<p>jym~</p>
<p>Yes, I’d read that, but hadn’t had time to look up the entire piece yet! I have to admit that I’ve gotten a great deal of comfort from imagining the CC pets who have gone before Patchy welcoming him warmly just as their owners have supported our family. It truly is a beautiful notion…</p>
<p>~b.</p>
<p>Beurah, I’ve been offline for a few days and the first thing I did was look for an update on Patch. This was obviously not what I was hoping to hear. Please accept my condolences for the loss of your special friend and know that prayers are coming to you from NYC.</p>
<p>Thank you for sharing. I am so sorry.
LA</p>
<p>Berurah–how is Karma doing? I can’t stop thinking how amazing her arrival was.</p>
<p>bookiemom~</p>
<p>Thanks so much for asking about Karma! OMG, she is a dolly, and we are <em>ALL</em> in love here! We still have her, but I am getting ready to call all of the agencies again. We recently received a call from someone who got our name from the humane society, but the person was looking for a German shepherd! Apparently, the humane society wrote down the information incorrectly when I filed the report! I tried to call today and correct it, but unfortunately, Wednesday is the only day of the week that it is closed. So, tomorrow, I will call there again and also call the police dept. and make sure they have written everything down correctly. </p>
<p>Meanwhile, Karma is just a sweetheart, except with our cats. She’s got a hunting instinct that won’t quit, and the other day she was on point to my D’s guinea pig cage for an HOUR! And the poor kitties have had to find every hiding place in the house. BUT, she’s learning, and hopefully soon we will have peace again among our large menagerie. She’s doing MUCH better with all the other dogs, so there is hope!</p>
<p>I wanted to pm you, but your pm function is disabled. If you decide to enable it, would you please pm me?? Thanks! love, ~berurah</p>
<p>I’ve been offline for three days as I went to some events of my daughter’s at her college. Whenever I am away from CC for a long time, it takes so long to read and catch up. I just opened the Parent Cafe and was thinking, maybe I should start a thread…“been away three days, who can offer me the cliff notes version of CC from the past three days”…but first, I opened my first thread…I went to this one…and I am sad to see the turn of events. I am so sorry, Berurah! :(</p>
<p>{{{{{{{{Patch}}}}}}}}</p>
<p>{{{{{{{{Berurah’s family}}}}}}}}</p>
<p>Susan~</p>
<p>Thanks so much for checking on us first…I am very honored by that. We all appreciate your beautiful hugs, Patchy included. {{{{{hugs!!!}}}}} I hope you had a wonderful time at your events! love, ~berurah</p>
<p>I am a bad person, but if those people haven’t put anything out there, the ones that lost Karma, because we all would have notified everyone we could, well, I might wonder about them, and I might let the misinformation stay as it was…and keep that sweet dog!!!</p>
<p>okay, well, someone had to at least suggest it even if it was kind of wrong, but if owners are so irresponsible to not connect all the agencies already, after a week, well as owners, I wonder about them…</p>
<p>there I said it outloud</p>
<p>I hope that Karma stays in your home, the cats will figure it out~~</p>
<p>One time my border collie got into the Guinea Pigs cage it was really a rabbit cage, dog in one corner poor poor GP in the other!!</p>
<p>
Well, if you are a bad person, then so am I! :o I certainly can’t say that this thought hasn’t crossed my mind…<em>sigh</em> We are ALL in love with Karma, and she’s really happy and comfortable here. The other animals are getting used to her, and she’ll eventually get used to them! She’s got a TON of personality and she and my youngest son were just made for each other! 
