Corky

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They brought with them two beautiful white fluffy purrbies and a Dalmatian fur kid. The purrbies were given (from Mr. Newbie's boss and his wife, who really didn't want to let the purrbies go) to the Newbies just before they moved with the firm understanding that the purrbies would be indoor only and there would be no fur kids.</div> <bR> <div>      On their first night in the neighborhood, the Newbies let both purrbies outdoors and immediately they took off! The Newbies were frantic - methinks not so much that the purrbies were gone, but because their lies were about to be exposed. </div> <bR> <div>      Yep, (very wicked grin) they were busted -big time! Mr. Boss utilized his company's standing to put out a major media campaign to find these purrbies. </div> <bR> <div>      Winter came and drifted into Spring. Thoughts of the lost purrbies faded. In mid-April 1990, I was working in the yard and heard a soft mew. I didn't pay any attention to it, other than to register the sound and kept working. Mew ... mew ... mew ... mew! </div> <bR> <div>      Okay, you've got my attention purrbie, where you at? Mew ... Mew as a white fluffy purrbie steps out of the woods. Well! Look at you, you pretty thing! You could almost hear my brain ticking through its memory file - OMG! Is this one of the lost babies?! </div> <bR> <div>      I sat down on the ground and called the purrbie. He came right to me and started to climb in my lap! Oh yeah, this is one of them. What a lover he was! Purring and rubbing and curling in my lap, doing corkscrews! No <I>wonder</I> your mama wants you back! Oh boy... this was gonna be tough, I was already falling in love with this sweetie! This one was a keeper.</div> <bR> <div>      I called Mr. Boss and told him I thought I might have found his purrbie, but on the slim chance that it wasn't really (oh I was hoping!) I was going to adopt him. Having experienced many false sightings with this purrbie, Mr. Boss wasn't as excited as I expected and said he couldn't come by to check until the following morning. I had to go to work so I left the purrbie in a partially covered crate in the courtyard, in the shade, with food and water. I left a note on the crate to <I><B>Please</B></I> leave the purrbie if it was not his missing one. </div> <bR> <div>      Well, of course when I pulled into the yard that afternoon, the crate was empty with a huge "Thank You!" written across the face of my note. :::Sigh::: I was delighted the purrbie had finally made it Home, but ... I was gonna miss this sweetie something fierce! </div> <bR> <div>      A few days later Mr. Boss comes to visit and thank me personally for finding his purrbie. Methinks Mr. Boss was in serious deep snow with Mrs. Boss and the finding of one of the purrbies only got him half way out of the hole! (g) </div> <bR> <div>      During the conversation, he mentioned a woman in another town who was fostering a feral mama purrbie who'd just had a litter of kittens... </div> <bR> <div>      We had not planned on adopting any more purrbies. Daisy and Patches had finally worked out their differences and we were not looking to upset the serenity with a newbie. Before I realized what I was doing, I was on the phone with this woman talking about the litter and setting up an appointment to "just come and look". ...Yeah, right. ;D </div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="32d2c100.gif" border=0 width="300" height="16" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="2" WIDTH="617" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 274 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="14613080.jpg" border=0 width="275" height="264" ALT="Corky ~ May 1990" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="315"><div>  </div> <div>      The moment I laid eyes on the litter, this little one caught my eye and I couldn't let her go.</div> <bR> <div>      She got her name because she was always "corking off"!</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> These baby pictures were taken May 1990, she was seven weeks old.</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="2" WIDTH="585" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 185 WIDTH="308"><div>  </div> <div>  </div> <bR> <div> The only time I could get pictures of her was when she was sleeping! If she was awake, she was moving!</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="147f5b00.jpg" border=0 width="245" height="176" ALT="Corky ~ May 1990" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <IMG SRC="32d2c100.gif" border=0 width="300" height="16" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="2" WIDTH="388" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 178 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1485ea90.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="169" ALT="Corky ~ May 1991" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 43 ><NOBR><div> Doin' what she does best - relaxing!<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#336633" FACE="Trebuchet MS" > </FONT>;)<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#336633" FACE="Trebuchet MS" > </FONT></div> <div> May 1991 ~ One Year at The Realm</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="2" WIDTH="589" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 258 WIDTH="581"><div> <IMG SRC="14937e60.jpg" border=0 width="311" height="230" ALT="Corky ~ July 1991" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> July 1991</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 46 WIDTH="581"><div>      The Corkster really gets into loving! And just <I>look </I>at how big she's gotten! Those are the same eye glasses in the kitten image above.<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#336633" FACE="Trebuchet MS" > </FONT></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="2" WIDTH="371" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 212 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="14a5ecc0.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="204" ALT="Corky" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 254 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="14b5ef60.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="246" ALT="Corky" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="2" WIDTH="357" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 208 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="14d2cc80.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="200" ALT="Corky" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="2" WIDTH="202" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#111111 HEIGHT= 192 ><NOBR><div>  </div> <div> <IMG SRC="122bafaf0.jpg" border=0 width="175" height="175" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="5e2c8670.jpg" border=0 width="200" height="103" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> Visit Corky's Page at</div> <div> <A HREF="http://catster.com/pet_page.php?i=187394&j=t" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://catster.com/pet_page.php?i=187394"><U><IMG SRC="d05783c0.jpg" border=0 width="120" height="60" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> </td> </tr></table></body>