Keep animals safe indoors
I happened to be up at 3 a.m. last Monday when I heard awful noises coming from my front porch. I had let my cat out as usual and propped open the door so she could get back in. I thought she might have gotten tangled up with some things on the porch so I went out to help her. It was then I saw her and another cat fighting in a corner. This cat turned out to be a bobcat and was letting out terrible sounds.
I ran and called 911 and explained the situation. They contacted the animal control officer of our town, Noel Sirabella. He came over and I went out to find out what happened. He said he didn’t know about the bobcat until he saw it make a dash to a porch window, knocking the entire frame out. It landed unbroken outside on the snow and the bobcat leaped to freedom.
Sirabella went out and replaced the window. This bobcat consumed half of my poor cat. He must have chased her onto the porch. We let her out this way for years without any problems. I just want to urge pet owners to keep their pets indoors or under control. I think with all the snow the animals are very hungry and will attack house pets, so be very careful.
Louisa Wadleigh
Corinth
Check on your neighbors
This is a response to the Jan. 14 BDN article about the woman in Wells who had died and was not discovered in her house for 2 ½ years. I am sure I am not alone in wondering how the electric and fuel bills got paid for by the deceased, Lucie McNulty. If not paid for, I am wondering how and why it took so long to figure out that something must be wrong for these bills to be piling up somewhere for this long a period of time. How come the electric or fuel company did not contact someone to see what the problem was especially with winter here?
It is a sorry state of affairs to think someone could be dead in their home this long without someone questioning something that just didn’t seem right. Even if she was a recluse, there had to be some clues somewhere to point to something not quite right with this woman living in this house alone and with mail being returned to somewhere and to ultimately no one.
This is a sad situation and I hope we all can learn from this to at least call on our neighbors and friends occasionally who live alone as they may have fallen and just can’t get back up. I am sure there is more to this situation that may not be known, but I can’t help thinking that this was a sad way to leave this world.
Janice Janes
Ellsworth
Cry for the aborted unborn
It was a moving moment on Jan. 5 to watch our president with tearful emotion remembering the slaughter of innocent children at Sandy Hook Elementary School. As I watched, a thought struck me and I pondered the incongruity of it. What is it about humanity that a leader will cry over 20 to 30 sad deaths, but show an indifference to — in fact, support for — what has resulted over the years in the slaughter of 50 million to 60 million children. Unborn children, all in the name of “choice.”
I cannot judge about this for it is God who will do the ultimate judging. But I do wonder what is in store for a country that has taken the creator’s intended beauty of sexuality and transformed it into legal child sacrifice. A culture that has, bit by bit, set God aside and regards human intellect as superior, no matter the path it takes.
Will we, can we, ever come to our senses or have we reached the point where we choose hell rather than acknowledge our faults, ask for and receive the forgiveness of God?
David Anderson
Stockholm