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Subject: Re: Remembering the Polekitty

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bytemangler

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Date Posted: 22:02:45 03/29/16 Tue
In reply to: Wes 's message, "Remembering the Polekitty" on 08:55:15 02/11/16 Thu

>Another column picked up from the paper.
>
>My wife and I have always had cats. Simply speaking,
>we like having pets around, and our experience has
>been that cats take less maintenance and looking after
>than dogs. Besides, I like the graceful way most cats
>move even when they're being clumsy, and we have had a
>fair amount of that.

As we do!
>
>Our first cat, which we got as a kitten shortly after
>we got married almost forty years ago, was a
>long-haired but small for the breed Maine Coon,

Our first was a gorgeous Persian Chinchilla which was given to us when he was about 2 yrs old; he was with us until the very ripe old age of 22.

After that, Matinicus - a red maine coon - came to live with us for 17 years. A few months later we realized that we did not want to be catless, and visited a Maine Coon breeder who had 2 female kittens available. We couldn't make up our mind, but the breeder resolved the issue by giving us a very good deal on the pair. They are littermates, but quite different in build and personality, although they are both Tabby color.

One does not 'own' a cat; we are privileged to have them share their lives with us.

"Dogs have masters; Cats have staff".

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