Post by mike straka on Jul 10, 2008 7:56:32 GMT -7
In the interest of injecting some humor into this thread, I have a story about a trapped cat.
CHAPTER I
OK so I've told you about the cat situation when we moved in to our house, and how we got traps and removed many of them to the city facility.
Well, one cat was apparently particularly unhappy about finding himself sans freedom. When Laura was putting the trap into her trunk, the animal was hissing, spitting, clawing at her through the cage and putting up a pretty loud commotion. It was a fairly large animal and she was actually quite scared even though the cat could not get out. She had on heavy construction gloves and long sleeves in order to move this cage.
So when she got over to the animal facility she went in and told the guy there "You have to come out and get this cat from my car." The guy looked at her and said "Huh? It's in a trap isn't it?" Yes, she said, but I'm really scared of it.
Guy goes out and when they opened the trunk, the cat about jumped through the roof. Mind you, he's still in the cage but really really pissed off and actually lifted the cage off the floor of the trunk when he jumped. Well Laura and the guy practically had heart attacks right on the spot.
The guy decided he could not handle the cage by himself at that point, the animal was putting up such a fight. So he went in and got another guy and it took these TWO GUYS to carry this cage in to the facility. The first guy told Laura that he had never ever seen a cat so agitated.
CHAPTER II
A day or so later, Laura was relating this story to a couple of our friends, Mike and Mo. They are pretty funny folks and they got a huge kick out of hearing about the cat from hell and about it taking two guys from animal control to carry this cage in.
So maybe a day after telling this story to Mike and Mo, Laura gets a phone call: it's the guy from animal control, and he said, "You have to come back and get this cat."
Totally dumbfounded, Laura says, "What??? You have got to be kidding me."
Guy says, "NO. We can't handle this cat, it's too out of control and we can't keep it here . . . it's bad, it's, it's just pure EVIL and you have to come and get it."
Now, I don't know exactly what was going through Laura's mind but I can tell you for sure it wasn't pleasant.
After a few seconds, she thought she could hear Mo giggling in the background and that's when the gig was up.
Mike and Mo had executed a perfect setup and slam dunk. Mike's voice was the most perfect, over-the-top melodramatic animal control guy, and she really took it all - hook, line, sinker, rod, and reel.
That was in about 1998 and we still bring it up every now and again and we laugh like crazy.
But let me tell you, it surely was the cat from hell.
-M
CHAPTER I
OK so I've told you about the cat situation when we moved in to our house, and how we got traps and removed many of them to the city facility.
Well, one cat was apparently particularly unhappy about finding himself sans freedom. When Laura was putting the trap into her trunk, the animal was hissing, spitting, clawing at her through the cage and putting up a pretty loud commotion. It was a fairly large animal and she was actually quite scared even though the cat could not get out. She had on heavy construction gloves and long sleeves in order to move this cage.
So when she got over to the animal facility she went in and told the guy there "You have to come out and get this cat from my car." The guy looked at her and said "Huh? It's in a trap isn't it?" Yes, she said, but I'm really scared of it.
Guy goes out and when they opened the trunk, the cat about jumped through the roof. Mind you, he's still in the cage but really really pissed off and actually lifted the cage off the floor of the trunk when he jumped. Well Laura and the guy practically had heart attacks right on the spot.
The guy decided he could not handle the cage by himself at that point, the animal was putting up such a fight. So he went in and got another guy and it took these TWO GUYS to carry this cage in to the facility. The first guy told Laura that he had never ever seen a cat so agitated.
CHAPTER II
A day or so later, Laura was relating this story to a couple of our friends, Mike and Mo. They are pretty funny folks and they got a huge kick out of hearing about the cat from hell and about it taking two guys from animal control to carry this cage in.
So maybe a day after telling this story to Mike and Mo, Laura gets a phone call: it's the guy from animal control, and he said, "You have to come back and get this cat."
Totally dumbfounded, Laura says, "What??? You have got to be kidding me."
Guy says, "NO. We can't handle this cat, it's too out of control and we can't keep it here . . . it's bad, it's, it's just pure EVIL and you have to come and get it."
Now, I don't know exactly what was going through Laura's mind but I can tell you for sure it wasn't pleasant.
After a few seconds, she thought she could hear Mo giggling in the background and that's when the gig was up.
Mike and Mo had executed a perfect setup and slam dunk. Mike's voice was the most perfect, over-the-top melodramatic animal control guy, and she really took it all - hook, line, sinker, rod, and reel.
That was in about 1998 and we still bring it up every now and again and we laugh like crazy.
But let me tell you, it surely was the cat from hell.
-M