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Tank's tale: From life on the streets to cat show winner
OregonLive.com ^
| February 08, 2012
| Monique Balas
Posted on 02/11/2012 1:25:37 PM PST by Daffynition
This cat's tale is somewhat of a "Cinderella story."
Six months ago, The Oregon Cat Project got a call about a feral cat at an area vet hospital. He wasn't much to look at - thin and dirty, covered in scabs. He seemed to be about five or six years old, and his ear was cropped the trademark of a trap-neuter-return cat.
After his arrival at The Oregon Cat Project, it was hard to tell Tank's true personality, since he was in "shut-down mode."
But the organization, which works with feral cats, continued to care for him, and Tank came out of his shell. He seemed to relish his new human friends, often standing on his hind legs to "head-bump" volunteers.
The organization recognized Tank's transformation and chose him as an entrant for the CFA's Oregon Cats Classic's Household Cat Division.
(Excerpt) Read more at oregonlive.com ...
TOPICS: Pets/Animals; Society
KEYWORDS: kittyping
To: Daffynition
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posted on
02/11/2012 1:30:03 PM PST
by
ElayneJ
To: Slings and Arrows
Hope Tank finds a forever home.:)
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posted on
02/11/2012 1:32:39 PM PST
by
Daffynition
(Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
To: Daffynition
Gorgeous baby! And I love his name.
To: Daffynition
To: Daffynition
Looks almost like our Princess Penny Too-Fat,or,as we like to refer to her as around these parts, She Who Must Be Obeyed LOL...Very handsome fella!
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posted on
02/11/2012 2:39:32 PM PST
by
gimme1ibertee
("Criticism......brings attention to an unhealthy state of things"-Winston Churchill)
To: Daffynition
What a sweet story. He looks like my old cat Normy, but I must say this fellow’s even handsomer.
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posted on
02/11/2012 2:55:18 PM PST
by
jocon307
To: gimme1ibertee; BootsOfEscaping
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posted on
02/11/2012 3:30:28 PM PST
by
Daffynition
(Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
To: Daffynition
Loki was thrown out of a car into the ditch.
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posted on
02/11/2012 3:56:46 PM PST
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
To: Daffynition
“God made the cat that we might caress the tiger’’.
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posted on
02/11/2012 5:34:01 PM PST
by
jmacusa
(Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
To: Daffynition; Slings and Arrows; Glenn; republicangel; Beaker; BADROTOFINGER; etabeta; ...
Bonus ping: Very cool lolcat
here. (Thanks Lauren BaRecall!)
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posted on
02/11/2012 8:01:53 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Daffynition
God bless Tank and whoever adopts him and loves him the rest of his life.
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posted on
02/11/2012 10:55:57 PM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: Slings and Arrows; Daffynition; All
A very heartwarming rags to riches story. I followed the links, and didn’t see him on the list of cats up for adoption. He may have found a home as a result of this article. I hope so! =^..^=
To: Lauren BaRecall
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posted on
02/11/2012 11:28:12 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Daffynition
Big-time AWWWWW
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posted on
02/12/2012 10:33:43 AM PST
by
gimme1ibertee
("Criticism......brings attention to an unhealthy state of things"-Winston Churchill)
To: jmacusa
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posted on
02/16/2012 8:49:29 PM PST
by
Big Horn
(Rebuild the GOP to a conservative party)
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