And in Other News
One of the outdoor kitties, S'mores, got into a fight with his brother last Friday and got a nasty bite wound to the chest that needed a trip to the vet, stitches, a drain, an injection of antibiotic, and a "buster collar" to keep him from pulling out said stitches. Needless to say he has been an indoor kitty for almost a week now, and once he recovers, I'll be looking for a new home for him where he can live indoors away from his brother. The two of them just don't seem to be able to share the outside territory without constant spats. And while S'mores may start the fights, he doesn't seem to win them. Or learn from the experience. Brother Sable got some scrapes, but he definitely came out ahead of S'mores. -__- What is weird is that he's getting along OK with my cats, it just seems he can't stand his brother. It figures. So... anybody want a gorgeous snowshoe cat with a lovely people-oriented personality? :) click for kitty-pic
And in other news, I got home tired, laid down for a nap, and was awakened by my across the street neighbor ringing the doorbell. I opened the door and saw a whole bunch of police cars clustered around my next-door neighbor's house. What the heck? It turns out a pair of young men were fleeing from the city police, at speeds around 100 mph (according to the policeman who filled us in), tried to turn the corner onto our street and didn't quite make it. He sailed over my neighbor's lawn, through/under the chain-link fence, and crashed into their garage. Just like something out of a movie. If you look at the photos below, you can see a taillight shining in the garage. Unfortunately he did not drive in the entrance of the garage, but made a new one through the garage wall. My neighbors are fortunate that the idiots didn't end up in their living room or in their backyard pool. And the garage didn't collapse on them. Amazingly enough the two men inside walked/limped away from the crash, to be collected by the police a few minutes later. I'm not sure what exactly they had done to be trying to flee from the cops through a residential area at such high speeds, but I doubt it was anything intelligent.
The view from my front door. As you can see, the front yards are not terribly big, so the guys in the car cut the corner badly and pretty much flew into the neighbor's garage. They are lucky to be alive. At least we ended up having a nice neighborhood get-together with everyone, hanging out, watching, and chatting for about an hour.
It's been an interesting week. :)
And in other news, I got home tired, laid down for a nap, and was awakened by my across the street neighbor ringing the doorbell. I opened the door and saw a whole bunch of police cars clustered around my next-door neighbor's house. What the heck? It turns out a pair of young men were fleeing from the city police, at speeds around 100 mph (according to the policeman who filled us in), tried to turn the corner onto our street and didn't quite make it. He sailed over my neighbor's lawn, through/under the chain-link fence, and crashed into their garage. Just like something out of a movie. If you look at the photos below, you can see a taillight shining in the garage. Unfortunately he did not drive in the entrance of the garage, but made a new one through the garage wall. My neighbors are fortunate that the idiots didn't end up in their living room or in their backyard pool. And the garage didn't collapse on them. Amazingly enough the two men inside walked/limped away from the crash, to be collected by the police a few minutes later. I'm not sure what exactly they had done to be trying to flee from the cops through a residential area at such high speeds, but I doubt it was anything intelligent.
The view from my front door. As you can see, the front yards are not terribly big, so the guys in the car cut the corner badly and pretty much flew into the neighbor's garage. They are lucky to be alive. At least we ended up having a nice neighborhood get-together with everyone, hanging out, watching, and chatting for about an hour.
It's been an interesting week. :)