[AT] Shop cat

[Tim Bivens]

Billy,
I laughed so hard after reading this my ribs started
hurting and my eyes were watering so bad I had to get
away from my computer because I was afraid the tears
would short out my keyboard. Needless to say I am not
too fond of cats either. We probably wouldn't be too
popular with the PETRA folks.

Tim Bivens, Glen Rose, Tex.


--- Billy Hood <aggie1967 at msn.com> 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
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