and rotting fish heads.

    He was skittish and ran away whenever I got anywhere near him, so I came up with the brilliant plan of getting a pack of salami and a cardboard box from the grocery store, and tossing salami to him and dropping it along piece by piece toward the box until he would go in and I could catch him and take him to the vet. I got a 5th grader named Arturo I knew from the school where I had taught in town to help me.

    But when I tossed the first piece of salami toward him, he thought I was throwing it at him, and ran off. So I ran after him, throwing salami ahead of him, hoping he’d take heed of it and stop to grab one so I could grab him, and Arturo ran after me with the box. We ran across town that way, me throwing salami at this limpy bald dog, with a 5th grader running after me with a big cardboard box. We must have looked like some kind of parade you’d see if you were high on something. After about 5 blocks, I cornered him against a wall, and popped the box down over him and took him to the vet, where they laughed at me for bringing this of all dogs back to them. They named him Peluchín, which means “fuzzy” in Spanish, and it stuck.

    2 weeks later, when he was healed of his mange (but still bald) and up on all his shots, I took him home and gave him to my mother and father, and he lived with them all the rest of his life. Before he’d been in his new country a month, he’d grown a whole new, thick coat, so he ended up living up to his name. After my father died 2 years ago, Peluchín really held my mother together. She’s going to get another dog sometime in the next few months, but we’ll never find another one like Peluchín…

  32. 32.

    madmommy

    I love these rescue stories more than I can express. The animals are all beautiful, and their humans are the very best examples of how to be.

    When I first glanced at that lovely cat at the top of the page I also thought it was Tunch. But then I thought, why is JC taking Tunch for Glamor Shots, and how many stitches were required before it was all over?

  33. 33.

    General Winfield Stuck

    @John Cole:

    Then you may like the story behind how I named him Charlie. The shelter had named him Spike, which I certainly didn’t like. And when they let me take him for a walk outside, as I was adjusting his collar on the steps, a Border Patrol agent walked by and stopped to pet him. And said he looked like a Charlie. And I fully agreed, hence his current name.

  34. 34.

    Demo Woman

    @CaseyL: boo.. you have to be logged on to Facebook in order to see the photos.

    The schools north of Atlanta are closing tomorrow because we are expecting 1 inch of snow tomorrow afternoon and evening. Delta has already canceled flights for tomorrow night… gee.

  35. 35.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Mumphrey: Okay, this made me cry. I’m so sorry for your and your mother’s loss; Peluchín sounds like a great dog. And through my tears, I laughed: you write wonderfully and I could just see that salami-throwing parade. Too funny.

    Thanks for sharing that. Hug your mother, please?

  36. 36.

    Keith

    I’ve got a white odd-eyed cat like that. He’s super-attached to me and is generally friendly, but if he detects anyone as a threat to one of the other animals, he snaps and becomes very, very dangerous. One of the best cats I’ve ever owned,though. He spends 10-15 minutes every night sitting on my chest, nuzzling my goatee, and loooves to sleep in my lap while I work at my computer.
    I did lose his hunting buddy a few weeks ago…a Katrina rescue cat that never came home one day (he’s SUPER-friendly, so I assume/hope someone just stole him)

  37. 37.

    SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta

    @glocksman: Gorgeous boxer. My father had one named Kuma when I was a toddler which I used to ride like a pony! Great breed.

  40. 40.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Demo Woman: I haven’t watched any local news yet but I assume they’ve gone into full-bore *STORM WATCH 2010* mode complete with portentous theme music and graphics, Concerned Anchors, and reporters scattered all over metro Atlanta talking about how cold it is and they think they might have seen a snowflake and if that truck were going any faster he might skid on the black ice if there were any black ice.

    I love winter in Atlanta. Now excuse me while I go to the supermarket to buy six months’ worth of beer, milk, cigarettes and toilet paper.

  41. 41.

    SIA

    @SiubhanDuinne: haha! The best posts are when he’s cranky or too busy to post!

