Poor kitty......oh how they hate water. :) DiDi http://photobucket.com/albums/d100/didi_45 delightful jean. here's how I just spent the last hour or so... we have a 4plus month old kitten. she's very curious. yesterday, we cleared/sorted the carport. one of the *unique* items found and waiting for this coming thursday garbage pick up is an open gallon container of motor oil. it lays flat on it's side..with a rather large hole in it so the engine oil can be drained into it from the car...kev had missed getting rid of it after the last oil change. anyhow, sunny, the kitty is exploring all the stuff that has been moved. yes!! she did a nice four paw landing in this yuckky black mess...back flipped or something out of it..i heard the crash-banging...looked out the window to see sunny scampering away with very wet looking legs. at first i thought she had leapt or fallen into the 5 gallon bucket of fish tank plants.. but, she did appear distressed..and there was no water slopped from the bucket. it took only moments to recall the dirty oil...i checked..yup, splash marks etc. meanwhile sunny is flitting here and there and trying to lick her legs..blechhhh..little lick/panic..flee..little lick etc. i caught her..having first grabbed the roll of paper toweling from the kitchen...before i went outside. i had her pinned with one hand, a wiping the excess oil off her legs..looking for one or the other of my neighbours to be out in their yard so i could call for help. nada..nothing no-one..so i continued wiping the excess oil for about 5 mins..i was almost out of towelling..my goal was to get the worst of it off and then bring sunny in the house for a soapy wash up. just then my neighbour drives home..and looks at me wiping my kitty down..and getting very dirty papertowel..i ask..can you just hold her here while i grab some soapy water and rags..ahhh..a reprieve..i don't have to bring the oil slick cat into the house and until i really have the worst of it off her. my neighbour obiliges..but lets me know she is expecting an important phone call..so..aside from the fact i don't want my neighbour being stuck with a struggling oil rag..i now have to add speed so she doesn't miss the call. anyhow..i arrive with with two ice cream/gallon buckets of water..one very, very soapy the other just plain warm water..plus all available rags in the house. i take over with sunny..my neighbour heads into her home to get the phone call..i'm not sure how long it took..i do know i had not looked at the time or anything..but i proceeded to wash/rinse my kitten's four legs and belly..until i got no more oil markings on the rags, etc. i then used paper towelling to ensure she really was cleaned of the oil...okay..so now i have a kitten with no more oil on her body..but she really is soapy... and this kitty HATES water, but i have to rinse the soap off her too...by the time i was at the point of need to rinse her..my neighbour was back..but i really didn't need the assistance..i just kept dunking cloths in water and rinsing the kitten.. on the upside..it is a beautiful, warm to hot day. 24C..so now my kitty is sitting on the front step with food and water, and expected to clean the rest of her mishap up by herself... she is not impressed..i keep hearing the occassional forlorn yeowlll..she is part siamese. and like why won't i let her come in the house... poor little thing..her snooping netted her a partial bath and a porchside picnic...she should be in the house snuggled up on my lap or laying sprawled on the couch at this time of day. the oil bucket is now properly covered..tho i doubt she'll be snooping in that corner anytime soon. later roz On Tuesday, September 12, 2006 2:24 PM, J. William Himmelsbach [SMTP:jwilliam231@verizon.net] wrote: > The other day I was in the garden by the house > planting some heather when the dog started to bark. I > went over to see what she was excited about.There > lying under the sprinkler was a snake. I figured I'd > hold the dog and pick up the sprinkler and the > snake,with a little prodding would sneek under the > house. But then I looked again and saw that it was in > the process of devouring a frog. It wasn't going to > move until it finished that job. My best bet was to > put the dog into the house which I did. The snake > finally finished its lunch and went under the house. > Never a dull moment in the country. > Jean USA > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GEN-TRIVIA-ENG- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GEN-TRIVIA-ENG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message