REI just fucking rocks! We just got our dividend check today and its a good chunk of $ that we are more than willing and eager to spend right back at REI!
In fact, I am working on my list now…
I am so in love with REI…
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Our cat Reggie Miller has passed due to nasal cancer; he would have been 14 years old in April. We are crushed, but relived at the same time; he was really starting to decline in quality of life, and I think he knew it, as strange as this sounds I think he told me twice since yesterday that he was ready.
I give huge thanks to our Vet, he is the best damn Vet I have ever dealt with, very professional and compassionate, he gave Reggie a sedative and put a IV into his arm so we could hold him, he never once tried to up sale anything, and in fact for the past year that we have been using this Vet he has never once tried to push his agenda onto us, unlike other Vets we have had to deal with.
We was both holding Reggie as the final shot was given, Reggie was purring and wrapped in his favorite flannel shirt, the Dr than left us and as a final show of Reggie’s “cattitudeâ€, he died in our arms and we didn’t even know it. I just know he did that on purpose… The thought that we was holding a dead cat for 10 minutes and not knowing he was dead made us both laugh; even now 30 minutes later I am smiling as I cry.
He died well.
He will be missed.
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Our cat Reggie Miller was a real small runt when compared to his litter, when we got him his body was so much smaller than his head that it made his ears look huge, and when he ate it was in a “panic” as he tried to eat everything as fast as he could and since he was the youngest of 4 we made sure he knew the anarchy and he would have to wait his turn and we made sure he always got his turn so it was something he learned. He was also the longest haired cat so that meant he was often the dirtiest, and for some reason his front claws all were “splintered”, even to this day, and his eye’s tear up twice as much as a normal cat, the vet said its like a constant runny nose for a cat, no real big deal, just annoying and nasty looking so he was often the “dirt ball” cat.
When he was about a year old his fur just kept getting worse and worse, even matted together, we would have to bath him once a month to manage it and his claws were all a deep nasty brown around his claws and he HATES his toes to be touched, so we just thought he was in pain so we took him to a vet who said it may be a rash and his body just creates more oil than average so he would just be a “dirt ball”.
After months of baths and vet visit’s (when we was dirt poor) I finally figured out why he was such a “dirt ball”…
I grew up in Indiana and as with most midwesterners we either boiled or fried everything, so it was somewhat common to have a old soup can on/near the stove full of old grease from fried chicken or whatever, you just drained the grease into the old can and when it was full and cold, you threw it away so when Pauline and I got together we had our own “grease can”.
Reggie was jumping on the stove at night and reaching into the grease can and scratching the grease with his claws and licking it off and since his mouth was so greasy when he groomed himself he just licked the oil onto his fur…
I got thinking of this tonight as I watched him stand next to the food dish and reaching into the dish and grabbing the raw meat I put into it and eating it from his paw so he wouldn’t have to be troubled with bending over…
Stoopid cat….
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HUGE Win tonight…. HUGE!
#5 Michigan St – 54
#19 Purdue – 72
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