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06-29-2018, 05:43 PM
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#81
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Eustis FLORIDA
Posts: 23,829
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freighliner FS65
Engine: Cat 3126
Rated Cap: 15
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Almost ended up with a cat today apparently. Roxy came home from getting groceries and told me a guy threw a sick looking kitten out of his car at Publix and casually drove off. Thankfully someone took it home with them.
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06-29-2018, 06:17 PM
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#82
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Spring Valley AZ
Posts: 1,343
Year: 2000
Coachwork: Bluebird
Engine: 5.9 Cummins
Rated Cap: 2 elderly children, 1 cat
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A first today for Spooky. Her and I have really bonded since Mary got sick, Spooky rolled over belly up while snuggling with me and I scratched her underside. Attempting that before would have been like putting your hand in a blender.
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Don, Mary and Spooky the cat.
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04-08-2019, 05:32 PM
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#83
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Eustis FLORIDA
Posts: 23,829
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freighliner FS65
Engine: Cat 3126
Rated Cap: 15
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The cats we found a few years ago are doing well.
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04-08-2019, 05:59 PM
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#84
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Dawsonville, Ga.
Posts: 10,482
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Genesis
Chassis: International
Engine: DT466/3060
Rated Cap: 77
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Mine is still recovering from the fight abscess that exploded.
He's a completely different cat now since he got neutered at the same time. He has no energy like before, now all he does is lay on the back porch or on my bed. He's on the bed in the bottom pic because it's raining right now. I think one of my other cats did the damage and he is deathly afraid of her now.
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04-08-2019, 06:00 PM
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#85
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Eustis FLORIDA
Posts: 23,829
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freighliner FS65
Engine: Cat 3126
Rated Cap: 15
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What's that in the second pic? Looks like the cat was impaled??
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04-08-2019, 06:08 PM
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#86
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Dawsonville, Ga.
Posts: 10,482
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Genesis
Chassis: International
Engine: DT466/3060
Rated Cap: 77
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Quote:
Originally Posted by EastCoastCB
What's that in the second pic? Looks like the cat was impaled??
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Drain tube, but get this, it is one tube, with no holes other than the ends. What is it draining?
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04-08-2019, 10:14 PM
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#87
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: May 2015
Location: Oklahoma aka "God's blind spot"
Posts: 2,447
Year: 1989
Coachwork: 1853FC International/Navistar
Chassis: 35' Retired Air Force Ambulance
Engine: DT466, MT643
Rated Cap: 6 souls and a driver
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Few weeks ago, Buddy came up missing for about a half hour or so...
Found him! Ready to go
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Until I met a man with no feet
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04-08-2019, 10:31 PM
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#88
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Spring Valley AZ
Posts: 1,343
Year: 2000
Coachwork: Bluebird
Engine: 5.9 Cummins
Rated Cap: 2 elderly children, 1 cat
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Glad Buddy's back!
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Don, Mary and Spooky the cat.
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04-08-2019, 10:50 PM
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Spring Valley AZ
Posts: 1,343
Year: 2000
Coachwork: Bluebird
Engine: 5.9 Cummins
Rated Cap: 2 elderly children, 1 cat
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Long haired cats are so hard to ID their gender. Spooky is a boy, a neutered boy so it was difficult.
Spooky and I have been spending a lot of time training.
He is leash trained and wears a harness that he fetches himself from a drawer.
Understands stop, let's go this way, I can't go there, follow your leash (if he gets wound around something he can unwind), up, down etc. Very smart breed.
He has a fear of traveling so we've been driving around the block in the car often, he is getting more calm and last trip he hung out on the dashboard for most of the journey.
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Don, Mary and Spooky the cat.
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05-26-2019, 02:50 PM
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#90
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Eustis FLORIDA
Posts: 23,829
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freighliner FS65
Engine: Cat 3126
Rated Cap: 15
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Someone dumped a pitbull in our driveway early this AM.
People all act like they care about animals but very few folks really do, IMO. We've had him out on a line in the yard in the shade with a fan on.
Someone dumped a nearly identical female a block away two days ago.
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05-26-2019, 04:00 PM
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#91
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Nov 2018
Location: south east BC, close to the Canadian/US border
Posts: 2,265
Year: 1975
Coachwork: Chevy
Chassis: 8 window
Engine: 454 LS7
Rated Cap: 24,500
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Quote:
Originally Posted by EastCoastCB
Someone dumped a pitbull in our driveway early this AM.
People all act like they care about animals but very few folks really do, IMO. We've had him out on a line in the yard in the shade with a fan on.
Someone dumped a nearly identical female a block away two days ago.
