OT----- So stupid you will laugh........

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Ok, I know some of you on this list are cat people, so I will send this.

Perhaps you all need a laugh, hope you get it. I know it's nothing to do with

exercise or eating but, like the heading says, so stupid you will

laugh........(almost as stupid as eating gluten will make types A and O gain

weight.......)

Z.

2 weeks ago my DIL called me from work, said a girl she works with found a cat

along the road when she was going home the night before, picked it up, took it

to the vet, got meds for it (was in bad shape, eyes pasted shut, ear mites so

bad he couldn't hear out of one ear, emaciated....you get the picture) and asked

my DIL if she knew of anyone on a farm that would be willing to take it after it

stayed the weekend at the vet's. DIL called me, I said ok, but would have to

keep it in a cage till it got used to us, the surroundings, and the other cats.

That was ok, as it still had to have meds after I got it. The girl was so happy

that he would have a good home and could be in a barn, since she already has 2

cats and didn't have room for another. She brought the cat out on Monday, the

4th after she got done with work. Put him in the cage, bought him moist food as

dry food wouldn't have given him enough of what he needed at this point. He's a

young cat, probably less than a year old, a cream tabby. His eyes were looking

good, but still needed to follow up on his meds, which I did. He LOVED to be

petted, but you could tell he was still kind of scared. After he had been here

a week, he would even lay down and kind of twist himself around when you petted

him, but he hadn't quite decided that I was good enough to purr for yet. :>)

I had told the girl she could come and see him anytime to see how he was doing.

She came out Thursday night, I took him out of the cage for her, she was holding

him and petting him; I went back to milking, as we had a meeting to go to and I

wanted to get as many milked as I could before Brett came down to finish for me.

As I was leaving the barn, I saw that she was outside with the cat, still

holding him, and he was frantically trying to get away, since being outside was

way beyond his comfort zone at this point. She didn't want to let him go, and

I happened to have my old t-shirt off (I was also wearing a tank top, layers,

you know, to shed for hot flashes....<BG>) so I put it around the cat and took

him back to the cage. Well, the cat bit her on the wrist in his struggles to

get loose. I gave her some peroxide to dump on it, told her were to put the

bottle, and said I had to go. The next morning (Friday) at 8:30, a Sheriff's

deputy walks in and wants me to sign a paper saying I own the cat that bit the

girl. Guess her wrist got all swollen up and at 10:30 that same night she was

out here she went to the ER to get some antibiotics. Well, I guess around here

: animal bite=notification to the Sheriff's dept. I didn't know that, so I

assumed that she was putting the blame on me so I'd have to pay for all this.

Made me mad, thinking I had helped her out and now I was getting screwed over

it. The deputy didn't know that she had picked up the cat, and that she had

taken it to the vet for meds, and I had taken the cat after she wanted to find a

farm for it. Someone (deputy # 1, who took all this info from the girl at the

ER) had neglected to inform deputy #2, who came to see me yesterday. When I

told him the whole story, he said, well, I'm not going to make you sign this,

not in light of what you just told me. He was going to talk to the girl and get

back to me last night. In the meantime, all this paperwork got passed off to

deputy #3, who saw I " refused " to sign the paper, and took the whole works to

the health department, who then said that the cat had to be put to sleep. I

should add here that the girl that brought the cat is feeling just awful that

all this has happened, she said if she would have known that this was going to

happen, she would have lied and said that it was one of her cats at home that

did it. And also add that by my " refusing " to sign the paper I was in contempt,

and incarceration was looming on the horizon for ME (which I didn't know, going

blithely on my way doing whatever..........). The girl managed to get the

paperwork at the health dept. backtracked back to the Sheriff's dept, told them

that she owned the cat so it wouldn't be knocked off by the health dept. and now

the cat has to be quarantined for 10 days at the vet's. Never mind the fact

that the damn cat has been " quarantined " and in a cage for the last 2 weeks to

begin with.......... I feel so sorry for the girl, she even said " none of this

would have happened if I wouldn't have felt sorry for him and picked him up " . I

told her she shouldn't feel bad, it wouldn't have progressed this far if those

idiots at the Sheriff's dept. would inform the next jerk that gets the paperwork

what has happened up to the point that the paperwork gets passed off. She is

coming this morning to pick up the cat, take him to my vet for the 10 days, and

we'll go from there. I told her I'd go half on the " incarceration fee " at the

vet's for the cat. She feels so bad she said no, she would take care of it, but

I will try and get her to see my side of it for this part. :>)

So, hope that this gives you all the comfort in knowing that our men in blue (or

brown, as it is here for the county mounties) are on top of things to keep us

all safe, especially from already-quarantined cats.

Z.

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