[geeks] OT: cat

[bill pointon]

im late reading this but it brings to mind my favorite cat of many that 
have owned me -- dont fool yourselves -- you dont own the cats -- they 
just allow you to ammuse them once in a while -- many years ago i had 
the pleasure of passing some time with a big fellow named alice 
cooper -- had to give him the name at the time cause he was such a 
freak -- mother was a sleek dainty short hair siamese calico ( re china 
cat sunflower ) and father was a big grey tiger alley tom -- alice 
inherited his mothers extra toes and tri colors and his fathers size and 
stripes so he ended up being a big grey tiger with traces of brown and 
the most toes a cat can have -- 26 -- he had two extra toes on all of 
his feet and to look at his front feet made me think of the commercial 
that was on tv at the time for wide track tiger paw tires -- billp
On Friday, January 18, 2002, at 12:27 PM, Bill Bradford wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 10:52:07AM -0500, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
>> I always thought that they way they declawed cats was similar to the 
>> way they
>> removed toenails for for people who repeatedly get ingrown toenails.
>
> Not at all.  I had parts of a toenail removed this morning.
>
>> Then I
>> find out that the process is more like chopping someones fingers off 
>> at the
>> knucle.  Ugh ughn. No way I'm sending a cat for that.  I just use a 
>> finger
>> nail clippers to keep the claws short.
>
> Basically, yeah, thats why I will never get a cat declawed.  We use a 
> nail
> clipper as well.
>
> (you should see the clippers we had to buy to use on the *dog's* 
> nails...)
>
> Bill
>
> --
> Bill Bradford
> mrbill at mrbill.net
> Austin, TX
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