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Table of contents:
1: Kibble Nibble: mewsings from the food bowl
(editorial)
2: Kitten Kabootle's Kubbyhole (catly
writings)
(in loving memory of Kitten Kabootle, now living at
Rainbow
Bridge)
3: biz-catskills (home-business, motivational or
general biz
articles)
4: look what the cats dragged in (jokes, quotes,
very brief
verse)
5: from Outside the catbox (questions, comments
from readers)
6: subscription info and other strays
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1: Kibble Nibble: mewsings from the food bowl
(editorial)
Happy Autumn, Everyone! Ready Or
Not!
Though we have had some lovely warmer days in
September, Mother
Nature is preparing us for the long, ten-month winter
already.
I am grateful that it does not get as drastically cold here
as in
many other places, but that long chill to the bones is not
exactly
to my liking either. Now that our kitties can go out on
the back
porch, they may not like the long cold spells either.
However!!!
All you-know-what broke out here a few weeks
ago. Jaspur's usual
yowling and meow-offs with me became more
frantic! Gabrielle
hid, so we figured her bladder problem was back
again. Mickens,
the laid-back one, became a crazed adolescent, knocking
things
down, getting on me and getting off--not the longer stays of
which I am accustomed. Maryah's demanding meows, the really
loud
shrill ones, were becoming too frequent and sometimes even
annoying--as much
as I love the sound of meow!
What was up?
Finally we heard the scratching. We put two
and two together and
it came up with some huge number we can't even
imagine--fleas had
infested the soft fur of our sweeties!
Gabbie's vet exam showed she was just ridden with
them; totally
miserable, thus the hiding. The good news isw that her
urine is
just fine! She also lost nearly 3 pounds! Great!
the new food
is helping after all!
The day after administering the Revolution, there
was this very
noticeable quiet in our home; all four felines were once again
at
peace. So were two rather frazzled, worried humans!
No one asked to be let out back for over a week,
though the
weather was okay some of that time. I think these guys knew
from
whence the itching came. It is somewhat disappointing that what
seemed like a cool way to give them fresh air has not been
altogether
the joy it was hoped to be. Well, we'll keep our ears
and minds open
now for any further such intrusions into the lives
of our beloved feline
kids.
Gabbie is not alone in losing weight. Since
my surgery in June,
I have now lost 55 pounds! Yea!
Over half-way to the century mark! I can move
around better
already! I am not so often totally out of breath!
I can walk
further! Wow!
Once again, happy autumn; enjoy this month's
CATLINES! Please be
sure to invite your cat-loving friends to join us,
too. Thanks.
And check out those candles! They make great gifts,
great
fundraisers, and more!
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(editor's note:
Here is a special rembrance of September 11,
2001:
I was thinking today of words that I could share
about the
outrages attack on America three years ago. However, words escape
me. Below is a site that reflects my thoughts. It takes a while
to load.
Please be patient and go look...
Also, please read a letter from Lyz Glick that was
posted on MSN.
Jeremy Glick's widow writes of life with a 9/11
hero:
Through letters to her young daughter, Lyz Glick
tells of husband
Jeremy's heroic act on Flight 93, and of his life before
that
fateful day. Read an excerpt.
Updated: 12:37 p.m. ET Sept. 10, 2004
As the nation reflects on the third anniversary of
September 11,
there's one name we'll probably all remember: Jeremy Glick. He
was, of course, one of the brave passengers on United Flight 93.
After
that flight crashed in a Pennsylvania field, Jeremy was
hailed a hero. He
and fellow passengers stormed the cockpit,
throwing a wrench into the
hijackers' plan. Lyz Glick, Jeremy's
wife, wanted their 3-year-old daughter,
Emmy - and the world -
to know that his final day was only a small part of
his life's
story. With the help of journalist Dan Zegart, Lyz has written
"Your Father's Voice: Letters for Emmy About Life With Jeremy
and
Without Him After 9/11." Glick was invited to appear on
"Today" to discuss
the book. Here's an excerpt:
Dear Emmy,
I remember the morning after your father
died.
When I awoke, I was upstairs at Grandma and
Grandpa's house in
the Catskills, a big, old, white clapboard farmhouse. I
was in
the brass bed and you were in your crib, right next to me. The
first thing I saw when I opened my eyes was a pile of your
daddy's clean
clothes in a wicker basket. On the night table
were a couple of his favorite
CDs. I just started wailing. I
could hardly get my breath I was crying so
hard.
I sat up, put on my robe, trembling. The bedroom
door was closed.
