They're Faithfully Waiting on that A-hole to Come Back....

[Marcia Moore]

     Tim called the sheriff's office again on the 17th (a week after his first phone call to them).  A deputy was supposedly going to go pick them up.  I did not see them yesterday, but I forgot to look until I had already passed that portion of the route.

[warsey]

some people can be so hateful. I moved to this town from Howard with my little buddy. Everything seemed to be okay
here. Then one day I had my dog outside for a little bit and decided to go out and check on him. I found him laying against
the side of the house. Found out later my neighbors dog came over in my yard and attacked him. At the same time some
kid came by on a 4-wheeler and drove through my yard and hit him. I took him to Julias where he died on the table.I was
heartbroken.He had been with me when my parents passed away and never left my side. I got a little min-pin now.We
go walking everyday plus car rides before I go to work in the afternoon. He is like a little boy too me and I make sure
now he never leaves my sight.If something happens like this too me again somebody is going to get hurt real bad.

[Ms Bear]

Someone poisoned my dog earlier this year so I won't get another dog but I did bring home a male cat.  Since I live on four acres and not close to a street he stays outside and now I have been feeding four cats, this afternoon my nieghbor called and said someone had dumped off two very small kittens on the street so now I am feeding six cats.  The kittens are in the house until I can get Charlie used to them and then they will go outside also. These kittens are very friendly and will be going to the vet as soon as they are big enough for spaying or neutering along with Charlie.  The cute little brindle female that I am feeding will be going as soon as I can get her to come to me.  I have been feeding her for about three months but still can't pet her.

Going out of town on vacation soon and will have a friend come by every day to feed all of them.  I will be going to her house to feed her dogs and clean up after them while she is on vacation.

While I was talking to my neighbor about the kittens she told me about the fox they have seen leaving my yard and going across their driveway to the woods.  They have seen it up by their house also.  Had to quit feeding the cats on the front porch because I heard a noise on the porch one night and turned the porch light on and there were two coons looking for leftover cat food.  I make sure there isn't left out now.

[sixdogsmom]

Ms Bear, when I was in school, we had an old kitty living on the porch. I had fixed her a house that was well insulated and lined with a goatskin ('scuse the expression Steve), rug. She was happy with the setup, and since our inside kitty would not let her in the house that is the way it was. That winter, I worked a 3:30 to 7:30 AM shift so that I could be in class by 8:20 AM. That meant I had to get up at 2:00 to get ready for the day and I always fed Missy cat before I left. Suddenly Missy seemed to be eating a tremendous amount of food, so I started watching after I set out the food for the day. Soon I saw a young o'possum  ambling down the porch stairs dragging part of his anatomy; it had been hit with a car or dogs had got 'hold of him. I fed that silly o'possum all winter, it got so when I turned on the porchlight he was setting on a little barrel I had out there to use as a table, waiting for his breakfast.  Come spring though it was gone, can't say I missed it, but did wonder what ever happened to it. They say there is a sucker born every minute, guess I am one.

[Diane Amberg]

I'd have liked to have seen that possum sitting on the barrel. Living out in the country the way we did, we always had a passel of cats of various ages around. Mom had a very soft heart and she would feed big pie plates of Purina Cat Chow in one plate and a big blob of wet food in another on the terrace just outside the back kitchen door. It wasn't unusual to have young skunks and possums encircling the plates along with the kittens. When she would bang on the plate and call, ya never knew what would come running!

[Wilma]

When we moved to Sedgwick County we took one cat with us.  When my husband died 6 years ago, I took 28 cats to the Humane Society because I couldn't take care of them and couldn't afford to feed them.  Daughter was coming every day just to feed the cats.  We started trapping them in a live trap and a pet carrier.  When it got down to just the wild ones left, we stopped feeding, picked up the pans, stopped putting out water and the rest of the cats disappeared.  I don't know how many of the neighbor's cats we hauled off.

During the 24 years that he was feeding the whole neighborhood, he was also feeding possums, skunks and whatever else was brave enough to come in.  The skunks we couldn't do much about, but he could catch the possums and this he did.  Then we would relocate them after dark.  One night we had taken the possum to one of the drop off places, always close to water, and while he was releasing the possum, I was hearing chickens.  Upon investigation we found that someone had either dropped off a bunch of young hens or they had fallen off in transport.  Since the ice chest that they had been in seemed to be propped up to provide some shelter, I think that the young hens had been dropped.  I forget how many there were, but since we already had a cage with us, we picked them up.  They were tame, easy to handle.  We took them home and gave them shelter in the hen house, which was sheltering only stored junk at the time.  This was in October.  On Christmas Day, one of them presented us with an egg.  The rest of that winter we had all the eggs that we could use or give away.  They were the nicest hens possible.  I think someone had wanted to raise chickens, then realized how much space they needed and how much care they required.  Instead of taking them to the Humane Society, they just dropped them off in the country.  Fortunately for the hens and for us, we found them before the varmints did.

[Diane Amberg]

Those hens were grateful and eggs was the only way they could pay you back. Eggcellent story!

[Ms Bear]

We have had chickens, they laid plenty of eggs until we started going fishing for days at a time and had friends that would come feed them and keep the eggs.  They would quit laying, as soon as we came home and the back door was slamming as we went in and out they would start laying again.

We had goats, from one to many.  When we had just one she didn't know she was a goat and would come in the house and go in the bathroom or get on my bed to look at herself in the mirror.  As soon as we got some more and she had her first baby she was happy in the pasture.  The billy would eat with the horse and wouldn't eat with the goats.  The horse wouldn't eat if the billy goat wasn't waiting by her stall.

The pig was probably my favorite, she was huge and after my husband died she would get out of the pen and lay under the fig tree for me to get home.  When I pulled in the yard she would walk out to the car and then follow me to the shed to get her food and then follow me to the pen and go in the gate.  She never let me see where she got out at.  I had to let her go and I still really miss her.

One of the cows had watched the kids climb the fence and she figured out how to pull it down and then step over it.  Made sure I was watching her when she did it so I would come out and give her some attention.  She had to have a cup of dog food with her food or she would kick whichever dog got near her.

[Jo McDonald]

I LOVE those kind of stories.  I was born and raised on a farm and the saying is true.."you can take the girl out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the girl" !!!!

[twirldoggy]

Ny little dog weighs 13 pounds.  He was probably dumped by someone when he was about a year old.  He ended up running around at the House of Rocks in Kansas City, Kansas.  This is a store that sells all kinds of rocks.  He was chasing cars and keeping away from all humans except the Mexican workers who threw sandwiches to him to eat.  Animal control was called twice but they could not catch him either time. A lady who owned four dogs managed to lure him with food, and my friend Jim rescued him.  Jim took him to a dog groomer in Lawrence and he was dipped twice to get all the fleas off him.  Then Jim called me and said  "I have a dog for you."  I drove 1 1/2 hours to get him.  I took him to Sonic for a burger on the way home.   Have had him six years now and what a friend I have.