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Pastimes : Where the GIT's are going
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To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (184139)10/3/2009 3:50:36 PM
From: Naomi  Read Replies (3) of 225578
 
My poor Mom really had her work cut out for her with me. If an animal was loose on the street when I came home from school, it came home with me collar or not... She spent so much time trying to find out whom these pets belonged to. If she couldn't she would take them down to a big grocery store and leave outside their produce department knowing they would be fed something. If the cat or dog found its way back to our home, she would let me keep it and she said it deserved to have a home.

She also fed many hobos that would knock on our door and ask for something to eat around dinner time and she would fix a plate for them and let them sit on the doorstep to eat. I later read they leave a mark on houses where they are accepted and told her. She went out and sure enough our house had been marked. She scrubbed it off, but they still came, sometimes the same ones. She was a perfect role model for me and after twelve years I still miss her and have thoughts of her every day.

The funniest story of bring home an animal came from my MIL who told me her second son brought home a full grown horse and tied it to a tree in the back yard, came in and said, "Mom, Look what I found". A horse had gotten loose from a pasture near them and my MIL was not too happy to look out her window and see that big object in her backyard. Made him go back, ask around whose it was then take back and tell them he was sorry for taking their horse without permission.... He never lived down that horse story down in the family.
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