Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/03/22

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Subject: [Leica] In Memoriam
From: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 19:01:15 -0400
References: <CA+yJO1Coa5iiUKNT0UzfFa12=8Neb15Lc=XaPnC8fZeAGLA6+w@mail.gmail.com> <CD7258B7.6ED8%mark@rabinergroup.com>

Thanks, Mark.  I like to think of Roo in kitty heaven protecting his
chickens.  I'm sure that's how he died.

Tina

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
wrote:

> He is the king/queen of its domain in that great pic!
> (I am told some cats are boy cats)
>
> It strikes me that a Barn kitty is in kitty heaven before it even dies.
> After it dies what then? More fun? A better Kitty mission?
> ...keeping rodents away from grain and food storage areas...
> Well kitty heaven certainly  must contain lots of things for a Barn Kitty
> to
> do. On an even more important and fun scale.
>
>
> I checked out this:
> http://www.barncats.org/about.php
>
> And in South Carolina
> Berkeley County PAWS
> Goose Creek, South Carolina, (843) 207-PAWS, Margurite at (843) 708-0566
> As part of the U.S. Barn Cat Programs.
>
>
>
>
>
> On 3/22/13 1:05 PM, "Tina Manley" <images at comporium.net> wrote:
>
> > PESO:
> >
> > Our wonderful barn cat, Rooster, did not recover from his injuries.  When
> > we got back late last night, Roo was sleeping in the nest box in the
> > chicken house, as usual, but did not get up to greet us.  I just thought
> he
> > was sleeping too soundly.   This morning he was lying by the hay bales
> and
> > it was obvious, in spite of the fact that he was purring loudly, that he
> > was hurt.  I expect he had a run-in with the racoon that has been killing
> > chickens lately.  We called the vet and got a cat carrier, but when we
> went
> > back out to the chicken house, Roo was gone.  Tom thought that was a good
> > sign, but he went back out later to look and found Roo dead in front of
> the
> > guinea house.
> >
> > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/145748291
> >
> > He was a good cat.  RIP, Rooster.
> >
> > Tina
>
>
>
>
> --
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> Photography
>
>
>
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-- 
Tina Manley, ASMP
www.tinamanley.com


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