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    <title>&gt;&gt;hzzz. afterthought...</title>
    <summary> &gt;&gt;hzzz. name muffy not be post in a while. longtime hy’umun denizens and pretty-lady denizennes know ‘bout scrup’l. maybe youngers and visitors do not. go pretty barb-lady pless if forget or not know. pretty barb-lady first to know all ‘bout scrup’l when talk to name scout. short read. has to be -- scrup’l have short attention span... life be tough teacher. gives test first, then lesson. hurricane test be hard on hy’umuns and lesson be painful. test be harder on others, who not know there be lesson to follow. only know test. only know hy’umuns left them, did not...</summary>
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<p>>>hzzz. name muffy not be post in a while. longtime hy’umun denizens and pretty-lady denizennes <a href="http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/003677.html"><b>know ‘bout scrup’l</b></a>. maybe youngers and visitors do not.</p>

<p>go pretty barb-lady pless if forget or not know. pretty barb-lady first to know all ‘bout scrup’l when talk to name scout. <b><a href="http://barbette.blogspot.com/2005/03/interviews-and-current-events.html">short read</a></b>. has to be -- scrup’l have short attention span...</p>

<p>life be tough teacher. gives test first, then lesson. hurricane test be hard on hy’umuns and lesson be painful. test be harder on others, who not know there be lesson to follow.</p>

<p>only know test.</p>

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<p>only know hy’umuns left them, did not know why. only know brother and sister and other left them, did not know why. </p>

<p>did not know water, too, had killing bite. </p>

<p>know now…</p>

<p>dog-thing, cat-thing be pets, not be told ‘bout evacuate. not be taken off roof by helicopter, be taken in boat. </p>

<p>sometimes. when there be room. small life-sparks, pulled from water.</p>

<p>little afterthoughts.</p>

<p>dog-thing, cat-thing, even horse-thing once be pets, now be lost. now be scrup’l. some hy’umuns find, bring dry pless, like same for hy’umuns. like same for hy’umuns, food dish, water bowl soon empty. hy’umuns be evacuate to ‘nother dry pless, <a href="http://mysideofthepuddle.blogspot.com/2005/09/disaster-kitty-is-kickin-it-into-gear.html"><b>many dry pless</b></a>, where now food dish and water bowl full.</p>

<p>maybe scrup’l be evacuate later. maybe not. </p>

<p>little afterthoughts.</p>

<p>this be called bleg. not be ask for much because <a href="http://www.aspca.org/site/PageServer?pagename=hurricane_home"><b>not need much</b></a>. hy’umuns, help, plizz?</p>

<p>not be ask that hy’umuns send to help scrup’l instead of to help hy’umuns, just <a href="http://www.petfinder.org/disaster/"><b>small extra for help scrup’l</b></a>. something for keep small life-sparks alive...</p>

<p>plizz -- something?</p>

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    <title>Comment from NOTR on 2005-09-07</title>
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        I wrote about leaving my pets if I were in New Orleans on ROFASix. Bottom line is my pets are my family, we share the same fate. I would be one of those they would have to ferret out and take my gun from my dead fingers before I would obey a mandatory evacuation order - without my kids. 
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    <published>2005-09-07T05:27:22Z</published>
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    <title>Comment from NOTR on 2005-09-07</title>
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        I wrote about leaving my pets if I were in New Orleans on ROFASix. Bottom line is my pets are my family, we share the same fate. I would be one of those they would have to ferret out and take my gun from my dead fingers before I would obey a mandatory evacuation order - without my kids. 
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    <published>2005-09-07T05:27:09Z</published>
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    <title>Comment from karen on 2005-09-06</title>
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        Thanks for the reminder that some of the family members impacted by Katrina have 4 legs. (Made my donation to the LSU Vet School&apos;s Hurricane Katrina animal shelter today.)



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    <published>2005-09-06T19:00:49Z</published>
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    <title>Comment from Boquisucio on 2005-09-06</title>
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        Thanx Muff - you speaks the truths.  If only life would teach you the lesson first &amp; then the exam...
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    <published>2005-09-06T16:25:47Z</published>
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    <title>Comment from Were-Kitty on 2005-09-06</title>
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        Donation made... must keep scruple life-sparks lit.  Thanks Muffy- keep up the good work!
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    <published>2005-09-06T14:58:13Z</published>
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    <title>Comment from Barb on 2005-09-05</title>
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        Muffy is a wise scrup&apos;l ... &quot;test first, then lesson&quot; indeed.  I&apos;ve been traveling, and just heard the news that people had been given opportunities to leave - but their pets could not go with them. 
I don&apos;t know specifics yet, but that made me weep - and then to read Muffy&apos;s on top of that ... *sniff*  My furball is my only child, unless you count the Hubster ... I wouldn&apos;t leave.
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    <published>2005-09-06T04:29:08Z</published>
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    <title>Comment from Neffi on 2005-09-05</title>
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        <![CDATA[...hopefully he can rub noses with Spike- my old cat, he was with me through thick and thin for 19 1/2 years. I lost him last December... he'd been deaf the last coupla years but ate well and got his skinny butt around OK. I was gonna take him for 'the shot'if he stopped eating but (Gott sei Dank) he spared me that by slipping away quietly in the night; on my bed where he belonged.
He was a 'free kittens to good homes' pick-up; there will be more kitties in my life but never again one like <i>that</i> furry little shitbird.


