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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / August 2005not quite a kitty
My dad is a farmer. He is also a cat lover and all his barn cats are vaccinated and sleek and tame and well cared for. When his cows are calving, he gets up every other hour all night to check on them and make sure they are not in trouble. So late one night, he was out checking the cows and on his way out of the barn he saw a cat sitting by the step. He went over to give the cat a pet on the head. He was just bending over when he froze because... ...because kitty ain't no kitty.... ...because kitty was a black beastie with a long white stripe down his nose to the bottom of his very fluffy tail... Dad froze. And then very slowly started to stand up and back away. Good thing the skunk was in a good mood. --Fil > My dad is a farmer. He is also a cat lover and all his barn cats are > vaccinated and sleek and tame and well cared for. [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > --Fil LOL! Now, being a Brit I have never experienced what it's like to have skunks as a part of the local wildlife, although my Michigan friend Bob tells me that molecules from a skunks smell can be detected in the air miles away (by some sort of instrument.) and half a mile away by a human nose. Lucky escape! Do read Bob's website, those of you who love animals and haven't done so before. I think you will like it. http://www.enslavedbyducks.com/ Tweed > Good thing the skunk was in a good mood. Maybe he liked the pettins! :)  SignatureVictor M. Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM) Send your spam here: uce@ftc.gov Email me here: pistorLITTER@BOXaustin.rr.com >My dad is a farmer. He is also a cat lover and all his barn cats are >vaccinated and sleek and tame and well cared for. [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > >--Fil LOL We were camping one time and there was an alibino skunk in the camp ground at night. He came wandering through our campsite one evening as we were sitting around the fire. He passed so close to my chair that my hand brushed across his back. I was very happy that he was in a good mood. He wandered into a campsite across the road and you should have heard the screams. We looked over there and 4 adults were standing on a picnic table screaming, and Pepi-la-Pew was digging through the garbage that they had stashed under their RV. Purrs and Hugs, Nan >My dad is a farmer. He is also a cat lover and all his barn cats are >vaccinated and sleek and tame and well cared for. [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > >--Fil Hee hee. Pepe Le Pew! Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com >Hee hee. Pepe Le Pew! Speaking of Pepe, I used to think that Pepe Le Pew was an allegory of the ritual of courtship between men and women, but I've come to think that it's actually about the relationship between cats and us. Probably the cartoonists who created Pepe noted that kitties are very cute and we love to hold and cuddle them, but they don't always like to be mauled. Sometimes they're standoffish. Sometimes, they get a hilarious look of horror if you take too many liberties, like blowing raspberries on them when they present their belly. :) >> Hee hee. Pepe Le Pew! > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > hilarious look of horror if you take too many liberties, like blowing > raspberries on them when they present their belly. :) Except, you forgot the one where Pepe's "lover" was a chihuahua that had gotten stuck in a fur coat because she was jealous of all the other dogs with lovely fur.... at the end, she finally was able to get out of it, and Pepe removed his skunk 'costume' to reveal that he was also a dog... they walk off into the sunset together, and the back of Pepe's dog costume that he'd been wearing under the skunk costume comes unzipped and out popps the big puffy black-n-white skunk tail of his... :D SignatureThe ONE and ONLY lefthanded-pathetic-paranoid-psychotic-sarcastic-wiseass-ditzy former-blonde in Bloomington! (And proud of it, too)© email me at nalee1964 (at) insightbb (dot) com http://community.webshots.com/user/mgcmdjeep >>> Hee hee. Pepe Le Pew! >> [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >he'd been wearing under the skunk costume comes unzipped and out popps the >big puffy black-n-white skunk tail of his... :D Which in turn, reminds me of the end of "Some Like it Hot"-- "Nobody's perfect!" ;) Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com >>Hee hee. Pepe Le Pew! > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >hilarious look of horror if you take too many liberties, like blowing >raspberries on them when they present their belly. :) Tak, you are always so deep! Mimi *always* looked a great deal like the black-and-white kitty whom Pepe falls for. She was a sweet girl, but she didn't want to be picked up, mauled, or confined in any way, and she would get a similar, panicky expression on her face to Pepe's love object whenever someone did it to her. ;) Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com >Tak, you are always so deep! > Mimi *always* looked a great deal like the black-and-white kitty whom >Pepe falls for. She was a sweet girl, but she didn't want to be >picked up, mauled, or confined in any way, and she would get a >similar, panicky expression on her face to Pepe's love object whenever >someone did it to her. ;) I don't know about deep, but you're actually the one who pointed this out to me, when you mentioned months ago that Mimi looks and acts a lot like Penelope in the Pepe cartoons. Mimi must've been awfully cute. :) >>Tak, you are always so deep! >> Mimi *always* looked a great deal like the black-and-white kitty whom [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >lot like Penelope in the Pepe cartoons. Mimi must've been awfully >cute. :) She's here: http://community.webshots.com/photo/125591586/203810491iBNZxa Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com >>I don't know about deep, but you're actually the one who pointed this >>out to me, when you mentioned months ago that Mimi looks and acts a [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >She's here: >http://community.webshots.com/photo/125591586/203810491iBNZxa She sure is very pretty. No wonder she was irresistible! >>>I don't know about deep, but you're actually the one who pointed this >>>out to me, when you mentioned months ago that Mimi looks and acts a [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > >She sure is very pretty. No wonder she was irresistible! Oh thank you, Tak! She was a precious girl. Very tiny, but a huge personality. Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com >My dad is a farmer. He is also a cat lover and all his barn cats are >vaccinated and sleek and tame and well cared for. [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > >Good thing the skunk was in a good mood. My father once told me that, when he was in the US Army and his platoon was on a field exercise, they encountered a skunk. The soldiers stopped and let the skunk have the right-of-way, figuring that it had them "outgunned". Later on, in the early 1950's, he and my mother attended Andover-Newton Theological Seminary, outside Boston, Massachusetts. There was a family of skunks that lived in the crawl space under one of the buildings (and were still living there when our family visited the campus in the early 1970's). The students, and the local dogs, had learned how to get along peaceably with the skunks. Every once in a while, however, a stray dog would come through that had never encountered a skunk before, and would learn its lesson the hard way. SignatureJohn F. Eldredge -- john@jfeldredge.com PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria > My dad is a farmer. He is also a cat lover and all his barn cats are > vaccinated and sleek and tame and well cared for. [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > Good thing the skunk was in a good mood. May I steal this for my story telling class? Pam S. who should be outlining chapters for her critical thinking class |
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