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RUSH: A little story here. Everybody\u2019s asking me here, ‘What are you so edgy about today?\u2019 I\u2019m not edgy. I just didn\u2019t get a whole lot of sleep last night. You know, we treat our little pets like our kids, especially if you don\u2019t have kids you treat the little animals like your kids. And Punkin had to go to the vet today for a standard checkup, a urinalysis and a teeth cleaning and because you can\u2019t make a cat pee on demand and you can\u2019t get a cat to hold still while you brush its teeth, they have to anesthetize the cat at the vet\u2019s office. That means, just like human beings, you cannot feed the cat for a period of 12 hours prior to the cat\u2019s appointment at the doctor. So that meant I could not feed Punkin after eight o\u2019clock. I made sure she had something to eat about 7:30 and then all the bowls, I emptied them out, left the bowls there empty, she has two places in the house where she eats. And by pattern, she came down to the library about 11:30 p.m., where I was feverishly working on comments after I\u2019d watched all these speeches last night, and she starts rubbing against my legs, jumping up on my lap, starts head-butting me, and I know what that means. It means she wants to eat, and I looked at her, I said, ‘I\u2019m sorry.\u2019 <\/p>\n

I looked right into her eyes, ‘I\u2019m sorry Punky, but I can\u2019t feed you.\u2019 She doesn\u2019t know what I\u2019m saying, she\u2019s a cat. So, I get upstairs, and as a habit, she leads me into her room, because I feed her right before I go to bed, it\u2019s just become a habit. She leads me in, and I have to go in there anyway to get something. When I don\u2019t feed her she just gets this perplexed look on the face, and I\u2019m saying, ‘Sweetie, I can\u2019t feed you. You have to go to the doctor tomorrow.\u2019 And of course she doesn\u2019t know what I\u2019m saying. I\u2019m talking to an animal. She has these big almond eyes just looking at me like this doesn\u2019t make sense to her. So I go get in bed about one o\u2019clock, 1:30 a.m., and in five minutes the cat jumps on the bed. She never sleeps with me. I mean, maybe once that blue moon. She got underneath the covers! She started biting my toes. She started licking. She\u2019s furrowing around under there like a ferret. I ignore her, trying to go to sleep. ‘Big day tomorrow on the EIB Network,\u2019 I\u2019m saying to myself. I said, ‘Punky, I\u2019m sorry, I can\u2019t feed you.\u2019 She finally moves out from underneath the covers and gets on the pillow and starts head-butting me, and I just ignore her and all I want to do is feed this little cat because she hasn\u2019t eaten in a while, can\u2019t do it because she gotta go to the doctor. <\/p>\n

Finally I fall asleep, and at 4:30 a.m. or five here come the head-butts again. She\u2019s not mad. She wants to eat. She doesn\u2019t understand why I\u2019m ignoring her. We create little habits in our animals, and this was a big break in the routine and the habit; there was no food! This only happens twice a year for these checkups; the animal can\u2019t get used to it. So finally at 7:30 a.m. I got up, and this little cat bounded out of the bed and just ran as happily and joyously to our little room where I feed her, leading me all the way and I just watched her go, she turned around and stopped seeing I didn\u2019t follow her, and she just had the saddest look. And then she\u2019d take a couple steps and turn around and see if I was following. I said, ‘Punky, I\u2019m sorry, I can\u2019t feed you.\u2019 I say to myself, again, I\u2019m talking to a cat. So I finally just went into my bathroom and did something else I never do, and that\u2019s shut the door. I have two doors into the bathroom-closet complex, and I closed the outer door so she couldn\u2019t get in there and make me feel even guiltier, because what I\u2019m doing is for her own safety and so forth. <\/p>\n

One of the members of the staff was going to come up and get her at eight o\u2019clock and put her in a little cat cage and take her to the vet. I got outta the shower and the cat was gone. It was just tough. She was so happy this morning, ‘Oh, finally I\u2019m going to get to eat,\u2019 and she didn\u2019t get to eat, trying to lead me in there, taking two steps, looking back at me. Heartbreaking stuff. This has been a tough day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: A little story here. Everybody\u2019s asking me here, ‘What are you so edgy about today?\u2019 I\u2019m not edgy. I just didn\u2019t get a whole lot of sleep last night. You know, we treat our little pets like our kids, especially if you don\u2019t have kids you treat the little animals like your kids. 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