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 09/12/2006, 19:22
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Pads
 
Joined on 24/05/2006
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oh a cutie ginger man my favorite..............what a sweetie![Big Smile [:D]](/cs/images/emotions/biggrin.gif)
Dirty Tom =^..^=
Where ever I lay my paw thats my home
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09/12/2006, 22:39
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Dick Smith
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Surrey and Manche (Pays Mortainais)
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This is my favourite ever cat, Trotsky, photographed about 1972. When we were students Julie sent me off with our last 5/- to buy cheese, so that we wouldn't starve. On the way I passed a pet shop, and there in the window was a little ball of orange fluff, covered in vomit and poo, far too young to have left her mother and shivering. Well, it was no question, and the cheesemonger lost out (we ate bread for 3 days). With a lot of TLC she grew into a very delicate, but incredibly affectionate cat/alarm clock (cat people will know the type). She got lost twice, once under a prostitute's bath and once in my sister-in-law's garden. She lived to 14, but by then her hips were going, and after a lot of treatment (no cheese again) she got a bit better, but a lout up the road let his dog off the lead to chase her. We never saw her again, and I think her last hours must have been bad, but we'll never know. None of our other cats ever came up to her, except Castro, but that's another (sad) story.
Regards
Dick Smith
Nowhere is there warmth to be found
Among those afraid of losing their ground
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09/12/2006, 22:43
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Meg
Joined on 17/02/2006
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Sad story Dick, she's beautiful. That's the trouble with pets though isn't it?
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09/12/2006, 23:11
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Dick Smith
Joined on 23/08/2004
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There may have been a loaf of bread involved as well. Julie and I have been together since about 1968 (She'll kill me if she reads that - I'm supposed to know exactly).
I haven't got any pictures of Castro, but he was a beautiful, black and white longhaired, gentle, neutered tom, he was Keir's pet, and they loved each other with the sort of passion that only a 7 year old and his pet can have. One evening there was a kerfuffle in the front garden (we thought urban foxes) but in the morning we found Castro dead by my car - he had jumped up onto the bonnet and an old-style wing mirror had cracked his skull on the vertical line. Keir never got over it, but he now has two insane Siamese to play with! His next cat was an insane menace, though...
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Dick Smith
Nowhere is there warmth to be found
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10/12/2006, 12:52
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Christine Animal
Joined on 14/05/2005
Deux-Sèvres
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1986
Sol in Spain after we rescued her severely injured on the road, but still able to wag her tail
and back in the Perche after one of her two hip operations, which enabled her to have a long and happy life with us. She was nothing but gentillesse and discretion.
Just found these two Winter 1986/87 of Sol, now standing and still wagging her tail, and Sol and me (by the magazine it looks as if I was intererested in photography at the time!).
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Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful
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