COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL April 6, 2016
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Pet Cremation
Dignii ed Options for Our Faithful Friends
At Smith Lund Mills we believe that pets
are an important member of any family.
When a pet dies it can be very dii cult
time for everybody involved. We
understand the feelings of losing a pet and
our professional, caring staf will be ready
to assist you during this time of loss.
(541) 942-0185
123 S. 7th St., Cottage Grove
Visit smithlundmills.com for more information.
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Thursday
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Cottage Grove, OR
eriously? Again? Why are
they called carnivorous
felines if they don’t protect you
from rodents and vermin!?
A few years ago during home
renovations, our house inspec-
tor, one of our Silver Persians,
Myster E., discovered a viola-
tion — three not permitted baby
possums in the house! Once
found, he sat like a police drug-
alert dog, quietly and curiously
observing each of them. None
of his catzillion years of feline
instincts “engaged” in play.
Baby possums are omnivo-
rous marsupials with long snouts
resembling a furry shark’s face
full of teeth, that are adorned
with a hairless rat-like tail.
When threatened, they instinc-
tively “play possum,” looking
authentically dead.
The next year, we blamed our
innocent cats for tinkling on the
fl oor before learning that we
had another unexpected guest
— a ‘tinkling’ baby possum. It
was discovered when Myster E.
casually walked up to the TV
console, sat nonchalantly look-
ing through the glass doors as if
he was waiting for me to change
channels. I went to investigate,
fully expecting to see his moth-
er, Miss Wings, napping on the
DVD box.
Just like the nursery rhyme
“Little Red Riding Hood,” my
mind tried computing the oddi-
ties of the small white animal I
was seeing in the dark space.
Persians’ eyes are the largest
of any mammal, but I thought,
‘My! What beady little eyes
you have!’ Totally confused to
‘why’ Miss Wings’ huge eyes
were suddenly small? Then
my brain thought, ‘My! What a
long nose you have!’ Why was
her fl at Persian face suddenly
elongated like a Greyhound’s
muzzle?
“It” blinked its beady eyes
and my mind focused. It was
not my small white cat! A baby
white possum was staring back
at me!
While “our guest” remained
snuggled on the DVD player,
I ran hiss-terically hollering
for my “hero” catch-anything-
chase-anything-out-of-the-
house husband.
Did our cats think the little-
white-albino baby “thing”, with
a no-fur skinny tail, was another
version of our fosters or rescue
cats/kittens and given it the royal
family welcome!? It hissed as it
ran out the front door, probably
mad to lose the air-conditioned
house and the easily accessible
food.
It was only by Myster E. sit-
ting placidly in front of the glass
doors watching “little Snow-
fl ake” that were we alerted to
their “new friend.”
Night(mare) #3 of owning a
pet adventure began at 2 a.m.
For 30 minutes Myster E. and
his sister, Whyspurr, were speed
running out through the cat
door, along the tunnel, into their
outside enclosure, stampeding
up our senior kitties’ handicap
ramp, barreling through the tiny
window, leaping over my hus-
band’s head, onto the bed, and
then back around the speedway
again and again. He assumed
they were playing nighttime
kitty tag.
“The fi rst night,” said Mr. An-
gel Scribe, “I woke up because
the cats were jumping on me as
they burst through the window.
I was about to close the window
when they knocked everything
off a night stand.”
Just then the bedroom explod-
ed into a frenzy of FUR-ther ac-
tivity!
“In the moonlight,” continued
Mr. Angel Scribe, “I sensed the
cat’s pattern shifting to chasing
“something” in the bedroom.
A closer sight inspection was
needed, so I turned on the bed-
side lamp and saw that my arm
was covered in poop! So was
the bottom of the bed! Just then
I saw a skinny hairless tail dis-
appear off the end of the bed.”
“Luckily, I was out of town
at the time,” said Mrs. Angel
Scribe.
