Help Wanted!
By DianneN
@DianneN (247186)
United States
September 24, 2019 9:01am CST
Hi everyone! I need help finding time to be here. I try at times, but something always comes up to take me away from myLot.
Besides making the most of our beautiful weather, I have been ultra busy with friends morning, noon, and night, exercise, sports, family, beauty treatments, and of course Doodles the cat.
He’s staring at me right now wanting to go out again. He has been averaging catching one chipmunk a day! It breaks my heart, but Doodles is so proud. I want him to be happy for the time he has left with us.
My beauty doctor told me to take the day off from exercise except for walking. Therefore, I plan on working on all my many notifications that have piled up in my absence. Please bear with me. It feels good to be back!
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@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
24 Sep 19
Actually, the lowered ears and eyelids are saying: "Look, I know that you don't really like it but this is what cats do and this is how I show you that you are my human. Here's a chipmunk I caught for you. It's all I got. Take it or leave it."
Bear with you? I see no bears! It looks owl good to me!
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@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
24 Sep 19
@DianneN Does he actually give it into your hand? Most cats deposit their presents at one's feet and then back off and sit until you take it (classic present-giving behaviour common to most animals, including humans - only we tend to wrap ours!).
I bet Doodles would love you to think that he's brave enough to tackle a bear or an owl but I would hope that he has a little sense and wouldn't try to tangle with a bear.(or an owl) if he could possibly help it. Most cats are very wary of birds as large or larger than themselves unless they can see a clear advantage. It's the claw in the face that upsets them, I think. I have seen otherwise brave cats slink away from encounters with chickens!
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@DianneN (247186)
• United States
24 Sep 19
@owlwings Oh, yuck! No, he either tries to bring it into the house or drops it at my feet.
Since we are outside with him at all times, he won’t get a chance to get a bear. There are owls and hawks, but I’ve hovered around him and told him - Big, bad birds! He knows to return to the house. He has outwitted little birds by hiding under a bush when they came to eat the berries that fell off a tree. We dug up the bush and threw it out.
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@LeaPea2417 (37357)
• Toccoa, Georgia
24 Sep 19
Glad to see you back, Doodles looks so satisfied in that photo
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@ElusiveButterfly (45940)
• United States
24 Sep 19
My cats chased chipmunks and I would try to save the poor little things. Now if they did as well with mice as they did with chipmunks I would have been happy!
Summer is slipping away and we need to enjoy what little we have left of it. I have Lyme and can't be in the sun because of the medicine I am on. Dang.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45940)
• United States
27 Sep 19
@DianneN I have a feeling that we will be hammered with mice this season. Have heard that it will be a long, snowy, cold winter. Field mice will be seeking a warm place to live.
Hope my cat will be able to keep up with it! Maybe it is time to add another cat to our home.
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@DianneN (247186)
• United States
24 Sep 19
Oh, drat! I didn’t know you have Lyme disease. One of our sisters in law was hospitalized with it for weeks. Take good care of yourself. My brother and a friend have it, too, and it can be awful.
Btw, Doodles already took care of the mice. Nary a one to be found in the yard.
Btw, Doodles already took care of the mice. Nary a one to be found in the yard.2 people like this
@DianneN (247186)
• United States
27 Sep 19
@ElusiveButterfly I heard it will be a mild winter. I guess we will just have to wait and see.
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@shaggin (72148)
• United States
24 Sep 19
The weather has been amazing here as well. Usually by this far into September it has turned very cold. With the toe surgery not heeled yet I am glad it's warm so my toes aren't freezing when I go to take the dog out. Last night was the first time it rained since I had the surgery.
Poor little Chipmunks.
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
24 Sep 19
I know you are busy and have lots to do but it is always a pleasure seeing you when you able to be here. 
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
26 Sep 19
@DianneN So nice of him to catch your supper.
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and yet he is so proud of himself 
@DocAndersen (54402)
• United States
24 Sep 19
finding time for online things is really hard.
the cat is sharing with the pack. My dad used to tell my mom, the cat brings you mice because it is pretty sure you can't hunt.
needless to say, my mother did not find that funny.
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@DocAndersen (54402)
• United States
24 Sep 19
@DianneN my mom used to glare at my dad when he said that!
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@snowy22315 (180980)
• United States
24 Sep 19
Nico would tear into that squirrel we have in the back if he had a chance...but he is going to have to watch from a distance.
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@garymarsh6 (23405)
• United Kingdom
24 Sep 19
Oh I would not worry about popping in here only do it as and when you can. Real life is probably much more exciting! Besides you should make the most of the lovely weather before all the leaves drop. OH wait you have more hot weather coming your way too! The eternal summer but still at least it gives a change of scenery! Enjoy!
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@ilocosboy (45156)
• Philippines
24 Sep 19
Well, you're here again, and by this post you are interacting again with us.
There are really times we are busy or we think too much that we skip a day here in mylot. But I know there will always a day for you to be here.
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