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That Next place
performed by Thomas Newman
From the movie Meet Joe Black
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| GUARDIANS OF THE RAINBOW BRIDGE |
GOODBYE FROM MY FRIENDS
If it should be that I grow weak and pain
should keep me from my sleep: Then you
must do what must be done, for this last
battle can't be won.
You will be sad, I understand: but don't let grief
then stay your hand. For this day more than all the rest,
Your love for me must stand the test.
We've had so many happy years, what is to come
can hold no fears. You don't want me to suffer so, the
time has come, please let me go.
Take me where my needs, they'll tend, but please
stay with me til the end. To hold me close and speak to me
until my eyes no longer see
I know in time you will agree, it was a kindness done
for me. Although my tail it's last has waved, from pain
and suffering I am saved.
Please do not grieve that it was you who had this
painful
thing to do, We've been so close, we two, these
years: and don't let your heart
hold any tears
Author Uknown
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SCRATCH ZEILER
1993- May 2012
I was trying to get her to change her pose and she decided
to have none of that
Scratch kitty, born in Fairbanks Alaska. I took care of Scratch
and Blaze when they lived in Harrisburg SD and thier mama Tracy had to leave town on business trips. Scratch could always
be found hiding in the closet. It took several years to finally pet her and hold Blaze. Scratch was a sneaky little gal and
I been whacked a few times by her. and you are nobody until you been HISSED at.
Scratch and her brother Blazed move to Maryland in 2008. They used to be allowed to roam
outside but when Blaze took a adventure tour at his new place and got lost, mom had to build an in door patio area,
and the going outside days were over.
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| SCRATCH KITTY AND HER BUDDY BLAZE |
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| TU 4Aug 2011 |
TU KARBAN
1997- 5 Aug 2011
Born in Kansas City KS, He belonged to Annette's brother Jon, while he was attending school.Tu was Jon's neighbors' cat
in Kansas; but spent all his time outdoors. He sat on the rail outside Jon's kitchen and peered into their apt for a couple
of cold days so Jon let him in.The neighbor's little boy called him what sounded like "TWO" because he could not talk very
well. Not sure if the cat had a name. So, Jon decided to leave "TU" as his name. He was cat number two for Jon, even though
Riff at that time lived with us, Riff later went to live with jon and mom. at her new place.
When Jon
returned home to Sioux Falls, TU came along.. He is a dog cat, follows you around and a talker. When ever I went
over to mom's, Tu would come out of no where and be my lap cat. Tu ended up with me, because it was either the pound or worse
and I could not let that happen, so on the day the family was moving to a new place, Tu came home with me.
And now he has gone home to be with his cat buddies, Tu lived to be 14 years old and had a good life.
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| TU 4 Aug 2011 |
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| TU 23 Feb |
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PURRKEY-LEE McCLAREN
1 JUN 1997- 17 nov 2010
Born in Sioux Falls SD 1 Jun 1997, rescued from a motel
parking lot, 5 weeks old. sister of Jessie James and Wheezer
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| PURRKIE-LEE 5 weeks old 1998 |
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| IT'S CALLED HAMPERING GET USED TO IT |
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| PURRKIE-LEE 7 Jan 2006 |
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| MY OWL EARS ARE BETTER THAN SMOOGES OWL EARS |
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| SMOOGE 7 Oct 2002 |
SMOOGE "KD" KARBAN
19 SEPT 1994- 13 MAR 2010
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| SMOOGE Sept 1994 |
What a little character she was. Born in New hyde Park long island,
she loved pizza. and she was quite the little thief. She would steal food, the mail and haul ass with it to a secret place.
She was a few days old and no mama, so we went every where together, I would carry her inside my jacket until she
was too big. She always was a little slender gal.
She was always dragging the laundry from down stairs to the living room upstairs often when
there was company. Smooge was not choosey what item she brought up. One christmas, I was taking to my sister in NY and all
of a sudden this table top christmas tree was walking across the room. Plants never lasted because they all thought
it was cool place to sit on. and plastic grocery bags ran across the floor, no telling who was in it.
