Except when you lose it, as this Colorado cat did. On my Colorado ramble I stopped by my aunt's home in Salida, a beautiful town at the headwaters of the Arkansas River, surrounded by gorgeous mountains. She had been reading an article with a new machine to help sufferers of macular degeneration. The local buzz there is about a cat with nine - maybe more - lives. The local newspaper in Salida reported that this cat, alive after being zapped by lightening or something heavy-duty electrical, lost his nose, tail and part of a leg but is eating well and limping around on three legs.
Continuing my catty ramble...
Snakes on a Plane? Well, I don't know about that movie where (computer generated ) snakes get loose, but it is sure generating a lot of buzz in the blogosphere and was just released. I haven't seen it but I have seen Cats On a Plane, sent to me by my friend SW, who knows the uncle of Cory Strassburger, who does special effects in Hollywood for ESPN among others and has won two Emmys. He and his brother made this short movie as part of a competition where you only had 48 hours to produce a movie. It's pretty fun... Strassburger has a cameo bit as a guy in a straw hat, SW said. The short movie is about scary cats getting loose on a plane and if you don't want to go see snakes on a plane, you can just click the link to see this short movie about the cats on a plane.
Two weeks ago a dentist put gold crowns on his cat's teeth and the article has been the top emailed story on Yahoo! News. He had put a gold crown on his dog earlier and says that animal crowns cost about $900 each.
Having animals is a lot more expensive with all of the human-like vet treatments available than it seems like it was when I was growing up and a pet was a pet was a pet. Now our animals are our children and no expense will be spared! Are people going overboard? A man in Arizona yesterday called firefighters but when a fire was not found -- just the man's cat in a tree, he started shooting a revolver when they wouldn't rescue the cat.
A Purrrrrrrfect Ramble from the Rockies! Cheers.
Top photo: Denise Ronald, The Mountain Mail; bottom photo: undated AP photo.
Well, dearie...I have my own version of the ditty about cats on a plane ! When my sister moved to Alaska, we discovered you could only have one animal in the passenger area of a plane on each flight. She took one dog; her son took one dog; and I took the cat. All three separate flights. We flew for 11 hours on planes from Albuquerque to Salt Lake City to Seattle to Anchorage to Fairbanks, Alaska. The cat was a most agreeable traveler....especially after his tranquilizer! I put him under the seat and only once did I unzip the carrier to pet or check on him. At that point, before I knew it, he poked his head then half his body out of the carrier! I shocked the passenger next to me and shoved the head and body back in the carrier ! All in all, it was quite an uneventful excursion to the North Country for me and my traveling mate, Ren Kitty.
Posted by: Eleanor Mainwaring | August 20, 2006 at 03:02 PM
That POOR nose-less cat!!
No snakes no way no where... ever. Real or not, I hate those slithering creatures.
My mom is doing well. She is on Plavix. Thanks for noticing!!
Posted by: Jamie Dawn | August 20, 2006 at 03:04 PM
Poor kitty!
Posted by: Laundry Woman | August 21, 2006 at 10:05 AM