Re: HELP: PLS PRAY for my Hannibal

[Presto]

Nina, you just gave me a really big, guffawing laugh that made me cough.  (Everett knows that when I laugh like that, I am truly, deeply amused.)  Geez, you're great.  And with $50 or more, you get a ceramic kitty with authentic fallen whiskers.  I love it.   Would I could.  We don't get donations.  We donate to others.  But maybe there's a use for those whiskers, somewhere out there.  I must have at least two-hundred by now.  I used to have more, but when we came back from the Congo, half our shipment was stolen by the Congolese shipping company, and they ended up with the bags of shed whiskers in the boxes that they willy-nilly grabbed.   There's gotta be something else we can do with these things....   Presto  ----- Original Message ----- From: Nina To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 3:07 PM Subject: Re: HELP: PLS PRAY for my Hannibal Imagine if you'd been paying out tooth-fairy style for all those teeth!  (Actually I guess you have, the vet bills must be enormous at your house!).  I like the idea of using the whiskers on ceramic kitties :) .  Maybe you could give them as a thank you gift for donations to the cause...  and with your generous donation of $50 dollars or more, you get a ceramic kitty with authentic fallen whiskers! N Presto wrote: May I add a little humor?  Sometimes in traumatized times, a little humor helps.   You might want to have Hannibal's tooth saved.   I have a tooth collection.  Whenever a dental is done on one of our cats--and many, many have been done--I have the extracted teeth saved.  The doctor and I examine them together, and then I place them in a container with the cat's name on it, and stash it in my tooth collection.   I've joked about having them put on a necklace, African-style.  But I'm not serious.   I also have a whisker collection, in containers in the same drawer with the teeth.  Whenever I find a shed whisker on the floor, I pick it up, admire it, and put it in my whisker collection.   I thought maybe I could have a potter design little ceramic cats and insert the whiskers in the appropriate places, entitling them "Carpet Scraps" to make people aware that they hadn't been pulled from the cat.  But I thought better of it.   Presto