Think Draw - Picture - An Augie Update

Title: An Augie Update
created on 01 Jul 09

Please login to rate or comment:

Comments on this picture (48):
1. Baldur wrote: Remember Augie? the scrawny possibly stray cat that we were thinking about adopting? Here's what happened....
2. Angela wrote: ?
3. Baldur wrote: The other day I heard a voice on the hill behind my house. The area is steep, rocky and full of thorny brambles and even bits of stubborn poison ivy. Not many people would ever be found there,
4. Baldur wrote: I go there occasionally to try to kill the poison ivy. Robert has a couple bird feeders that he tends there as well. The only other person to venture there would be 'Hermione'.
5. lilalee wrote: I thought you were taking him in??
6. Baldur wrote: 'Hermione' is not her actual name, but she is a rather young girl who lives on the street behind us. For whatever reason has decided that it's easier to cut across our property on her way home from school than to actually walk along the nice shady pleasan
7. Baldur wrote: ....shady pleasant lane, that would lead her right to her door.
8. Baldur wrote: She is very polite and pleasant and indeed asked my permission to use the short-cut. I assented though I see no benefit to the route she prefers.
9. Baldur wrote: Anyway here is the young lady, barefoot in the brambles calling out in a sotto voce way: 'Petey, Petey, get back over here!'
10. Baldur wrote: (Baldur frequently uses the phrase 'sotto voce' in daily conversation.)
11. Baldur wrote: As it turns out Augie is indeed Petey. Hermione shares her home with 4 cats, Petey being one of the younger.
12. Baldur wrote: I related to Hermione that we had been considering adopting 'Petey' assuming in error that he was a stray.
13. Baldur wrote: Why would you think he was a stray?' she asked. 'Because he looks so underfed' Baldur replies. 'He is a good size for a cat!' She now sounded a bit defensive.
14. Baldur wrote: But that is Hermione, Baldur gets the impression that this young lady will do well in life, she is very outspoken, and in my brief conversations with her has seemed quite intelligent.
15. Baldur wrote: I told her that Petey comes here knowing that there is cat food. 'Ahhh that makes sense, he's often gone all day long' she added.
16. Baldur wrote: What I didn't bother to add was that Petey/Augie also does fairly well stalking whatever visits the birdfeeders. She no doubt already knows of his hunting skills.
17. lilalee wrote: Awww! She thought you were going to kidnap Petey!!
18. Baldur wrote: So Augie is not homeless, and that concludes that brief tale of feline intrigue.
19. Baldur wrote: I haven't seen Petey again, the poor thing is probably locked up all day. Next time Hermione walks by I'll be sure to ask.
20. lilalee wrote: Outside cats are so different than the inside ones!! They have to be more aware, and defensive. Petey is smart!!
21. autumn wrote: you'll have to find another cat cuz Augie is a great name!
22. Baldur wrote: We have 2 older cats already, who I didn't name. They were here with Robert when I moved in.
23. Baldur wrote: He named them Heidi and Seeky, I could never do that LOL.
24. Baldur wrote: The 2 cats that lived with me years ago were named Aja (pronounced 'Asia') and Biba.
25. Baldur wrote: Biba was a hand me down cat that my sister dumped on me when she decided it was too vicious to keep around her children.
26. Baldur wrote: I had seen little Adolph and Lucretia pick up the cat by it's tail so I felt obliged to take it in and spare it from them.
27. Baldur wrote: Some people should not be allowed to keep animals. This family is forever getting a new pet and ignoring or giving away the old ones. It's sickening.
28. lilalee wrote: I have always had cats, and only male ones, as they are more loving and humorous!! The two I adopted were abused, and I would never do that again!
29. lilalee wrote: Fred took to us right away, but Granger, it took two years before he would even rub against my leg, as he watched feet always. So that told me he was probably kicked around.
30. lilalee wrote: People like that shouldn't have kids or pets!! They forget they have to be trained, and cared for. Thats too much work for some!!
31. Baldur wrote: Biba had problems, most likely caused by her horrible early homelife. She was not good at being a pet.
32. Baldur wrote: And as it turned out, she wasn't spayed. She escaped from my house just once and got pregnant. That tiny little cat had 8 kittens LOL
33. Baldur wrote: The kittens all lived and were adorable as kittens tend to be. I started adopting out the kittens when they were old enough.
34. Baldur wrote: When a co-worker came to look at the last kitten, she professed it to be the most beautiful kitten she ever saw and was sad that it was the last one, she really wanted two cats
35. lilalee wrote: Oh, that happened to me, not the eight kittens. But this small cat, had four kittens on my husbands Ohio State jacket! I thought I heard little birds in the basement, went down and there on his precious jacket
36. Baldur wrote: So I told her about the mother and the problems she had. She asked if she could have Biba
37. lilalee wrote: Was mamma, and four little ones. My son named then, Catsup, Mustard, Pickles, and Onions!! We never did tell him about the jacket!!
38. Baldur wrote: so anyway Martina adopted the mother and the baby. Biba had her litter on an oriental carpet in my dining room
39. Baldur wrote: She was on the way to have them under the couch, I found she had dragged a small towel under there and built a 'nest'
40. Baldur wrote: I guess they started coming out before she made it to her hideaway. She left a trail of babies.
41. lilalee wrote: Aren't they sweet?? So smart.
42. Baldur wrote: I was at work, they were all fine. I moved them all under the couch for her.
43. Baldur wrote: They clung to the carpet like velcro with their tiny claws
44. Baldur wrote: eventually in trying to pick them up without inadvertently ripping out their claws I had to slide a piece of paper under each paw so it wouldn't re-attach to the carpet
45. Baldur wrote: Once all 4 paws were free I could lift each kitten
46. polenta wrote: I answered you
47. pollyesther wrote: what a great story, love the names heidi and seeky LOL
48. pollyesther wrote: my son named one of our cats Chunkey-bean-nose, i suppose he caught her getting into the garbage...