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Best of luck from me too, Crystal.

Kitty,

Yes, C.C. passed away on October 2.

Oh oops apologies, I asked on another thread if you have cats. I'm going to go edit that, there's no need to cause you further pain. I'm so sorry, IstominFan - first for your loss, then for my clumsiness elsewhere. I'm still grieving a red girl I lost two years ago this coming December. Here is a hug, and shared tears.

Mother.

Having an awful time with my computer. For the past few days after I start it up the arrow cursor disappears and then it freezes up. Today was even worse. I got some weird Blue Screen of Death message. Eventually it seems to work itself out but I'm getting nervous about shutting down my computer before going to bed for the night because I have problems every time I start it up again the next day.

I guess I really need a new computer. But I probably won't be able to get one until around Christmas.

Also I'm still not feeling well from the bug I got earlier this week. At night I get headaches, chills, fever, sweats, and back pain. A couple of Tylenol seems to help it, though. I had to cancel going out with both my mom and my social worker this week.

And my cat Mischief thinks pooping all over the living room floor is better than using the litter box, which he only uses to pee in, and my other cat Lucky has to mark anything she sleeps on with a big fat hairball.

Thanks guys. At least it's out the way, now.

I’m so sorry, I know it’s very hard. I lost my first cat, I had her for almost 24 years.

I fell down last night, I fell down next to my chair, my chair pulled me up, I badly hurt my knee, I took Advil before bed time. I took Advil today too, I took it easy today, but my cat was very bad tonight, she kept knocking things over, I had to keep getting up, I got angry at her.

Tiredness

The morning news. NOS. Pretty much all of it.

Some kid threw a rock, so hard I felt the impact in the ground with my feet, at either me or the swan who was standing just in front of me on the edge of the bank of the lake. The rock may have hit the swan's foot, because the swan "danced" his feet and freaked out.

I freaked out too, shouting at this bunch of kids who threw that? It's a criminal act, wildlife are protected, etc etc. The kids ran on and some other kid claimed not to know which one threw it.

My back had been turned and they were either aiming the rock at my back and missed and it landed on or by the swan's foot, or aiming at the swan. Either way I was blazing with anger and reported it to the principal of the school the kids are from.

It is absolutely HIDEOUS to aim a rock at an animal. If he was aiming at me that's hideous too.

Why can't people respect wildlife -- or for that matter, the people who do care about them, like me?

I monitor these birds and had not gotten to spend time with this particular pair in months until the other day.

^^ oh no! Bad enough that it happened at all, but it happened to one of the ones you thought was lost?

That's awful.

I am glad for you that you didn't freeze up and were able to react strongly and immediately.

(I am very conservative about this, though otherwise generally liberal: that "they don't know any better" is bullshyte; if someone is capable of feeling pain, they are capable of understanding that it is wrong to inflict it.)

Yes, I'm glad I managed to react right away with firmness; I think I have almost that "Mama Lion" or Mama Bear thing about my bird friends, where I feel so protective of them that I am able to go straight into gear when something happens to them; a bit like they are my own children.

In many other things in life I don't even process fast enough! With my birds, I seem to. They transform me in more ways than one, lol!

And yes, this was the pair that I haven't been able to track down for most of the year, and I was worried. They usually stay at another pond in the area, but were not there either and must have left the entire locality. I was SOOO glad to see that they are back.

They came straight to me to get a little feed and just spend time; we have a huge bond, and we were enjoying having it back today. Then my poor Bo got a rock on his foot!

Afterwards I made sure to visually inspect him and make sure he wasn't limping, there was no bleeding, etc. He seems to be okay but they have very dull nerves in the feet, in order to cope with submersion in cold water, and there could be a fracture.

I am so horrified at some kids' cruel lack of respect for wildlife. We do have people shooting and maiming swans -- people seem to love taking out a lot of aggression on them.

The awful thing they don't know is how great these animals are. Swans aren't as horrible as some people believe; they are amazingly sweet animals when not being threatened.

^^ there really does seem to be an urge to destroy beauty, that shows up in our species. I don't get it, and I'm glad.

Also glad that there's no overt injury visible. Hoping there's no damage that went undetected.

Thank you so much for caring, Esmerelda! I really appreciate it!

Yes, I'm hoping there's no damage; if Bo and his little wife stick around I will continue to monitor his feet and his walking gait, to see if there is any change, any limping or swelling.

He's such a wonderful, dignified, proud boy, it's truly saddening to see him hit by a rock like that. I'd rather that rock had struck me than my darling boy.