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  • Unknown

    The unknown looms. Poppa funding will soon end. I felt tonight like telling them to just end it the first of the year. I don't know why. I suppose to end the suspense, the agony of it. Also, because I am reminded that Poppa does not exist to fund me.' [...]
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    Posted: December 09, 2009, 12:31am EST
    by Strayer

  • Five Cats Being Fixed Today

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    Five cats are up being fixed today. Two are adult females from Lebanon. One is more like in her late teens. The people have two kittens, too, leftover from one of the cats' litters. I will weigh them to see if they are two pounds and could then be fixed.The' [...]
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    Posted: December 08, 2009, 2:46pm EST
    by Strayer

  • Black Pearl and Toby

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    I was so hopeful today when the couple came to look at Black Pearl and Toby, but they didn't show well. They hid in fact. I could not believe it. They're both completely tame. The problem is no volunteers to help socialize the cats to anybody other than me. It's' [...]
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    Posted: December 06, 2009, 3:46pm EST
    by Strayer

  • Busy Day!

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    Despite my pledge to sleep late this morning and nap most of the day, for makeup sleep, I didn't. I took six cats to the vet this morning, to update their rabies vaccines. I wanted to take ten, but they all panicked after I got three into carriers. All ten' [...]
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    Posted: December 05, 2009, 8:47pm EST
    by Strayer

  • Hard Day

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    Black and white male kitten, one of seven born to a torti on Queen, who is also now fixed. One kitten died. The other six were adopted out, but I kept track of five of the six and the sixth will be fixed by its new owner. The fifth kitten [...]
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    Posted: December 05, 2009, 12:50am EST
    by Strayer

  • Piss Me Off

    Number of comments: 6
    Passive Agressive behavior pisses me off. It really does. This woman calls I've dealt with for years and years, getting cats fixed, taking cats from her and for awhile, even taking her cat food ewery time she'd call saying they had none. For gosh sakes, I've got almost no money' [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2009, 3:37pm EST
    by Strayer

  • Dam The Ducks!

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    Ok, I'm getting into the civil war thing.Dam Those Ducks!Here they comeFlocked and featheredGreen and yellowMellow yellow!!!Greet those ducks with a Beaver Bellow!Dam up those ducksClap! Clap!Diiiive!Surface slowly, beady eyedClap that tail, then go wideChisel teeth stained mellow yellowAs Beaver Nation Bellows!Dam those ducks!Clap! Clap!Dive!!!!!' [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2009, 7:20pm EST
    by Strayer

  • Sanctuary of the Dead

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    She's just a frightened desperate little girl, watching the cars go by, hungry, cold. Last night, when a car pulled into the Scravel Hill Cemetery parking lot and the door opened, she saw what might have been her last chance at life and she went for it. She darted into [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2009, 4:27pm EST
    by Strayer

  • Such a Waste

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    I spent three hours trying to catch a cat that never showed up on a rural couple's trailer porch. The worst part of it was listening to right wing rant for all those hours. It was really quite difficult. My patience was tried to the hilt.To hear her go on [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2009, 3:20pm EST
    by Strayer

  • Couch is Dead

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    Tonight, I sat down in pee. On my couch. Again. It's Sam. Peeman Sam. He's got hairball issues and when that happens, he starts in. But it was the last straw.I ripped and cut off all the cloth and foam parts tonight, leaving mostly the wood frame and wire seat. [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2009, 3:26am EST
    by Strayer

  • Three Cats Fixed Yesterday. Frig Repair. Shimmer Gets a Home.

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    Lebanon prev spay female.Albany in heat black female.Albany tabby female.Ice, on the coils behind the false wall of the freezer compartment.Same thing, only ice now gone.When I removed everything from the freezer, I could see ice between the joint of the back and the bottom, at the bottom. That shouldn't' [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2009, 3:34pm EST
    by Strayer

  • Come on Tiger. Give Us a Scandal!

