handy
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- Jun 21, 2007
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sparrow, yes, but also upon all critters.
Our daughter is 10, and she can swing from budding young womanhood back to goofy kid at the speed of light. So, sometimes I see a young lady with a great head on her shoulders, but I gotta watch at all times because I can never know when she'll regress into kid again.
Today, sheesh!
She has this beloved cat (and there is a special place in kitty heaven for this cat and all that he puts up with). This is the cat that gets dressed in doll clothes, gets hauled around under the arm and is generally treated like a glorified rag doll. He seems to love it, and when enough is enough he runs off for awhile.
Well, today, while the kids were outside in their snow fort, my daughter had the bright idea of tying a harness to the kitty, so that he could be a sled cat. She got a good length of hay string tied harness style around his neck and shoulders. Well, enough was enough, and he took off with the rope still around his neck and shoulders. This is a dangerous enough situation for any cat at any time, to have such a loose bit of rope that could catch on anything (especially on a cattle ranch filled with barb-wire fences and farm equipment), but what made the situation really bad was that we are being hit with a huge snow-storm and it's freezing out there.
Our daughter began to call outside for her cat about earlier this evening, and she began to get worried about him, that he wasn't coming in. I kept assuring her that he could find plenty of places to get out of the snow, and that he'd be OK, and she never bothered to 'fess up that she had tied a rope to him. She was truly worried, and we didn't know that she had good reason to be, so we kept just telling her that he would be fine.
Well, Jesus took pity on kitty and Salem showed up a little while ago, with the hay-string still firmly tied around his neck and back, and snow frozen to his fur, but no injuries of any kind. He's a forgiving kitty, and now that the hay-string is cut off, he's been dried off and ate something, he's snuggled next to her in bed. All in all, he was out in the snow with the string tied on him for over 5 hours.
So, I really have to praise God and thank Him for watching over the cat. He is a full-fledged member of the family and my daughter dearly loves him. She should really be in total trouble, because we've told her more than once to never put an animal into a situation that it cannot get out of itself, but we figured she had learned her lesson by how worried she was, and by how she felt when the cat somehow managed to get to the porch, tied up and covered with snow.
Our daughter is 10, and she can swing from budding young womanhood back to goofy kid at the speed of light. So, sometimes I see a young lady with a great head on her shoulders, but I gotta watch at all times because I can never know when she'll regress into kid again.
Today, sheesh!
She has this beloved cat (and there is a special place in kitty heaven for this cat and all that he puts up with). This is the cat that gets dressed in doll clothes, gets hauled around under the arm and is generally treated like a glorified rag doll. He seems to love it, and when enough is enough he runs off for awhile.
Well, today, while the kids were outside in their snow fort, my daughter had the bright idea of tying a harness to the kitty, so that he could be a sled cat. She got a good length of hay string tied harness style around his neck and shoulders. Well, enough was enough, and he took off with the rope still around his neck and shoulders. This is a dangerous enough situation for any cat at any time, to have such a loose bit of rope that could catch on anything (especially on a cattle ranch filled with barb-wire fences and farm equipment), but what made the situation really bad was that we are being hit with a huge snow-storm and it's freezing out there.
Our daughter began to call outside for her cat about earlier this evening, and she began to get worried about him, that he wasn't coming in. I kept assuring her that he could find plenty of places to get out of the snow, and that he'd be OK, and she never bothered to 'fess up that she had tied a rope to him. She was truly worried, and we didn't know that she had good reason to be, so we kept just telling her that he would be fine.
Well, Jesus took pity on kitty and Salem showed up a little while ago, with the hay-string still firmly tied around his neck and back, and snow frozen to his fur, but no injuries of any kind. He's a forgiving kitty, and now that the hay-string is cut off, he's been dried off and ate something, he's snuggled next to her in bed. All in all, he was out in the snow with the string tied on him for over 5 hours.
So, I really have to praise God and thank Him for watching over the cat. He is a full-fledged member of the family and my daughter dearly loves him. She should really be in total trouble, because we've told her more than once to never put an animal into a situation that it cannot get out of itself, but we figured she had learned her lesson by how worried she was, and by how she felt when the cat somehow managed to get to the porch, tied up and covered with snow.
: I pray your daughter continues to cherish all the moments she has with the kitty.