    So are you ready for this huge blizzard I’m told we’re going to have here in ATL? :)

  43. 43.

    freelancer

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    You’re getting an INCH. Friday’s high here is -4, and I bought ski goggles on Monday just so could walk to work today without having my eyeballs get frostbite. It sucks outside right now.

  44. 44.

    Mumphrey

    @SiubhanDuinne

    Thank you. He was a great dog. I think the best thing I ever saw was one time I was with my parents and they went to get the car filled up at the filling station they always went to. And the guy who owns it cleaned the windshield while the tank was filling, and when he began wiping the glass with the rubber thingy, Peluchín went nuts, snarling and snapping at it through the glass from inside the car, leaping back and forth across the front seat from my mother’s lap to my father’s and back again. We laughed so hard we almost threw up.

    He wasn’t at all mean or even really all that territorial most of the time, but when he was in my mother’s lap, well, he felt like he had a proprietary interest in her, so when that vicious filling station guy went after her windshield with such clear intent to cause mayhem, well, any self-respecting dog has to look after his woman…

  46. 46.

    jeffreyw

    @SIA: Thanks, Buddy is an awesome dog.

    Gen Stuck, there are many flavors of awesome. Charlie is one of them.

  47. 47.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @SIA: I think you and Demo Woman and I should blow off work or whatever commitments we have tomorrow and get together for about six hours and make ourselves crazy sick on hot chocolate. Or maybe go tobogganing in Piedmont Park.

  49. 49.

    demkat620

    @freelancer: Okay, you need to move. When you need ski googles to get to work. That means its not safe to live.

    OT, but is anybody else watching the great Bob Barker on TRMS?

    Love. Him.

  51. 51.

    mcd410x

    McClatchyChiTrib:

    U.S. border security officials learned of intelligence about the alleged extremist links of the Christmas Day airline bomber as he was in the air en route to Detroit and had decided to question him when he landed, officials said in new disclosures Wednesday.

  53. 53.

    Annie

    @General Winfield Stuck:

    I love Charlie smiling pictures. And, I loved the picture with the remote. What exactly was he watching?

    The rescue story was fantastic. What an adorable cat. And, I loved the ending…Thanks!

  54. 54.

    demkat620

    @glocksman: I used to have a neighbor who had a boxer that went absolutely nuts for Entennmanns donuts.

    You couldn’t even bring them in the house. She would climb on the kitchen counters and open cabinets to get them.

    True story. Boxers are characters.

  56. 56.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @SIA. That’s cool, I can go down one flight of stairs.

    Srsly, we are told that whatever state of GA offices do, we should do. So if Sonny calls in to the office because he can’t get out of his driveway, I can stay home.

  58. 58.

    catatonia

    Dog rescued story:

    Sidney is a 14 year old beagle mix. The original PITA. No meal with him in attendance can be eaten in peace. He will steal food, even at his advanced age, off a tabletop three feet off the floor. Part of the reason why he can still hang with his sister Stella on an hour walk is because years of whining, manifest in vigorous isometrics that grip his entire hotdog-shaped body, has maintained magnificient mutt muscle tone. When he whines for attention and I reach out to pet him, he makes sure he’s just beyond reach, so that when I scratch his head or belly, I’m hyperextending my arm.

    My wife (at the time g/f) and I got Sidney from the Montgomery County shelter in February of 1996. He was found early in that month, abandoned at a Metro stop. Long-term residents of the DC area might remember how brutally cold it was at that time. The staff was amazed he survived temperatures in the single digits.

    Before we adopted Sid, the staff at the MC shelter had us meet with Sidney. He paid us no attention, instead wandering around the anteroom, sniffing, unaware perhaps that we were his last hope. Or perhaps he just didn’t care. I admired that pluck. Or indomitability. (Among the things Sidney wears out is the thesaurus.) He showed it then, and he’s showed it ever since.