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    Tiger Woods isn't cooperating. He's not providing us the material for a nice juicy scandal to consume media talking heads for the tedious months of winter. We need it, Tiger. Come on!Just talk to the media. Make a little slip when a zillion cameras are in your face. When they' [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2009, 9:57am EST
    by Strayer

  • Global Bunk?

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    The e-mails exposing phony scientific practises by some of the climatologists is pretty good news I think. I hope the globe isn't warming badly because I don't like bad things looming up there, dark and mysterious, in the misty future.So I think bad news for some, in this case those [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2009, 12:47am EST
    by Strayer

  • Three Cats for Tomorrow

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    I have three cats for tomorrow to be fixed. One is a KATA referral from Lebanon. I thought I was going to trap a wild cat, but the cat is completely tame and I think I feel a spay scar. I also stopped by a house where I have gotten [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 10:58pm EST
    by Strayer

  • Christmas Past

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    I have no warm and fuzzy memories of Christmas Past. Not many anyway. I have spent Christmas alone most of my adult life.A few times, I did make the trek to spend Christmas with my parents and brothers, or one brother. Sometimes, I would be handed a camera to take [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 1:54pm EST
    by Strayer

  • An Outspoken Christian Farmer: A Moral Way to Farm

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    Click the post title. This article is MORE than interesting. [...]
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    Posted: November 29, 2009, 6:01pm EST
    by Strayer

  • Calculating

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    It was confirmed by Poppa's treasurer in an e-mail, that they will remain viable through May, but not after that. I have been considering my options.I have thought about starting a nonprofit myself to fund spay neuter around here. But, I am not good at most of the things required [...]
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    Posted: November 29, 2009, 11:42am EST
    by Strayer

  • Bridge to Somewhere

    Number of comments: 3
    Yesterday, boredom I guess, drove me into project mode. I had some scraps of this and that and decided to create a bridge. For the cats. I fastened clips to two ends of two pieces of equal length wire rope and attached four eye hooks to hook each end of [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 11:17pm EST
    by Strayer

  • Violence is Out of Hand

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    There have been so many killings in Oregon lately, I am beginning to wonder what is going on. Domestic violence killings have become commonplace in Oregon news. Just today, some guy killed his wife and apparently shot a son, before the coward thankfully turned the gun on himself. Such miserable [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 2:41am EST
    by Strayer

  • Black Friday and the Christmas Parade

    Number of comments: 3
    Black Friday? Ha. I got no bucks to spend, so it's just another day.As for the Christmas parade this evening in Corvallis, I don't know if I will go. I go every year. But, I guess it is always a let down. I go thinking there will be the Christmas' [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 7:53pm EST
    by Strayer

  • Outdid Myself

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    When my T day plans fell apart yesterday, I resigned myself to a home alone with the cats T day, which isn't like being alone at all. I made soup. And I must say, it was delicious. My crockpot is my absolute favorite appliance.My second favorite appliance is the Hamilton' [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 2:38pm EST
    by Strayer

  • Four Cats in Need

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    A woman called KATA wanting to get what she called a "very pregnant" cat fixed. She said the cat came with the property and this would be her third litter this year. KATA called me and asked if I could get the cat fixed. I picked her up. She is [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 9:58am EST
    by Strayer

  • Twisted Carnivore Christians' Letter

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    This is in the Gazette Times today. Click the post title. Boy, is this person twisted up or what? God gave us animals to torture and eat? The letter garbles up a hefty serving of fruitcake! I guess it explains a lot about why our world is the way it [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 10:01pm EST
    by Strayer

  • Turkey Day Fiasco

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    I messed up badly on Turkey Day plans. Armed with 8 bottles of Martinella sparkling cider, I headed south late this morning. My younger brother invited me to Roseburg, to the home of a friend of his. His family, his wife's parents and his wife's sisters family were all meeting [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 4:01pm EST
    by Strayer

  • Toby and Shimmer Get Fixed (Black Pearl's kids)

    Number of comments: 6
    Toby and Shimmer got themselves fixed yesterday. So did another stray from Jefferson.The Jefferson stray is a female teen torbi, tame and delightful, dumped off in the yard of an old woman who feeds strays, much to her chagrin, because she's struggling severely financially and even with household chores already. [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 1:45pm EST
    by Strayer

  • Big Hairy and the LB Cat

    Number of comments: 3
    Big Hairy!LB stray.Big Hairy, an amiable stray, brother to the female who stayed here six days to recuperate from URI and spay, was fixed yesterday. He is from the Jefferson colony, most of whom are tame abandoned strays. Big Hairy's brother, a short hair tabby, was fixed last week. His [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 10:27am EST
    by Strayer

  • Push to the Finish. Let's Get Those Nebraska Cats Fixed!!!! Gosh Darn it.

