For the Animal lovers out there.. (Serious)

Well I just have to add to this thread...

Today at work, one of my colleagues heard meowing from one of the storm water drains, this one....
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r...s/Image820.jpg

Now this company has lots of strict rules, and to go down a 1 meter manhole requires job cards, Gas monitoring meter, and barriers setup ..
However it can take hours to get all the paper work signed for all that, and because it was raining quite hard, and water was building up in the drain..
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r...s/Image821.jpg

So no problem myself and two colleagues pull the drain guard off, and i crawl into the hole and look down the dark drain (send someone for a torch) and about 6 meters down there was this little kitty...
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r...s/Image818.jpg

She's (at least i think so, as i'm not that good at telling the difference with kittens) only about 3 weeks old, and could barely swim in the water washing down the drain. We ended up grabbing a 6 meter length of steel rod out the stores (none of the required paper work done here either) bent the tip into a loop, pulled a bag over it and secured it with cable ties.

Then while in the hole and getting poured on, I push the bagged rod down passed the kitty, slid it over behind and slowly pulled kitty back out.

Once we had kitty out everything had to be returned to normal (why the pics have the grate back on).

Well while everyone who saw kitty were not to sure if they could take kitty home, i decided to keep her..

Called Shaz and let her know we now have another child...

And Shaz has already named her... Suwi (Pron: soo-we) Because we saved her from the sewers...

So now the family is 4 cats, 2 dogs & a chameleon..t

GremlinSA rules!:thumb:

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Originally Posted by Tom Frohman

Our latest foster dog, Wink.
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Four year old, 9 lb (~4kg), miniature poodle mix. He will be staying with us for about three weeks while he recovers from having an eye removed and a respiratory infection.
After that he will return to the animal shelter for adoption.

Wink alongside our two permanent dogs.
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You should have big legs . :D

Yo udeserve a medal Gremmy! :thumb:

Thanks Hannes...

Well its the morning after and Suwi is reasonably healthy after it's ordeal. her tummy is still a little upset from the storm water that she must have ingested, and she was a little constipated..

After a little love and lots of tummy rubs, she had a good nights sleep last night (from 1:30 till 7:00 this morning)...

As for many of the rules and procedures that I broke yesterday, only one person is complaining, The Safety Officer... Everyone else is pleased, and consider me the humanitarian hero here.. :) .

Been inundated with queries about Suwi all morning...

we used to have a small dog in Japan, and we cried a lot then after it was stolen.
I left a cell phone at the subway station and it was still there after some hours later. I realize years ago, they didn't use SIM cards, one could buy a cellphone at a very cheap price but after that he needed to register the numbers which cost around 5-6000 yens and each month he ought to pay some fees (base + calling fee + internet access + messaging). A phone dropped somewhere became useless to pickers or they might get sued for having stolen other's property if he reached a register service. Simply before a new number was given, it had to be checked from the server.

I love pets, really would like to own one, perhaps a dog, but my parents say they will dirty the house. I find it odd to see how some people let their dogs jump up on their beds after they come back from outside. Their feet have lots of germs. Some people love their dogs more than homeless people. :eeh:. I also love to raise some pigs, love to hear them oinking, especially the newly born baby hogs. I evaluate myself as always as a pet lover, seems right to me.

Feeding Time .. (23:15)

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r...eedingTime.jpg

Looks horrible, the skinny petit cat.

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Originally Posted by Tom Frohman

Wink alongside our two permanent dogs.
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Hello, Tom. Is the big black dog male? You should give the white and black dogs chances to mate. they will give birth to colorful lovely puppies, :thumb:

@ GremlinSA:
The glow has returned to her eyes!
It is a girl right? Suwi sounds like a girl's name.
BTW, who decided on the spelling? Suwi... Suwy...

Google says: SUWI = structuur uitvoering werk en inkomen
Google translate says: Work and Income Implementation Structure

So, now that your colleagues (and your boss maybe?) consider you a hero, perhaps you'll get a raise or something. The kitten has prophesied it!
LOL

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Originally Posted by somedaysomewhere

Hello, Tom. Is the big black dog male? You should give the white and black dogs chances to mate. they will give birth to colorful lovely puppies, :thumb:

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Gray if true color (32bit), Dalmatian if not.

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Originally Posted by TheGreatCthulhu

@ GremlinSA:
The glow has returned to her eyes!
It is a girl right? Suwi sounds like a girl's name.
BTW, who decided on the spelling? Suwi... Suwy...

Google says: SUWI = structuur uitvoering werk en inkomen
Google translate says: Work and Income Implementation Structure

So, now that your colleagues (and your boss maybe?) consider you a hero, perhaps you'll get a raise or something. The kitten has prophesied it!
LOL

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At 2 1/2 weeks its always a little difficult to tell if they male/female, but it does appear to be female...

And the Spelling is Suwi. We choose it mostly because she was saved from the sewers, and it's easy on the lips to pronounce..

Thanks for the Definition lookup, also Dutch is very similar to Afrikaans spoken here, so it's quite fitting....

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Originally Posted by somedaysomewhere

Hello, Tom. Is the big black dog male? You should give the white and black dogs chances to mate. they will give birth to colorful lovely puppies, :thumb:

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They've both been fixed.

The white dog is female and over 14 years old. The black dog is male and probably about 11 years old.