I was holding out the faint hope that Goldie was an outside cat who hung around and mooched food, but nope. And even when she’s been told flat out otherwise, she still thinks her People were worthy of her. Poor girl.
Life has kept me from being able to follow Georgia’s FB as much as I used to, so I’ve got a question. People here keep saying RL Goldie is also known to have been dumped by her former family. The posts I saw said Goldie was a neighborhood stray and no one Georgia asked was aware of her ever having an “official” family. Though it’s clear Goldie had People experience before adopting Georgia and her family, I never saw anything where it’s confirmed where that People experience came from. Did I miss a post somewhere?
Tommy and Beatrix can’t possibly tell her now, can they? They’ve only just gained Goldie’s trust … and … Goldie’s sick and she needs help … I think getting her inside and healthy first, and then the bad news later … I hope?
Well, Goldie. Your people were disgusting dastardly diabolical devilish depraved degenerate demons who altogether abandoned you! They’re not just “missing people”. They’re monstrously miserable people.
Orbsters, If you could send some boops and well wishes our way, it would be so appreciated. I’m feeling a bit nervous. This Tuesday morning Andylit and I are bringing our girl, Shadow in for a consultation with a kitty neurologist. She is 15, and is on Phenobarbital and Zonisamide, but still is having grand mal seizures with uncontrollable urination. She probably has them 2-3 times a week, but the last week or so, she’s had some pretty intense episodes. The last one yesterday morning she clamped down onto one of my fingers and wouldn’t let go until she was finished. I couldn’t give a damn about my finger, or the varied nips I’ve gotten from her because of this, I just want my girlie to be able to find some relief and have better quality of life. It’s so hard watching our 4 legged family members suffer.
When we moved back home to WA from Virginia, my darling Petey got out when some friends came over to pick up some furniture I gave them. Petey was strictly an indoor kitty, but he would now and then escape out the door. I would go after him and he would run a few feet from me and stop and look back at me, as soon as I got close enough he would run a bit further, stop and wait for me. He would let me catch him after 10-15 min. I would grab him up and kiss him and he would purr and purr. Once I realized he had gotten out I went out and searched and called him for hours. I went out each day, went door to door with his picture but never found him. A week later the movers came and we had to leave. My husband flew home with our 5 other kitties and my sister and I drove across the US with our two dogs. I still feel grief and shame that I couldn’t get him back. So maybe Goldie’s people didn’t abandon her. Hope so. :’(
I’m really not surprised the raccoons are so angry at her and so defensive against her presence. That’s a pretty dastardly crime to accuse them of with zero evidence. I totally get why the poor heart is in denial about how horrible her former people are but the raccoons are victims here too.
Oh Goldie, our older dog knows how you feel. Almost 12 years ago we found him at the side of the road next to another dog who had obviously been hit by a car. We saw him from way back as we waited to turn. Every time a car passed he would sit up and start toward it only to drop back down when the car passed. We stopped. He had a collar but no tags. We took him to the vet ( only a few miles away where he and friend could have been taken). We and the vet staff figured they were probably what someone a few days ago called a recession stray. When no one claimed him we took him home. He is the world’s best dog, funny, friendly, loving and became a therapy dog for 10 of the years he has been with us. We both had to retire with health issues. He is now we think about 16 and having increasing health issues and we will be totally devastated when the time comes for him to depart for the RB. I can understand people being desperate if they lose their home, but they could have taken them to the vet who would have found them a new home. As could Goldie’s people have taken her to the Quinn Shelter and spared her the life of a stray….Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Oh, my poor Goldie!! My heart aches for you. I look at Yum Yum snoozing on the back of the couch without a care in the world and I hope she realizes how fortunate she is to have the option of staying inside in the warm or going outside for some fresh air!
