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READ GARFIELD'S FIRST CHRISTMAS LETTER HERE!!!!

Praise for Garfield's First Christmas Mewsletter ....

Please tell Garfield that his Christmas Letter was one of the most heartfelt I've ever read. Ed Kostro Dec 2005

CHECK OUT RICKY'S YOGA SESSIONS HERE

One cat is company. Two cats are a conspiracy. Three cats is an attempted takeover. Four or more cats is a complete coup!

Shona Steele (Australia)

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'The smallest feline is a masterpiece.' Leonardo da Vinci

'Dogs come when called. Cats take a message and get back to you.'

'Of course, every cat is really the most beautiful woman in the room.' Edward Verrall Luca, essayist

 

A morning kiss, a discreet
  touch of his nose landing
  somewhere on the middle
  of my face.
  Because his long white
  whiskers tickled,
  I began every day laughing.



  JANET F FAURE

'Dogs have owners. Cats have staff.'

'In the middle of a world that has always been a bit mad, the cat walks with confidence.'

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'Cats make one of the most satisfying sounds in the world: they purr ... A purring cat is a form of high praise, like a gold star on a test paper. It is reinforcement of something we would all like to believe about ourselves - that we are nice.' - Roger A Caras

"Of all the [cat] toys available, none is better designed than the owner himself. A large multipurpose plaything, its parts can be made to move in almost any direction. It comes completely assembled, and it makes a noise when you jump on it." -- Stephen Baker

Garfield: 28.03.86 - 12.06.06

Garfield

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GARFIELD and those infamous 20th birthday pictures. See both birthday hats and more ...

LETTER FROM GARFIELD is a final letter written with great love to his Mum ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THREE ORPHANS

 

by Roger Dean Kiser

While visiting my orphan brother, Wayne, in Gainesville, Georgia, I saw a little kitten running along the roadway. We were five miles from the nearest house. It was obvious that this cat had been dumped by someone trying to get rid of it. I asked Wayne if we could stop to at least take it to a safer place.

"I don't want no darn cat," said Wayne.

"Well, I didn't ask you to adopt the cat. Just move it to another location so that it will not get run over," I told him.

With one of those mean, gruff old looking moods, which some people get on their face, he pulled off the highway and let me pick up the kitten. As I got back into the truck I looked at him and said, "Now that didn't kill you. Did it?"

"I gotta dog and that's all I need," said Wayne, with that mean old look of his still on his face. I picked up the cat from my lap and I held it toward him.

"Why don't you reach out there and scratch that mean old man?" I told the cat.

Wayne gave me one of those out-of-the-corner of your eye looks, but he didn't say a word. As we drove up to his house, I took the kitten and stood beside the truck petting it.

"That cat is not coming into my house," Wayne said, pointing at me.

"You want me to just throw it out in the street?" I asked him. "I don't guess I have to tell you that this is a little orphan kitten," I said back at him.

Wayne and I both were orphans and we both know very well what it is like to have no one to give a hoot about you.

"Don't pull that one on me," he replied.

"Well, it's hungry and it needs some water," I told him.

Wayne didn't say a word as he pointed toward the house, with his head, giving me permission to bring the kitten in for a drink of water and something to eat.

"I ain't got nothing but dog food. That's what it's going to have to eat or it can just go hungry," said Wayne.

As soon as Wayne sat down on the couch, the kitten ran over to him and grabbed hold of his sock, with all four claws. He shook his foot as hard as he could but the kitten would not let go. Soon, Wayne was laughing as loud as he could.

"Look at this darn cat," he told me.

All at once the kitten let go of his leg. Wayne reached over and picked up the kitten and began to stroke it.

"Listen to the motor in this thing," Wayne said.

About that time, Wayne's dog came walking in from the back bedroom. All at once the dog and the kitten began to chase one another up and down the hallway, and around the couch.

"I guess they sorta like one another. I'm surprised. My dog don't like no one," he told me.

"Yea, like somebody else I know," I whispered to myself.

As the animals continued to play with one another, Wayne and I got in some computer time. About an hour later we walked into the back bedroom and there was Wayne's dog, and the kitten -- both asleep on Wayne's bed. The kitten was all curled up in a tight ball next to the dog's chest.

Over the next two days, I would see Wayne go to the refrigerator and cut up small pieces of his premium ham and hand feed it to the small kitten.

On Sunday morning, I woke to the smell of breakfast. As I was about to take a shower I walked through the living room. I saw Wayne cooking in the kitchen.

There on the floor were two bowls of food -- one for the kitten, and one for the dog. I knew right then and there that another orphan had been saved.

I loaded my suitcases into my truck and then I turned around. I stood there looking at Wayne, his dog, and the kitten all looking at me.

"Don't even think about it. Less you wanna fight," said Wayne, as we both laughed. Wayne and I hugged one another.

I got in my truck and I drove away knowing that my orphan brother had found another piece of his heart.

 

© Roger Dean Kiser

Visit Roger's story site here: http://www.rogerdeankiser.com

Stories from The Life and Times of Roger Dean Kiser "American Orphan" www.tajmahalreview.com

 

 

 

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Dear Ollie, My name is Timber, and I'm on your side about this cat-food thing. I mean really, my mum tried to serve me LIVER AND CARROT MEAL!!!!  I immediately walked away!  So I'm so on your half on this Ollie!

Love, Timber (USA)

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A Cat's Prayer'

Lead me down all the right paths,
Keep me from fleas, bees, and baths.
Let me in should it storm,
Keep me safe, fed, and warm.

Let the sun shine where I lay,
Keep me young so I may play.
And most of all ...
Bless the people I adore,
And guard me from the dog next door.

Lisa Malone

 

PRAISE FOR THE OCTOBER 2005 MEWSLETTER Thank you very much for another wonderful Mewsletter.  I look forward to it each month, and this month was especially fine.  There is enough in it to be able to read at leisure over several days, which sets it apart from many more compact sites, which are finished in a few minutes.  Your Mewsletter is more of a digest, which I can go back to for something new over and over again.  I appreciate very much the work that you put into it, and the contributions of all your feline staff.  Thanks to Ricky, I may even take up yoga. 

All the best from rural Belgium, Jared Kline 

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MOLLIE'S BIG HEART*

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