I hoped I hadn't woken up the whole house. It was very
early.
Light was pouring in, the golden light of the sweetest part of
the morning.
A close friend who lost her mom and dad in
childhood had called
the day before with advice: Get up quick, she said.
Don't lie
around in bed.thinking.remembering.crying..
It was good advice and I've followed it ever since,
but I never
counted on seeing so much of your dad's stuff lying around. So I
managed to swing my feet onto the flood and wobble over to the
railing
of your crib, but I just kept crying harder and harder,
because the daddy
who loved you so fiercely as any man ever
loved his tiny baby girl, was gone
forever.
As I looked at you there, tucked under your little
blue blanket,
a mobile of white lambs turning slowly above your head, I was
sick with anxiety, thinking you would know only a sad mother. I
didn't
want to imagine what it would be like for you to grow up
without ever
knowing your father. I felt like you'd truly lost
both your parents the day
before.
You were still tiny, just three months old. Born
prematurely, you
were small even for that age. So small! Who would protect
you?
Who would make you grin like your daddy did?
I think your daddy always suspected he had a higher
purpose. I
don't believe it was any accident that Jeremy Glick was on Flight
93, although an accident - a fire at Newark airport - put him
there,
rather than on the flight he was to have taken the day
before.
You lay on your back, eyes closed. Just then, from
the bottom of
a dream, you let out a delicate sigh, as though finishing a
thought. Your cheeks crinkled up and you smiled ever so slightly
at me.
I cannot explain it, but at that moment I felt the power
of something higher
pulling me into something bigger than my
pain. Your little shadow of a smile
just took me over - like the
sunlight from that window had gotten inside and
warmed me. Like
your father's energy was burning through the window. Your
smile
made me feel good enough to believe that maybe life could be
good
again. And then I remembered that the last time your father
spoke to me, he
said that for him to be at peace he needed us to
be joyful.
By the time you're old enough to read this,
everyone will know
the story of the men and women who tried to take back
United
Flight 93 from a gang of assassins who had already murdered
people on the airplane and were bent on using it to kill a lot
more
people on the ground. What your father did in his last
minutes of life made
him a legend. You've heard that legend.
Now I'm going to tell you your
daddy's story. I mean the whole
story of your very own father. Not just the
ending, the part
where the rest of the world found out about him. Because
the
truth is, the ending wasn't the best part or the worst part, it
was
just an ending.
I know your daddy wanted you to have his story.
Pieces of it were
scattered all over the place, as though it were inevitable
that
someday I'd go out and find them. Some were scribbled on legal
pads
in his room at home, or were tossed into the bottom drawer
of the desk he
had when he was a little boy, or were imprinted on
film at Grandma and
Grandpa's house. Some were little secrets his
friends knew about him and
never would have told me if he hadn't
died. The world is seeded with traces
of him. And in the year
since he left us, I've been piecing it together,
sometimes just
by sitting here on our front porch thinking, like I'm doing
now,
looking out over Greenwood Lake while you sleep in your crib.
And
sometimes way off in places I didn't know even existed.
Since you're still too little to understand this,
I've put these
letters into a book, like a birthday present you can't open
for a
long time. This is the master's key, a gift of meaning. Here is
your daddy's story.
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As the days rolled by after September 11th, I told
myself that
I'd done the hardest thing already: I'd said goodbye to your
father, my soulmate, the only man I've ever loved.
I'll tell you more about our last telephone
conversation later
because its meaning will change once you know the whole
story.
But I can tell you that when your father called from Flight 93
and told me it had been commandeered by some "bad men," we knew
exactly
how to speak to each other, and we kept our heads -
except for when he said,
"I don't think I'm going to get out of
this." He started sobbing so quietly
that only I, who knew him
so well, would have known he was crying. It made
me feel
terribly helpless because, except for the night you were born,
I'd never heard your father cry.
Emmy, what I need you to understand is that your
daddy and I
managed to say enough to each other in 20 minutes on the
telephone to bring our life together to an orderly conclusion.
It didn't
matter that in the few moments I had been awake I'd
learned that airplanes
were being rammed into the very center of
government in Washington and the
tallest skyscrapers in New York
in an attack orchestrated by bloody-minded
fanatics; or that four
of those men were on Flight 93 and we both suspected,
though we
would never admit it to each other, that your daddy was probably
right and would not survive.
Later, reporters asked me how we were able to help
each other so
effectively when we should have been paralyzed by fear. I told
them I didn't know, and I didn't. Maybe now I have a better idea.