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    <published>2005-09-05T22:42:19Z</published>
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    <title>Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2005-09-05</title>
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        Ninja, like all the furry ones, is a rescue.  One of Beth&apos;s co-workers had a boyfriend move in.  Boyfriend had a parrot.  So, cat which had lived with this guy for 12 years... was going to be put in a shelter or worse.

When he arrived, his belly dragged low enough he dusted the wood floors.

That is an 8 pound lighter Ninja.

We took him in.  And he appreciated it, even if he did have to compete with 6 other cats at that point.  He was a wonderful night-purrer.

He&apos;s no longer with us, being the point man in the Castle Advance Party in Heaven, sent along some 6 years ago.  He&apos;s got plenty of company now though... Gabby, Mickey, Sebastian, and Little Guy.

Sniff.
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    <title>Comment from Neffi on 2005-09-05</title>
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        Wow- what are you feeding Ninja?! Sardine milkshakes and herring dumplings?? That is one ummm, &apos;big&apos; kitty...
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    <published>2005-09-05T20:52:05Z</published>
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    <title>Comment from Squeaky the Kalico Kitty on 2005-09-05</title>
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        <![CDATA[The local news (Denver) carried a story Thursday night about a group headed for the coast with scrup'l supplies- they especially needed pet-carriers of all sizes and whatever food people could donate.
I dragged out my cat-carrier and then went by Wally World to get some kibble Friday...
The drop-off point was the Denver Dumb Friends League. And what a scene that was!!
The lawn was literally <b>covered</b> with carriers- new and used- and workers were dashing about trying to organize enormous stacks of canned and dry food. Bags, boxes, and flats of it- and more coming by the minute...
And bowls- a lady and her husband had two large boxes of plastic pet-food bowls (several hundred, I would guess) that "they didn't need anymore"- that's what she said- and all were brand-new with the bar-codes still on 'em, heh.
Cars, trucks, SUVs- a stream of them. I helped for a while with traffic control and we got it organized fairly well. Then I spent an hour with some others, taking apart the carriers and nesting the same sizes together... again, several hundred of them.
People kept coming and dropping off- food, carriers, bowls, boxes of flea and tick powder and collars- and collars and leashes, too.
Almost all of it brand-new, straight from the store.
When I had to leave, donations had slowed but were still coming in.
The director of the DDFL was kinda at wits end- she and several friends had planned to drive the stuff down on Saturday, but hadn't anticipated <i>THIS</i> sheer volume...
I understand that a call to a manager type at Conway Western Express from one of the board members brought a semi, which departed early Saturday AM for the coast- no charge (can't confirm that but I believe it). 
Almost none of this (beyond the initial story Thursday night) made the news.
Good thing <i><b>I</b></i> was on the ball- the worthless huy'man I allow to share my den just sat around drinking cheap beer and wondering how the Broncos will fare this season...
Please help where and how you can...
Squeaky out.]]>
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    <published>2005-09-05T16:32:04Z</published>
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    <title>Comment from Rose B. on 2005-09-05</title>
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        *hugs name muffy because own scrup&apos;l, name sparky, isn&apos;t here*
I know a lot of hy&apos;umuns stayed behind so their dog-things and cat-things wouldn&apos;t become scrup&apos;l.  But it hurts my heart to think how many didn&apos;t and didn&apos;t take their animals with them.
I&apos;ll do what I can.
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    <published>2005-09-05T07:15:59Z</published>
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    <title>Comment from FbL on 2005-09-05</title>
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        Oh dear, Muffy.  Such a sweet post; you made me get all misty.  I will send a little something to help keep the &quot;small life-sparks&quot; alive.
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    <published>2005-09-05T06:02:32Z</published>
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    <title>Comment from kat-missouri on 2005-09-05</title>
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        Done.  I am praying for the poor animals that bonehead owners locked in their houses thinking they&apos;d be back.  The dead will be more than humans, but will have been loved none the less.

Let&apos;s hope that the rescuers going house to house leave the doors open when they are done.
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    <published>2005-09-05T05:22:36Z</published>
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