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Don't Fear The Reaper Cat?
Topic Started: Feb 2 2010, 08:59 AM (226 Views)
Luke's Dad
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Emperor Pengin
Angel of Death Cat?


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The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it.
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JBryan
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I am the grey one
Death, where is thy sting.
"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne


There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it".


Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody.

Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore.

From The Lion in Winter.
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Luke's Dad
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Speaking of psychic cats.
The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it.
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kenny
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Maybe they just don't feed it enough.
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Frank_W
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Wow! Great story, LD! :thumb:
Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin."
Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!"
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LWpianistin
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That's pretty neat....I guess. There's a cat, Cinders, at the nursing home where my granddad was that sits on an empty bed that will be occupied soon, even the same day. The nurses prepare for another patient when they see her do that. She's usually right!
And how are you today?
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John D'Oh
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If I was lying in bed and heard that little bugger wailing outside my bedroom door I'd be pretty bloody annoyed, I can tell you. Slippers would be thrown.
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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Aqua Letifer
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John D'Oh
Feb 2 2010, 09:25 AM
If I was lying in bed and heard that little bugger wailing outside my bedroom door I'd be pretty bloody annoyed, I can tell you. Slippers would be thrown.
No joke.

Wonder how the patients feel about getting a visit from Oscar after hearing who he spends his time with.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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LWpianistin
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Well, since they all have dementia, I don't think they remember what his visits mean...
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Aqua Letifer
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LWpianistin
Feb 2 2010, 09:45 AM
Well, since they all have dementia, I don't think they remember what his visits mean...
Well that's what they specialize in but I wonder if they do any other cases.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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John D'Oh
Feb 2 2010, 09:25 AM
If I was lying in bed and heard that little bugger wailing outside my bedroom door I'd be pretty bloody annoyed, I can tell you. Slippers would be thrown.
Not me. If I'm in a nursing home, presumably I know I'm on the way out. Hopefully I've made peace with that inevitability and I'd love to spend my last moments with a very special cat who opts to give me love and affection in my final moments while the people in my life chose to abandon me to a nursing home. I could throw slippers and have a lonely bitter death or I could let Oscar in and die snuggled up to a warm loving furry purring sweetheart. Tough choice...
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JBryan
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I choose being dragged out with my fingernails ripping up the floor.
"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne


There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it".


Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody.

Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore.

From The Lion in Winter.
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Frank_W
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Maybe when the residents croak, Oscar tries to bury them... :devilgrin:
Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin."
Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!"
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sue
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If I was in a nursing home and about to kick it, I probably wouldn't be all to aware of the cat anyways, but if I did I think I'd welcome a warm furry creature on my deathbed.

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Far from recoiling from Oscar's presence, now they know its significance, relatives and friends of patients have been comforted and sometimes praised the cat in newspaper death notices and eulogies, said Dr Dosa.
"People were actually taking great comfort in this idea, that this animal was there and might be there when their loved ones eventually pass. He was there when they couldn't be," he said.

I can see that.
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