“As Whyspurr cornered the
baby possum,” said Mr. An-
gel Scribe, “it ‘played possum’
making it easy to drop a towel
over the fuzzy marsupial, bun-
dle it up, and gently place it in
the front yard.
What a sight when I returned
and took inventory of the room!
POOP CITY! Everywhere! It
was on me, the window, win-
dow sill, bed, fl oor etc.”
“Luckily,” reiterates Mrs. An-
gel Scribe smiling, “I was out of
town at the time.”
“I stripped the bed,” adds
Mr. Angel Scribe, “activated
the washing machine, scrubbed
myself, and sanitized the win-
dow, fl oors etc. All the while,
my two feline helpers curiously
searched for ‘something’ and
Miss Wings slept through the
Photo by Mary Ellen “Angel Scribe”
Whyspurr is fur-real, the possum toy is a ‘stand in’ for
the real thing. Following is Mr. Angel Scribe’s hiss-teri-
cal experience about our cats gently carrying baby pos-
sums like kittens in and out of the house.
entire adventure.
The next night, I woke up
with Whyspurr sleeping next
to me. I turned on the reading
light and noticed that she had an
odd expression. I followed her
gaze and THERE SLEEPING,
curled up, at the bottom of the
bed, surrounded by poop, was
baby Snowfl ake again!”
He didn’t know if the possum
purr-posely walked in by itself,
or a cat brought it in, but when
it jumped off the bed, Whyspurr
retrieved it and hopped back
with it, like a mother cat carry-
ing a precious kitten by the nape
of its neck, straight to a very
surprised Mr. Angel Scribe.
“I once again delivered Baby
Snowfl ake,” said Mr. Angel
Scribe, “who is four-inches long
with a fi ve-inch tail, safely onto
the front lawn, before washing
the bedding again.”
Has Snowfl ake lost her moth-
er and thinks our white cats are
substitutes? Do our cats think
it is a new kitten we adopted!
Hopefully we will never fi nd out
because we now keep the bed-
room window closed!
Do our cats paws-ibly want
their ‘own’ pet? If they keep
bringing home baby possums,
we are going to have to break
their hearts and tell them we
can’t adopt Snowfl ake because
we have to comply with city
ordinances that state ‘possums
are not an approved urban live-
stock’.
Thank goodness I was out of
town, or there would have been
some added human hiss-teria,
because the possum and cats all
landed - on MY side of the bed!
TIPS
Adorable baby possum and
it’s toy.
http://www.msn.com/en-ca/
video/animals/adorable-baby-
possum-won’t-let-go-of-tiny-
stuffed-kangaroo/vi-AAfbATZ
As a youth, I danced like I
had four feet, stumbling through
Highland Dance classes. Enjoy
this four-footed dog’s amazing
Highland dance paw-formance!
http://biggeekdad.
com/2014/05/highlands-danc-
ing-dog/
Video
Pet Comedy. Funny. Worth
watching twice!
www.thesecretlifeofpets.com/
Tell us your fun FUR-tasic
pet tale!
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6th & Gibbs Church of Christ
195 N. 6th St. • 541-942-3822
Pastor: Aaron Earlywine
Youth & Families Pastor: Seth Bailey
Services: 9am and 10:30am
Christian Education
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Calvary Baptist Church
77873 S 6th St • 541-942-4290
Pastor: Riley Hendricks
Sunday School: 9:45am
Worship: 11:00am
The Journey: Sunday 5:00pm
Praying Thru Life: Wednesday 6:00pm
Calvary Chapel Cottage Grove
1447 Hwy 99 (Village Plaza)
541-942-6842
Pastor: Jeff Smith
Two Services on Sun: 9am & 10:45am
Youth Group Bible Study
Child Care 10:45am Service Only
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700 Gibbs Ave (Community Center)
Rev. Bobby Lee
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Church of Christ
420 Monroe St • 541-942-8565
Sunday Service: 10:30am
Cottage Grove Bible Church
1200 East Quincy Avenue
541-942-4771
Pastor:Bob Singer
Worship 11am
Sunday School:9:45am
AWANA age 3-8th Grade,
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Cottage Grove Faith Center
33761 Row River Rd. • 541-942-4851
Lead Pastor: Isaac Hovet
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2 Sunday Services: 9am & 11am
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First Presbyterian Church
3rd and Adams St • 541-942-4479
Pastor: Karen Hill
Worship: 10:00am
Sunday School: 10:00am
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Old Time Gospel Fellowship
103 S. 5th Street • 541-942-4999
Pastor: Herb Carson
Sunday Service: 10:00am
Sunday Bible Study: 6:00pm
We sing the old time hymns.