I know I posted this a month or so ago, but it’s so related to Goldie’s story. My cat Rusty is a stray I started feeding. Now, after six years with me, he is finally trusting enough that he no longer runs and hides if he hears a large truck. I think his story is that one day a truck came and stole his home and his people. I’ll add that I always leave at Christmas. The first Christmas when Rusty had only begun to come inside, I thought he might run off in my absence. The neighbor who was checking on him said that for the first two days, he stayed on my sofa and refused to budge except for litter box and food. She said she carried him outside and he crouched on the door mat and wouldn’t budge. That broke my heart. It still does typing this. It was so obvious he thought he was being abandoned again. At least good came of that. After he saw I came home to him, he became much more trusting. I’m with Nuliajuk, people who do that should be dropped in the wilderness.
I managed to get 12 hours sleep last night. When I awoke, I was less sore than yesterday. The flat red patches are starting to form bumps in the middle but haven’t erupted yet. The medications are making me feel stupid and clumsy but seem finally to be helping.
::::::::::knock wood::::::::::
I’ve got lots of unread books on my Kindle. I’ve mostly lost my appetite but force myself to eat a slice of toast with pumpkin butter when I take the meds. There’s 3 inches of snow on my sidewalk, but I’m going to have to leave it to Mother Nature to melt off. Now I’m going to go back to my mug of cranberry apple tea and my book. Thanks again for all the well wishes. It’s comforting to know I have a support system here.
Dear Orb, I so appreciate how supportive you are of each other. I have read various Orbsters problems and realized how lucky I have been. In 74 years, I have not had the major medical problems so many of you have. But yesterday, I had bad news so now it’s my turn to ask for some purrs and good wishes. I take thyroid as mine went on vacation years ago. I have a very conscientious doctor. A few weeks ago, she demanded I go for a biopsy of a nodule she found on my thyroid. I was annoyed and reluctant as I looked it up and nodules are common and usually benign. Usually. Yesterday the office that performed the biopsy called. The nodule is malignant. I can’t tell you how strange it is to write the words “I have cancer.” Thursday I will meet the specialist to schedule the surgery. This is still not nearly as bad as what so many of you have to deal with as thyroid cancer is usually pretty mild. Unless it has spread, surgery will take care of it and I’ll be fine.
We can only hope those evil people moved to some dark cartoon universe where they will get what they deserve, and Goldie will get the wonderful family she totally deserves. Since this is BCN, I’m sure Goldie’s future is what she deserves.
All our cats have always been foundlings. Some we found. Some others found. Some found us. One in particular I’ve always wondered about. He showed up one day at breakfast when we lived in town and just stayed. I’d never seen him around the neighborhood or anywhere in the area on my runs and walks. One day he was just there. And after fifteen years of being the nicest, unassuming slender black cat, he died naturally last year as I held him on the floor. Funny thing. He never made a sound except a kind of quiet chirp, earning the name, Peep.
And I wonder about our dog. He was the perfect dog from day one. Car trained. House trained. Nice to cats. A natural guard dog who wouldn’t bite a biscuit. Immediately adopted watching out for my wife as his job. Changed our lives when I found him on a whim at the rescue. They had picked him up from the nearest urban city shelter. Where had be been before? Who would have lost such a dog and not searched for him in the obvious place? I suspect it was like so many. University students graduated and simply drove off and left him. I wonder if that still saddens him. I wonder if they’re not such ogres that it sometimes gives them a pang. It sobers me and drives home how much I have to make up for and how grateful that he’s with us.
I suspect Goldie knows deep down that her people abandoned her, but she can’t bear such a painful truth, much less acknowledge it to her new friends. She was able to lose herself in the detective work and not think about it. :(
That’s how we got our beloved Charlie. His folks were moving and they dumped their kittens outside. One of them made it to where my husband worked. He called me and I said bring him home right now. The Vet said he was very young but in good health. Of all the cats we had, Charlie was the best. He lived to 18 yrs. We still talk about him and miss him so much. He was a Tuxedo cat, absolutely gorgeous.
All those sneezes are worrying me. That is one kitten coming down with something. She needs to be found by humans rather than just the cat news team and fast.
I truly and deeply despise cruel, ignorant people who abandon animals. However, if there were not such people, I wouldn’t be spending a cold, snowy morning with the Black Devils—Inky, who is perched behind my head, and Ozzy, blissfully warming my lap with a kitty smile on his face. Some low-life dumped them at the local lake as kittens but they were rescued and found their way to me. And I wouldn’t have Tucker, the absolute best, sweetest cat in the universe, napping in the kitchen. I found this half-blind boy hanging around outside a convenience store on a busy highway. Needless to say I picked him right up and brought him home.