    When we were taking down the Christmas tree, I dropped an ornament on the rug but didn’t notice at first; sure enough, there was a suspicious silence and there was Sid, getting ready to gnash it into oblivion. I grabbed it out of his mouth and yelled at him to “stop it” for the zillionth time. And for the zillionth time, he responded by barking back at me, by way of saying “don’t yell at me, that’s what I do! And why don’t you know this by now?”

    Then I realized that this could be, given Sidney’s age, his last Christmas.

    Go get ’em, Sid. And keep getting ’em for many more years. And forgive the length, but Sidney deserves it.

  63. 63.

    WereBear

    What a happy cat! And yes… just a little clueless, in a charming way.

    The kitten has decided we will get all smooth and Swedish modern, because anything small we put down on a table or counter is knocked off with prejudice.

  67. 67.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @catatonia: What a wonderful story! Sidney sounds like a great character. I hope he has many more Christmases to chew tree ornaments and get you to yell at him, but however many are left to him, I know he’ll enjoy every one.

    @Mumphrey: Well, if you figure out how to put a photo up, I’m sure I’m not the only one who would like to see it. (And I can’t tell you how glad I am to know that I’m not alone in not knowing how to post photos and link to videos and all the other technical things these young whippersnappers do in their sleep, blindfolded, with one hand tied behind their back. Also.)

  68. 68.

    New Yorker

    If you’ll indulge this elitist, liberal Ivy Leaguer for a minute….

    Cornell HAD THE LEAD on Kansas with 1:30 to go. The #1 team in the nation, who hasn’t lost on its home court in 50 games, and CORNELL WAS LEADING THEM.

    It just couldn’t last. 71-66, Jayhawks. Whatever, Cornell is busting everyone’s brackets come March. Write that down.

  69. 69.

    jeffreyw

    @Mumphrey: You just need to open an account at one of the many picture hosting websites, Flickr is my favorite, Photobucket is another. Flickr is free for a basic account.
    Once you have an account you can point the uploader to a picture you have on your hard drive.
    After it uploads you can link to it.

  72. 72.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @arguingwithsignposts: Aha! Catnip mouse! I knew she looked stoned earlier, and now I know why!

    (And you know what? I have a terrible sinking feeling that I might have conflated you and General Winfield Stuck and Smudge and Charlie earlier. What can I say? Cute is cute and nice posters are nice posters.)

  73. 73.

    Mnemosyne

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    I have always heard that cats (generally white cats) with different-coloured eyes are deaf. Does anyone know if that is true, or an Urban Cat Legend?

    Other way around — white cats with blue eyes are generally deaf, but white cats with different-colored eyes are not. The odd eyes are a genetic protection against the deafness.

  74. 74.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Stooleo: O. M. G. That is about the cutest thing I’ve seen all day. I hope John Cole watched that YouTube video, because I totally think he should train Tunch to do that and put it up on the Tunch LiveCam for all of us to laugh at enjoy.

  75. 75.

    Morbo

    GMAC bowl is knotted at 34 with 30 some seconds left to play. Wilbon was an idiot for saying he wasn’t going to watch this one.

  78. 78.

    freelancer

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    That would require Tunch having only 2 legs on the ground at any given moment, anyone taking odds on which 2 of Tunch’s legs will catastrophically fail from bearing all of his mass simultaneously?

  79. 79.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @jeffreyw: 60? You’re an infant. But thanks for the flickr info.

    @Mnemosyne: and thank *you* for the correction on white cats, eye colour, and deafness.

  80. 80.

    J. Michael Neal

    To pets in a moment, but I’m watching the football game. I’ve been seeing these ads for a new bank for weeks, pushing what they are calling a No Penalty CD. We have those already. They’re called savings accounts. You get crappy interest because you can get your money back whenever you want it.

  81. 81.

    Annie

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    LOL. I think we would all pay to see Tunch do that, or better yet, I think we would all pay to see Tunch hold a hoop and have John jump through….