I know
that the most important thing about that last telephone
call wasn't the
information I gave your father about what
happened in New York and
Washington, although your daddy needed
to know those things before he could
decide whether to try to
break into the cockpit and kill the hijackers; it
wasn't even
the few minutes we were able to spend talking about you and the
future we would never have together. It was a few words said over
and
over, like a chant we repeated until it hung like a frozen
rope between us.
We said, "I love you." We said it so many times,
I hear him saying it
still.
I think your daddy always suspected he had a higher
purpose. I
don't believe it was any accident that Jeremy Glick was on Flight
93, although an accident - a fire at Newark airport - put him
there,
rather than on the flight he was to have taken the day
before. It wasn't
mere luck that an airline passenger with
precisely the right physical skills
to abort one of the 9/11
terror missions happened to be on the only plane
hijacked that
day where there was an opportunity to do so. There were four,
five, six, maybe a dozen other passengers who fought the
terrorists on
Flight 93, and they all had plenty of nerve.
Only your father had been taught
the art of hand-to-hand combat
from boyhood. To put it crudely, he had been
trained to kill.
Emmy, your daddy was 31 when he died, had been
married to me for
just five years and knew you barely three months, yet I
consider
us blessed. He and I left nothing unsaid or undone and your
father managed to give us everything we'll need to live out the
rest of
our days.
Of course, you've got to have a little luck. That's
what Glick
means in Yiddish - luck. I should point out, however, that the
Yiddish doesn't specify what kind. But if you meet the love of
your life
in high school, like I did, you've started off on the
right
foot.
Excerpted from "Your Father's Voice: Letters for
Emmy About Life
With Jeremy and Without Him After 9/11." Copyright 2004 by
Lyz
Glick and Dan Zegart. All rights reserved. Reprinted by
permission
of St. Martin's Press.
Warmest regards,
Robert Short
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Cats wandering into prison get adopted by
inmates
Associated Press
Sept. 13, 2004 08:30
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MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. - There are some pretty tough
cats at Indiana
State Prison.
However, they've done nothing wrong. They're pets
of inmates.
"Come here, boy," inmate Jerry Grinstead cooed as
he recently
cuddled his cat Thor in his tattooed forearms. "Say, 'This is
dad's
baby.' "
The maximum security prison with its 29 cat-owning
inmates is the
only correctional facility in the state that allows these
pets,
according to the Indiana Department of Correction.
Cats were never part of the plan at the
144-year-old prison. They
simply wandered in through the north gate that once
served as the
entrance for coal trains, said Barry Nothstine,
administrative
assistant at the prison. Others came in through the maze of
sewer
pipes, he said.
No one can say when the first cat appeared in the
facility, or
when inmates began adopting the animals as pets.
"This goes back years and years," Nothstine
said.
The cats have brought advantages: Their
companionship has
encouraged many inmates to keep their behavior in line, he
said.
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ODE TO DIVOT
by Margy Ohring
Round Hill, Virginia, USA
The dusty golden orange of his fur;
the M that
marks the space between his eyes;
the thundering grumbling rumble of his
purr;
are joys to me and truly no surprise.
My lap provides a place for him to be;
his eyes,
half-closed; his ears, reposed: at rest;
his tail is still as he lies on my
knee;
and drools - it's something that he does the best.
My jeans are soaked; my stroking hand is
still;
my own eyes close: his soft warmth comforting.
His interests
change; and to the windowsill
he leaps, leaves claw-marks on my thigh - they
sting.
He watches as a bright-winged butterfly
goes
flitting, darting, dancing past his eye.
Margy Ohring
Cat Sonnet Writer
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member of the
Cat Writers' Association.
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Lauren Merryfield is the editor/publisher of
CATLINES. She and
her husband, Jim, live in Washington with their four
feline
"kids," Jaspur, Mikey, Gabrielle and Maryah. Daughter,
Lynden,
lives in Nebraska, Lauren's homeland.
Lauren has been published in several magazines and
books
including
"The Braille Monitor," "Future Reflections,"
(national
Publications) and "News From Blind Nebraskans," state
newsletter.
"Heartwarmers of Love," an anthology, contains her
story "Love
Far Beyond The Physical," concerning the marriage to her
husband
Jim.
Her story "Kabootle: Rescue Cat," was published
in
an anthology by Angel Animals, entitled "God's Messengers:
what animals
tell us about the Divine."
Her essay "My heroes three" appeared in the August,
2004 edition
of the CF Alliance Newsletter, (fibromyalgia.)
