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[Kusanar]

@Kusanar
I do hope you find your kitty

Me too. It's strange, she and 2 of her grown kittens were outside in a chain link dog run, it has a chicken wire top and sits pretty flat to the ground, a few small gaps under the sides, but not too bad... the kittens are still there, but she is missing....

 

[pennyJo1960]

she obviously was able to squeak out one of gaps but the kitty's call it home more than
she.. did you have her altered? after she had the kittens?

 

[chickisoup]

Hi everyone! I'm back!!! (explain later) Boy, did I miss a lot!!! WHEW!
Apologizing in advance if I miss anyone.

Ron-so glad you don't have to go thru the shots. Realized I probably should have had them years ago (clearly I didn't need them tho

) When I was young and not so wise, we rented a house at the edge of the town that I found out AFTER was literally infested with fruit bats. Took me weeks and weeks to get the DNR to show up and inspect (no one ever mentioned rabies shots) with the only recommendation was to put screen over the attic vents but forgot to tell me to do this at night. Yep, trapped them IN the house. They started trying to escape by getting into the galvanized metal heat ducts. It was just WONDERFUL listening to their little little toenails on the metal as they slid all the way from the attic, down two floors, then into the basement. Can you say nails on a chalkboard being amplified thru a loudspeaker??? I blocked the vents in the kids bedrooms, closed their doors and the door from the back hall into the kichen, threw the door to the basement and the backdoor wide open, then sat on the couch in the dark with a BB rifle. I got pretty good at picking off the ones that decided to come out of the first floor vents instead of making it all the way to the basement. Before dawn I would close up everything so those that got out couldn't come back in but I would still be able to hear a few trying to climb back up the heat ducts. By the time the DNR finally decided to help (only I think because they got tired of my nagging calls) I pretty much had evicted (one way or the other) all the bats. You still had to be careful when you went outside at night because the crazy things would come swooping around the corner of the house and smack into you! That is until one night we had a really nasty storm. Lightening struck the huge old apple tree in the backyard between the house and the rickety old garage, splitting it in two and dropping the larger half on the garage and flattening it. (fortunately I never trusted the thing enough to park my car in it). Both a food source and roosting spot gone in a single swoop so no more bats.

Getaclue - Sorry once more, prayers remembered of course. sounds like you know the drill. funny what we can just adjust to as part of our "normal" isn't it? I get the "how can you be so strong" or a version there of, all the time. It's like we have a choice, right? Well, I guess we do but the only alternative we have is to not fight, curl up in a ball, and throw a huge pity party. Yep, that would solve things. (I must admit however, in the past when things got a bit rough, I have allowed myself a few minutes of that while alone in the woods, but only a few minutes). I cannot pretend to fully understand the &*$% you must have went thru the first time round. Anything I have went thru so far is nothing near that. I am so glad this time for you does not look like it's going to be nearly as bad and you have faith in your current doctors and they are dealing appropriately with the pneumonia first. Plz keep us posted. We all really do care you know

So sorry for the sudden loss of the roo. Thanks Ron for the tips about the signs of heart failure. I did have that backwards.

Alaskan- beautiful picture

It's definitely getting dark earlier and light later here too. I am having a hard time remembering I must lock up my birds earlier and earlier. The upside is the fall colors are beginning to get bright and so beautiful.


I HATE WINDOWS 10!!! That's where I've been. The stupid big anniversary update just "kicked in" right in the middle of my session on Wednesday night. I got tired of watching the little "leave me alone I'm busy" wheel going round so I finally did exactly what you're not supposed to do last night (cold boot) last night, after trying everything else . It gave me several scolding messages and took off again. FINALLY, when I got up this morning, my laptop belonged to me again and miraculously, it is functioning well. Now, I am afraid to turn on my desktop for fear the fight will start all over again.

ETA: about the milk, lots of city folks don't know that pasteurizing and homogenizing are not the same and not necessary to be done together. I wish I could find a source of unhomogenized milk so I could once again make butter and cheese) I used to love drinking raw milk and making my own butter and still have a love of REAL buttermilk.. There had been a long battle going on in our state about the right to sell raw milk that was finally settled, and lost, in the court so it is now illegal for the distribution or sale of raw milk in any way so until I can talk the DH into a dairy goat or two. (I used to have a source of "unprocessed" milk from a fellow organic enthuseist but they passed away some time ago, from very old age, not from drinking raw milk).

 

[chickisoup]

One of my cats went missing today... hope she shows back up. But, she was a stray when we caught her, and she is still where she was caught, so a good chance she can handle herself if she choses not to come back. Leaving food out for her and keeping an eye out.

Awww,

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[Alaskan]

@chickisoup

I hear ya on the windows 10



As to raw milk... Totally illegal? Even the "milk shares" run around?

People up here have to do milk shares, to stay legal.... But they have to give as part of the share, the milk as is. ABSOLUTELY NO cheese or kefir or other altered type product.

Oh... You can separate the milk... And have low fat milk and cream... I think.


Whatever, too much pain, and so far I haven't had that much extra milk, so no temptation to figure out how to sell.

I am even way too scared to gift it away. The fines are scary bad.

 

[Bunnylady]

When I was young and not so wise, we rented a house at the edge of the town that I found out AFTER was literally infested with fruit bats.

Fruit bats? Wow, what part of the world was this? I couldn't imagine having those huge things in the house!

One of my husband's customers has a bat colony that are determined to live behind one of the shutters on their house. Like all North American bats, these are little guys, and they like tight places. He knows when they are there by the fresh droppings, when he sees them, he closes the shutter which exposes the bats. They leave, but within a month will be trying it again.

 

[bruceha2000]

Fruit bats? Wow, what part of the world was this? I couldn't imagine having those huge things in the house!

One of my husband's customers has a bat colony that are determined to live behind one of the shutters on their house. Like all North American bats, these are little guys, and they like tight places. He knows when they are there by the fresh droppings, when he sees them, he closes the shutter which exposes the bats. They leave, but within a month will be trying it again.

If those little brown bats aren't causing any trouble, leave them be! They are in serious jeopardy from white nose syndrome. We need as many healthy ones as we can get.

 

[Bunnylady]

Bat poop down the side of the house is a problem, at least as far as the homeowner is concerned.

 

[Kusanar]

she obviously was able to squeak out one of gaps but the kitty's call it home more than
she.. did you have her altered? after she had the kittens?

Yes, she is fixed, not ear tipped because I didn't intend to release her, but they did tattoo her so at least if she is trapped and shaved for surgery they will figure it out. Funny thing is, she was out there for close to a month before vanishing.

She's a lot smaller than the kittens, they are both 10 pounds, she is 5.5 pounds....

When we caught her, she had gotten hurt and was dripping blood out of her mouth constantly, turns out, she lost half of an upper lip and one of her top fangs.

 

[pennyJo1960]

oh she had a tougher beginning I am certain she
knows you gave her a better life and if able will return