On a more positive note for everyone, Georgia was tweeting yesterday about starting work on the “Our IX Lives” Christmas special! Soon we’ll be swooning over Kit and cursing at that guy Brad :)
Just on the news, someone threw two black kittens out of a van driving down the interstate. The first one was killed by a woman who couldn’t avoid or stop in time. She called the police and she is now extremely upset. I do not understand such cruelty :(
OT: Requesting purrs and paw power from the Orb as I’m having surgery this afternoon to remove a tumor from under my right thumb nail. Have to have general anesthesia as well. I’m left-handed, but still use my right a lot for the computer at work and home. Am a little nervous about having the nail removed. Thank you, dear Orbsters! ♥
I look at this as a kind of PSA from Georgia about Pets in need. And it just makes me realize that for every person who would abandon a pet, there are many DOZENS of wonderful people like you all, who will foster or rescue or adopt or feed or take into your home an animal in need of love. Including Georgia and Ryan.
Hi friends, I see a number of requests for orb vibes/prayers above and I’m hoping there are still some left for my Gino (the big guy on the left in my avatar) and me. I got sloppy last night and left one of my plants accessible. I didn’t think it was a toxic plant, and Gino ate a bunch of it overnight. I looked it up this morning and it turns out it IS a bad one – it has oxalates that can cause kidney failure. Given that he’s 13, he’s already at risk for kidney issues. So he’s spending the day at the vet, getting blood work done and on an IV to flush his system. He’ll have to go back next week for more blood work to make sure it’s out of his system. I’m kicking myself for leaving the plant out and scared that he won’t make it. He did barf most of it up at 4 o’clock this morning, so I’m hoping that maybe he got most of it out that way. Thanks! (CJ and Gino)
My hip/back is feeling a lot better today. Unfortunately, my friend who was going to help me put my new chair together had to leave early and will not be able to come by today. I don’t think the chair would have gotten here in time for her to put it together for me today anyway though.
Chair Watch (ordered November 5):
Wednesday, November 6:
9:41 PM Package has left the carrier facility Package has shipped
11:41 PM Package has left the carrier facility Romeoville, IL US
Saturday, November 9: 10:37 PM Package arrived at a carrier facility Troutdale, OR US
Tuesday, November 12:
2:37 AM Package has left the carrier facility Troutdale, OR US
9:08 AM Package arrived at a carrier facility Hines, OR US
Since everyone’s telling their cat stories, lemme tell one of the several ones I had.
(Remember that when I say “our cat”, it always means that it’s a free cat which is not imprisoned inside a house and is free to go and settle or hang out and around or in another house too, which they all typically do. And that’s why the inverted commas, folks).
Okay, one of “our cats”, the best one we ever had so far, of whom I’ve spoken about once or twice earlier on this board (yes, the same cat who defended us from a venomous cobra, the same cat who once has six kittens, the same cat who was the grandmother of the current “our cat” who currently lives in another house and rarely comes here), that “our cat” had once bright with her three male kittens of hers! And all three were good and healthy! I dunno if it’s a rare thing or a common thing, but I’ve never seen three healthy male kittens for the same cat ever. Maybe usually because most male kittens get killed by other male cats. Obviously, these three boys were born and brought up in one of our many neighbours in the neighborhood, or maybe in a safe place in their property. As these kittens were quite grown up, I guess they were probably brought up in a benevolent human neighborhood.
These three boys grew up around our household, and they were quite the dashing young boys. Of the three, one was very smart, who would eat his food faster and then steal from the other two. He used to use his paw to grab food from another’s pile as if a human was using his hand to grab it and eat it. The other two were nice boys.
As we all know, males leave the place and begin wandering as they grow up and these three went away too. One of them, a very good boy used to usually hang out around us, while the smart aleck and the other good boy wandered off somewhere. The other good boy wasn’t too far away, and would come running to me if I made a certain calling sound even from a great distance.
