[AT] Shop cat

[Phil Auten]

 From my buddy Bear over near Tyler.

Phil

At 11:50 AM 04/02/2004, you wrote:
>I was welding a cracked block in G JD yesterday when a situation 
>developed.  My daughter had left her cat with us for two weeks and it has 
>taken up residence in my shop--I sure am not letting it into the house as 
>many of you may know cats are not my favorite animal.  I had kicked it out 
>of the way several times, careful not to leave a scar--my daughter had 
>threatened me if I hurt her cat.  She knows her father well.
>
>About lunch, I was through welding and shut the welding rod oven/storage 
>door and checked that the pilot light was on and went to lunch.  After 
>noon, I worked on my skid loader in the barn and had not thought about the 
>flea bitten feline.  Went into the shop later and a neighbor came by to 
>borrow some soapstone, which is also kept in the rod oven for 
>storage.  Upon opening the oven, I saw a damp, prostrate' sorry looking' 
>sad and still cat.  I drug it out and placed it on the bench and thought I 
>felt a pulse under the front elbow.
>
>I called Steve, my large animal vet friend, and explained my 
>situation.  I  am 30 minutes or more from the vet clinic.  Steve really 
>does not like cats any more than I, and he was trying to help.  He asked 
>if I had any gasoline in the shop and when I affirmed he said cats are 
>very sensitive to gasoline.  He instructed me to put a couple of drops of 
>gas on the cat's tongue and see it it revived it.  He stayed on the phone 
>line to see if the remedy worked.
>
>I dropped a little more than 3 drops on the cat's tongue and it 
>immediately started running round and round the shop and up the walls,  It 
>crapped on the metal bench, urinated on the shop fridge and was squalling 
>like a stuck pig under a gate.  About the tenth round of the shop, it fell 
>off of the top of a tractor, graveyard dead.  I still had Steve on the 
>phone and I asked him "recon what happened".
>
>His reply was short and sweet--"Guess she just ran out of gas".
>
>Bear
>
>Yesterday was April 1