RESCUE - FOSTER PARENTS NEEDED
Sharon Talbert
(This message is also being posted to uwash.friends-of-campus-cats and
rec.pets.cats, in the hope of finding a Seattle-area foster parent.)
Campus Cats is plumb-full, with urgent requests coming in (from non-Campus
sources) for foster care. Are there any soft-hearted souls in the Seattle
area who could take in an animal in need?
URGENT! Newborn kittens (litter of three, I believe 3 days old) without a
mother (to experienced foster parents only)
Tame momcat about to give birth (or perhaps gave birth last night) -
currently with south-Seattle rescuer (who will take family back when
kittens are 4 weeks old)
Tame elderly Persian or Persian-mix tortie female, apparently on her own,
in need of loving care (this one is being evaluated by our vet before
release to foster care or retirement home)
If any of these critters reach out to you, get back to me asap and I will
get you in touch with the right party.
I don't plan to make a habit of posting this kind of thing to the general
rpc readership, by the way. Wouldn't have done so this time but for the
newborns.
Thanks very much.
Sharon Talbert
Friends of Campus Cats
Seattle
Robert H Ruskin
The MC for the ball will rule over the Ball [which will be Christofur by
default if no other cat can be found]. The next to last song will be
Memories. The Host and Hostess of the Ball [Sir Galaxy and myself, or Sir
Galaxy and my stand-in, the lovely Ebony, The Black Panther (though if I
can not make it I will be there in spirit as I watch the Moon sail
overhead)] will have the whole floor unto themselves for the first few
measures, they will then invite all other cats to then join them. At the
end of the song the MC will ask that those cats deserving of a New
Jellicle Life be simultaneously projected through the beam splitters to
fall upon all the huge projection screens that surround the puuurrrrimeter.
All the names which have been shown will now be shown one final time en
mass. They will remain projected for 30 seconds before the start to
revolve around the gathered assemblage, first rather slowly, but then
faster and faster until they become one indistinct blurr where upon they
will start to rise towards the curved in peaks of the projection screens
-- up past the Russel Hotel, up into the Heavyside Layer -- the the names
will meet in a final blast of light, and the simultaneous release of
fireworks. As the fireworks fade the Band will begin to play a melody of
"The Power of Love" and "Everybody Wants to be a Cat".
The Dawn should be breaking about this time, and as the various cats
leave through the portals between the screens, we can then reflect on the
meaning of the Jellicle Ball: To Remember What Happiness Is; To Love One
Another, so a New Day can begin.
Bonnie, The Black Panther, Lady of the House of Ruskin, Lady to Sir
Galaxy, Hosts of the 1st Annual RPC Jellicle Ball
--
R.H. Ruskin Jr., Ph.D. rus...@aruba.ccit.arizona.edu
"Sometimes the veil between human and animal intelligence wears very
thin -- then one experiences the supreme thrill of keeping a cat, or
perhaps allowing oneself to be owned by a cat." -- Catherine Manley
Robert H Ruskin
As you all know in a few hours I will disappear from the net. If Bobcat
can find a patch I will be back, but for how long is unknown. Please pass
on my fondest wishes to Galaxy, tell him I hope I will be back in time
for the Jellicle Ball. It is up to all you now to make this Jellicle Ball
Happen!!! Those of you who stepped forward must proceed from here in my
absence. Send word of the Jellicle Ball to every corner of the globe --
but it out in rpc and alt.animals.felines, put it out on every webpage,
on every cat related mailing list. This is OUR night for PEACE, LOVE, and
HAPPINESS.
With healing purrrs, I leave you now in Bastet's paws,
Bonnie, House of Ruskin