    Number of comments: 3
    Frustration! That's the word to describe my efforts trying to find help for a Nebraska family who took on caring for a neighbor mans' ten unfixed cats after he died. There's no help to be had in Nebraska!The one feral group I found in Omaha never answered her, nor me.' [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 5:25pm EST
    by Strayer

  • Accidentally Deleted a Post so Here's Another

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    I was going to edit my last post and boom it was gone. Oh well. I've done that twice in the last week. I'm not sure how, exactly. Not paying attention maybe. Anyhow, click post title to go to HB Livin's blog and see recent photos of Tiny Tim and [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 3:49pm EST
    by Strayer

  • Was Jesus a Vegetarian?

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    Someone who subscribes to my youtube channel had this on their favorites. I was watching it and it does make good points. I've thought about how our species behaves towards our own kind and towards animals. We are bloodthirsty and savage and this behavior does not at all go along' [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 10:53am EST
    by Strayer

  • Health Care Debate and Costs

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    I saw a short bit on 60 Minutes tonight. The interview was with a doctor at a hospital describing the delusion of end of life care, how people want to be immortal and deny they will ever die. Or families are in denial that their 80 year old parent can't' [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 7:19am EST
    by Strayer

  • Turkey Toasted

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    I put in a turkey to roast last evening. I set the buzzer for 11:00 p.m. After the buzzer sounded, I would remove the cover, baste the turkey and cook for 1/2 hour more.Every year at this time I cook several turkeys, if I can. I get them at Winco [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 7:02am EST
    by Strayer

  • Frustrated

    Those homeless camp cats are likely starving. I have been unable to find anyone willing to feed them or even to do a drop of me and cat food bags, while I run them in. This is a ten minutes of time thing, the latter, but nobody even returns calls [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 2:24pm EST
    by Strayer

  • Future?

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    I'm not sure I'll have a job by mid December. A lot of people out there are losing their livilihoods so I better not complain much. I think both my brothers are also hoping that they too soon won't be without jobs. So many people are getting laid off. I' [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 12:00pm EST
    by Strayer

  • Three Cats Fixed Today

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    I am in exhaustion. Took in three more cats today. One was a KATA referral out of Lebanon. A family was feeding a pregnant female and didn't want more unwanted "born to die" kittens. So she got fixed and is still here, actually, for the night, because I"m too tired'" [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:48pm EST
    by Strayer

  • 11 Cats Fixed Today

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    One of the four females fixed today, from the Deceased Foster womans' trailer.Gray tabby tux female, from the Deceased Foster Woman's trailer colony.Big muted calico, fixed today, from Deceased Foster Woman's colony.Black tux female, one of 8 cats fixed today from the Deceased Foster Woman's colony.Gray tux male from the [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 9:26pm EST
    by Strayer

  • Six Kttens Fixed Today. 11 Cats Caught in Foster

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    At Foster Nicki colony, a gray tabby tux male, watches a very large gray and white male descend from the woods. I caught both.Gray tabby kitten, not caught yet, with the elderly white male, who is with KATA now.One of many black tux adults with the gray tabby kitten. The [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 3:00am EST
    by Strayer

  • Honey is Back

    Number of comments: 3
    Honey is back. The minute she got out of the carrier, she went running around in circles meowing frantically. Sam rushed up to greet her and would not leave her alone. She raced around greeting every one of her friends, tail up, meowing nonstop. She was soooo happy to see [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:43pm EST
    by Strayer

  • Seven Cats Being Fixed Today.

