Thread: Sittin' Home with a Bowl of Shrimp...

"Wayne Boatwright" wrote

> We prefer staying home, just the two of us and our five kitties, on
> New Year's Eve. We almost always do this, although we sometimes go
> out for an early dinner.

Don and I stay home that night with Charlotte. We don't do much special
though other than watch TV together.

> Me, I could sit all night peeling and eating shrimp, and cutting up a
> few for the kits. :-)

Save the uncooked heads for them and they will love you even more! (they
don't mind too much if you partly spoil the heads by steaming first).

On Wed 29 Dec 2010 07:43:28p, cshenk told us...

> "Wayne Boatwright" wrote
>
>> We prefer staying home, just the two of us and our five kitties,
>> on New Year's Eve. We almost always do this, although we
>> sometimes go out for an early dinner.
>
> Don and I stay home that night with Charlotte. We don't do much
> special though other than watch TV together.
>
>> Me, I could sit all night peeling and eating shrimp, and cutting
>> up a few for the kits. :-)
>
> Save the uncooked heads for them and they will love you even more!
> (they don't mind too much if you partly spoil the heads by
> steaming first).
>
>

Thanks, Carol. That's a great idea!

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"Wayne Boatwright" wrote
> cshenk told us...

>>> Me, I could sit all night peeling and eating shrimp, and cutting
>>> up a few for the kits. :-)

>> Save the uncooked heads for them and they will love you even more!
>> (they don't mind too much if you partly spoil the heads by
>> steaming first).

> Thanks, Carol. That's a great idea!

Then stand back to laugh your ass off when they get into 'kitty soccerball'
with them! First they nibble all the best parts, then let the fray begin!

On Wed 29 Dec 2010 08:17:43p, cshenk told us...

> "Wayne Boatwright" wrote
>> cshenk told us...
>
>>>> Me, I could sit all night peeling and eating shrimp, and
>>>> cutting up a few for the kits. :-)
>
>>> Save the uncooked heads for them and they will love you even
>>> more!
>>> (they don't mind too much if you partly spoil the heads by
>>> steaming first).
>
>> Thanks, Carol. That's a great idea!
>
> Then stand back to laugh your ass off when they get into 'kitty
> soccerball' with them! First they nibble all the best parts, then
> let the fray begin!

Sounds like fun! All but one will play. Our oldest is just turning
19 and pretty much keeps to herself, but she'll love having some
shrimp.

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On 12/29/2010 8:12 PM, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> We prefer staying home, just the two of us and our five kitties, on
> New Year's Eve. We almost always do this, although we sometimes go
> out for an early dinner.

(snip)

Spouse and I nearly always stay home for NYE, too! It's just so not
worth getting out on any roadways to go anywhere when there are idiotic
drivers on the loose, particularly when/if they've imbibed too much and
have chosen to drive when they shouldn't!

However, Spouse and I sometimes (not always) just might 'hoof it' over
to a local pub/dive that's within easy walking distance, and that 'easy'
part is "iffy" should the weather be truly inclement! But, since
there's a lot of frozen precipitation (sn*w!!!) on the ground at the
present time (which hopefully might be mostly gone by NYE ??), it's not
definite if we'll indulge in a NYE's night-out for a night-cap to
celebrate the end of this year and welcome the upcoming new year!

Dang - it's hard to believe it's already nearly 2011, isn't it!!! <G>
Where'd the time fly?! 8>

Sky

P.S. It'll be interesting how much hype will be made when it regards
the arrival of December 21, 2012!!! ;> Akin to all that Y2K fuss????

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On Thu 30 Dec 2010 12:25:52a, Sky told us...

> On 12/29/2010 8:12 PM, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>> We prefer staying home, just the two of us and our five kitties,
>> on New Year's Eve. We almost always do this, although we
>> sometimes go out for an early dinner.
>
> (snip)
>
> Spouse and I nearly always stay home for NYE, too! It's just so
> not worth getting out on any roadways to go anywhere when there
> are idiotic drivers on the loose, particularly when/if they've
> imbibed too much and have chosen to drive when they shouldn't!

That's one of our main reasons for staying home.

> However, Spouse and I sometimes (not always) just might 'hoof it'
> over to a local pub/dive that's within easy walking distance, and
> that 'easy' part is "iffy" should the weather be truly inclement!
> But, since there's a lot of frozen precipitation (sn*w!!!) on the
> ground at the present time (which hopefully might be mostly gone
> by NYE ??), it's not definite if we'll indulge in a NYE's
> night-out for a night-cap to celebrate the end of this year and
> welcome the upcoming new year!

That's why we make it an *early* dinner out if we choose to go.
While we're out and then getting home, most of the drunks either
haven't yet started drinking or are still drinking and not yet out on
the roads. There's no restaurant close enough for us to walk to.

> Dang - it's hard to believe it's already nearly 2011, isn't it!!!
> <G> Where'd the time fly?! 8>
>
> Sky
>
> P.S. It'll be interesting how much hype will be made when it
> regards the arrival of December 21, 2012!!! ;> Akin to all that
> Y2K fuss????

Probably nothing. When computer-based hardware and software were
first developed, there was no thought given to dates beyond the turn
of the century (2000). In the several major Y2K projects I was
involved in, remediation of software and firmware code provided date
computation well into the 21st century, if not beyond...well beyond
just a bit more than a decade. There really isn't a magic number, as
there was in the past.