Grove Community Church
77820 Mosby Creek Rd.
Cottage Grove, OR 97424
541-942-0123
Pastor: Bryan Parsons
Worship: 10:30 a.m.
Nursery: Infant - Pre-K
Kidʼs Church: K to 5th grade
Our Lady of Perpetual Help
and St. Philip Benizi
Catholic Churches
1025 N. 19th St.
541-942-3420 / 541-942-4712
Pastor: Roy L. Antunez, S.J.
Euch. Liturgies; Sat. 5:30pm
Sun. 10:30am
St. Philip Benizi, Creswell:
552 Holbrock Lane • 541-895-8686
Sunday: 8:30am
Covered Bridge Nazarene Church
152 S. M St.
541-942-4422
Pastor: Cindy Slaymaker
Sunday School: 9:30am
Worship 10:30am
Hope Fellowship
United Pentecostal Church
100 S. Gateway Blvd. • 541-942-2061
Pastor: Dave Bragg
Worship: 11:00am Sunday
Bible Study: 7:00pm Wednesday
www.hopefellowshipupc.com
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Delight Valley
Church of Christ
33087 Saginaw Rd. East
541-942-7711
Pastor: Bob Friend
Two Services:
9am - Classic in the Chapel
10:30am - Contemporary in the
Auditorium
Living Faith Assembly
467 S. 10th St. • 541-942-2612
Pastor Rulon Combs
Sunday School All Ages 9am
Worship & Childrenʼs
Church 10:30 am
“The Bridge” Sat Evening Service 6:00pm
Youth 180 Mondays 5:30-8pm
Childrenʼs Breakout Class: Wed. 6:30pm
First Baptist Church
301 S 6th St 541-942-8242
Pastor: Steve Johnson
Sunday School: 9:30am
Worship: 11:00am
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Non-Denominational
Church of Christ
1041 Pennoyer Ave * 541-767-0447
Preachers: Tony Martin & Robert Evans
Sunday Bible Study:10:00am
Sunday Worship:10:50am & 5:30pm
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St. Andrews Episcopal Church
1301 W. Main • 541-767-9050
Rev. Lawrence Crumb
“Church with the fl ags.”
Worship: Sunday 10:30am
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Seventh-day Adventist Church
820 South 10th Street
541-942-5213
Pastor: Kevin Miller
Bible Study: Saturday, 9:15 am
Worship Service: Saturday, 10:40 am
Mid-week Service: Wednesday, 1:00 pm
Trinity Lutheran Church
6th & Quincy • 541-942-2373
Pastor: James L. Markus
Sunday School & Adult Education 9:15am
Sundway Worship 10:30 am
Comm. Kitchen Free Meal Tue & Thur
5:00pm TLC Groups
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United Methodist Church
334 Washington • 541-942-3033
Pastor:Lura Kidner-Miesen
Worship: 10:30am
Adult Sunday School: 9:30am
Comm. Dinner (Adults $5, Kids Free)
2nd & 3rd Monday 5-6:00pm
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“VICTORY” Country Church
913 S. 6th Street • 541-942-5913
Pastor: Barbara Dockery
Worship Service: 10:00am
Message:
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