She must have had a empty ness thing, she'd drag the clean folded rags out of the laundry
and drag it upstairs doing her low serious meow meow, the sound of a hunter cat with a prize. There would be rags every
where. To top that off, playing in the dog food and dropping each kernel down the stairs, became quite annoying at 2-3 in
the morning. Of course there was not a cat to be found once you came upstairs to see who was doing it. However.........once
you go back down stairs, it started all over again.
She was good cat fight breaker upper. She'd come out no where and slap the crap out of the other
brats and had that DON'T MAKE ME COME OUT THERE AGAIN. expression on her face. more the look of disgust.
Smooge being raised inside my jacket, it was only fitting that she make the last ride to the
vet the same way. When she started failing, and it's one thing I can't stand by and watch . Smooge was
15 1/2 years old and had a good life and I will miss her.
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| HOW DO YOU LIKE MY OWL EARS IMPRESSION |
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| SMOOGE CAT NAPPING MAR 2010 |
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| WHAT- YOU THOUGHT I WOULD NOT FIND THIS |
CHARLIE KARBAN Jr
20
Mar 1996 - 26 Dec 2009
Charlie Jr, adopted from the Sioux falls humane society. I was looking for another orange kitty
and He was 5 weeks old and the last orange kitty in the kennel. He was a mix of Farm kitty and main coon. Little did we know,
he would take over the house and turn out to be a big kitty. He was the watch cat, and made sure everybody who came into the
house knew he was there.
Charlie was always very vocal and had his special ways of waking you up, some not very nice ,Especially
when he had knocked down items, made noise and looked over to see if you were awake yet. and resorted to plan B, lets
just back into your face after he visited the litter box.
Charlie loved donuts, no box was safe on the counter. My sister sent a bread box one christmas and
a safe place for donuts. Charlie wasn't feeling good, and we noticed his weight was dropping. After several days of
seeing him lay in a corner and didn't want to be picked up or touched was a sure sign he needed help on his journey
Charlie would had been 14 this march 2010 even though I picked him out of the humane society,
he was Annette's cat, because she was the keeper of the kibble. Charlie will be missed.
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| CHARLIE 1996 5 weeks old |
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| Charlie 4 mos old |
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| AM I BIGGER THAN A BREAD BOX |
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| CHARLIE 2001 |
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| FREE CAT WITH DVD |
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| GENEALOGY IS HARD WORK |
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| I'M TIRED LOOKING FOR THOSE SIMCHICKS |
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| WHY WE CAN'T READ OUR PAPER |
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| ARGUS LEADER PET OF THE WEEK JUNE 2001 |
BENNY KARBAN
5 Apr 1997- 22 Sept 2009
Argus leader pet of the week from the sioux falls humane society.
He was 4 years old and given up being a family pet because somebody was allergic. He was dropped off on 24 May 2001. When
I saw the Pet of the week picture, I asked around work to try and get somebody to adopt him, because he had a face.
I adopted him in 6 June 2001, When I called the
Humane society and asked if he was still there, they said yes and I said NOT ANYMORE, I'd be there to pick him up. His
name was ZIGGY, by the time I got him home, his name was now BENNY. I should had named him stubbie, his tail was short.
I will miss his head bonks and throwing his body at me when he felt like being friendly
Just plain having his moment of being a pest, actually he wanted something. His daily marking me as his property,
just in case yesterdays marking wore off. And his helpfulness untieing my shoes, when I just tied them. He would always
have that look when I left for work , WHAT YOUR LEAVING ME and I'd say as I closed the door, I'M NOT GONNA LOOK AT
YOU, peek back in and there he was giving me that look.
I'll miss our nap sessions and watching the Young and restless and Judge Judy . He seemed
to know when those was on. Waiting for his milk, that he knew was in my cereal bowl and giving me lip service for making
him wait too long it was a serious thing and he made sure I knew how upset he was about it.
I'll miss him being helpful making my bed, by messing it up. He'd push the bed spread all the
way back down to the foot of the bed. WHY BOTHER He was proud of his handy work.......LOOK WHAT I DID. He was a good kitty
sitter when we had kittens. Even though it looked like he hated it when they climbed all over him, he loved every minute
of it.
