Re: A Stranger through the cat flap...

"PatM" <trufflecatpat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:1146028261.384646.303510
@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com:

When our son was in kindergarden and we still lived in rural
California, I had to go talk to our neighbors down the road because we
found out their little boy was slipping into our place when we left and
making like Goldilocks. He wasn't a bad child...only about 5yrs
old...but his mom and dad let him do pretty much as he pleased and any
blame I put on them and only feel sorry for the kid. By now he must be
a mess. One time he threw rocks at a pea*** until he hit it in the
head and killed it. They expressed no concern, no remorse about what
happened, just let it lie in their yard and rot. Another time dad left
his keys in the truck so sonny boy turned it on and managed to drive it
into the ditch. So, anyway, we sure didn't want him crawling through
our kitty door!

Stories like this make me sad. There was a kid two doors down from me a
few years back who was a hooligan, right from toddler-age. The thing
that always made me mad was that in the right parental hands, he could
have been amazing - if his talents had been channelled a little better.
I'm pretty sure he's either dead or in jail by now. Poor kid.

We also had racoons that joined us many mornings for
coffee. The first time they discovered the kitty door we were sitting
at the table reading the paper and wondering why on earth the cats were
messing around with the flap...lifting it up and letting it fall again
and again. Then we noticed a decidedly non-feline pointy nose poking
around the corner, followed by two curious round black eyes..... They
were always very polite, but about this time, between kids and racoons,
we started locking the door!

They are very polite at first - but if they get food once, they can get
real nasty if they don't get it the next time. Good for you for locking
that door.

Chak

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At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human
malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity:
idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or
political ideas.
--Aldous Huxley
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