How to embarrass your wife...

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Last winter there was a little abandoned feral kitten camped out in our back yard. Betty kept putting food out for it and eventually it followed our other cats into the house through the cat door we have that goes out to the yard.

He finally got used to us and the other cats accepted him and he’s now a member of the family. He’s number 5.

He’s about 8 or 9 months old now so this morning we took him to the vet to get neutered.

We walked into the reception room and there were three girls working behind the counter and a couple of customers sitting on the bench with their pets.

One of the girls asked us what we there for. I told her we had an appointment for Stubby.

She asked what the appointment for Stubby was for. I said, “We want you to cut his balls off.”

That brought down the house and turned Betty’s face beet red.

On the way home she asked why I have to embarrass her like that. I told her it was too good an opportunity to miss.

We pick him up on Monday.

Noel

[penzoil3]

You found your spot!
ROFLMAO
Actually it's more a vasectomy. I have to say, my husband would have done the same thhing. Which is why my trips like that were done solo !
Sue

[Bushpounder]

LOL! I like to look at people's faces when I do that to them. LOL! THAT is fun.

BP;)

[olderndirt]

The poor cat's sitting there thinking, "If that meant what I think it meant, being feral wasn't all that bad."

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Actually, Sue, cutting off the secret sack and it's contents (read Clavell's Tai Pan or Noble House) is more common.

If you don't know what you missed can you really miss it Vetustior Humor?

Noel

[penzoil3]

I've read both. But a modern vet doesn't use a rubber band around the sack, and wait for things to fall off. I've had this done to cats as recently a 5 years ago. Things were still there, you can tell...
I had one cat where I couldn't afford to have it done till he was almost 18 moths old. He was sterile afterwards, but still standing at stud. He never noticed a difference.
LOL
Sue

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They're gone on my two male cats Sue. I have 2 males and 3 females (all neutered) and there is no sexual interest show by any of them, although onew of the females is 19 years old now (about 92 years old in human terms).

I'm half way through Noble House for the second time now. The first time I read them both was years apart. This time I read Tai Pan and then immediately started Noble House. Getting a lot more out of it since the generations and history is still fresh in my mind.

Next on my list for a second reading are the Berrybender Narratives by Larry McMurtry. It comprises four books about a 19th century wealthy British family chartering a steamboat to follow the Lewis and Clark route up the Missouri River and further wanderings in the old west. Not quite as good as Lonesome Dove, but very close and very different.

My son asked me why I read a book more than once. He thought it was stupid. But he's not a reader. Then I asked him if he ever watched the same movie or TV show more than once.

Noel

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Jul 17, 2016 11:13:53 GMT -5 @birdguy said:

My son asked me why I read a book more than once. He thought it was stupid. But he's not a reader. Then I asked him if he ever watched the same movie or TV show more than once.

Noel

Or listened to the same song. 

So, Noel, how many times have you read "The Lord of The Rings"?  I'm up to about fifty.  I used to read it once a year but I've slacked off recently. 

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I've never read Lord of the Rings Fritz. I prefer historical novels like Cavell and Michener write. Although on a train trip two years ago I did read all three Hunger Games books.

Also into history. I've read everything I could get my hands on about Afghanistan. Michener's Caravans, both of Khaled Hsseini novels The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, political, cultural, and military histories of the county (about 4 or 5 books), and Sebastian Junger's War. I'm really fascinated by Afghanistan which really isn't a real country as such but more a collection of several ethnic groups who speak several languages. The only meaningful government outside the city limits of Kabul are tribal leaders.

I'm quite an avid reader and am usually reading two books at the same time. Right now Noble House and Michener's The Source.

Plus I take two Great Courses at the same time. Right now I'm in the middle of both History's Greatest Military Blunders and A Skeptics Guide to American History.

Noel

[olderndirt]

Just read "1812" by Walter Borneman - did we have designs on Canada.

[Bushpounder]

You sure that wasn't your High School yearbook???

BP;)

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Jul 17, 2016 20:25:35 GMT -5 olderndirt said:

Just read "1812" by Walter Borneman - did we have designs on Canada.

                 Yup !. you guys did, but, it didn't workout too well for you at the time.

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Jul 17, 2016 20:25:35 GMT -5 olderndirt said:

Just read "1812" by Walter Borneman - did we have designs on Canada.

I photographed a War of 1812 Re-enactment for a conservation authority that operates a heritage village a couple of years back. While there I saw a bumper sticker (Canadian) that read, "War of 1812. Been there, won that"

Right now Noble House and Michener's The Source.

James Michener I assume? One of the great Canadian authors of all time. He wrote some good stuff in his day.

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Yeah, we had eyes on Canada during both the Revolution and the War of 1812.

Perhaps if the French had been there in force in 1812 we might have gotten it, but Napoleon was having problems in Russia at the time.

We can thank the French for winning the Revolution for us though. At Yorktown there were twice as many French troops as American troops fighting the British and just off shore the French navy prevented the British navy from coming to assist Cornwallis in the Battle of Chesapeake.

Actually James Michener was an American. He was born in Doylestown Pennsyvania, an orphan raised by a Quaker family. Hos book The Fires of Spring was purported to be somewhat autobiographical of his boyhood.

Noel