Lauren is a member of the Cat Writers'
Association:
and co-owner of
where one can join CATLINES.
She has recently opened her first
honest-to-goodness online
store, selling cat-theme jewelry items, some are
one-of-a-kind:
She is now a member of the APLB--Association For
Pet-Loss And
Bereavement, receiving a diploma in counselor training in May
of
2004.
and, Heaven forbid, says Jim, the Cat Collectors'
Club:
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3: Bizcat Skills
A Handful Of Quotes To Ponder:
If you want to increase your success rate, double
your failure
rate.
--Thomas John Watson, president of IBM
I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader
houlders.
--Jewish Proverb
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more
intelligently.
--Moshe Arens
I couldn't wait for success... so I went ahead
without it.
--Jonathan Winters
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until
you get
there.
--Josh Billings
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried
anything
new.
--Albert Einstein
"Often the difference between a successful man and
a failure is
not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one
has
to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk and to act."
--Dr.
Maxwell Maltz
"Failure is not about insecurity. It's about lack
of
execution."
--Jeffrey Gitomer
"Success is nothing more than a few simple
disciplines, practiced
every day; while failure is simply a few errors in
judgment,
repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our
disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or
failure."
--Jim Rohn
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Striking out does not equal failure
by Josh Hinds
- There's one thing that holds true no matter
what goals we hold
for ourselves. At some point we're going to be faced with
disappointing results. I could get into a whole discussion here
on the
importance that persistence will play in reaching our
goals.
Instead I'd like to give you some baseball
statistics to
illustrate my point. Baseball statistics you say? Trust me
it'll
all make sense soon enough :-).
The name's you will see listed are all in their own
right amazing
players.
What's ironic about them is that they all are in
top 10 listed
under the category of "All-Time Leaders - Strikeouts" (note:
over
time all stats can change).
Even more ironic is that had I not done the
research I never
would have known this. You see these people are not
remembered
for their failures, or how many times they happened to strikeout
are they?
People only remember their achievements. Life works
that way. So
the next time you're pondering a missed opportunity keep in
mind
that doubling your number of strikes might just lead to your
ultimate success. Now on with the list...
1. REGGIE JACKSON 2,597
2. WILLIE STARGELL
1,936
3. MIKE SCHMIDT 1,883
4. TONY PEREZ 1,867
5. DAVE KINGMAN
1,816
6. BOBBY BONDS 1,757
7. DALE MURPHY 1,748
8. LOU BROCK 1,730
9. MICKEY MANTLE 1,710
10. HARMON KILLEBREW 1,699
Pretty darn impressive wouldn't you say? The point
is persistence
pays. Of course after a list like above you don't need me to
remind you of that.
Have a fantastic day!...
--submitted by Robert Short
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Overcoming Objections
In network marketing, a "no" isn't always a
"no."
March 17, 2003
By Michael Sheffield
Q: I'm new to network marketing and like the idea
of building
residual income. But I'm getting discouraged. I think my
products and my business are the best, and I don't understand
why I run
into so many objections when I'm selling or trying to
recruit someone. What
could I be doing wrong?
A: You're dealing with the age-old sales dilemma of
overcoming
objections. Every network marketer who is successful at selling
his or her product and recruiting others quickly learns to
overcome an
objection by turning it to the customer's advantage.
The key to overcoming objections lies first in
understanding why
the prospect objects. Here are some common
objections:
The prospect wants to say yes, but has limited
funds. Basically,
she wants you to show her why she should spend her money
for this.
When it comes to recruits, watch for signs of fear.
Take steps to
reassure your prospect that she can recover the investment
quickly.
Most companies have a generous buyback policy if
people find the
business is not for them. Point out the company's buyback
policy
on resalable inventory.
The prospect doesn't understand what you're saying.
Often the
person doesn't want to appear ignorant and therefore gives a
negative response.
Never assume a prospect understands everything,
regardless of the
person's background in business. Ask your prospects
frequently if
you're explaining things clearly.
The prospect has a difficult time making decisions,
large or
small. You have to help her decide.
She's doubtful she can be successful in the
business. Reassure
her.
The objection is really a question. Your prospect
wants more
information.
Something you've said or done has offended the
prospect. There is
no obvious way to overcome this emotionally based
objection.
So how do you overcome objections? Here are four
steps:
1. Add information. Start by telling the prospect:
"I'm glad to
hear you say that. I know exactly what you mean," or "Thank you
for bringing that up; it's a good point. In fact, many people
who have
taken advantage of my company's opportunity have had
that same thought."