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On 12/29/2010 9:43 PM, cshenk wrote:
> "Wayne Boatwright" wrote
>
>> We prefer staying home, just the two of us and our five kitties, on
>> New Year's Eve. We almost always do this, although we sometimes go
>> out for an early dinner.
>
> Don and I stay home that night with Charlotte. We don't do much special
> though other than watch TV together.
>
>> Me, I could sit all night peeling and eating shrimp, and cutting up a
>> few for the kits. :-)
>
> Save the uncooked heads for them and they will love you even more! (they
> don't mind too much if you partly spoil the heads by steaming first).
>

That sounds great!

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On 12/30/2010 8:05 AM, ABNER.STERLING wrote:
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You first.

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> On 12/30/2010 8:05 AM, ABNER.STERLING wrote:
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In article <[email protected]>,
Sky <[email protected]> wrote:

> P.S. It'll be interesting how much hype will be made when it regards
> the arrival of December 21, 2012!!! ;> Akin to all that Y2K fuss????

I think they simply ran out of room on the stone... <g>
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> On 12/30/2010 8:05 AM, ABNER.STERLING wrote:
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I finally created a special filter to block this dip****!
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Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>
> Me, I could sit all night peeling and eating shrimp, and cutting up a
> few for the kits. :-)

My cats always threw up any shrimp they were given.
They loved to eat them, but I learned that seafood
of any kind is not really good cat food. Once,
I worked in an office in which my boss was telling
me about the woes of his wife's cat, who couldn't
keep down any tuna following a serious operation.
I told him tuna is one of the worst foods you can
feed to a sick cat. Best is lamb, followed by
turkey. There was a deli nearby, and I suggested
simple baked turkey, with no BBQ sauce or anything.

He went over there, bought the turkey, and later
told me it was like a miracle. The cat was able
to keep down the turkey. Unfortunately, the cat
did ultimately die of its illness.

The operation was a declawing operation. Apparently,
the problem was an overdose of the anaesthetic.
I can't imagine declawing a cat myself. If you
feel that a cat should be declawed, you shouldn't
own cats.

On 12/31/2010 6:27 PM, Mark Thorson wrote:

> He went over there, bought the turkey, and later
> told me it was like a miracle. The cat was able
> to keep down the turkey. Unfortunately, the cat
> did ultimately die of its illness.
>
Sorry to hear that. Turkey can keep a cat eating at least something and
it isn't unhealthy. Actually, not eating anything is unhealthy so
getting anything in is good.

> The operation was a declawing operation. Apparently,
> the problem was an overdose of the anaesthetic.
> I can't imagine declawing a cat myself. If you
> feel that a cat should be declawed, you shouldn't
> own cats.

Exactly.

Mark Thorson <[email protected]> wrote:

>My cats always threw up any shrimp they were given.
>They loved to eat them, but I learned that seafood
>of any kind is not really good cat food. Once,
>I worked in an office in which my boss was telling
>me about the woes of his wife's cat, who couldn't
>keep down any tuna following a serious operation.
>I told him tuna is one of the worst foods you can
>feed to a sick cat. Best is lamb, followed by
>turkey. There was a deli nearby, and I suggested
>simple baked turkey, with no BBQ sauce or anything.
>
>He went over there, bought the turkey, and later
>told me it was like a miracle. The cat was able
>to keep down the turkey. Unfortunately, the cat
>did ultimately die of its illness.

I hope these people get blacklisted by the cat adoption
agencies.

Steve

"Steve Pope" wrote
> Mark Thorson wrote:

>>told me it was like a miracle. The cat was able
>>to keep down the turkey. Unfortunately, the cat
>>did ultimately die of its illness.

> I hope these people get blacklisted by the cat adoption
> agencies.

Probably won't be Steve. Too many unwanted kitties. They do 'frown
heavily' on declawing, and locally they pretty much show the declawing
community only the ones already declawed.

Me, I'd never do it but then, I've never found it hard to teach a cat to be
polite with their claws either and I work mostly with older feral rescues.
Usually when you have difficult clawing issues, it's the kitten taken from
Mom too young in a 'kitten farm' type place or the dumb owner who doesnt
want to spay 'Pookie' so keeps offering up kittens early.

On 12/31/10 4:53 PM, cshenk wrote:

>
> Probably won't be Steve. Too many unwanted kitties.

Our city Humane Society put down 2500+ cats this year. That isn't
counting the county people, or all the little towns. I feel like singing
"Spay and Neuter" to the tune of "Duck....and Cover".

"Cheryl" wrote
> Mark Thorson wrote:

>> He went over there, bought the turkey, and later
>> told me it was like a miracle. The cat was able
>> to keep down the turkey. Unfortunately, the cat
>> did ultimately die of its illness.

> Sorry to hear that. Turkey can keep a cat eating at least something and
> it isn't unhealthy. Actually, not eating anything is unhealthy so getting
> anything in is good.

Yup. BTW, nothing wrong with feeding a cat a little shrimp. It's just not
good to make any type of seafood their mainstay. General rule of thumb is
no more than 30% should be seafood based. In my case I never use tuna but
then oddly, I've never had a cat that will eat the kitty canned tuna
versions.