When we moved into this house, our neighbor had a cat that was strictly outdoors. She then moved to our yard but I couldn’t grab her for awhile as she’d allow very brief pats then take off. When I finally got where she’d come up to me, I took her back next door and the neighbor then told me it wasn’t her cat, just a stray she fed. I took her to the clinic and had her checked for a chip. Turns out she had been missing for nearly 2 YEARS from about a mile and a half away. We didn’t even live in our house when she disappeared from her first owners so never saw the missing cat signs. We reunited Mrs. Meow with her first family and you’ve never seen so many tears. Seriously, CHIP YOUR FURBABIES!!!!
Having said that- poor Goldie! I hope the IRL Goldie is simply a Mrs. Meow without a chip
I’m crying now. Two years ago on November 1st, I almost hit a cat in the middle of a 4-lane highway. She was approximately 6 months old when I blocked traffic and coaxed her to me. She was disease and flea-free (although it was extremely cold that week) and seemed to be a normal weight. Was she someone’s pet? No one claimed her even though I asked around town. I had her tested and in isolation until we knew she was disease-free (I had 3 other cats at the time). She is such a wonderful goofball but only trusts me. I wish I knew what landed her in the middle of the highway (at an intersection – I suspect she was put out of a car at the red light). I’m just blessed that she is now mine.
My two were found in a field. Smitten with kittens found them. my husband and I adopted them at six weeks old. They (brother and sister) will be 3 in December. SAM AXE and FIONA. What a duo
Le'letha Premium Member about 5 years ago
Oh no… And the penny drops with an almighty CLANG! for Tommy and Beatrix!
Goldie’s faith in her People hurts so much.
Jungle Empress about 5 years ago
Oh, my heart is breaking…
Comrade_Cat about 5 years ago
This is hitting entirely too close to home for me. :’(
McColl34 Premium Member about 5 years ago
There are very few things that can get the smile off of Tommy’s face.
Strob Premium Member about 5 years ago
Someone’s going to have to tell her.
Sionyx about 5 years ago
I was holding out the faint hope that Goldie was an outside cat who hung around and mooched food, but nope. And even when she’s been told flat out otherwise, she still thinks her People were worthy of her. Poor girl.
Life has kept me from being able to follow Georgia’s FB as much as I used to, so I’ve got a question. People here keep saying RL Goldie is also known to have been dumped by her former family. The posts I saw said Goldie was a neighborhood stray and no one Georgia asked was aware of her ever having an “official” family. Though it’s clear Goldie had People experience before adopting Georgia and her family, I never saw anything where it’s confirmed where that People experience came from. Did I miss a post somewhere?
dmah Premium Member about 5 years ago
Tommy and Beatrix can’t possibly tell her now, can they? They’ve only just gained Goldie’s trust … and … Goldie’s sick and she needs help … I think getting her inside and healthy first, and then the bad news later … I hope?
ctlum about 5 years ago
Oh dear Goldie……sometimes the truth hurts so much….
Gent about 5 years ago
Well, Goldie. Your people were disgusting dastardly diabolical devilish depraved degenerate demons who altogether abandoned you! They’re not just “missing people”. They’re monstrously miserable people.
lisav1124 about 5 years ago
Orbsters, If you could send some boops and well wishes our way, it would be so appreciated. I’m feeling a bit nervous. This Tuesday morning Andylit and I are bringing our girl, Shadow in for a consultation with a kitty neurologist. She is 15, and is on Phenobarbital and Zonisamide, but still is having grand mal seizures with uncontrollable urination. She probably has them 2-3 times a week, but the last week or so, she’s had some pretty intense episodes. The last one yesterday morning she clamped down onto one of my fingers and wouldn’t let go until she was finished. I couldn’t give a damn about my finger, or the varied nips I’ve gotten from her because of this, I just want my girlie to be able to find some relief and have better quality of life. It’s so hard watching our 4 legged family members suffer.
DennisinSeattle about 5 years ago
Goldie holds on to the belief that the racoons took her people away. Her new friends know better, but how to get her to accept the truth?
ikini Premium Member about 5 years ago
I can’t imagine how Georgia is going to resolve this 8-(
hawgowar about 5 years ago
I never understood why people just abandon animals who are dependent on them.
