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Subject: [Leica] In Memoriam
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 19:12:22 -0400

Critters are so much happier when they have a mission in life. A job.


On 3/22/13 7:01 PM, "Tina Manley" <images at comporium.net> wrote:

> Thanks, Mark.  I like to think of Roo in kitty heaven protecting his
> chickens.  I'm sure that's how he died.
> 
> Tina
> 
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>> He is the king/queen of its domain in that great pic!
>> (I am told some cats are boy cats)
>> 
>> It strikes me that a Barn kitty is in kitty heaven before it even dies.
>> After it dies what then? More fun? A better Kitty mission?
>> ...keeping rodents away from grain and food storage areas...
>> Well kitty heaven certainly  must contain lots of things for a Barn Kitty
>> to
>> do. On an even more important and fun scale.
>> 
>> 
>> I checked out this:
>> http://www.barncats.org/about.php
>> 
>> And in South Carolina
>> Berkeley County PAWS
>> Goose Creek, South Carolina, (843) 207-PAWS, Margurite at (843) 708-0566
>> As part of the U.S. Barn Cat Programs.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 3/22/13 1:05 PM, "Tina Manley" <images at comporium.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> PESO:
>>> 
>>> Our wonderful barn cat, Rooster, did not recover from his injuries.  When
>>> we got back late last night, Roo was sleeping in the nest box in the
>>> chicken house, as usual, but did not get up to greet us.  I just thought
>> he
>>> was sleeping too soundly.   This morning he was lying by the hay bales
>> and
>>> it was obvious, in spite of the fact that he was purring loudly, that he
>>> was hurt.  I expect he had a run-in with the racoon that has been killing
>>> chickens lately.  We called the vet and got a cat carrier, but when we
>> went
>>> back out to the chicken house, Roo was gone.  Tom thought that was a good
>>> sign, but he went back out later to look and found Roo dead in front of
>> the
>>> guinea house.
>>> 
>>> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/145748291
>>> 
>>> He was a good cat.  RIP, Rooster.
>>> 
>>> Tina
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Mark William Rabiner
>> Photography
>> 
>> 
>> 
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-- 
Mark William Rabiner
Photography
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/




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