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canesisters
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I was leaving the landfill one afternoon. It had been a HOT day. As I turned the corner onto the access road I saw a kitten on the far shoulder looking like it had been run over. As I was thinking 'aww, poor little thing..' it raised it's head! I nearly ran off in the ditch getting stopped. She was kinda mushed into the dried mud.... so had probably been there all day(?). How she HADN'T been run over by 50 trucks making that turn all day is a miracle. I carried her to the truck & headed for the vet. She was weak but very much alive & about half way there she revived enough to crawl up & settle on the back of my neck under my hair - I had LONG hair back then. I was on my way out of town that night, just going home to pick up my bag & the dogs so I asked the vet to give her a check up & to keep her till Monday evening. I even told them that if, by some chance, they found her a home over the weekend that would be fine since I didn't really want another cat.
Well they didn't (even try to) find her a home & by Monday evening she had had a bath, some fluids, her vaccs & was ready to go - so home came another "free" dump cat with a $100+ bill.
My roommate then had a very high, nasal voice & all my animals had names that got a loud EEEE at the end of their names: Lill-EEE, Frank-EEE, Yogi-EEE, Crush-EEE & I was determined to find a name for her that couldn't be turned into nails on a chalkboard and settled on Ella by the time we got home.
Despite assurances over & over from the vet, I'm convinced that she had some form of a heatstroke that day in the mud. She was never 'right'... just a little bit odd. She always had an unfocused far away stare, but her vision seemed OK. She never played with any toys except the laser pointer. Every night at 9pm on the dot she got the zoomies & tore through the house screaming like a banshee. She had allergies most of her life & would suddenly start sneezing & blow snot. NEVER let her sit near you if you were eating on the sofa! You had a 50/50 chance that she'd either try to snatch your food or garnish it with snot.
Such a sweet little weirdo.
Well they didn't (even try to) find her a home & by Monday evening she had had a bath, some fluids, her vaccs & was ready to go - so home came another "free" dump cat with a $100+ bill.
My roommate then had a very high, nasal voice & all my animals had names that got a loud EEEE at the end of their names: Lill-EEE, Frank-EEE, Yogi-EEE, Crush-EEE & I was determined to find a name for her that couldn't be turned into nails on a chalkboard and settled on Ella by the time we got home.
Despite assurances over & over from the vet, I'm convinced that she had some form of a heatstroke that day in the mud. She was never 'right'... just a little bit odd. She always had an unfocused far away stare, but her vision seemed OK. She never played with any toys except the laser pointer. Every night at 9pm on the dot she got the zoomies & tore through the house screaming like a banshee. She had allergies most of her life & would suddenly start sneezing & blow snot. NEVER let her sit near you if you were eating on the sofa! You had a 50/50 chance that she'd either try to snatch your food or garnish it with snot.
Such a sweet little weirdo.
You will be missed.
. I have given up the early morning getting up though 
