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Bertha Venation

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15. And proud of it.

Reply to HopeHoops (Reply #14)

Tue Aug 28, 2012, 08:43 AM

Aug 2012

I fully own my bad decisions and my inability to say "no." "Oh, we'll call this one Rat Face until she's adopted; an ugly name will make us not want to keep her." Littermates O'Malley and Rat Face are the youngest of our menagerie, and the last to join.

Sad attrition is the only way we'll ever have fewer than ten cats. We can't give any of them up, although we've discussed it from time to time.

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Just learned that we're becoming a blended family........... [View all] mrmpa Aug 2012 OP

Be thee ware, for there be dragons. NOTHING is safe anymore. Nothing, I tell you! AAAAARRRRGGHHH!!! HopeHoops Aug 2012 #1

LOL.............. mrmpa Aug 2012 #2

I've got two five-month olds in the house (siblings) - NOTHING is safe - NOTHING!!!! HopeHoops Aug 2012 #3

hahahahahahahahahaha Bertha Venation Aug 2012 #6

Ah, me believes ya thinks that I jest! Ye be doomed, I tells ya. DOOMED! HopeHoops Aug 2012 #7

Oh, no, doomed only because we're in the same boat! Bertha Venation Aug 2012 #9

Are you one of those crazy cat ladies? HopeHoops Aug 2012 #14

And proud of it. Bertha Venation Aug 2012 #15

The only pet I've ever given up was my boa constrictor (Lucifer Beelzebub) HopeHoops Aug 2012 #17

Remember, the cat thinks they are behaviorial scientists Taverner Aug 2012 #4

Woo hoo! Bertha Venation Aug 2012 #5

They're terrorist pin cushions from hell, but aren't they so cutey wootie woo? HopeHoops Aug 2012 #8

The cat is named Radley after........... mrmpa Aug 2012 #11

Nice. Bertha Venation Aug 2012 #16

they may live in our houses, but they do not live in the same world as us rurallib Aug 2012 #10

Just remember that you have dogs, mythology Aug 2012 #12

"blended family" sounds like Riftaxe Aug 2012 #13

If it doesn't work out at least she can just flush it down the toilet. cbdo2007 Aug 2012 #18