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yay pippin!!!
Jun. 2nd, 2004 05:46 pmSo, we noticed one of our cats Pippin went missing yesterday (and he may have been missing for a day before that - we usually don't notice right away when one of our cats is missing since we have like 7 of them). We looked allll over for him, and no Pippin. Mom called the dog officer today and found out there had been a cat hit by a car yesterday in the area, but they didn't have a description of the cat, so mom tried to contact the person who had found the cat, Melissa, but she wasn't home. We were all pretty nervous that it was Pippin, since he's kind of dumb and he's NEVER been outside before, so we were worried he wandered into the road and got hit.
However! As we were leaving, for mom to bring me to work, what runs in front of the garage in into the door! So I told mom (she was backing out of the driveway and wasn't looking and she stopped the car and jumped out. We got him out of the garage and brought him back inside :D Yay, I'm really happy he's okay. He wasn't in the house for 5 minutes before he jumped on the counter and tried to knock over mom's vase of flowers she got for her birthday... we all dove to save it.
He's so annoying and always wants to be in your lap exactly when you don't want him there, and he's a walking disaster! When he was a kitten, he jumped into the top dad's halogen-lookalike lamp (it's flourescent though) and it fell down with him inside it, and he knocked the bulb out. He's SO DUMB!! But we love him to death, even though he's as graceful as a dog :D so we were all really happy to know he's okay. We don't let our cats out mostly because of coyotes, and they have killed at least two of our cats (and likely more), so that's why we don't let our cats out anymore (ever since the "outdoor" cats have either been moved inside or died (of whatever cause, most of them old age or unavoidable diseases such as Sadsack who had heart problems)). We've never had a cat hit by a car because the road is pretty far away from our house, and the woods are so close and a much more fun looking and adventurous place... and I guess it's safer than the road. But it still makes me nervous :( damn cats and their desires to be outside!
Mom told me today when she was bringing me to work that some people purposefully try to hit and kill cats because they don't like them :( I didn't realize that ever happened, but I guess it makes sense (in some horrible, twisted way - I can't believe someone would intentionally try to kill another person's pet). That makes me even more adamant in that when I have my own house, and animals, they're never never never allowed outside. A lot of people also, even if not maliciously, hit cats and assume they are dead, so they don't stop to check, and sometimes the cat is still alive but hurt and unable to get out of the road :( Mom probably heard a lot about that when she worked at the various vets all those years. It's really sad...
At any rate, I'm really glad that Pippin WASN'T the cat that was hit by a car. I would have felt horrible. I always yell at him because he's so annoying, and he really is, but he's damn loveable and I really care about him :( I was really scared that he was dead. So, yay Pippin!!!!
However! As we were leaving, for mom to bring me to work, what runs in front of the garage in into the door! So I told mom (she was backing out of the driveway and wasn't looking and she stopped the car and jumped out. We got him out of the garage and brought him back inside :D Yay, I'm really happy he's okay. He wasn't in the house for 5 minutes before he jumped on the counter and tried to knock over mom's vase of flowers she got for her birthday... we all dove to save it.
He's so annoying and always wants to be in your lap exactly when you don't want him there, and he's a walking disaster! When he was a kitten, he jumped into the top dad's halogen-lookalike lamp (it's flourescent though) and it fell down with him inside it, and he knocked the bulb out. He's SO DUMB!! But we love him to death, even though he's as graceful as a dog :D so we were all really happy to know he's okay. We don't let our cats out mostly because of coyotes, and they have killed at least two of our cats (and likely more), so that's why we don't let our cats out anymore (ever since the "outdoor" cats have either been moved inside or died (of whatever cause, most of them old age or unavoidable diseases such as Sadsack who had heart problems)). We've never had a cat hit by a car because the road is pretty far away from our house, and the woods are so close and a much more fun looking and adventurous place... and I guess it's safer than the road. But it still makes me nervous :( damn cats and their desires to be outside!
Mom told me today when she was bringing me to work that some people purposefully try to hit and kill cats because they don't like them :( I didn't realize that ever happened, but I guess it makes sense (in some horrible, twisted way - I can't believe someone would intentionally try to kill another person's pet). That makes me even more adamant in that when I have my own house, and animals, they're never never never allowed outside. A lot of people also, even if not maliciously, hit cats and assume they are dead, so they don't stop to check, and sometimes the cat is still alive but hurt and unable to get out of the road :( Mom probably heard a lot about that when she worked at the various vets all those years. It's really sad...
At any rate, I'm really glad that Pippin WASN'T the cat that was hit by a car. I would have felt horrible. I always yell at him because he's so annoying, and he really is, but he's damn loveable and I really care about him :( I was really scared that he was dead. So, yay Pippin!!!!
