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mld, September 2, 2002 at 10:08:00 AM CEST

The Munchkins
two kitties and a kitty nose
So, I wedged myself back in the corner, and peeked over the top of the urn, to see not only Lo! but also Behold! Two kitties and a kitty nose! A black one...
A coal black kitty
that I have in my mind, named "Sambo." The white one I think of as "Ivory." (As in Ivory Snow, the soap)
A pic of the little tiger
The third kitty was only first seen as a nose. But when he heard he commotion, he had to jump up and see what the deal was. Doesn't he look sweet? Don't be fooled.
El Tigre walks
As it turns out, he is both the boldest and bravest of the munchkins. While the other two cowered behind the urn, he came out to see what I was all about...
Tigre bows up
And he bowed up, hissed and spit like a lttle tiger when I tried to get a closeup pic. So, I named him "El Tigre, " the Tiger. That was about a week ago. Since then, they've grown a bit, and I've put some kitty chow out for them, which they seem to like, even though I still catch them nursing. I've even picked up Sambo and Ivory a few times, bribing them with chow, but the Tiger still stands off.
Two kitties eat, but El Tigre stands guard
Before too much longer, they're going to need homes. CG is deathly allergic to cats, so we can't keep them, unless we keep them as free-range, outdoor, capitalist entrepreneurial kinda cats.

Or, I could take them out to Opa's barn, where they could live a free life, but that's leaving them, to mix my authors, prey to "nature red in tooth and claw," to a life that has proven to be one of "continual fear and danger of violent death; and a "poor, nasty, brutish, and short" Hobbesian life. None of his barn cats has lived more than two or three years, that I know of. Too many coyotes in the area.

Anybody wanna free kitty?
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scottr, 9/2/02, 5:54 PM
NO Fair

I walk all over the place searching for good pics, and here you cheat and take pictures of kittens.

It is impossible to take a bad picture of a kitten.

I particularly like the last picture in the series.

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mld, 9/2/02, 7:02 PM
Sorry, dude...

but whatcha gonna do when some four-legged photo ops come mewling into your life? Forgo it? I know it's like shootin' fish in a barrel.

Then again, it seems that no personal site is compleat without the mandatory cat pictures. :-) Now I can rest.

Yeah, that last one is by far rhe best of the bunch.

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emdot, 9/2/02, 10:34 PM
el tigre de la soledad

scottr, it's my favorite too -- i think cuz we can humanize the emotion on el tigre's face.

marcus -- you should make that an icard at apple.com. ;)

nice pics and nice meandering story.

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mld, 9/3/02, 8:30 AM
hey em, why don't you?

"To sign up for a .Mac Trial account, you must be on a Macintosh computer."

Kinda rules me out for like the rest of my life. :-) Feel free to snag the pic iffn you want to. If you need the original hi-res uncompressed version, let me know.

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