{"id":225980,"date":"2013-03-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=225980"},"modified":"2017-03-17T14:26:54","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T18:26:54","slug":"my-unpleasant-morning-with-allie-the-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/03\/17\/my-unpleasant-morning-with-allie-the-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"My Unpleasant Morning with Allie the Cat"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I\u2019ll tell you, I look battle-scarred here today. I had the most unpleasant experience at home today. You know, I have my little cat, my little Abyssinian named Allie. I got Allie a little while, about six months after my previous beloved cat passed away, Punkin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They have two completely different personalities. Whereas Punkin from one year of age was like an old lady, slow moving, totally affectionate, wherever I went the cat was there. This cat Allie is the most independent, like I thought all cats were, doesn\u2019t give a rat\u2019s rear end except when she wants to eat or something. She\u2019s a lovable cat, don\u2019t misunderstand.<\/p>\n

But I made a mistake with this cat <\/a>when she was a kitten because the place I live has many danger points for a kitten like second story balconies to jump or fall off of, nooks and crannies to get lost in. For the first, I don\u2019t know, nine months or year the only place the cat got to go was my library where I could keep an eye on her. And it\u2019s a big enough room as it is, and it has an upstairs and a balcony, had to close that off. I closed off the staircase so that nobody could get up there, including the cat.<\/p>\n

Well, this meant that at the end of the night when it was time to go to bed I had to catch the cat and take her up with me. She didn\u2019t like it and she began to hide and to hiss and to basically threaten me when I tried to pick her up because she didn\u2019t want to be captured. But I had to do it, and this went on for nine months. And I\u2019m afraid I have forever scarred this cat into thinking that whenever I approach, she\u2019s gonna be captured and sent back to the zoo or something.<\/p>\n

Well, today she had to go to the vet, the annual checkup and to get the claws clipped. I did not remove the claws this time like we did with the previous cat because I thought that was a little bit too much, plus there are dogs running around so the cat needs some defense mechanisms. They\u2019re giant dogs. They\u2019re sheepdogs. So it was time today, and yesterday we could not get her into the travel cage. She just ran away from the staff attempting to — she would hide in places they couldn\u2019t get her.<\/p>\n

So I get this note yesterday, “Look, we\u2019ve tried for two hours, but we\u2019re gonna need your help tomorrow,” meaning today.<\/p>\n

I said, “Aw, no. You mean I\u2019m the one that has to catch her and end up being hated?”<\/p>\n

\"\"So we devised a plan. The cat every morning, when I\u2019m in the shower, goes to a window sill in my closet and waits for me. I come out of the shower, get dressed, and then go scratch her butt and pet her. So I said, “What I\u2019m gonna do, I\u2019m gonna go in there and I\u2019m gonna grab her and you run in with that cage.” We left the cage in a room overnight so she could get accustomed to it. Well, all of that went according to plan until she saw the cage. And I have got cat scratches all over my hands. That cat was hissing, the mouth was wide open, her eyes, her pupils were wide open.<\/p>\n

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\nI said, “This cat\u2019s either traumatized or mad, or maybe both, at me!” So we get her in that cage. She jumped out, I mean, lickety-split. We found her after another 10 minutes, get her back in the cage, and the guy had forgotten to zip up the end and she darted out the edge of it. It took three times, three traumatized cat experiences. And, I don\u2019t know, it\u2019s not cruelty, because we had to take the cat to the vet to make sure she gets her annual shots, checkup and all this.<\/p>\n

But I had Band-Aids and styptic pencils all over my hands for 20 minutes after this. I\u2019ve never seen the cat so mad and I\u2019m just convinced it was that first year. (interruption) Well, it\u2019s getting worse. I mean, this is the first time this happened. Last year when we put her in the cage, I mean, she objected, but there weren\u2019t any claws and fangs and hisses. If I would have thought about it, I would have put on a hazmat suit or some such thing.<\/p>\n

Anyway, got her to the vet, got the claws trimmed, got the shots, she\u2019s back home now. But man, oh, man, I\u2019ve never seen such a traumatized pet. And this cat is treated with the greatest affection and nobody is ever mean. I\u2019m convinced that I made the cat paranoid in that first year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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