So long and thanks for all the fish.
Dear Socks,
I remember you from before you were replaced by that upstart dog. You were beautiful. I hope you had a happy life and now that you have gone and crossed the road, I hope you are comfortable and safe. Wherever you are, I hope you have lots of toys to play with and friends to hang with and that you get to enjoy chasing dogs. I hope you are happy in your new environment. Sayonara, Socks.
Love, Yvie.
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Socks ain't dead; look, he's just sleeping...
February 22, 2009 11:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thank you, Justice Putnam. You are right. Nothing really dies. :)
February 23, 2009 12:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
I cannot top Justice.
I am a sucker for pets. Dogs, cats, not much on fish or lizards.
February 22, 2009 11:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks for coming by DD. I appreciate it. :)
February 23, 2009 12:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
Sox lived quite a long life for a kitty (19 years). I hope my kitty (now 15) can make it as long.
February 23, 2009 12:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
I hope your kitty lives long and in prosperous health. :)
February 23, 2009 2:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Cats Harry, Hermione and Tess appreciate your proper sense of paying homage where homage is due. And I thank you for the music reference you gave me last week, which I forgot to mention, failing to pay homage where it is due. Thanks.
February 23, 2009 5:23 AM | Reply | Permalink
wwstaebler, love the names. Tess? Tess of the d'Urbervilles? Awesome! :)
February 23, 2009 2:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Tess of the d"Urbervilles, absolutely. And she is properly named, in every respect. Thanks for knowing why.
February 23, 2009 7:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey, you are welcome! One of my fav characters, Tess. :)
February 23, 2009 10:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Smokey and I poured little skim milk out for Socks Clinton on Saturday. Such a cutie-pie he was. Toodles Socks.
February 23, 2009 1:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks Dija for your and Smokey's contributions. I and Stashman did something similar. We also put a lit candle on the window sill for all cats crossing the road.
February 23, 2009 2:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
ps - thanks for the kitty-in-the-sky pict.
February 23, 2009 2:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
All due respect, cats should be banned from the WH, regardless of ideology. I know the feline fans will hate me for saying that.
Glad to see that some canine creature will be taking up residence there.
It's about cats and dogs, not Democrats and Republicans!
February 23, 2009 2:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Firstly, no body owns a cat.
Secondly, a meow massages the heart, what does a bark do?
Thirdly, Cats always know whether people like or dislike them. They don't always care enough to do anything about it. So to a cat, your dislike is irrelevant. heh. ;)
February 23, 2009 2:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is going to be fun!
Cats are the most arrogant animals around. They are Republicans at heart. No one owns one? I suggest they open up their tins of food on their own with their own kitty paws.
No, meows don't massage the heart they make your hair stand on end. I can't help you if you don't understand that a bark is coupled to all kinds of other things as well.
Third, cats love to come over to me and purr. They brush up against me and want to be held by me. They seek out my attention in an intrusive way.
Dogs want to work with you. Cat want it on their own terms.
Like I said, Dogs are Democrats and Cats are Republicans!
February 23, 2009 4:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Apparently, ILIA, you do not understand cats, at all. Which surprises me. Their leaning are not Dem, not Repug, but rather, just ego-centric-imperative leanings. Much like yours. Which brings me to the not at all surprising fact that cats lean and rub against you.The operative term is lean against, not toward. Meoww.
February 23, 2009 7:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
You can't win with you people.
I will say the great thing about cats coming to me to rub against me...
...it makes them easier to catch to feed to my dog.
:P
February 23, 2009 8:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
You are a very mean person. Heh. ;)
I could feed you to my not-neutered, feisty male kitty. He keeps people in line. He's taken dogs on and won. LOL. Of course I was always there to make sure nothing happened to him.
Why are you here? This is a homage to Socks. Pay your homage like a person, jeeez. Like, really.
February 23, 2009 10:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
I probably wouldn't have written but you dissed my doggone friends in your blog!
So there. Nyah!
February 23, 2009 10:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Peace, iloveitall. I love dogs too. Really. I was just recalling that Socks did not like Bubba the dog. ;)
February 23, 2009 10:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
oops, Buddy the dog. Sowwy.
February 23, 2009 10:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL
February 23, 2009 10:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Cats are Democrats. They have brains. A dog in a house where cats rule, is a dog with brains too. Dog's can be taught that having a mind is not a waste of time. LOL. I've seen it. ;)
It's the Repubs who are dogs. They follow the leader mindlessly. Just look at the Clinton y
February 23, 2009 10:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
posted before I was ready. Damn it!
as I was saying before I was rudely posted --
look at the Clinton years and how the Repubs just followed their leader straight into ruining things. A cat would never do that.
February 23, 2009 10:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Clinton certainly went along with it.
I think Bill was more interested in being in heat during his second term... how catlike! :P
Okay... I will let you have the final feline felicitations. How dog-person of me.
February 23, 2009 10:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Um, rethugs in heat. ;)
Thanks for the last word.
I won't call you a 10 point shmuck. ;) Only a simple dog lover. ;)
February 23, 2009 10:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
PS A recommendation for the title. I love Douglas Adams!
February 23, 2009 4:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
So do I. Thnks.
February 23, 2009 10:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
I ♥ Socks! Rec!
February 23, 2009 7:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks for visiting. I am honored. ;)
February 23, 2009 10:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Mindy, who is nineteen and hides her age well, wants me to remind everyone that Dogs have owners, cats have Staff. She is perfectly well behaved and does everything I tell her to, however. But then I give her only one command, Do what you want.
February 23, 2009 9:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
No wonder Mindy loves you. You understand her!
Socks was a beautiful cat. I hope he was understood too. That's what they really want, to be understood. Mine has taught me feline language. Really. A skill which allows me to communicate with completely strange cats. ;)
February 23, 2009 10:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
A little OT here, but my daughter was born a monkey. In fact, I used to call her and her little friends the little monkeys. They really were. I even did a cartoon dedicated to them. That was several years ago...
We haz 5 katz and one HUGE long suffering dog that could eat them all for breakfast.
What I find hard to understand is WHY the DOG tries so hard to BE a CAT. Imagine a very LARGE dog, 10 times the size of a cat bed basket, successfully folding itself into a kitty bed. I am anticipating the dogs meows any day now... and her a hound forchissakes!
Oh, and Socks was long suffering and deserves peace.
Nice thought. Rec'd
February 24, 2009 12:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks for stopping by. :)
February 24, 2009 1:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Now that Socks is feeling catatonic, I think I'll mix me a gin and tonic. As DJ might say, it's not a cat-ass-trophy, just an apostrophe on a none-too-abbreviated life. Maybe there's a Catillac waiting in heaven for poor Socks, or some more feline catraption. As my favorite philosopher Cat-o would say, "Cum anima adverterem quam plurimos graviter in via morum errare, succurrendum opinioni eorum et consulendum famae existimavi, maxime ut gloriose viverent et honorem contingerent. Nunc te, fili carissime, docebo, quo pacto morem animi tui componas. Igitur praecepta mea ita legito, ut intellegas; legere enim et non intelligere neglegere est." Or perhaps Cat-o's more concise one, "Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives."
February 24, 2009 10:11 AM | Reply | Permalink
Desidero, I am honored. Best comment on thread!!! Like, really. ;)
Thanks for the Cat-o translation. LOL. You are the fab'est.
February 24, 2009 1:07 PM | Reply | Permalink