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This is a song called "Riverside" written and performed by musician Mary Win. It is dedicated to her now former foster cat named Blip Blip(the adorable kitten resting on her leg).
The following is from Mary Win's video description:
I was practicing a song when my foster kitty, Blip Blip, made himself at home. So, out came the camera, song ready or not (not, I know there are some picking and timing glitches but hey, opportunity came a knockin'. I wasn't even planning on releasing this song. I was just practicing when this little guy made me rush for the camera).
This is not so much a music video but an ode to Blip Blip and a perfect way to put together all his film clips. I raised him from just 3 weeks old to about 4 months old. He's a dear and it was very hard to return him to the Humane Society(I'm part of their foster program). But, I knew he'd make a great companion for some lucky person and I already have plenty of cats. He's a little thinker and I miss him.
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"Riverside"
words & music by Mary Win
copyright 2007
You'll always be here in my heart
I lie still
My heart chills
Soft breeze flies
Loving riverside
I'll always keep you in my heart
Smokey wine
We've lost time
Mountains near
I'll always hold you dear
I'll always keep you in my heart
Your blue eyes
Smiling into mine
Your warm touch
Can never be too much
I'll always keep you in my heart
Sun will shine
As our times pass by
Hands held laced
I'll always see your face
I'll always keep you in my heart
The following is from Mary Win's video description:
I was practicing a song when my foster kitty, Blip Blip, made himself at home. So, out came the camera, song ready or not (not, I know there are some picking and timing glitches but hey, opportunity came a knockin'. I wasn't even planning on releasing this song. I was just practicing when this little guy made me rush for the camera).
This is not so much a music video but an ode to Blip Blip and a perfect way to put together all his film clips. I raised him from just 3 weeks old to about 4 months old. He's a dear and it was very hard to return him to the Humane Society(I'm part of their foster program). But, I knew he'd make a great companion for some lucky person and I already have plenty of cats. He's a little thinker and I miss him.
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"Riverside"
words & music by Mary Win
copyright 2007
You'll always be here in my heart
I lie still
My heart chills
Soft breeze flies
Loving riverside
I'll always keep you in my heart
Smokey wine
We've lost time
Mountains near
I'll always hold you dear
I'll always keep you in my heart
Your blue eyes
Smiling into mine
Your warm touch
Can never be too much
I'll always keep you in my heart
Sun will shine
As our times pass by
Hands held laced
I'll always see your face
I'll always keep you in my heart
atafter 4 months, I'd rip their fucking throat out.What she's doing could easily be heartbreaking, loving an animal to offer it a better chance then giving it up to another owner, it's worth admiring rather than condemning. Dog or cat.
The point about it maybe being different for cats is that I suspect (but don't really know of any hard data) that cats are more likely to be adopted than dogs as they get older. But again, I really don't know.
I honestly think you're a good guy somewhere under it but you judge damned quickly, harshly, and based on your standards as if they are the only legitimate ones. Step back a second and think about it.
If she already has cats she can't keep adopting them forever, there's a limit to how much any person can do. By adopting one more she saves just one. Most people who adopt an animal don't have the skills or the time to work with a difficult one and difficult they are likely to be if not around people between weening and old enough to spay. If it's adopted and returned months older because it's difficult its chances of seeing a needle to end its life is that much greater, it's the young who get adopted fast and the older ones often die.
By doing what she's doing she offers not one animal but many of them a better chance to find permanent homes as well as offering them a home for that time instead of a cage alone in a shelter. If you honestly understood the situation and still think that's worth "I'd rip their fucking throat out" as you put it I don't know what to tell you other than you might want to examine some priorities. You've got a lot of potential to do good things and are often enough on the right track in intent at least, but the good isn't really going to come if you can't see others points of view as well as your own. You've put yourself in their shoes if you can and explain things from a point of view they can understand to convince them, not judge them based on your point of view.
>> ^drattus:
If she already has cats she can't keep adopting them forever, ...
Like I said, maybe it's different for cats. But I've never known a dog that was maladjusted because it spent the first few months of its life in a shelter. Keeping a dog for 4 months, though, and then returning after a bond has been formed can be very damaging to a dog. It's a good way to induce abandonment issues, thus increasing the likelihood the dog will be returned by the eventual adopter.
As for ripping out throats, as I told Issy that day, the likelihood of my going through with such a thing is even more remote than the chance that I could physically pull it off. It was an expression born of a bad day. That and Vick was all over the news at the time.
If the note was just born of a bad day we might as well leave it there, and I'm glad you took the rest to PM.