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Please spay or neuter your pet
Posted Apr 29, 2005
I just finished watching the saddest show about pet overpopualtion. Feral cats and dogs suffer in the street or are euthanized in shelters every day. The show became personal when they showed a clip of a mother cat and her kittens in a shelter as the narrator kept repeating how very few stray animals in shelters actually get adopted. The worst part, though, is whent they showed one of the vets in a shelter actually euthanizing a kitten that looked just like Curly Cat just because the poor thing had a runny nose. A runny nose! That could be any one of the kittens in my garage! And then the show really demanded that responsible pet owners spay or neuter their pets. They said that within 7 years, one female cat and her litters could technically increase the feral cat population by 420 cats. I saw evidence of that today. I was alking home when I saws a half-grown cat with the exact same markings as Moe and Mama Cat. That was enough to start me thinking about how Mama Cat should be spayed, since this is obviously not her first litter. And then with the other cats spotted in my yard I'm really worried about when Mama Cat will be in heat again. If I send the family to a shelter, then even the kittens don't have a good chance of finding a home. I would send Mama Cat to the vet myself, but as a wild animal and a mother I don't know how I can get her to comply to being seperated from her kittend to be operated on. I need to advertise "free kittens to a good home" somewhere. The babies are already walking. In a month they should be ready to be leave to be with a human family of their own. I wish I could keep them, but my mom has her allergies. I don't understand why my mom is not at alll interested in even consulting a doctor about taking some allergy medicines. I know she cares about the cats, why won't she do something so that they can stay? I feel like a little kid who can't understand why she can't have a pet, even when it's obvious to more mature people why it's impossible. The pet is a deer or a chipmunk or something, and has to be free, for example. Maybe my mom is the one who's not being reasonable, I don't know.
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Faith vs Skeptisism
Posted Apr 20, 2005
This week Chicago is stirred up. A bunch of people are flocking to an image caused by water leaking through a cement wall under an above-ground expressway. They say it is a miraculous image of "La Virgen de Guadalupe" and are praying to this wall under a bridge right next to a busy main street
So what do I think? I really want to believe in it, but I can't. It is my opinion that if you really believe in something then that faith makes it true. But I can't get my brain out of a scientific mindset in which I can only believe what I can explain. My grandpa believes in the miracle. He believes strongly in La Virgen and has already gone to pray. I've passed by the place, but I'm afraid that I'll be let down and grow cynical. A lot of my friends are already cynical except JK because she has a lot of faith too.
I don't whether having strong faith in miracles like this one is good or bad. It might be true that all the people crowded around the water stain are weak and ignorant. But maybe the people who scoff at them are also ignorant of the power that comes with believing in a higher being. I don't know which side to take.
I'm going to quote from "Midnight's Children" by Salman Rushdie:
"Knocked forever into that middle place, unable to worship a God in whose existence he could not wholly disbelieve."
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Say Hello to the Baby Cats
Posted Apr 19, 2005
Moe is a calico just like her mom. She's very bossy and grouchy, but she takes care of her siblings. Curly is black with white bits. This kitten tries to wriggle away from the nest every chance it gets. Larry is grey and fuzzy, and always winds up on the bottom of the pile. It fits, no?
I spent a long while after school at a baseball game caching up with friends. The weather was great and the trees in the park are gently washed in pale spring colors. Tests are coming soon and I have to prepare...
But I'm almost done!
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Say hello to Mama Cat
Posted Apr 16, 2005
A stray cat has made her den in our garage behind a wooden board that stands upright aganst the wall. She just gave birth to kittens: we found them by listening to their mewing. 
I love kittens! We will help Mama Cat by feeding her. When the kittens are a bit older I'll try to get them to the vet. I'm sure dad wants a cat, my brother wants a cat, I want a cat, but my poor mother is allergic and refuses to take pills for it. Here's hoping we can change her mind.
It's a beautiul day so i'm outside. I don't know if it's better or worse because I brought the computer with me. I already walked through the Lincoln Park neighborhood, so I've done my exercise of the day.
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"Vote for Pedro"
Posted Apr 15, 2005
(The title is a quote from a movie called "Napolean Dynamite" I love Pedro.)
More movies I like: Garden State, The Yellow Submarine (starring the Beatles), The Breakfast Club, Collateral. My taste in movies is not very sophisticated.
I'm now using the shiny new laptop that is placed in my room. My keys have been lost and found again. The mouthpiece has been taken from my trumpet case and not returned. My bus pass is gone forever. I lost my cell phone ages ago...
I would like an ipod, but something tells me that is not wise.
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