Robin Harwood about 5 years ago
When the raccoons come, People are doomed.
Gloria Fleming about 5 years ago
I Just love Goldie’s eyes in the last panel!
Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member about 5 years ago
:(
WelshRat Premium Member about 5 years ago
Uh, oh. Even Bea knows the answer to this one…
about 5 years ago
I’ll be back with some tissue boxes.
amethyst52 Premium Member about 5 years ago
When we moved back home to WA from Virginia, my darling Petey got out when some friends came over to pick up some furniture I gave them. Petey was strictly an indoor kitty, but he would now and then escape out the door. I would go after him and he would run a few feet from me and stop and look back at me, as soon as I got close enough he would run a bit further, stop and wait for me. He would let me catch him after 10-15 min. I would grab him up and kiss him and he would purr and purr. Once I realized he had gotten out I went out and searched and called him for hours. I went out each day, went door to door with his picture but never found him. A week later the movers came and we had to leave. My husband flew home with our 5 other kitties and my sister and I drove across the US with our two dogs. I still feel grief and shame that I couldn’t get him back. So maybe Goldie’s people didn’t abandon her. Hope so. :’(
asrialfeeple about 5 years ago
And here we were hoping our suspicions were wrong.
snarkm about 5 years ago
I’m really not surprised the raccoons are so angry at her and so defensive against her presence. That’s a pretty dastardly crime to accuse them of with zero evidence. I totally get why the poor heart is in denial about how horrible her former people are but the raccoons are victims here too.
arolarson Premium Member about 5 years ago
Oh Goldie, our older dog knows how you feel. Almost 12 years ago we found him at the side of the road next to another dog who had obviously been hit by a car. We saw him from way back as we waited to turn. Every time a car passed he would sit up and start toward it only to drop back down when the car passed. We stopped. He had a collar but no tags. We took him to the vet ( only a few miles away where he and friend could have been taken). We and the vet staff figured they were probably what someone a few days ago called a recession stray. When no one claimed him we took him home. He is the world’s best dog, funny, friendly, loving and became a therapy dog for 10 of the years he has been with us. We both had to retire with health issues. He is now we think about 16 and having increasing health issues and we will be totally devastated when the time comes for him to depart for the RB. I can understand people being desperate if they lose their home, but they could have taken them to the vet who would have found them a new home. As could Goldie’s people have taken her to the Quinn Shelter and spared her the life of a stray….Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Nuliajuk about 5 years ago
People like that should be dropped out in the middle of the woods, thousands of miles from anything, in the middle of winter.
“We’re setting you freeeee! You’ll survive in the wild because you’re independent!”
DeerOrchid Premium Member about 5 years ago
I cannot click the heart button next to this strip. Maybe tomorrow.
cat19632001 about 5 years ago
I don’t see Goldie and the raccoons ever shaking paws and agreeing to let live and let live over this.
ladykat about 5 years ago
Oh, my poor Goldie!! My heart aches for you. I look at Yum Yum snoozing on the back of the couch without a care in the world and I hope she realizes how fortunate she is to have the option of staying inside in the warm or going outside for some fresh air!
davanden about 5 years ago
“Breaking” cat news, indeed.
SunflowerGirl100 about 5 years ago
I know I posted this a month or so ago, but it’s so related to Goldie’s story. My cat Rusty is a stray I started feeding. Now, after six years with me, he is finally trusting enough that he no longer runs and hides if he hears a large truck. I think his story is that one day a truck came and stole his home and his people. I’ll add that I always leave at Christmas. The first Christmas when Rusty had only begun to come inside, I thought he might run off in my absence. The neighbor who was checking on him said that for the first two days, he stayed on my sofa and refused to budge except for litter box and food. She said she carried him outside and he crouched on the door mat and wouldn’t budge. That broke my heart. It still does typing this. It was so obvious he thought he was being abandoned again. At least good came of that. After he saw I came home to him, he became much more trusting. I’m with Nuliajuk, people who do that should be dropped in the wilderness.
maestrabella67 about 5 years ago
Why do people do that? People suck sometimes.
