I am Nuk Anuk and this is my diary

Thanksgiving ~ Giving Thanks for Baaaaad Humans !

November 24th 2011 10:09 pm
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Catster friends, I am so thankful to be counted among your friends. Your friendship has blessed me ! I hope for those of you whose families celebrated "Thanksgiving" that you had an extra special day and maybe some tasty tidbits !

We had a nice Thanksgiving. We carnivorous cats had a lovely meal of Sweets' "chunks in gravy food." ~ That's a tasty treat. (The humans stroganoff'ed around in the kitchen.)
*Sigh* You already know that I have a weird family...

You cats ever see the tear-jerking ASPCA *donation* commercials? Usually they don't get left on the TV very long here, but tonight my Angel couldn't find the remote. The UNO had taken it with him into the computer room. Why?!? (Probably because it's nearly surgically attached to his hand ~ MoL aiieeeee !)

Anyway... You know what happens next, sure enough, doesn't this commercial jerk my Angel's tears. "How?" she is crying. "How could anyone, treat these animals as beings without feelings? How could anyone hurt these animals or abandon them?"

... I thought about it a while and then I thought some more. That's when it occurred to me that every single one of us in my family (even the smallest ones) have some bad human to "thank" for casting us off in the first place. We would have never crossed our family's path if we weren't "freed" to do so.

You know my "Gotcha" story, a story of "direct intervention" Ancho too.... Taag, Sweets, Gabby, Sookie and Ari all had the good fortune to meet other intervening good humans between their original bad ones and our family.

So, I think tonight that I am thankful for many things...
The *magical* food bowl I have that never seems to empty, warmth in the coldest months, fresh water any time, all the love and attention I want, every time that I ask for it, and of course, a harem of my very own!

But, especially I want to thank the humans who first cast us out of their lives, without that happening we couldn't have found (or been found by) our Forever Family.

Forever Thankful,
Nuk/Anuk

 
Barked by: Julie M

November 24th 2011 at 10:15 pm

I like how you are thankful for that. I'm thankful a bad person cast me off so I could go find my mom who took care of me and gave me a happy life.

Hazel Lucy
Barked by: littleboy (Dogster Member)

November 24th 2011 at 10:30 pm

I second that! We do not know if the humans I had before were bad but for sure I got lost from them and so now that is why I have this wonderful home with my now family.
Barked by: Moma Ivey (Angel DG # 25) (Dogster Member)

November 24th 2011 at 10:31 pm

I wanna second those thoughts too I think the humans I had before ditched me after they allowed me to get pregnant.
Barked by: Nuk Anuk (Dogster Member)

November 24th 2011 at 10:33 pm

Shivers! Yes... Hazel Lucy had a really baaaaaad person before meeting her Mom.

Littleboy... Going "Losted" sometimes happens even to the most vigilant and good of people. I'm glad you found a wonderful home and family though !
Barked by: Nuk Anuk (Dogster Member)

November 24th 2011 at 10:36 pm

Moma Ivey ! ~ That's Taag's tale. Found nursing her kittens in winter time beside a convenience store. Someone called in a shelter and Taag and kittens were taken safe.
But, some human had once given Taag their home. She was sweet and loving with our family humans. I guess Taag's first people didn't spay her and then didn't want to deal with her when she turned up pregnant.
Barked by: Charlie Chocolate Paws (Dogster Member)

November 24th 2011 at 10:37 pm

We all had bad humans first, too. Luckily, a path of good humans got us to our mommy, where we all belong!
Barked by: Nuk Anuk (Dogster Member)

November 24th 2011 at 10:40 pm

Charlie, I eagerly awaited your arrival and I've loved watching you grow up ! Thank goodness for the "intervening good humans" who help us get where we all belong ;)
Barked by: Muppet ~D-4~ (Dogster Member)

November 24th 2011 at 10:46 pm

What goes around comes right back around. So if we love, are grateful and bless everything and everyone, including the 'bad humans', then we will receive love and blessings back. Makes sense to me, Nuk! I'm so happy that you & your family are forever thankful and have been blessed with a most loving & forever home! *purrs*

Happy Thanksgiving!
Barked by: Nuk Anuk (Dogster Member)

November 24th 2011 at 10:51 pm

Miss Muppet ! (shivers again) You too truly suffered at the hands of humans. I am so sorry that you (and the others with you) ever had to go through such suffering... I am so thankful though that you found the family for your Forever ! (and all the other things that went right for you.)
Concatulations on an excellent check-up and Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family.
Barked by: River (Dogster Member)

November 24th 2011 at 10:58 pm

You know, that's true. I just wish the person who had cast me out hadn't done so by 'tossing' me out and that sisfur hadn't been abused as a breeder first, but true, if we hadn't been 'freed' we never would have found mommy and daddy together and be the family we are now. I'm pretty thankful for my family!
Barked by: Nuk Anuk (Dogster Member)

November 24th 2011 at 11:47 pm

River, I'm glad too that you have such an awesome mommy and daddy. (and like with the others above, I am truly saddened by your and your sisfur's treatment with the people before your Forever Family.) So many, too many... of my friends have been hurt before they've been loved.
Barked by: Colette Sidonie-Samantha (Dogster Member)

November 24th 2011 at 11:58 pm

What a lovely tribute, Nuk! How true, how true. I would have never found my Mom either. An old story around here, but my first human family dumped me at city shelter when I became sick.

