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We finally had to write a "No Pets" clause into our bylaws and the house corporation leases. It really was just not a good situation for the animals living in a fraternity house. When I first joined my chapter, we had Sigma, a chow, and as is typical to chows, didn't take well to strangers. He also was fairly aggressive and liked to play pretty rough and I was one of the few brothers who could really handle him. He went home for the summer with a brother, and wound up getting loose and being shot by a farmer. Then we had a black lab that was an extremely friendly, lovable dog, but housebreaking became a big issue because people wouldn't take responsibility for the dog. So he wound up going to a brother's girlfriend's parents and got a good home.
We also had Mortimer-slut-cat for awhile as well. My roommate found this kitten while working grounds crew one summer and brought it home and we kept it. Well, not knowing anything about cats, we named it Mortimer, thinking it was a boy. Well Mortimer got bigger, and then one day just disappeared! Mortimer was gone for a few weeks, and then one day just sauntered back on the porch while we sat there. After a couple more weeks, Mortimer than began to get "very" pregnant! To our chagrin Mortimer was actually Morticia! We used to joke that our "slut-cat" went out, got knocked up and decided to come back home! Well, again being stupid guys, we didn't really know much about the gestation period of cats. I came into the chapter house after class one day, and Mortimer is no longer pregnant! We followed that cat everywhere for 2 weeks trying to figure out where she had her kittens, but we couldn't find them! Then one morning, I'm sitting in the living room talking to a brother's girlfriend, and we hear this little "mew" sound. So we follow the sound and it is coming from the couch! Mortimer had gotten under the couch, and into the box springs of the couch to have her kittens. (There was a sheet of plywood that the cushions sat on, so it kept anyone who sat there from crushing them) She had six kittens and Mortimer(Morticia) and kittens went to live on a brother's girlfriend's parent's farm (hmm. I see a trend). Well after that debacle, we wrote the "no pets" (except fish) bylaw.
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