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Fay Reid's avatar

Congratulations Karen, I'm so grateful for you and people like Tom., who give srays and foundlings another chance at live a decent cat life.

Once a cat has chosen to live with me, unfortunately it is a lifetime commitment - they never leave until they die, for several years ten delightful cats shared their home with me.

I also like dogs, horses, and goats and always ended up with too many of anything (:-) Now, only Calliope (Callie) shares her life with me, she will be ten in March and has trained me to be her adoring slave.

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Karen RN's avatar

You and I are kindred spirits Fay. I have also had chickens, cows and dogs that I have taken in and lived out their life with me. My chickens were good layers then as time went by they would lay one egg a month then nothing. I was ridiculed for not selling them for meat. My girls had names and they were family so I pretty much told all of the people to fuck off and they lived out their lives in peace at our home.

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Fay Reid's avatar

We certainly are kindred spirits, Karen. My two daughters and I were heavily involved with 4H. My youngest had poultry and goats, the older of the two had rabbits and goats. Meat animals were never given names after our first year on the farm any animal that was named was given a pass for life and became friends of ours, including chickens, turkeys and peacocks.

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