Then present the information that dispels
the perceived
problem.
2. Treat an objection as a question. For example,
if the
objection is one of delay, say, "Yes, I understand your point,
but the question is whether this is the right time to join my
company,
correct?" Or, if the prospect claims he can't afford it,
reply, "That's an
intelligent approach. You're wondering if you
can handle this investment
without upsetting your budget, aren't
you?"
3. Find out if the voiced objection is the only
one. Ask: "That's
a good point to consider. Your question is whether this is
the
smart thing to do right now, isn't it?" When he replies it is,
follow up with: "Well, you do like the program, don't you? If you
were
sure cost wouldn't present a problem, would there be no other
objections?"
Basically, you need to ask the prospect, "If you
could satisfy
yourself on this one point, you wouldn't have any objection to
starting immediately, would you?"
4. Use the same line of reasoning as the prospect's
objections.
Agree wholeheartedly with the prospect. For example, say: "Mr.
Prospect, you are so right! You can't keep taking on additional
obligations forever. But really, this opportunity doesn't add
obligations--it helps you remove them! Here, let me show you how
it
can."
Other Habits to Avoid
1. Try to pinpoint and understand the objection.
Many prospects
get lost when the sponsor sums up the objection too quickly
and
doesn't hear the prospect's entire objection.
2. Never interrupt, anticipating what the person is
trying to
say. You'll probably misunderstand and offend the prospect. The
person will be much more relaxed and receptive if you let him
finish the
question.
3. If possible, delay confronting a prospect's
objection until
you've completed your presentation. However, don't appear to
avoid the question entirely ("Mr. Jones, that's a good point.
I'll
answer that in just a minute, OK?"). Chances are, you'll
answer the question
in your presentation, but if the answer is
not to his satisfaction, he'll
raise the question again.
4. Don't place undue emphasis on any objection. It
may simply be
a question.
5. Never treat any objection as an unjustified
question, either
by facial, vocal or body expression.
6. When answering an objection, avoid an argument
by using such
phrases as "I suggest" and "as you know."
I hope some of these tips help you overcome
objections. Learning
to recognize the real meaning of objections is a key
factor to
success in network marketing.
--author unknown; Submitted by Sue
Devries
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long
cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is
meowing in Los
Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio
operates exactly the same way: you
send signals here,
they receive them there. The only difference is
that
there is no cat."
-- Albert Einstein, when asked to describe
radio
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After watching it a minute or two she made it out
to be a grin,
and she said to herself 'It's the Cheshire-Cat: now I shall
have
somebody to talk to.
- Lewis Carroll, "Alice in Wonderland" spoken
by Alice
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A GOOD SHORT TEST Take your time and see if you can
read each
line aloud without a mistake. The average person
can't.
This is this cat
This is is cat
This is how
cat
This is to cat
This is keep cat
This is an cat
This is old
cat
This is person cat
This is busy cat
This is for cat
This is
forty cat
This is seconds cat
Now go back and read the THIRD word in each line
from the top
down; and I betcha you can't resist passing it
on.
--submitted by Nan Hawthorne
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You know when people see a cat's litter box, they
always say,
"Oh, have you got a cat?" Just once I wanted to say, "No,
it's
for company!"
--author unknown
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Dear Mr. or Ms. Spammer:
I am the head cat here
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mail that is not very
helpful.
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NEW
HAIR GROWTH---------------I'm already a long haired cat
CARD
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BEST MORTGAGE
RATES-----------Any luxury cat condos listed?
SATISFACTION
GUARANTEED-------That's my line
FIND HOT WOMEN ONLINE---------I was fixed
years ago
QUICK AUTO LOAN APPROVAL------I don't like riding in cars
BE
ORDAINED-------------------Is the collection plate for treats?
FAST WEIGHT
LOSS--------------Low-carb mice? Ugh.
VIAGARA ON-LINE---------------Told you
I was fixed
SAVE ON MEDICATIONS-----------Who said I wanted
medications?
I'LL BE THERE IN THE A.M.-----That's my job to wake
people
LOOK 20 YEARS YOUNGER---------Cats don't get wrinkles/age
spots
MEET ME TONIGHT---------------Sorry, I'm not allowed out
INCREASE
YOUR SALARY----------What's a salary?
EARN BONUS MILES--------------Who said
I'm going anywhere?
Now that you know the "scoop", please don't send me
any more
offers. Garth
--Catticorner.com
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purr, and
like to be stroked, and spend a lot of the day motionless.
They
also have secrets they don't
necessarily share."
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