My friend Bob and his wife Linda in Michigan have done it again.  Opened up
their hearts and house to yet another rejected animal.

This is an excerpt from his email today.
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I hardly dare tell you that we've just taken in cat number five. An
elderly minister at Linda's church needed to find a home for a friendly
male cat that his daughter abandoned after seven years because her new
boyfriend doesn't like cats. I'd like to shoot people like that who
think that animals can be thrown away with no pang of conscience as if they
were old newspapers.

This male cat is named Mabel. Don't ask me why. We're calling him
Maynard, which preserves the 'may' sound. He is very sweet and loves to
sit on our laps, but he is also quite upset at the change in his
environment and cries a lot. It can be very irritating. My sister, who
has nine cats, tells me that she has had a couple of male cats who were
needy and cried the first couple of weeks, then settled down. I think he
will always be more vocal than our other cats, but I'm hoping he does
eventually settle down. He is beautiful. I think he's a grey tabby with
a bit of orange mixed in. So far, the other cats aren't too happy with
him, though Moobie accepts him, and I think Franny is getting over her
fear of his vocalizations. But our big fat cat Lucy, who never seems
perturbed by anything, is quite dissatisfied with his presence. I think
it's because Lucy likes to sprawl out on the living room floor and
dominate the room, and she feels she can't do that now, because he is so
restless. Oh, well, they'll get used to him.

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Well, I wonder why he "hardly dare tell me.."  although thinking about it I
know why.  Most people tell them they are crazy to take on so much work with
these animals/birds that no-one wants so he feels he has to apologise or
make an excuse, even to me.
His new book is just coming out and he tells me it is selling well on
Amazon.  It's called "Fowl Weather" and a copy is on its way to me, as my
fierce cockerels  "The 2 Attilas" are mentioned in it and I am in the
acknowledgments at the end of the book.  Isn't that nice?

The world would be a better place for animals if there were more Bob &
Lindas.

http://www.enslavedbyducks.com/pages/fwBlurbs.html

No, I am not trying to advertise his book, just to give you a flavour of
what he is like.

Tweed