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From: Karen
Date: Tue Nov  8 10:52:49 MST 2005
Subject: Oscarito

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Patricia: congrats (11/8/05)

Karen: Trizia's suggestions (11/9/05)

Karen: Oscar update (11/9/05)

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Karen: Oscar update (11/9/05)
Karen: Trizia's suggestions (11/9/05)
Patricia: congrats (11/8/05)

Oscar totally bolted when I opened the door. I prayed he'd come back, and an hour later, my neighbor Libby--a cat person--saw him by her place & returned him to me. He's used to being outside--I'm hoping he gets used to my 450 sq ft container soon.
He had 50 percent accuracy in hitting the box last night. It was well-intended, so I'll give him points for trying.

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From: Patricia
Date: Tue Nov  8 15:06:20 MST 2005
Subject: congrats

Cool, Karen.
Is a pet door an option for you to have sort of an indoor/outdoor cat? Or maybe a cat house in your porch area?
I guess the practical side of me took over. I am happy for you, though, especially when I let go of wanting to fix things.

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From: Karen
Date: Wed Nov  9 16:42:10 MST 2005
Subject: Trizia's suggestions

If the idea is giving Oscar more space, my back patio is only the size of a large closet, and not completely fenced off from other neighbors' patios. (The back "yard" is technically a second emergency exit for the other five apartments in the row.) The front porch is directly on a parking lot, maybe not a great idea for long kitty lifespan or neighbor happiness. In particular, I'm not sure how my landlord would feel about an indoor-outdoor cat roaming about the parking lot area. I'll ask him next time I see him; he's so painfully direct, I don't even think to take his curtness personally, most of the time!
My co-worker Sarah--who in her "spare time" harbors injured animals--says that I can actually experiment with putting him in a harness so I can take him on field trips. I like the counterintuitive idea of taking my cat on a "walk." It would be a very wayward walk, indeed. I feel like I already take cats on walks all day at my middle school ;-) I think Isaiah may have had the wrong metaphor; what about, "All we like cats have gone astray"?

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From: Karen
Date: Wed Nov  9 16:48:48 MST 2005
Subject: Oscar update

As of yesterday evening, the only thing he'd chewed up was the bag of unopened cat food which I'd deliberately left out--as a sort of IQ experiment. ;-) He also had jumped into my bathroom sink and played with the drain, pulling out a hairball (ewwww). Could this be the Village plumber I've been praying for? Anyone else have a slow drain they want some help with?

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