Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 16:38:58 -0500 From: BREWER__CHARLES@ecomail.damneck.navy.mil To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg1035$foo@default> Subject: Re: CP and Cats
Neal,
I had a similar experience several weeks ago, in my bog, with my droseras. Let
me tell you what happened. I was coming home from my two weeks business trip and
putting up my bags, change into my leisure clothes and immediately headed to my
back yard where I have a small CP bog set up. For the past several months I have
been noticing a lot of gray and brown animal fur stuck to my droseras. For the
life of me, I could not figure out what was going on. I walked all around the
bog looking for anything out of the ordinary and that would give a clue as to
what was happening. I saw nothing unusual. Actually it was kind of spooky
sometimes. I would come home and find just globs of fur everywhere. Then, I got
home early from one of my business trips and as usual, I put away my bags,
changed into my leisure clothes and headed outside towards the bog to see how my
little collection of horror was doing. To my surprise, I saw what appeared to be
a gray squirrel stuck to one of my Drosera plants and when I got closer, I also
saw what appeared to be the next doors neighbors cat also stuck to the same
plant. Of course, me being somewhat of an animal lover, I immediately picked up
a long steal pipe and started hitting the Droseras' leaf as hard as I could
hoping it would release the cat. As I was hitting the plant with all my might, I
was also trying to figure this whole thing out. The only thing I could come up
with was that the squirrels apparently had been digging around inside by bog
looking for last years left over Drosera' seeds and were stumbling into the
plants, well you know the rest of the story. In this particular case, a squirrel
must have gotten stuck and was frantically struggling to get lose when a
neighbors cat spotted the squirrel and figured this to be an easy catch... Yea,
it's all starting to make sense to me now. Well, by the time I got the cat lose,
the squirrel was half digested so I just left it for the plant to finish it up.
As the story goes, everything went well with the cat. I returned the neighbors
cat in one piece and explained to her that the only upsetting thing about this
whole ordeal was that it took me several hours to saw off all the damaged
Drosera leaves that I had to destroy and spend the rest of that afternoon
picking large globs of cat hair off my plant. I just wish people would be more
careful with their pets.
Charles Brewer
Virginia Beach, Va.
I think my cat dug up and ate a clump of Drosera capillaris, Does
anyone know if this will hurt my cat? The clump was about an inch in
diamteter and I had received it in the mail about two weeks ago, so the
Drosera was just starting to get out of shock from the mail.
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