A R V reader about 5 years ago
A cruel way to abandon a sweet cat like Goldie. I hope something will be done to help her.
Sue Ellen about 5 years ago
Off topic: Shingles update
I managed to get 12 hours sleep last night. When I awoke, I was less sore than yesterday. The flat red patches are starting to form bumps in the middle but haven’t erupted yet. The medications are making me feel stupid and clumsy but seem finally to be helping.
::::::::::knock wood::::::::::
I’ve got lots of unread books on my Kindle. I’ve mostly lost my appetite but force myself to eat a slice of toast with pumpkin butter when I take the meds. There’s 3 inches of snow on my sidewalk, but I’m going to have to leave it to Mother Nature to melt off. Now I’m going to go back to my mug of cranberry apple tea and my book. Thanks again for all the well wishes. It’s comforting to know I have a support system here.
LtPowers about 5 years ago
They didn’t take the welcome mat?
Opus about 5 years ago
Poor kitty
SunflowerGirl100 about 5 years ago
Dear Orb, I so appreciate how supportive you are of each other. I have read various Orbsters problems and realized how lucky I have been. In 74 years, I have not had the major medical problems so many of you have. But yesterday, I had bad news so now it’s my turn to ask for some purrs and good wishes. I take thyroid as mine went on vacation years ago. I have a very conscientious doctor. A few weeks ago, she demanded I go for a biopsy of a nodule she found on my thyroid. I was annoyed and reluctant as I looked it up and nodules are common and usually benign. Usually. Yesterday the office that performed the biopsy called. The nodule is malignant. I can’t tell you how strange it is to write the words “I have cancer.” Thursday I will meet the specialist to schedule the surgery. This is still not nearly as bad as what so many of you have to deal with as thyroid cancer is usually pretty mild. Unless it has spread, surgery will take care of it and I’ll be fine.
marilynnbyerly about 5 years ago
We can only hope those evil people moved to some dark cartoon universe where they will get what they deserve, and Goldie will get the wonderful family she totally deserves. Since this is BCN, I’m sure Goldie’s future is what she deserves.
MeGoNow Premium Member about 5 years ago
All our cats have always been foundlings. Some we found. Some others found. Some found us. One in particular I’ve always wondered about. He showed up one day at breakfast when we lived in town and just stayed. I’d never seen him around the neighborhood or anywhere in the area on my runs and walks. One day he was just there. And after fifteen years of being the nicest, unassuming slender black cat, he died naturally last year as I held him on the floor. Funny thing. He never made a sound except a kind of quiet chirp, earning the name, Peep.
And I wonder about our dog. He was the perfect dog from day one. Car trained. House trained. Nice to cats. A natural guard dog who wouldn’t bite a biscuit. Immediately adopted watching out for my wife as his job. Changed our lives when I found him on a whim at the rescue. They had picked him up from the nearest urban city shelter. Where had be been before? Who would have lost such a dog and not searched for him in the obvious place? I suspect it was like so many. University students graduated and simply drove off and left him. I wonder if that still saddens him. I wonder if they’re not such ogres that it sometimes gives them a pang. It sobers me and drives home how much I have to make up for and how grateful that he’s with us.
la_momcat about 5 years ago
I suspect Goldie knows deep down that her people abandoned her, but she can’t bear such a painful truth, much less acknowledge it to her new friends. She was able to lose herself in the detective work and not think about it. :(
maggijoseph Premium Member about 5 years ago
I’m worried that Goldie get medicine for her respiratory problem before it becomes pneumonia!
willie_mctell about 5 years ago
Bad humans. They deserve to be bitten.
Margo Premium Member about 5 years ago
That’s how we got our beloved Charlie. His folks were moving and they dumped their kittens outside. One of them made it to where my husband worked. He called me and I said bring him home right now. The Vet said he was very young but in good health. Of all the cats we had, Charlie was the best. He lived to 18 yrs. We still talk about him and miss him so much. He was a Tuxedo cat, absolutely gorgeous.
