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Post subject:
 Posted: Jul 27, 2009 - 01:09 PM
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Thank you so much for the condolences, everyone. It means a lot.
She was the sweetest kitty. And a real beauty. I suspect she was at least part Maine Coon. She was a calico, with long fur, and the longest whiskers I've ever seen on a cat. And she purred right up until the end. She had been lingering on, and hadn't eaten for about 4 days. She started throwing up bile, and we were afraid she would choke. She was so weak. So, I gave her enough sedatives to pretty much put her out. She went and sat out under her favorite tree for the last time, and pretty much just was out of it after that. I hated like mad giving her the sedatives, but I couldn't stand the thought of having her take that "trip to the vets". Hubby asked if I wanted to go and get another kitty (we still have one cat, and our dog), but it's too soon.
I'm glad that Ruthie Muffin and the carpet sharks are doing better. |
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Posted: Sep 05, 2009 - 02:53 AM
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The New York Times editorial board is starting to turn out consistently favorable columns on animal issues. Wednesday's (Sept 2, pg 22) editorial on the wolf hunt is an example. Headed "Wolf Season Begins," the editorial opens with:
"The first legal wolf hunt in decades in the continental United States began at dawn in Idaho on Tuesday. Legal wolf hunting will begin in Montana on Sept. 15. All told, some 295 wolves are likely to be killed in these two states in the next two months. Idaho has set a quota of 220, Montana 75."
The editorial tells us that the hunts are misguided, and explains why, then ends on this strong note:
"To us, the wolf hunt in Idaho and Montana seems indecent. Hunters want to kill wolves because wolves kill elk -- and the human hunters want the elk. A second reason is a love of killing things. A third is an implacable, and unjustified, hostility to the wolf. It is well past time to let gray wolves find their own balance in the Rockies."
Please check it out at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/02/opinion/02wed3.html and email it to your friends from that page. Papers keep note of their "most emailed" stories.
The same paper, also on Wednesday September 2, included a column by Timothy Egan headed "Hunting Wolves, and Men." It discusses chilling presidential assassination jokes made by Rex Rammell, a candidate for governor of Idaho, in the context of supporting the wolf hunt. Egan describes Rammell as a naturephobe and he writes about him:
"Until 2007, he made his living in elk ranching, which he calls 'a novel agricultural enterprise.' Imagine this majestic creature at dawn in a high mountain meadow, in all its glory. Now imagine it inside a fenced-off plot while someone tries to domesticate it into stupidity. That's elk ranching."
You'll find Egan's column, also against the wolf hunt, on line at http://tinyurl.com/m7wo33 |
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