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I work with last chance dogs - if we can't fix them, then the likely hood is they will be euthanised - it isn't cheap to provide behavior therapy even though most of our helpers are volunteers - we still have to provide board and room for the volunteers, maintain a secure kennel, buy gas for the quad or snowmobile we use to exercise the dogs, repairs, etc, etc, the list of expenses goes on and on - people have brought dogs to us for help, telling us they love their dog so much, yadda yadda, yadda, make a deposit, then we never hear from them again - right now we have 8 or 9 dogs here receiving therapy that have no sponsor - we provide behavior therapy for shelters and rescues at less than our cost as a way of contributing to them for the good work they do - shelters aren't too bad at keeping up with their payments, but I think more rescues disappear than pay their bills - we have months where I have to scratch to pay the light bill, while there is enough past due on my books to pay cash for a couple of brand new big doolies with all the bells and whistles - collection agencies don't want to touch a collection for people that refuse to even pay for their dog's life saving training
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05-26-2019, 04:05 PM
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#92
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Dawsonville, Ga.
Posts: 10,482
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Genesis
Chassis: International
Engine: DT466/3060
Rated Cap: 77
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I keep making my cats come on board when I'm working to get them used to being in and around the bus. Those who like it get to travel.
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05-26-2019, 04:53 PM
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#93
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: E Central Tejas
Posts: 2,089
Year: 1998
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: IH 3800, 8 window
Engine: T444E w/ Spicer 5-speed MT
Rated Cap: I prefer broad-brims hats
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Ginger Toms are amongst the coolest of cats!
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Originally Posted by 2kool4skool
Long haired cats are so hard to ID their gender. Spooky is a boy, a neutered boy so it was difficult.
Spooky and I have been spending a lot of time training.
He is leash trained and wears a harness that he fetches himself from a drawer.
Understands stop, let's go this way, I can't go there, follow your leash (if he gets wound around something he can unwind), up, down etc. Very smart breed.
He has a fear of traveling so we've been driving around the block in the car often, he is getting more calm and last trip he hung out on the dashboard for most of the journey.
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05-26-2019, 05:26 PM
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#94
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Bus Geek
Join Date: May 2016
Location: Eastern WA
Posts: 6,404
Year: 2002
Coachwork: Bluebird
Chassis: All American RE (A3RE)
Engine: Cummins ISC (8.3)
Rated Cap: 72
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Quote:
Originally Posted by EastCoastCB
Someone dumped a pitbull in our driveway early this AM.
People all act like they care about animals but very few folks really do, IMO. We've had him out on a line in the yard in the shade with a fan on.
Someone dumped a nearly identical female a block away two days ago.
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Adopt the Pit Bull and tie its former owner up in the yard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Some people can be such a waste of oxygen!
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05-26-2019, 06:34 PM
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#95
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: E Central Tejas
Posts: 2,089
Year: 1998
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: IH 3800, 8 window
Engine: T444E w/ Spicer 5-speed MT
Rated Cap: I prefer broad-brims hats
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Agreed! And on a really short chain!
Quote:
Originally Posted by PNW_Steve
Adopt the Pit Bull and tie its former owner up in the yard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Some people can be such a waste of oxygen!
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And real estate.
Unless they're six feet below grade...
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05-26-2019, 06:36 PM
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#96
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Dawsonville, Ga.
Posts: 10,482
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Genesis
Chassis: International
Engine: DT466/3060
Rated Cap: 77
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This guy is pretty cool with the bus so far.
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05-26-2019, 06:41 PM
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#97
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: E Central Tejas
Posts: 2,089
Year: 1998
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: IH 3800, 8 window
Engine: T444E w/ Spicer 5-speed MT
Rated Cap: I prefer broad-brims hats
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I've been owned by a couple Tuxedo gatos, both were kewl kats, but even cat-haters thought my Sasquatch was awesome!
Quote:
Originally Posted by o1marc
This guy is pretty cool with the bus so far.
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Is he part Manx or Maine Coon, or victim of an unfortunate bris..?
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05-26-2019, 07:16 PM
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#98
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Dawsonville, Ga.
Posts: 10,482
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Genesis
Chassis: International
Engine: DT466/3060
Rated Cap: 77
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Quote:
Originally Posted by haz.matt.1960
I've been owned by a couple Tuxedo gatos, both were kewl kats, but even cat-haters thought my Sasquatch was awesome!
Is he part Manx or Maine Coon, or victim of an unfortunate bris..?
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His name is Crook, broken tail healed before birth. It'stubby too.
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05-26-2019, 07:23 PM
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#99
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Dawsonville, Ga.
Posts: 10,482
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Genesis
Chassis: International
Engine: DT466/3060
Rated Cap: 77
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Quote:
Originally Posted by o1marc
His name is Crook, broken tail healed before birth. It'stubby too.
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What I learned from this cat and I never noticed on my other black cat is they are not Black at all, when the sun hits them at just the right angle you see their fur is very brown.
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05-26-2019, 07:34 PM
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#100
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: E Central Tejas
Posts: 2,089
Year: 1998
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: IH 3800, 8 window
Engine: T444E w/ Spicer 5-speed MT
Rated Cap: I prefer broad-brims hats
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Yup, Sasquatch's (who I midwifed into this world) mother, Hot Black Desiato (review Douglas Adam's 4-book trilogy if not getting the reference) had an umber underhue to her solid black pelt.
Sas, on the other hand, was polished ebony in direct sunlight, 'cept where he was white...
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