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Both my wife and I felt bad about the robin that built a nest just outside our bathroom window in the nearby tree.  She said it spent a few days sitting on the nest and then never returned.  Maybe our cat who sometimes sits (??? in at) the window ten feet away from the nest frightened it away.  And of course there is a bit of traffic to and fro the bathroom during the day.  I was really curious whether there were any eggs in the nest.  I am going to take a ladder under the tree and find out.  I know birds sometimes abandon their nests.  Both of us felt bad about it.

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I actually caught “Cheyenne”, one beautifully marked grey and white long haired male cat who has not been to the vet in over two years.  He is a step slower now.  He has been sniffling so we were both thrilled he will get to the vet today.  Any time I approach him he usually stiffens and gives me the eye:  What right do you have to go near me he seems to say?!  Each animal has likes and dislikes just like humans.  He simply does not like me.  I have accepted that fact but I still periodically try to approach him.  The result is usually the same.  He runs the opposite direction.  Anyway, he is getting his yearly exam.

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Love your pets while you still have them.  We put to sleep Slinky, one of our cats.  It was really hard.  She was this timid, really affectionate black cat I had since a kitty.

I woke up this morning and she was no longer there.  She was in heaven.  I would do any thing to see her again.  At least, she was no longer suffering.

Lynelle and I gently stroked her body as she lay on the table as the vet administered the drug that put her to sleep.

She was this innocent gentle cat that loved to hang out in the bathroom window and never got enough of our strokes.  I had taken her for granted.

I wish I had appreciated her more when she was on this earth.  I have now seven cats and four dogs.  I no longer want to take any of my pets for granted.  They are only on loan to us.  As every thing else.

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