    In my house, I can honestly say that my cats have us trained well. Daily, we ARE jumping through multiple hoops…and we love every minute of it.

  82. 82.

    Skepticat

    The story and especially the photo are making me cry. I have an odd-eyed white cat who at one time looked nearly identical to that lovely picture. He starts chemo for inoperable colon cancer tomorrow. The vet thinks that he can give him more quality time without bad effects, and although I swore I wouldn’t, we’re going to try it. He was so weak and anemic Friday that I didn’t think he’d live through this past weekend, but he’s gained strength and his old self is looking out through those odd eyes. How can I not give him every chance?

    SiubhanDuinne and Mnemosyne, what I’ve heard is that not all white cats are deaf, but all deaf cats are white.

    And has anyone with an odd-eyed cat noticed that in the dark when light hits the eyes that one glows red and one green? Port and starboard.

  83. 83.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Mumphrey: Yes, assuming you’re Upshur. And wow, what a goregous dog. I want to reach into the picture and pet him. He looks like he’s made of the finest velvet and suede. Just beautiful.

  84. 84.

    Mnemosyne

    If I can just get G to haul out the video camera, I think Charlotte can be the next big YouTube star. She jumps high enough to touch the peephole on our apartment door and when he puts new litter in the litter box, she immediately runs to stand under it and play with all of the pieces of litter.

    When we finally get our Charlotte videos made, I’ll let youse guys know.

  86. 86.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Oh Skepticat, I feel for you. Such tough decisions we’re asked to make on their behalf. Your guy will let you know when he’s ready to move on. It’s kind of uncanny, but they do that. But until that time, if you can add to his quality of life then blessings on you.

  87. 87.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @freelancer: I withdraw the suggestion. I would not want to have any Tunch-related injuries on my conscience.

  88. 88.

    Skepticat

    @SiubhanDuinne: Well, he’s been making it clear that he isn’t quite ready yet, but I definitely do feel that he’ll explain it to me when the time comes. He’s in charge. As usual.

  91. 91.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Oh, John Cole? Your salad sounds delicious!

    (Now then: I want you to notice that we’re nearly 90 posts in and I am the first, I think, to comment on your awesome salad. The lesson here is, never EVAH try to combine a pet thread with a food thread. Food’s gonna lose every time.)

  94. 94.

    glocksman

    @Svensker:

    Watch this video I made a few years ago of her.
    Warning, it’s a 5.5MB .avi file so it’s not dial-up friendly.

    link to video

    And yes, I had her claws trimmed back to a more normal length after that. :)

  99. 99.

    Glocksman

    Since this is an open thread and I’m certain there are others beside myself who cursed Microsoft over this problem until finding out that Apple is to blame, here’s a fix if your Windows 7 system starts to fail to connect to the internet after installing certain Apple or Adobe software.

    Link to support forum thread

    My woes didn’t start until after installing Adobe software.

    Before I found that support forum thread, I first bought an Intel PCIe NIC to replace the onboard Realtek NIC that everyone in the Gigabyte forums were blaming for it.

    While the Intel NIC lessened the frequency of the problem, it didn’t solve it.

    A friend then said ‘why don’t you manually configure the IP/Gateway/DNS and see if that fixes it?’

    So I uninstalled the Intel NIC, re-enabled the Realtek in BIOS, rebooted after Windows re-detected it on the first reboot and did another reboot after the driver install just to be on the safe side, sure enough, fucking Bonjour Borked my internet access.

    After locking down the IP/gateway/DNS under adapter properties and a reboot later, my internet works flawlessly even with effing ‘Au Reviour’ installed.

    Any ideas I ever had about buying an Apple product (Sansa for the win over iPod) died a messy death with this issue.

    Some bugs I can deal with.
    Killing my internet isn’t one of them.

  101. 101.

    asiangrrlMN

    @General Winfield Stuck: Aw, seeing Charlie makes me smile. You guys are perfect for each other! Great decision.

