Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Itchy, Scratchy, and Knuckles


I seem to be getting sucked further and further into the world of Abandoned Pet Rescue. It's not that I'm complaining, at least it gives me something to do besides surf the internet, and drink. Volunteering also gives me fun experiences, like the one I had yesterday while walking Sandy, the leash eating pit bull. A well tanned and overly friendly homeless guy stopped to admire her, he introduced himself as 'Knuckles'. He informed me that he had just walked from Stuart, Florida over the last five days, a distance of eighty miles. That would explain why he looked so fit. After a few minutes of asking questions about Sandy, Knuckles asked me if he could have her. Unfortunately, as desperate as we are to get dogs adopted, I had to inform Knuckles that we had certain criteria for giving out dogs. Like having an actual home for her to live in. That seemed to dampen Knuckles spirit a little bit, but not so much that he didn't ask for some spare change before saying goodbye. Even more depressing for Knuckles is the fact that I don't carry any money or valuables with me while walking the dogs. It is a pretty sketchy neighborhood.


I help Abandoned Pet Rescue, and now APR is helping me with a problem I have had lately, iguanas and rats. They have received a large number of feral cats that were about to be euthanized by Hendry County, and I was told I could take a couple of them. The best part about it is that I don't have to pay the adoption fee, and I can let them live out in my back yard. I picked the little furballs up today, and I am thinking of calling them Itchy and Scratchy. For the time being, they are living in a cage on my back porch, and I am hoping that I can make friends with them. After a while I will release them and I hope that they will spend their hours hunting rats and iguanas out in the wilds of my yard. If anyone has a better name for the two new members of the family, let me know, I will put the best names up on a poll and the winning names will be given to them. By the way, I don't even know if they are girls or boys. They were a little too irritated when I got them, for me to check.

 New info, I had to return the gray kitty because she was declawed. I got a wild kitty, also grayish, in return. There are still two kitties, and further research has determined that they are both girls, so make your name suggestions with that in mind.   




9 comments:

  1. I have somewhere in the neighborhood of 4 to 6 feral cats living under my porch and deck. These have been provided by my idiot neighbor who refuses to get her animals spayed. So each time they have a new litter, I get a new group on my side of the road. Anyway, I don't have a mouse problem, just voles. I caught that one myself. The biggest problem I have is my dogs hate these cats. Which doesn't give my house cat a chance. How about "Iggy" (as in Iguana) and Ratfink!!

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  2. How about Peter and Paul? When someone asks where is Mary...well you'll know what to say.

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  3. She's living in a small town in Michigan?

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  4. Sue, I think Ratzo Rizzo would be better.

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  5. Iggy-Pop and Ratso Rizzo get my vote!

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  6. New info, I had to return the gray kitty because she was declawed. I got a wild kitty, also grayish, in return. There are still two kitties, and further research has determined that they are both girls, so make your name suggestions with that in mind.

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  7. How about adopting Knuckles to take care of the iguana and rat problem? He could live out in the backyard and just clean up in the pool once in a while? Mark always does cook too much for just two people...

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  8. Hostess. Really, hobo recipes for iguana and rat stew. Sounds like an idea, but Knuckles probably is already in Key West at the rate he was walking.

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  9. I like the Iggy and Ratfink. sounds cartoonlike to me. I can see these guys skulking around the yard terrorizing the rodents and lizards.
    Keep up the great volunteer work.

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