Things are quiet in the cat house. If I am in the spare bedroom with
Pumpkin, Silver sometimes comes in, Pumpkin is wary, but Silver goes
over to a corner and plops on his side. This is a very non-aggresive
posture for a cat. But if I leave the room, and come back later,
Pumpkin will be up in his closet shelf, with Silver below. But no
attacks or hissing.
Fluffy is another story. She still wants to be aggressive. One time I
was in the room when she charged in after Pumpkin. Pumpkin climbed his
cat tree to the closet shelf. Fluffy started to climb up after him,
hissing all the way. I bent down, picked up Pumpkin's water dish, and
dumped it on Fluffy. Message received.
Now if Fluffy and Pumpkin are together in the room, with Pumpkin on
the closet shelf and Fluffy looking up, Fluffy promptly runs out the
door if I come in.
I have more or less given up hope of adopting Pumpkin out. Shelters
and pounds are overflowing with abandoned animals as the recession
spreads. Animals are being turned loose on the street. At least in Los
Angeles.
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today was Good Shepherd Sunday in the Catholic Churces. Psalm 23,
and other readings on our being lambs of the Good Shepherd. And I
wonder how many of the current congregations, mostly urban types,
understand the humor of the concept. For Jesus, like all good Jews of
his time, and like all rural folk since then, knew the Great Truth.
And our Priest made it quite clear in his sermon.
Sheep are stupid.
They need all the help they can get just to stay alive. An apt
symbolism in this day and age, as it was back then.
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response to an e-mail, no, I will not be doing any extra work on 15
April. We will have a lot of clerks earning overtime to postmark the
last minute returns, right up to midnight. I hope none of my readers
are in this procrastinating group. But our mail sorting runs will
still finish about 10 PM in the Opening Unit where I work, so all
those last minute postmarks will be processed the next couple of
days.
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