10-02-2009, 05:13 PM
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Citrouille!
Wilderness and I have just adopted a cat from our local shelter!!! She's about two years old, and her name is Citrouille. She'd been at the shelter over a year, and she's very very sweet. Yay!!!
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10-02-2009, 06:15 PM
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Ok show off. We know you are not just a hot bod and pretty face but a really good person too.  Your organic mouse trap looks like a gentle sweetheart.
Actually we have always known you are a softy for a needing kitty too. I guess that is understandable when you live in a place where a cat can be in the shelter for "over a year". Sad to say even newborn kittens here get to our shelter after 8 lives and have 10 days for an adoptive reprieve before the 9th times out. 
I just want to know if when you get to your 'must change name' point for her, could you consider something like Tiger or Fluffy or Frisky or something besides Citronella? 
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10-02-2009, 06:26 PM
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Actually, her name at the shelter was Peanut. I was going to name her Scaramouche, but when the shelter (finally) called to tell me I could have her, I was cutting up some pumpkin, so I changed my mind to Citrouille. The nearest shelter is a no-kill, but there are others in the bigger towns that aren't. She was just lucky enough to be a small-town kitty, I guess. 
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10-02-2009, 06:47 PM
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Awwww... good on ya for adopting such a sweet kitter-cat.
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10-02-2009, 06:52 PM
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She looks my my old cat tigger
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10-02-2009, 07:05 PM
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Btw... when I saw the thread title I wondered for a second if it was a sequel to the movie Ratatouille. 
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10-02-2009, 09:23 PM
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Catatouille? Sounds like a French version of Chinese food. Grats on the cat. I'm more of a cat person myself, but I'm tired of the problems we're having out of my aunt's. It's a rivalry thing born from to many animals and not enough space for them.
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10-03-2009, 03:05 AM
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Pretty cat. Looks like a good one for some TLP ... (Tender Loving Petting). |
10-03-2009, 09:43 AM
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Oh my gosh, she can't get enough petting! She's spoiled rotten!!!!!!!! Slept on our bed last night and purrs as soon as she wakes up, even before we look at her or talk to her! Today I'm going to be buying a leash and harness for her, because I do want her to be able to go outside (at the shelter, she had a little caged-in area where she could go outside, small but outside just the same - last week she caught a garter snake in there!!!). We're really close to the road here though (right in town) and there are a lot of dogs in the neighbourhood so I don't want her wandering around loose. Wilderness is making fun of the leash and harness idea and refuses to be seen walking a cat, but it's that or staying indoors, lol!
A word on the pronunciation... I know the movie taught you to say ratatoo-ee, but that actually not the French pronunciation. "ouille" is pronounced more like "ooy". So Citrouille is pronouced "see-trooy", not "see-troo-ee".
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10-03-2009, 11:53 AM
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...mammal...
Well, if you're going to have one, at least you went about it in the best way possible.
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10-03-2009, 02:49 PM
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I agree with Gekko we've had 3 shelter animals ok the cat wasn't a shelter animal but if my daughter didn't take her when she did she would have been.... Oh yeah the point of my post Lucky (Lucky Charms her full name) never knew any different from when she was a kitten My daughter jokes she makes a better dog than the dog
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[QUOTE=Neige] but it's that or staying indoors, lol!
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I have seen cat races made of chicken wire, where cats can go outdoors under safe and contained circumstances. Extreme versions have runways between upstairs windows, across the roof etc. Vinyl floor covering makes a cheap trackway.
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10-03-2009, 07:35 PM
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That could be an option if we weren't living in an apartment right now... She went outside on her leash and harness this afternoon and she didn't mind at all! I was very happy to see how quickly she got used to it.
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Si dans les jeux d'enfants on entend encore l'accent...
Si nous sentons encore l'espoir de nos grands-parents...
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10-03-2009, 08:28 PM
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Cool..... Lucky doesn't like grass so when she does go out on leash she either cries until we carry her over the grass or she avoids it though she likes eating crab grass in a pot as a potted plant indoors
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10-03-2009, 10:03 PM
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I had one cat (Twitt (don't ask)) didn't mind the leash and harness at all. My other cat (Jessica) wouldn't walk in a harness to save her life. It's good to hear she's working out though.
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