    @arguingwithsignposts: Oh my god she’s grown up so fast! Adorable as ever.

    @CaseyL: Awwww, all your kittehs are gorgeous!

    I miss my boys. Though, I did get to see a mama lion and her three cubs, two bobcats, and three lynxes at the zoo today. I really wanted to take one of the bobcats home with me.

  102. 102.

    asiangrrlMN

    P.S. I will be meeting with the Vice President of Taiwan in forty-five minutes. Somehow, I don’t think I should greet him by saying, “Whassup, bitchez?”

  103. 103.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN: Oooh how exciting! Yeah I would go for the slightly more formal greetings. Funny quirk of Japanese, to make something more formal you just use longer words and forms, not sure if there’s an equivalent in Taiwanese.

    I haz news for you & y’all so I hope the meeting goes swimmingly.

  104. 104.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Yutsano: I don’t speak Chinese or Taiwanese fluently, so we stuck to English. I called him Mr. Vice President and asked about Taiwan’s relations with the US. It was very surreal.

    NEW JOB?????

  105. 105.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN: Taiwan’s relationship with the US is surreal, has been ever since Nixon went with the One China policy. Couple that with the fact that there’s a fairly large American military presence in both Japan and South Korea that can be in Taiwan fairly rapidly and the mainland Chinese have a right to be concerned.

    NEW JOB?????

    It actually gets more bizarre than that. So one of my bosses ambushes me on Sunday and asks me what my plans are for the new year. I honestly told him that I had applied for one job and was seriously considering another. He then proceeded to tell me he was willing to create a position just for me to entice me into staying. I’m meeting with him tomorrow about it. However tonight I wrote the unusual cover letter (which not to puff myself up about but I’m pretty damn proud of) and applied for the other job I sort of really want. It’s not that I don’t want to stay with the company I’m at, it’s just that I really think the one I wrote the letter for I’m going to enjoy more. So tomorrow will be a very interesting day for me.

  106. 106.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Yutsano: Yeah. I asked my dad, half-jokingly, “So I probably shouldn’t bring up the subject of reunification”, and my dad was quick to shoot that down. My family is very pro-independent Taiwan, but now that the KMT is back in charge, we kinda gotta keep it on the downlow.

    Woot woot! You’re gonna be able to name your price, baby! I’m proud of you. Good luck tomorrow!

  107. 107.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN: He told me what the position would pay but I’m gonna see if that’s flexible. Again I have to see what results from the meeting tomorrow. And if not well I might have other chances out there.

    Why does it not surprise me that your father has zero sense of humor?

  109. 109.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN: I personally have a jubley obsession. I dunno, it might be some latent heterosexual tendency in me. Don’t worry I’m not pulling anything like my bud in Wyoming did, just thought I’d put out one of the (many) things I appreciate about you. Oh and if FH #1 pulls my gay card for that, well, I done lost mine a long ass time ago!

    Just for my edification, does Taiwan have more than one VP?

  110. 110.

    HeartlandLiberal

    So there you have it: A cat with no teeth, a cat with no claws and a cat with no brains.

    Yeah, maybe so, but these cats lucked into some people who are all heart.

    Made my morning as I sit here eating my warm cereal and fruit gruel.

  111. 111.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Yutsano: WTF is jubley? Anyway, you so crazy, I think I want to have your baby! You can be bi like me. Hee. That would give TattooSydney something to ponder, wouldn’t it? You must not have seen the Dawg in a long time if you’re thinking of pulling a Wyoming!

    P.S. Taiwan has one VP like we do. So, I met the second most important man in Taiwan today. Very surreal.

  112. 112.

    REN

    I hate to say it, but this type of story is why I keep coming in here. I am so sick of all the fools in politics that I don’t even wish to read about or discuss it any longer. There is no sense of reality in the political world. People willing to care for a cold hungry animal gives me hope for our species. Politics gives me none.

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