-=> Quoting Ruth Hanschka to Nancy Backus on 07-24-19  23:00 <=-

 >  >  RH> But no warning at all, that's weird.
 >  > Yup, it was.... We warned everyone to be careful with her... 
 >  > especially as she'd bite without warning.... 
 >  RH> Not a nice kitty.  I hope she at least knew how to hunt. 
 > Not really... she'd play with mice, and scare them to death, maybe, 
 > but didn't really properly hunt...  It did still work to chase them
 > out of the house, though...   

 RH> Scared their tails off.  
 
Apparently.... and we did have another cat in the house that was a bit
better of a mouser.... 

 > She'd been raised in a shelter, and then was with friends of ours...
 > she'd chosen Richard as her person when she was still a kitten, long
 > before she came to live with us... she may have been abused at some
 > point as well...  She could be sweet, but she was also very
 > unpredictable... She mellowed out a lot while she lived with us.... 
 >  
 RH> Sounds like she definitely was mistreated early on. 

That's what we figured.... 
 
 >  >  > RH> Cats always need more slaves.
 >  >  > They think so, true....  
 >  >  RH> They know so; humans are just dense.
 >  > Color me dense, then... (G)
 >  RH> The cat probably did that for me.
 > 
 > I'll gladly have them around, but I'm not going to be their
 > slave...  

 RH> Or so you think. The cats have other ideas.

Around here, we agree to co-inhabit... They can have their ideas, but
not all of them will come to pass... they will, though, have food,
water, treats and attention... mostly on our terms...  

ttyl        neb

... It's a waist of thyme to putt yore trussed in spelling chequers

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