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Prayers that you will find Elmo safe & sound, AL. 
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(edited for spelling)
AL - Recording baby steps: Newest Addition
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AL
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Thanks. I try to stay positive whenever one of our "wild" cats comes up missing... but we have young feral toms, foxes and coyotes. He was an older, neutered male and had just recovered from an abcess on his hip. There was no way to keep him inside, he would have eaten people in their sleep 
but I still feel guilty.
It is cooler today, cloudy and raining to the north... nothing here yet. Hopefully it will come a storm and run him home. (of course negative nancy in me says "or come a storm and rain on him laying somewhere hurt)
*sigh*
but I still feel guilty. It is cooler today, cloudy and raining to the north... nothing here yet. Hopefully it will come a storm and run him home. (of course negative nancy in me says "or come a storm and rain on him laying somewhere hurt)
*sigh*
justusnak
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I hope your kitty does come back. Even my outside kitties, a few I can't touch, if I dont see them for a few days, I worry. Then, just when I gave up hope, there they are, begging for more food. brats! Hoping your Elmo comes back soon!
Hoping your Elmo comes back soon!savingdogs
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Well noobiechickenlady's cat came back, we will all have to send out the "come home vibes" like we did for her cat.
My daughter had a cat come back after over a month. We were very surprised and very happy, she had given up and gotten a kitten.
My daughter had a cat come back after over a month. We were very surprised and very happy, she had given up and gotten a kitten.
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AL
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Thanks... I actually try to hold out hope for a while. In '04 after Ivan my big orange cat "Mr. Kitty" (original, huh? ) came up missing. He was gone about 3 weeks - came wandering / staggering up one morning, all skin and bones. He had some weird vertigo / vestibular something-itis and the vet figured he just was so dizzy he either couldn't walk home or couldn't remember his way.
I checked the barn, garage, feed shed, woodshed, motorhome shed @ my folks, under my trailer, under wheelchair ramps and (shiver) inside my parents van / truck that have been parked a couple of days.
I took my non-surgical Rio and we worked a pretty good bit in the garden. Me pulling weeds and picking half-ripe tomatoes (if I leave them to ripen birds, squirrels and other critters get them) - Rio laying on top of the pile (yes, pile, it was that bad) of weeds where it must have been cool and comfy.
He did come close to earning his "hard working farm dog" title today - Big Poppy flogged me yesterday (strike one) and came at me again today (strike 2) - I sent Rio after him. Now, he has no clue "get him" means attack, but he did think it was incredibly fun that I was sending him towards the rooster and the rooster ran. That counts as protecting mama, right? lol
I checked the barn, garage, feed shed, woodshed, motorhome shed @ my folks, under my trailer, under wheelchair ramps and (shiver) inside my parents van / truck that have been parked a couple of days.
I took my non-surgical Rio and we worked a pretty good bit in the garden. Me pulling weeds and picking half-ripe tomatoes (if I leave them to ripen birds, squirrels and other critters get them) - Rio laying on top of the pile (yes, pile, it was that bad) of weeds where it must have been cool and comfy.
He did come close to earning his "hard working farm dog" title today - Big Poppy flogged me yesterday (strike one) and came at me again today (strike 2) - I sent Rio after him. Now, he has no clue "get him" means attack, but he did think it was incredibly fun that I was sending him towards the rooster and the rooster ran. That counts as protecting mama, right? lol
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Rio totally gets an A for effort!
i'm hearing you about your Elmo. Little Mo started as a barn cat and was horrible at it. he'd come back after a few days all scratched and bit up.. one day when he came walking back, i just couldnt take it anymore. so i grabbed him up and marched him into the house. the worry was too much for me.
*gives hugs*
i'm hearing you about your Elmo. Little Mo started as a barn cat and was horrible at it. he'd come back after a few days all scratched and bit up.. one day when he came walking back, i just couldnt take it anymore. so i grabbed him up and marched him into the house. the worry was too much for me.
*gives hugs*
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Rio is pretty handy sometimes. Last night I lost my cell phone. I used my parent's phone and walked all through the garden and chicken yard calling myself. When I went back down to their house and called Rio went and stood by the garage door- walked over to him and heard the phone ringing inside 
No sign of Elmo *sigh*
Picked another basketful of mostly ripe tomatoes today. I can't leave them on the bush / vine because birds and I guess squirrels are getting them. They have even figured out how to get in the "cage" where I have the grape tomatoes growing. I covered it with chicken wire today so hopefully they will leave at least that alone. I don't have enough to can, but I am getting overrun as far as eating them fresh - any suggestions?
There is no grass in the pasture but the horses refuse to eat hay, so I am turning them out in my yard, then my parent's yard, then back to the pasture. I have fenced off the middle yard and am running a sprinkler there for a while at night, it is green but really thin. I have the vet coming out to do their vaccines and Coggins tests, then Buddy is going to be spending a good part of the summer with a trainer (if she'll take him this late, she may want to wait until Sept or so).
Great news at work... bully chauvinist lech of a boss is being moved!!
My asst manager told me a couple of weeks ago that this guy had a target on my back (no idea why - I do my job and do it very well, as my reviews and the bonuses with them attest). It is like a boulder has been lifted from my neck.
Today I swam in my parent's pool for a while, it felt delightful! My dad had gone to my nephew's baseball game, so I let Rio in with me
(they have a plastic liner in their inground pool and are afraid he would tear it, I just keep him with me so he isn't near it). He wore himself out - I would hold his collar and call him and he pushed me all over the pool until I finally told him to "get out" and he pulled me over to the ladder. ahh exercise lol
(I really did exercise after I put him out!!)
No sign of Elmo *sigh*
Picked another basketful of mostly ripe tomatoes today. I can't leave them on the bush / vine because birds and I guess squirrels are getting them. They have even figured out how to get in the "cage" where I have the grape tomatoes growing. I covered it with chicken wire today so hopefully they will leave at least that alone. I don't have enough to can, but I am getting overrun as far as eating them fresh - any suggestions?
There is no grass in the pasture but the horses refuse to eat hay, so I am turning them out in my yard, then my parent's yard, then back to the pasture. I have fenced off the middle yard and am running a sprinkler there for a while at night, it is green but really thin. I have the vet coming out to do their vaccines and Coggins tests, then Buddy is going to be spending a good part of the summer with a trainer (if she'll take him this late, she may want to wait until Sept or so).
Great news at work... bully chauvinist lech of a boss is being moved!!
My asst manager told me a couple of weeks ago that this guy had a target on my back (no idea why - I do my job and do it very well, as my reviews and the bonuses with them attest). It is like a boulder has been lifted from my neck.Today I swam in my parent's pool for a while, it felt delightful! My dad had gone to my nephew's baseball game, so I let Rio in with me
(they have a plastic liner in their inground pool and are afraid he would tear it, I just keep him with me so he isn't near it). He wore himself out - I would hold his collar and call him and he pushed me all over the pool until I finally told him to "get out" and he pulled me over to the ladder. ahh exercise lol(I really did exercise after I put him out!!)
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AL
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I almost made a fool out of myself at work.... it RAINED!! It was all I could do to not whoop and holler! I sure hope it rained at my house. It was only .32 inches according to the weather guy, but it was such a novel experience to have them not say "trace" for the measurement!
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