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<p>I did feel badly, though, when the man called here asking about a German shepherd and said that the humane society had told him that that was what we had found. Funny thing was that I had given a very detailed description of her, including colors and markings, and she looks nothing like a German shepherd! Is this another stroke of fate? It just seemed so odd…like someone is telling us that Karma should be ours…</p>
<p>But then, if she truly belongs to a family with some kids who are missing her, I’d hate to even think about it. So, I’ll call tomorrow and correct that info, but I’m sure hoping that she can end up with us. We ADORE her, and there is something so very <em>right</em> about her being here, given the circumstances of her ending up with us.</p>
<p>~berurah</p>
<p>We are so sorry about your dear Patch, but you are all very brave, and thank you for sharing your love for him with all of us.</p>
<p>BER: Hunting dogs and cats can learn to get along, my bird dog hangs out with chickens and ducks and his best friend is our cat; when he plays at my sister’s farm, her many cats are also his friends. My H thinks he is brain damaged!!! To look out at the farm and see him sitting, Sphinx position under a tree, with a flock of mallards eating birdseed to the right and various cats walking all around and chickens wandering in all directions does make one pause…he is a bird dog, but we think the circuits got overloaded and fried, so he no longer hunts any friendly critters, He has shifted to squirrels, who chatter at him from the trees and sadly, to skunks :eek:</p>
<p>I am sure Karma and the kitties can be taught they are all one family, if Karma stays.</p>
<p>^^ somemom~</p>
<p>This image made me LAUGH OUT LOUD!!! <strong><em>THANK YOU</em></strong> for that! OMG, I’ve GOT to tell my dh about that one…he’ll get such a kick out of that description! (btw, my dh would probably agree with your dh about your doggie’s diagnosis! <em>lol</em>) I can relate about the squirrels…our beagle baby just caught one not too long ago… 
Good thing we don’t have skunks around our yard! :eek:</p>
<p>What kind of a bird dog do you have? Patch was an English Setter, and Karma is an English Pointer.</p>
<p>~berurah</p>
<p>Bird dog family too. Who knew they were so popular? Mine points flies. On a good day, he catches them for a quick snack. :rolleyes: He’ll go on point for a bird occasionally, but for the most part, he just ignores them.</p>
<p>Is is interesting how my puppy discerns between his family of cats and strange cats. If he sees a cat in the neighborhood, he’d be likely to chase it, though never hurt it, but he knows the cats who are his friends and does not even chase them!</p>
<p>berurah, just to let you know. If you go back to my link on page 7 of this thread (post 103) I’ve added a couple more recent pictures of Kramer. They are pictures 4 and 5 in the album and were taken in the past year. </p>
<p>I really hope you get to keep Karma :)</p>
<p>Oh yeah, Kramer also flips out about squirrels and they are out in our back yard ALL THE TIME. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>DrDrewsmom~</p>
<p>OMG, Kramer is just such a BEAUTIFUL doggie!!! GREAT pics, and thank you SO much for sharing those! He’s just totally HUGGABLE<------kind of like those three handsome boys in the pics!!! </p>
<p>somemom~ </p>
<p>Your puppy is AMAZING!!! I was telling dh about your dog and painting the hilarious image of him sitting amidst the chickens and cats, and he could NOT believe it!! </p>
<p>corona~</p>
<p>What kind of bird dog do you have? And…if he CATCHES those flies, could you send him to Kansas for the summer!!! 
:)</p>
<p>~berurah</p>
<p>well, no one has reported the dog missing for over a week…after what time do they lose their guardian rights</p>
<p>I have found several dogs lost, and withing 24 hours the owners showed up…that is why I wonder about returning a dog to someone who after a week hasn’t reported the dog missing</p>
<p>just my two sense</p>
<p>Berurah, I’m with CGM here. I think it’s game over for Karma’s former owners. </p>
<p>We only have the one cat, but, if he were missing? It would be impossible for anyone in a 500 mile radius to NOT know he was missing. I cannot imagine functioning or doing anything else until we found him.</p>
<p>Once, years ago, he did get out - and I immediately went looking for him - outside in a violent storm like the kind we get down here during the rainy season. Lightening, hail, the works, After over an hour and no luck and soaking wet, the lightening got worse, I decided it was too dangerous so I went back home to get out of wet clothes and begin the process of printing flyers etc. I called my friends on my cell while walking back and had several people recruited to help me post the flyers I was going to print - we reasoned another hour, the rain would let up and we could do this. I also called neighbors on my cell while walking, and knocked on doors along the way. Have you seen my cat? So I arrive back in my house, soaking wet, and guess what? The little sweetie was all curled up in my bed, sound asleep and softly purring. I’d left a window open just in case and he must have come back in the house just as I left to look for him. He had to have come right back in because he was completely dry…anyway, I would have spent every resource looking for him.</p>
<p>LTS~</p>
<p>I hear ya!! In fact, we did something similar when one of our cats was missing two years ago. We scoured the streets repeatedly. I called every agency and went to see every new arrival, regardless of description. We made flyers, and the kids went out door to door every day. Finally, they came across someone who had seen him at another person’s house. We did NOT give up until we located him! </p>
<p>I’m glad that your kitty cat came back on his own and made it, safe and sound, to your bed! Seeing him there must have been one of the happiest moments EVER! :)</p>
<p>~b.</p>
<p>LOL, actually, Berurah, for the tiniest of moments I was riotously angry at him. I mean, I was soaking wet - I had been outside in rather serious rain, hail, lightening, thunder, etc. for nearly 90 minutes. I was a MESS - mascara all over my face, hair all tangled up, etc. And there he was, all safe, dry and warm, and cuddled up in blankets (he loves to nest in blankets, fresh laundry, etc.) and sound asleep. </p>
<p>The least he could have done was call my cell to tell me he was home. LOL.</p>
<p>Anyway, my vote is Karma is yours, seeing as how there doesn’t seem to be an owner on the horizon.</p>