I almost lost Benny in June. I didn't know he was having a problem peeing. He spent a week at the
vet. He was plugged, not uncommon for older male cats to have that. I changed his diet to precription dry food, no more meow
mix, worse for older cats. So Munchie, Tu and Scamp would just have to eat the same thing Benny had.
He had to be given a pill and liquid meds twice a day. He did not cooperate and this became a two
person operation. So, bring on the TACO WRAP TRICK. I decided, well if I chop up the pill into a fine powder and mix it with
the amoxcillin and put that in a syringe get his mouth open, do it fast...........done for the day.
Benny improved and was doing good, I thought the problem was solved, but out of no where in Sept,
I saw the all the signs of happening again. He was in pain and this time around his kidneys shut down. There was nothing
more I could do for him, but to let him go.
My Benny buddy.............rest in peace........miss you
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| THE -MOMS GOING TO WORK LOOK |
BED MESSING UP 101
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| PREPARING TO MESS UP MY BED |
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| AHHHHH I'LL JUST SLIDE AND MAKE THIS PILE |
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| PURRRFECT- JUST LOOK AT MY HANDY WORK |
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| I REALLY HATE YOU |
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| HEYYYY, QUITE NOW JUDGE JUDY IS ON |
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| TOUCH THAT TAIL AND I'LL BITCH SLAP YOUR ASS ACROSS THIS ROOM |
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| BENNY Dec 2004 |
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| IT'S PILL TIME, I'LL PRENTEND I'M NAPPING |
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| I HATE THE TACO WRAP THING |
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| WHY DOES IT HAVE TO TASTE SO BAD |
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| IT AIN'T OVER TIL THE FAT KAT SINGS |
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SASSY MAE McCLAREN
5 May 1997- 12 Sept 2009
Born 5 May 1997 Sioux Falls SD, bought at Mini Crtitters, she was about 6 weeks old. For some reason,
Sassy never really fit in with the others. We called her the Bitch cat. The boys, Wheezer, Charlie and Jessie James would
go out of their way, just to harrass her.
Sassy had a very high pitch scream that would levitate you out of bed, not a nice thing to do at
2am. Bad enough one of boys would go after her, but all three at the same time running through the house, sounded like a herd
of elephants from down stairs.
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| SASSY MAE |
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| SASSY MAE 2001 |
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| TORRIE 1996-2007(annettes black lab) |
TORRIE McCLAREN
28 May 1996- 1 Jan 2007
Torrie was given to us when she was 6 months old. It took a year
to get her to where she felt she had a home and was not going to be dumped somewhere. Torrie's life started out in a back
yard, more or less, RAISE YOURSELF deal. When she became distructive and eating the air conditioner wires and digging
up the yard. The owners wanted to put her down.
Torrie had no formal training and she had to be left in kennel when we were at work because
the first day left alone inside the house, she thought the remote control was a tasty treat and the sofa pillows looked good,
in fact, the living room looked like a snow storm.
After awhile of being sent to the kennel, one day, we were getting ready to leave and Torrie was
already in the kennel. She knew we had a rountine and would be back. Then it was a matter of short trips and no kennel, until
one day she was fine on her own.
But that didn't stop her from getting into the trash cans, we knew soon as we left, she made a bee
line to the kitchen and made her rounds through out the house. Pretty bad when when you have to bungie cord your trash can
and find it in the living room. Anything on the counters was also fair game. If we were lost on a island, Torrie would
be the one to find food.
Torrie became a very clingie dog, one would think she was glued to the hip, she had to be there.
Torrie turned out to be a good dog, she just needed to be loved and treated better.
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RIFF RAFF McCLAREN
1986-2008
Riff Raff is Annette's brother Jon's cat, but he lived with us for a while. Riff had a special talent of opening doors by turning the
door knob and opening draws by putting his paws on the top of the drawer and leaning back. He often got into the treat drawer
and the dogs knew it. Riff had pulled out some treats and had them on the counter. The dogs were sitting in the kitchen staring
at him. What a tease.