Rista about 5 years ago
All those sneezes are worrying me. That is one kitten coming down with something. She needs to be found by humans rather than just the cat news team and fast.
Catmom about 5 years ago
I truly and deeply despise cruel, ignorant people who abandon animals. However, if there were not such people, I wouldn’t be spending a cold, snowy morning with the Black Devils—Inky, who is perched behind my head, and Ozzy, blissfully warming my lap with a kitty smile on his face. Some low-life dumped them at the local lake as kittens but they were rescued and found their way to me. And I wouldn’t have Tucker, the absolute best, sweetest cat in the universe, napping in the kitchen. I found this half-blind boy hanging around outside a convenience store on a busy highway. Needless to say I picked him right up and brought him home.
poppet bear about 5 years ago
On a more positive note for everyone, Georgia was tweeting yesterday about starting work on the “Our IX Lives” Christmas special! Soon we’ll be swooning over Kit and cursing at that guy Brad :)
Except for Robin … he’ll be doomed
sgs13 about 5 years ago
Just on the news, someone threw two black kittens out of a van driving down the interstate. The first one was killed by a woman who couldn’t avoid or stop in time. She called the police and she is now extremely upset. I do not understand such cruelty :(
BillJackson2 about 5 years ago
For some reason, when I started reading the comments, Diego climbed up on me and wanted to be held. I don’t know if it was for my benefit or his.
piwismom about 5 years ago
OT: Requesting purrs and paw power from the Orb as I’m having surgery this afternoon to remove a tumor from under my right thumb nail. Have to have general anesthesia as well. I’m left-handed, but still use my right a lot for the computer at work and home. Am a little nervous about having the nail removed. Thank you, dear Orbsters! ♥
knight1192a about 5 years ago
Love Tommy and Beatrix’s knowing looks in the last panel coupled with Beatrix’s whispered “Oh no.” They know what has happened to poor Goldie.
Zoomer&Yeti about 5 years ago
I look at this as a kind of PSA from Georgia about Pets in need. And it just makes me realize that for every person who would abandon a pet, there are many DOZENS of wonderful people like you all, who will foster or rescue or adopt or feed or take into your home an animal in need of love. Including Georgia and Ryan.
You are all special here in the Mega Orb! HUGS.
cjinvictoria about 5 years ago
Hi friends, I see a number of requests for orb vibes/prayers above and I’m hoping there are still some left for my Gino (the big guy on the left in my avatar) and me. I got sloppy last night and left one of my plants accessible. I didn’t think it was a toxic plant, and Gino ate a bunch of it overnight. I looked it up this morning and it turns out it IS a bad one – it has oxalates that can cause kidney failure. Given that he’s 13, he’s already at risk for kidney issues. So he’s spending the day at the vet, getting blood work done and on an IV to flush his system. He’ll have to go back next week for more blood work to make sure it’s out of his system. I’m kicking myself for leaving the plant out and scared that he won’t make it. He did barf most of it up at 4 o’clock this morning, so I’m hoping that maybe he got most of it out that way. Thanks! (CJ and Gino)
Kitty Katz about 5 years ago
To paraphrase Taylor Swift to the **s who abandoned Goldie: Look What You Made Me Do!
I don’t like the way you left
Leaving Goldie so bereft,
She loved you, what you did
There’s no excuse, oh I don’t like you!
I don’t like, no I abhor
You just pushed Goldie out the door
I don’t like the way you think
Worse than Louie’s perfume, you just Stink!
…….
But that’s not how it ends, Goldie met friends
In the nick of time
Idiots, good riddance to you all, no thanks to you all
She’ll be just fine
We may not know your names, but we know just the same
Karma is going to find you, oh!
…….
Look what karma’s gonna do,
What karma’s gonna do,
What karma’s gonna do,
What karma’s gonna do,
What karma’s gonna do,
What karma’s gonna do,
What karma’s gonna do,
What karma’s gonna do!
(I’m sorry, Goldie can’t come to the phone right now! Why? You don’t deserve to talk to her, drop dead!)
Maizing about 5 years ago
My hip/back is feeling a lot better today. Unfortunately, my friend who was going to help me put my new chair together had to leave early and will not be able to come by today. I don’t think the chair would have gotten here in time for her to put it together for me today anyway though.