    Number of comments: 2
    Below are photos of six of the seven cats up being fixed today. The photos are of the six cats from the same Albany location.This is a blue point male. I netted him in the garage this morning of the family who feeds him.This is a beautiful orange tabby male, [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 1:30pm EST
    by Strayer

  • Worried

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    I am worried about Honey. Yesterday, the student who adopted her e-mailed me that it wasn't working out and she would like to return her. She said she'd been trying, but Honey just hides. I should have known. I e-mailed right back, asking when she would like to do that. [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 11:44pm EST
    by Strayer

  • Finally, One Leaf Pickup. But the Mess They Left!

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    Finally, mid November, after most leaves have been down three weeks, Albany gets its first leaf pickup. It was a crappy half ass job that was done. Take a look. They left a huge mess.I'll have to clean that up but I'm sending Allied Waste the bill to do it. [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 6:32pm EST
    by Strayer

  • The cats fixed last Friday

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    This Jefferson tame brown tabby female, mother of the four female teens fixed on Wednesday, was fixed Friday.This beat up brown tabby male, brother of the sick female, still in my garage recuperating from her cold, was fixed Friday. His sister is going home tomorrow.The brown tabby male again.This cat [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 6:04pm EST
    by Strayer

  • Vampires

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    I gave up on the Lebanon people. I got referred to them, that they needed cats fixed, but the game playing has been too much for my nature. I don't go for that crap. I have a nickname for people who behave as they have: Vampires. First they gave me' [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 3:02pm EST
    by Strayer

  • I've Never Understood

    Number of comments: 6
    I've never understood the radical fan mentality. This is the mentality that drives people to spend enormous amounts of money on fan gear and tickets to support a team.I watched a steady stream of people in yellow and green tennis shoes and cars or trucks painted yellow and green as' [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 12:44pm EST
    by Strayer

  • Next Step

    Number of comments: 3
    I've been thinking about what I might want to do next. I guess I'm losing my funding for spay neuter, hence my job, my reason to even get up in the morning. What's going to get me out of the house now, and where will I have to go if [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 2:57am EST
    by Strayer

  • Vampires

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    I had an encounter when calling someone I was referred to, as having cats who needed fixed. I don't know if the person is, in real life, who the person came across as, to me. The person is an anti government person, snippy and superior in tone. I finally just' [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 4:04pm EST
    by Strayer

  • Pays to be fat

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    Click post title. Rethinking by health officials for H1N1 vaccines, in very short supply in Oregon, has resulted in priority group reinvention. Really Fat people move to the head of the line. Boy. Talk about reverse darwinism. Somewhere else I heard 75% of Americans of military service age don't qualify' [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 2:52am EST
    by Strayer

  • Seven Cats Fixed Today. Shaulin Gets a Home.

    Number of comments: 4
    I took seven cats in to be fixed today. Five came from Lebanon, a mom and her four kittens. The other two came from the Jefferson situation. The 8th cat, one of the strays a neighbor took in, did not arrive at the vet. Later I learned the woman could [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 2:38am EST
    by Strayer

  • Corvallis Gets an A+ on Stupidity Test

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    Corvallis is acting stupid. Bald Hill Farms is a great business. Now the city is ordering its retail store to close. How stupid can Corvallis get? They should be doing everything they can to hold onto businesses, not force them out of business stupidly, as has been done here, in [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 1:55pm EST
    by Strayer

  • Losing my Job

    Number of comments: 3
    I just found out. I'm losing my job. Poppa is closing down, sooner rather than later. I had no idea. I'm devastated by the news. I don't know what I will do. I found out when I asked if I should stop taking in cats for the rest of the' [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 1:21am EST
    by Strayer

  • Shaulin Going to a Home Tomorrow

    Number of comments: 2
    Shaulin is being adopted by a Portland couple who already have at least one abysinnian. She leaves tomorrow. I will miss her but glad to have finally found her a home. Honey's adoptor said she is still shy but coming around. I hope that works out, but the young woman [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 8:41pm EST
    by Strayer
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