Jon picked up Riff Raff at the Humane Society. He went with his sister to deliver some stuff
and saw the kittens, wanted the gold one; Annette told him he better check with mom first.
When mom finally relented the next day , Annette took Jon
back to get the kitten, and it was gone. So, he noticed the gray striped kit climbing and took him instead.
He named him after the cartoon character Riff Raff, because he was a frisky
little critter.
Riff lived to be 22 years old and still tried to open drawers.
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| STELLA (Annettes golden retriver) |
STELLA McCLAREN
28 Apr 1989- 14 Jun 1999
Stella was a nice dog, very laid back and the biggest sock thief
I ever met. No sock was safe in the house. Once she had that sock, the chase was on. She also was good at
pulling the socks off your feet.
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| JULES |
JULES McCLAREN
1 Oct 1991- 1999
Jules was the last puppy in the dog carrier when he was brought
to Annette. He look scared and Annette just could not leave him, knowing that the kids who came along probably had been too
rough with him. Jules and Stella grew up together.
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COCO McCLAREN
Aug 1984- 21 Nov 1996
Coco was a cool cat. His eyes would looked they were floating from
side to side. When he walked around, he'd get real flat to the floor, almost like a giant fur ball. Everyday before
heading off to work, he had to go outside and eat grass.
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| mandy 1984-1995 (marie's german shephard) |
MANDY KARBAN
17 Sept 1984- 8 May 1995
Mandy was born in San Antonio Texas. She was was about 7 weeks old when I got her. Her
thing was chasing and catching sticks, balls and frisbee's. She had a face and eyes that could work you into giving
in. Once she had a ball and laid it down, she'd stare at you, until you picked it up and tossed it again.
My sister would dog nap Mandy and her take up state to Downsville NY, where she would
spend the summer. She said Mandy was the only dog that would come back when you called her. Mandy loved the country.
She loved going for rides in the back of my truck. My mom would take Mandy for walks just so she could sneak a smoke
down the block.
My
Forever Friend
I know that it must be different,
now that I am no longer here.
I realize how much I was loved
and how all of you did care.
I know it will be hard at first
when you look around for me.
Expecting to find me in my bed
or beside my favorite tree.
Someday
you will begin to see,
although it'll take some time,
the happy times you shared with me,
the memories are yours and mine.
I'll remember you, my family,
and how much you meant to me.
So please don't grieve and don't be sad
It
was just my time to leave
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| mandy at Cannon Lake Texas 1989 |
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| CHARLIE 1984-1995 (Marie's kitty) |
CHARLIE EMERSON KARBAN Sr
Jun 1983- 18 Nov 1995
Charlie was born in San Antonio Texas. He was a laid back kinda kitty. I sent him to my sister's
house in New Hyde park NY when I was getting ready to move back to NY. Charlie wiggled his way into pampering
and being spoiled, and carried around by the kids. Not that he wasn't already spoiled. He loved playing solitaire with
my mother. He didn't make a very good partner, because laying on the cards and knocking them to the floor was not in the rule
book.
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| CHARLIE San Antonio Texas 1985 |
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| VELVET (ginny's black shepherd) |
VELVET BERDOFF
1981-1997
Velvie was my sisters sons dog, like all the pets the kids had,
Ginny gets to take care of them. Velvet was a runner and would not come back when called. So you would have to be very careful
she didn't sneak out the door and take off. New Hyde park road was a very busy street and that seemed to be her favorite place.
I remember one morning I looked out the window and saw Velvet with all four paws standing on top
of the chain link fence and she took off down the street and she took off a couple times upstate.
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| CLEO (Ginny's kitty) |
CLEO BERDOFF
Aug 1988- 25 Aug 1994
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| MILLIE- Ginny's dog |
MILLIE BERDOFF
26 Jul- 1992
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| MILLIE AND MANDY CHRISTMAS 1992 |
Millie was the neighbors dog, she hung out with Rocky a black
pup. Every time Ginny would go upstate, Millie and her buddy would be sitting at the front door, as if they knew she was on
her way. Ginny finally adopted Millie. I think Rocky was given to somebody.
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SHULTZ McCLAREN
1976-1987
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