Walt,
Are you still dry today ? After Alberto ? I have doubts.
Rand E.
Walt Wayman wrote:
> Thanks to all who offered condolences, both on and off list. It is
> appreciated. I will respond briefly here to a couple, if you'll bear with me.
>
> To Paul, who wrote, "Now, I wake up every morning with a beautiful
> platinum-grey Ragdoll named Mittens all stretched out and snuggled up to my
> back."
>
> Exactly what is it with ragdolls that they have to be in the middle of
> everything we do? I am crowded in the bed each night by 33 pounds of
> ragdolls, the resident circus brothers, Barnum and Bailey. I haven't been to
> the bathroom alone in the nearly six years since they came to live with us.
> If I close the door and shut them out, they scratch and bang on it and yell
> "Let us in" in cateese. Barnum is sitting in the chair beside me as I type
> this. He wants to help, and he wants the mouse. When he was a kitten, he
> chewed a mouse cord completely in two.
>
> To Greg, who wrote, "The good news in your case is that even though the
> coronavirus that's involved in FIP is contagious, the disease itself really
> isn't per se. Hopefully, you won't have any other cats in your household that
> will develop it."
>
> The three remaining cats are Kinsey, the ruling female, who's 14, and the
> ragdoll brothers, who are six, so our vet says, because of their age, we
> probably don't have anything to worry about. We got a second opinion from our
> oldest daughter, who's a vet, and she agreed. We don't take our cats to her
> because her clinic is way the hell and gone on the other side of Atlanta and
> is 35 miles and over an hour away, while the Cat Clinic of Cobb is two miles
> and five minutes away. Besides, she doesn't specialize and will treat
> anything, whether it walks, hops, crawls, flies, slithers, swims, or even
> oozes into the clinic.
>
> We understand that the virus can survive in the house for several months, but
> is killed by common household disinfectants, so we'll do a bit of spraying
> and scrubbing and wait until the fall, or later, to fill the vacancy,
> probably with a Maine Coon kitten.
>
> And one additional thought. We are pretty dry here, probably at the
> beginning of another summer drought, and digging even a small 18x24x24-inch
> kitten-size grave yesterday made me wonder how the folks back in the old
> days, before the invention of the backhoe, managed to bury their dead in this
> red Georgia clay. When dry, this stuff is about .02 of a point down the Moh
> scale from a brick.
>
> Thanks again for the kind words, folks. And don't forget to take pictures of
> pets, family, and friends, because it seems like we always expect them to be
> with us longer than they actually are.
>
> Walt
>
> --
> "Anything more than 500 yards from
> the car just isn't photogenic." --
> Edward Weston
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