Anyone got a cute picture of their cat or dog?

[Karadeniz]

186. Two. Unbelievable but true: after we'd moved to the country 2 or 3 years earlier, some kids

Brought us a fawn they'd found. I'd bottle fed maybe 50 or so kittens, so I took her on. Covered the bathroom floor with bathmats so Susie could have traction and not track pee around. She slept in a wash basket. The house was cool, so she sometimes wore a dog sweater. She lived with the cats and dogs. We bottle fed her forever, because deer are such enthusiastic nursers, it's fun! We put her in a pasture connected to the backyard and she lived with sheep and goats. For about 4 years, no babies. No deer fencing, so bucks could easily come and go. Don't think she knew she was a deer. Then she got pregnant with twins. Every year, twins. Since they were wild, they all left after about a year. But Susie never left her small pasture and never became aloof to humans. She's an ansolute angel. Wonderful to get to see Beauty every !

When our latest was being neutered (hush hush, illegal) by our vet at our home, I figured out how old Susie is. 17. The vet was amazed. He said 7, 8 yrs max if they're in the wild.
It's going to be our personal day of national mourning when Susie passes and don't think I'm not going to fight with our newspaper editor for an obituary with photo, laws be damned.

Our current bottle boy is still nursing...he loves it. He comes in at night...yrs ago a snake killed a fawn and I'm not going thru that hesrtache again!