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The Love of Animals
by: Amy Auker
My mom and I both love
animals and babies. When
you make a combination of
the two, baby animals, we
both have triple the weakness.
We’ll raise anything, given the
chance.
When my parents were first
married, someone gave her a
■ litter of baby
lost their mother. She went to
• the vet, got some baby kitten
formula and some baby doll
bottles and spent weeks
feeding and tending to these
tiny creatures. Finally, they
were big enough to want
something more than milk.
Feeling like a proud mother
buying baby food for the first
time, she bought some dry
food for her little ones. When
she got home, she poured
some into a bowl. She thought
it looked decidedly
unappetising and smelled like
dusty gravel. The baby kittens
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I didn't realize, until I didn’t
see a fireworks display for ten
years, just how much I had
missed it. I didn't know, until
I saw it with "new" eyes, just
how simply wonderful the
displays are.
The same is true with our
other public rituals.
This was brought home to
me when I took visitors to the
rodeo at the Houston
Livestock Show. My friends
were Americans, but they had
lived and worked overseas for
more ;<hasfc.ffbfrty years. The
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would enjoy it - a taste of
Americana.
We chatted and half-watched
the seemingly endless grand
entry parade, and casually
stood for the posting of the
colors. Then came the
national anthem, complete
with fireworks synchronized
with "bombs bursting in air.”
I looked over at my friend.
Tears streamed down her
face.
By the time the invocation
was over, she was sobbing. 1
asked her if she was sick or
something, if she wanted to
leave. "No," she replied. "It’s
just that I never saw anything
so beautiful in my life. And
out in public too, with all the
people united for a few
the back porch?" My mom*
explained her dilemma. Dad
said, "That is not kitten
food!" Mom showed him the
bag. "See! There it says 'Kitty
Litter’. Why won't they eat
it?" Between his roars of .
laughter, my dad did his best
to explain why a litter of
kitties wouln't eat kitty litter.
Mom blushed with her naivete
and didn't tell this story until
several years later.
My Mom's love for animals
made her a fun mom to have.
And, since she has passed
down that love to me, Oscar
thinks I am the bravest
woman alive. Mom picked up
horned toads, regular toads,
lizards, grass hoppers, sow
bugs (we call them roly-poly
bugs), earthworms, and many
other crawling, flying things.
Now, Oscar and I scour the
yard daily looking for some
fun creature to discover. I am
teaching him how to turn a
horned toad over in the palm
of his hand and rub his
tummy to lull him to sleep just
like my mom taught me. Oh,
the wonders of nature.
Once, when my mom was in
high school, she picked up a
great big toad after a rain. He
was large enough to cover the
palm of her hand and sat
calmly there while she carried
him around. She was down at
the barn, and so showed her
toad to her horse to see what during SummerFest
he would do. perform at the Friendly
Imagine her horror when her Lounge at 113 W. Bryan, on
horse smelled of the reptile... die night of September 3 from
and then promptly ate him! ® Pm until midnight.
She said her horse shook his
head and slobbered for
awhile. The toad must have
tasted horrible, but too late.
I see those
parts of our
country's ceremonial life: a
flag snapping in the night.
’same thing."
Her response comes back to
me now and then. She was
right. There is something
beautiful in the coming
together of a group of people wouldn't even give it the time
at a time of common
celebration.
I'll think of her tears
whenever I see
"routine" narts of
1 inside the house. The laundry
basket had been resting under
the window air conditioner.
Mr. Snake must have crawled
in through the vents. She has
nursed animals through
sickness and injury.
She tried to force a raw egg
down a German Shepard's
throat once when the vet said
that would help him regain his
strength. The task was
accomplished only when she.
dropped the egg on the
sidewalk and the dog
promptly gobbled it up.
I myself have had my share
of animals. I have sat vigil
over premature baby calves,
and grieved when nature took
its course. I have raised my
own litter of orphaned kittens.
1 have slept with newly
weaned puppies who wanted
their mothers. In fact, I finally
donated one of my nightgowns
to a neurotic pup who insisted
on sleeping with it well into
adulthood. I have even raised
an orphaned colt who decided
he was human by the time he
was four weeks old. Starvin'
Marvin will always stand out
in my memory as one of my
best rescues. He is alive and
well even today, and still a bit
human from what I hear.
Thank you, Mom, for my
love of animals. Thank you
for the stories.
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I lived in Saudi
fireworks were not
■Wowed for two reasons. The
gfirst was that the Saudi
novemment lived in constant
Hear of an armed coup d'etat,
go they forbade the import of
l|nything that could be
Hjonsidered even remotely
■pyrotechnic.
K The second reason not to
■lave fireworks was that we
lived in the middle of an
S|ilfield, surrounded: by 'minutes, all focused on the
Mefineries and ‘ •‘crude*’ oil
processing plants thafz ^vere
Operated for the most part by
Bfoorly educated and highly
R^citable local employees.
M^e knew that after they saw —
®id heard -- their first aerial
Oicket display near an oil
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ground running and it y^o'dfd
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Mw: Linda Mussehl
and Rituals
k Sometimes I think, that
■Rerybody should spend some
living outside their native
E country. It isn't so much the
|i^ving of your own country
|Mat is important, but rather,
r me returning.
Living abroad gives you a
■|®ff£ii*ent perspective, making
Msmiliar things new again.
gA'ou look at your country's old
■B’aditions, rites and rituals
Kith new eyes. You see them
| for what they are,
Hallpaper of your life.
F0 I lived and worked in the
||Middle East for ten years.
Hkhen I moved back to the
H.S., I reveled in all the little
[{things, the annual rituals, that
n| had taken for granted
ffefore.
|?Take fireworks, for instance.
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