Chair Watch (ordered November 5):
Wednesday, November 6:9:41 PM Package has left the carrier facility Package has shipped
11:41 PM Package has left the carrier facility Romeoville, IL US
Saturday, November 9: 10:37 PM Package arrived at a carrier facility Troutdale, OR US
Tuesday, November 12:
2:37 AM Package has left the carrier facility Troutdale, OR US
9:08 AM Package arrived at a carrier facility Hines, OR US
9:09 AM Out for delivery Hines, OR US
Code the Enforcer about 5 years ago
Beatrix knows the cold truth about this, having experienced it! Goldie is on her ‘mission’ … but how will this end?! :(
Gent about 5 years ago
Since everyone’s telling their cat stories, lemme tell one of the several ones I had.
(Remember that when I say “our cat”, it always means that it’s a free cat which is not imprisoned inside a house and is free to go and settle or hang out and around or in another house too, which they all typically do. And that’s why the inverted commas, folks).
Okay, one of “our cats”, the best one we ever had so far, of whom I’ve spoken about once or twice earlier on this board (yes, the same cat who defended us from a venomous cobra, the same cat who once has six kittens, the same cat who was the grandmother of the current “our cat” who currently lives in another house and rarely comes here), that “our cat” had once bright with her three male kittens of hers! And all three were good and healthy! I dunno if it’s a rare thing or a common thing, but I’ve never seen three healthy male kittens for the same cat ever. Maybe usually because most male kittens get killed by other male cats. Obviously, these three boys were born and brought up in one of our many neighbours in the neighborhood, or maybe in a safe place in their property. As these kittens were quite grown up, I guess they were probably brought up in a benevolent human neighborhood.
These three boys grew up around our household, and they were quite the dashing young boys. Of the three, one was very smart, who would eat his food faster and then steal from the other two. He used to use his paw to grab food from another’s pile as if a human was using his hand to grab it and eat it. The other two were nice boys.
As we all know, males leave the place and begin wandering as they grow up and these three went away too. One of them, a very good boy used to usually hang out around us, while the smart aleck and the other good boy wandered off somewhere. The other good boy wasn’t too far away, and would come running to me if I made a certain calling sound even from a great distance.
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gigagrouch about 5 years ago
Thoughtless cruelty!
Kitty Katz about 5 years ago
Tommy’s expression in the last panel is so eloquent: Should I tell her?
Tue Elung-Jensen about 5 years ago
Be optimistic – maybe they just died?
Lara Smith about 5 years ago
When we moved into this house, our neighbor had a cat that was strictly outdoors. She then moved to our yard but I couldn’t grab her for awhile as she’d allow very brief pats then take off. When I finally got where she’d come up to me, I took her back next door and the neighbor then told me it wasn’t her cat, just a stray she fed. I took her to the clinic and had her checked for a chip. Turns out she had been missing for nearly 2 YEARS from about a mile and a half away. We didn’t even live in our house when she disappeared from her first owners so never saw the missing cat signs. We reunited Mrs. Meow with her first family and you’ve never seen so many tears. Seriously, CHIP YOUR FURBABIES!!!!
Having said that- poor Goldie! I hope the IRL Goldie is simply a Mrs. Meow without a chip
pchemcat about 5 years ago
I’m crying now. Two years ago on November 1st, I almost hit a cat in the middle of a 4-lane highway. She was approximately 6 months old when I blocked traffic and coaxed her to me. She was disease and flea-free (although it was extremely cold that week) and seemed to be a normal weight. Was she someone’s pet? No one claimed her even though I asked around town. I had her tested and in isolation until we knew she was disease-free (I had 3 other cats at the time). She is such a wonderful goofball but only trusts me. I wish I knew what landed her in the middle of the highway (at an intersection – I suspect she was put out of a car at the red light). I’m just blessed that she is now mine.
Janetb689 about 5 years ago
My two were found in a field. Smitten with kittens found them. my husband and I adopted them at six weeks old. They (brother and sister) will be 3 in December. SAM AXE and FIONA. What a duo