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The rush of dread that washed
over me as I approached the pen
lasted only momentarily.
Sadness quickly replaced it I
quickly reached in and lifted out
Skunk, the big black and white
cat, which crouched there on the
straw.
But it was too late. Gus lay
limp, his soft, gray-furred body
still warm. Just as we were getting
attached to the gentle, tame “Eas
ter bunny" gift to our son, this
tragic, accidental clash of two pets
had ended his life.
I wanted to be angry with
Skunk, but knew that would be
wrong. Skunk, though he’s affec
tionate and gentle, is a farm cat
He patrols the fields and barns for
mice and rats. And cats are unable
to differentiate between tame and
wild in potential prey.
A wire run which attached to
Gus’s pen allowed us to move him
about the yard to different spots,
where he grazed on the fresh green
grass and stretched out in the sun
shine. In fact, Gus so preferred
grass that he literally turned up his
wiggly gray nose at lettuce. Skunk
had found a loose spot in the wire
and wood run and wiggled
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While’ Gus’ stay with us was
much too short, the little rabbit
carved a niche in the comers of
our hearts where we keep warm
memories of pets that we’ve
known and loved and lost
Looking back over the years,
we’ve loved quite a few pets of
varying sorts.
Princess and Dusty always
come to mind. This loveable
mother-and-daughter pair of collie
dogs saw our babies into toddler
hood, and helped me bid our old
est farewell the first day she
stepped on the school bus. Not too
long after that. Princess was killed
when a car hit her.
Her daughter went into mourn
ing in the springhouse, absolutely
refused to eat or drink for several
weeks, and died of obvious
heartbreak.
That was a tough one for the
kids to understand. It wasn’t a
whole lot easier for the grownups,
either.
An accident similar to that of
Gus’ also took away Ali, our
daughter’s beloved and incredibly
tame guinea pig. Ali (short for
Alabama, which was her name
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when she was given to us) loved to
roam the yard, running for cover if
any danger threatened. Our cats
and dogs knew her and let her
alone. But a friend’s dog, a dog
I accustomed to hunting ground-
I hogs, never knew the difference
I when he hopped from her car one
II day and AU happened to be out
I nibbling grass. No one felt worse
| about it than my good friend; but it
was just an accident.
Lamb Chop was a - what else? -
II sheep which we bottle raised for a
I neighbor, a triplet barely alive
when she arrived in our kitchen.
Prayers and warm milk brought
liter through the crisis, and she
grew into a great pet of the kids. A
year later she had Scooter, a ram
bunctious youngster which even
tually joined Grandpa’s little flock
of meadow-munchers when he
took to ramming the kids. Lamp
Chop fell prey to one of the mys
terious maladies that sometimes
affect sheep - and we were out of
the shepherd business.
The teenage girl “horse” period
we went through with our daught
er brought us two equine “temps”
one winter. A program in which
summer camp trailride horses
were farmed out to willing boar
ders through the off-season
brought us Gaucho and his buddy
whose name eludes me.
Gaucho I remember because he
instinctively knew a non-horse
person and inevitably found some
way to wrap me around a fencep
ost. While our daughter missed
them, this Mom had no regrets at
sending them back to camp.
The “temps” were replaced
with Jubee, an ex-barrel-racing
mare that thrived on competing
with the three-wheeler on runs
through the hayfield. Jubee was
tearfully sold when her owner
needed college money; and we
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were also out of the horse
business.
But we remain in the cow, cat,
and dog business and will no
doubt continue to love pets,
despite the hurt when we lose one.
After all, ‘Tis better to have loved
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