The intervening humans who took care of me helped me find my way to my Mom.

Happy Thanksgiving effurybody. We may not get all the treats we desire in life, but there's no over-looking the best treat of all: our loving families.
Barked by: Panda (Dogster Member)

November 25th 2011 at 4:05 am

Most of us here were thrown away too. so we are very thankful to have been found and brought to daddy!!!
Barked by: Tigger (Dogster Member)

November 25th 2011 at 5:49 am

Hmmm...I never thought of that...Let's see....

Me- Born in a junkyard.
Cali- Thrown out of the window of an apartment because they "didn't want her anymore".
Sobe- Most likely ditched at the trailer park by someone who moved(he knew all about the litter box & practically forced his way into the family).

Then there are all the strays,& Mouse & her kittens,all at least victims of indifference....

Dad doesn't watch TV too much,except for football,but we know those commercials. The ones with Sarah McLaughlin? They don't stay on long here either......
Barked by: Natalie the NatCat (Dogster Member)

November 25th 2011 at 7:37 am

Mom can't watch the commercials. They get her upset for days on end.
It's clear that I was at one time loved if not cared for well. I knew affection, and had a fiesty sweet nature. However, I wasn't spayed til I was found, and I was at least 8 then. No wonder I wound up with what I did. And my ears had probably never been cleaned.....when Big Vet took care of my ears during my surgery, she removed wax that had turned into resin and 'pinged' on the table when she dropped it.

Ruffy was loved...he was extremely affectionate and ran up to people...but never neutered and as a result, FIV+, probably from a resident tom defending food and territory.

Smokie-bought as a kitten by a horrid woman who wanted a kitten for her son, and then cast off, they didn't neuter him either, and he became FIV+ trying to defend himself on the street. It was clear he was afraid of people at first, and so hurt emotionally. Mommy said in the beginning, when he was a 'stray' he would walk away without looking back at her, and only gradually came to trust her and daddy. Now...well, he is the most demanding in so many ways, and hates it when Mommy or Daddy are out of his sight....
Bella-found standing in front of her kittens, defending them as a woman sprayed them with a garden hose because she had dared to bring her kittens to nest in that inhumans yard. Then taken in by mommy....with kits who got adopted, and Bella stayed.
Princess....found by someone outside...was she lost? Mommy is convinced she's some odd purebred that she doesn't recognize.
And we all know about that Kitten, CK, found eating a cracker under a car...sent by Cee Cee, who had also been found outside..

So grateful here, Nuk!

And does Sweets consider herself a part of your harem, hmmmm???
Something tells me there is a Smacky Paw in wait for you somewhere!
Barked by: Mr D - D'boat #19 HOME AGAIN! (Dogster Member)

November 25th 2011 at 11:31 am

We have the same problem with remotes here too, WHAT IS IT WITH THAT?????
Happy thanks giving Nuk
Our human has a small box on her counter of the shop for our SPCA. When ever the shop does fee jobs for people and they ask how much we say a donation to the SPCA would be lovely. We have almost had it for a year now and we are hoping we will get to NZ$1,000.00 by the end of the year. It's our target. There is a lady who picks it up and puts the money direcly into the SPCA's bank account and then they send us a letter saying how much was in there. So far it's going well and we are pleased to do our bit. One day the human hopes she can help more by fostering, but that will have to wait until she has more time at home.
Purrs from us purrs Mr D
Barked by: ishtar *proud wobnapt* (Dogster Member)

November 26th 2011 at 12:20 am

oh, sweets' toy (harem, eh? M.O.L.!!!) - you opened my eyes! that's why i don't have thanksgiving - i don't have to "thank" bad humans... i mean, i am thankful for the lack of that chapter in my history, but doubtless that's the reason i don't have a food holiday! i can only thank for being safe and cared - first my mommy did it, now human does. i wish i could ask mommy about the bad humans that made her (and me) live a stray life?!
Barked by: Sarge (Dogster Member)

November 28th 2011 at 9:10 pm

I understand what you're saying, but I wouldn't go so far as to be thankful towards those who mistreated us. Even though we had a happy ending, there are others who weren't saved. We should be thankful for being rescued and getting the loving home we should have had initially. Because we were mistreated then rescued, another kitty was not. Our good fortune came at a cost paid by another; and those are the ones we should give thanks.

Congrats on being cat of the week and getting some turkey. I love turkey too.
Barked by: Worlds Coolest Fluffy & Alex (Dogster Member)

November 30th 2011 at 4:23 pm

Hmmm, interesting way of looking at this, Nuk! By giving "thanks" fur the baaaaaad humans, you turn a terrible negative into a beautiful positive.
We're thankful fur the opportunity to know your family & many others on Catster as well.
And we're also thankful fur our human fur taking us both when she was looking fur only one feline! (The rescue org insisted that we go together, as we were closely bonded.)

 

Nuk Anuk


 

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