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12-23-2003, 10:08 AM
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When good pets go bad (or hungry)
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The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES --
A group of hungry cats began to eat their 86-year-old owner after she suffered an apparent stroke and couldn't get up for nearly a week, officials said Thursday.
Mae Lowrie, who lives with seven cats, was discovered unconscious and riddled with bite marks Wednesday night at her Panorama City apartment, Fire Department and hospital officials said.
She was listed in fair condition at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, said hospital spokeswoman Lisa Kort.
"The cats were trying to survive in the conditions that they were in, faced with the outcome they had. They did what they had to do to survive," animal control Officer Ernesto Poblano told KABC-TV. "The cats were all emaciated, very, very emaciated."
Lowrie may have suffered a stroke, said Jim Wells, spokesman for the Los Angeles Fire Department.
The woman's apartment manager alerted authorities after neighbors realized they hadn't seen Lowrie in several days.
Wells said Lowrie, who was believed to have been stricken about a week before she was found, was also dehydrated.
The cats, apparently without food for that time, also tried to eat Lowrie's small dog, said Jackie David, a spokeswoman for the city Animal Services Department. The terrier showed signs of hypothermic shock, severe dehydration, respiratory illness and was later euthanized, she said. One of the cats, a kitten, was found dead.
| hmm...that would suck. Too bad for the dog.
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12-23-2003, 03:11 PM
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Wow, what's a woman of that age doing with SEVEN cats and a small dog?
Man, that really DOES suck!
I hope I don't wake up one day and one of my cats is gnawing on my arm or something...
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12-23-2003, 09:09 PM
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Its obvious---her pets were pretty much her only "friends" or this wouldnt have happened---unfortunately she layed there for "several days"...
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12-23-2003, 11:10 PM
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It looked like a job for Super Gerbil, but it really wasn't. I am not good with cats.
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12-24-2003, 06:05 AM
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Why, oh why, don't we revere and respect older people any more ? This sad old lady has not been visited for a week ! no wonder she had so many pets.
I live between two seniors 88 & 84. One escaped Hitler in 38 (she is Jewish) and the other rode a self propelled gun(kinda like a tank but no turret and a bigger gun) in to normandy just after d-day. Their stories are fasinating.
GO VISIT A SENIOR TODAY
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12-24-2003, 06:06 AM
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the correct term is "old fart"
and that goes for anyone over 30  | |
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12-24-2003, 07:11 AM
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| Quote: Originally posted by alivin
Why, oh why, don't we revere and respect older people any more ? This sad old lady has not been visited for a week ! no wonder she had so many pets.
I live between two seniors 88 & 84. One escaped Hitler in 38 (she is Jewish) and the other rode a self propelled gun(kinda like a tank but no turret and a bigger gun) in to normandy just after d-day. Their stories are fasinating.
GO VISIT A SENIOR TODAY |
no kidding...my mother has a friend of hers whos 80 ish? she also escaped hitlers camp, auschowitz (spelled right?) to be percise, the end of the road of all concentration camps.....i sit there in awe listening to what she went through...i agree, go visit a senior citizen today, or atleast call one for the holidays...youll make them smile
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12-24-2003, 08:07 AM
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| Quote: Originally posted by stant093
no kidding...my mother has a friend of hers whos 80 ish? she also escaped hitlers camp, auschowitz (spelled right?) to be percise, the end of the road of all concentration camps.....i sit there in awe listening to what she went through...i agree, go visit a senior citizen today, or atleast call one for the holidays...youll make them smile | I agree.  | |
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12-24-2003, 08:10 AM
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Hey --- I live in Panorama City!
Cats are survivors, legally I have 3, unofficially I have 5 -all tooooo fattttttt!
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12-24-2003, 08:24 AM
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LOL! I've got three cats... They're great! I still sometimes think we should have stuck with just two cats, but whenever they're all sitting there looking cute staring at me, I can't help but love em all. 
But, I don't blame those poor cats for what they did.... They were just trying to survive, and that was the only way.
It's still hard to believe that NO ONE was over to visit that poor woman for SEVEN days!
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