Naughty pussies.

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Cats use fax as toilet, spark house fire


TOKYO (Reuters) - Two kittens picked the wrong place to relieve themselves when they urinated on a fax machine, sparking a fire that extensively damaged their Japanese owner's house.

http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?idq=/ff/story/0002/20050610/1004453322.htm&sc=reodd



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(We have litter boxes for our kitties.)

 

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"Naughty Pussies"?

I heard about them just recently!

aka
"Ebil Baginas"!

LMAO!!!

 

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WARNING-- grossness in post below!!

A sidebar.

My wife is a nurse, in an emergency room. They sent a patient to Boston for reconstructive surgery last night. A six-year-old. After the dog (of the family that the kid's family was visiting-- this was not a family pet, but the pet of another family and the kid was a guest) had chewed the face off the child, the owners shot the animal and buried it. So the little girl with the bitten-off face now must undergo not only the whole ordeal of reconstruction, but also the full series of rabies shots, since they cannot determine presence or absence of rabies from a disinterred animal.

This sort of topic is supper table fare at my place.

The hospital started a "debriefing" counseling service, where EMTs who fetch these cases to the facility and the nurses and techs and whatnot who have to deal with them get together, afterward, and talk about what they've seen, what they had to do, what the job forced them to see and smell and hear. The talk is supposed to help everyone deal with the stress of witnessing and handling the unthinkable.

Unfortunately, the counselors who run it, who run the debriefings, that is, are steeped in the candyass language of social work. It is not a place for those who don't like the candyass euphemisms of that subculture. My wife knows this, and never attends them.

Cases like this make for a large attendance at the debriefing sessions. Because my wife is never there, but always keeps her aplomb and does the right thing by everyone besides, someone asked her: "What do you do, then, to deal witht the stress of this kind of thing?"

"I go home and take it out on my family," she told them, "like everyone else, I guess."