tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7923725288901074422.post4045942663505918782..comments2024-03-28T00:32:20.743-07:00Comments on Through These Woods: Cat TrabueDan Trabuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14303597141397042669noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7923725288901074422.post-80310852586081432722005-04-17T16:35:00.000-07:002005-04-17T16:35:00.000-07:00Don't get me started.Don't get me started.Dan Trabuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14303597141397042669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7923725288901074422.post-37775167344470298642005-04-16T19:00:00.000-07:002005-04-16T19:00:00.000-07:00We have a $1500 cat! Smokey, a grey and white bree...We have a $1500 cat! Smokey, a grey and white breeding accident with extra long back legs, is a coward. She never roams. She is usually right in the bushes outside the door she left the house through. She is also mean to her "brother" Lou. He is always getting batted at when he has done nothing. <br><br>Why did she cost $1500? Well, she was actually free, but one day wandered ALL THE WAY across the street and climbed up into a warm engine compartment to snooze or snoop. The driver, our curmudgeonly neighbor at the time, came out and started the car, a Volkswagen Beatle. When he backed out of the driveway, Smokey got her tail and left hip caught in the steering mechanism and was dragged five miles on and errand and five back before a frantic following car risked life and limb to stop the offending Beatle and notify the driver that there was a "dead cat" being dragged under the car. This same good samaritan and her daughter had called the Humane Society emergency number, and a pet-cop arrived and sedated Smokey. The pet-cop read Smokey's leash tag and called me and I showed up, driving only a block from my house, sure I would see Lou, the male wanderer who had been known to disappear for weeks. Nope, it was Smokey. All the fur and pads had been scraped off her front paws. Her hip was broken. Her tail was kinked at a sharp angle. I now made one mistake. The vet at the humane society said she could be "saved" and so I called home to ask my wife and daughters, cat lovers all, what they wanted to do. Why save her of course!, they cried in unison. $1500 and eight and a half years later, we have Smokey and Lou. Smokey is as good as new. Lou is beaten up frequently by his "sister"...and we are $1500 dollars poorer, but the females in the house think the expense was worth every penny. <br><br>Dumb cat.Kevin Condonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04071992335405152898noreply@blogger.com