http://beingstray.com tales from straydom Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:37:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Kuumba passed this morning. I think he had been ill for a while, but in the past couple days, he had started looking really bad according to Lucy. Though he could hardly walk very far, he was still guarding the front of his territory this morning to the best of ... http://beingstray.com/2008/10/13/kuumba/ I met the gang for dinner Friday night uptown at the Mexican restaurant. Bekka was there with a new friend. She introduced me as the dog woman for all the dogs I have and herself as the cat woman for all the cats she has. After dinner, she, her friend ... http://beingstray.com/2008/06/03/dumpster-diving/ The cattery for Otis and Layla is done (you can click the photos to see a larger images). Of course there are some little touches I want to add, but the cats are in. Layla appeared in the street last Wednesday after some rain showers just as they usually do ... http://beingstray.com/2008/02/21/cattery-cats-move-in/ A neighbor down the street moved out of their home towards the end of December -- a foreclosure situation. They took their horses and dogs, but left behind two cats. So I started feeding them. Same time each day, twice a day. They became accustomed to the schedule and even ... http://beingstray.com/2008/02/12/the-little-things/ I lost Charley this day to a tumor he developed in his mouth. Together we fought it since it appeared in September. Funny how disease opens your eyes to things you either did not notice or took for granted. Charley ran the house, and all the dogs respected whatever he ... http://beingstray.com/2008/01/23/charley-tan-the-man/ On September 15, Baxter was diagnosed with lymphoma. He is 3 1/2 years old... a baby with a very grown up disease. It's been quite a ride to this point with all he has been through, but yesterday, he could not get himself up. It's like his hind legs have ... http://beingstray.com/2007/10/24/today/ I was thinking about bending over to pick something up the other day... I was getting ready to start collecting bowls to feed everyone. I walked to the first bowl and thought, "I hate bending over to pick that up." In the next thought, I realized the ridiculousness of that ... http://beingstray.com/2007/06/12/ponderence-about-bending-over/ I wanted to comment on the frustration of the incredible sameness, but my mind is in a warp right now where I am challenging even my own perception of the incredible sameness. What IS the incredible sameness of life? It is where each day follows the same pattern of the ... http://beingstray.com/2007/05/22/the-incredible-sameness/ A friend just called to let me know that Bobbie passed away over the weekend. He, Mattie and Timmy got out of the yard, and with his nose glued to the ground, Bobbie took off heading down the road out into a busy street. Whatever he smelled apparently took him ... http://beingstray.com/2007/04/02/bobbie-in-memoriam/ By WHITNEY LITTLE Eagle Staff Writer Technically Gail Allen has no sons or daughters, but she has more than 100 children. The woman behind The Cat's Cradle, a no-kill animal rescue shelter outside Navasota, has been housing cats and kittens for nearly 10 years. Allen shares her 125-acre home site outside Navasota with more ... http://beingstray.com/2007/02/20/brazos-valley-no-kill-shelters-give-animals-a-reprieve/