The cat is an indoor cat. We let her outside once in a while, but only supervised and never in the rattlesnake season. Rattlesnakes do a job on cats, especially those cats that don't have street smarts from being outside for most of their lives. It goes like this: There are those cats that have learned how to deal with all snakes, and that includes rattlesnakes, but these are the ones that were lucky in their encounters with poison from the fangs. Those that weren't so lucky are not here as examples to write about. Earlier, we described how Cat would climb up an oak tree and then sit high up in the branches and look like an abandoned soul, wanting to be rescued. But, we kept telling her, "you got up there, now you can get down". In an oak tree that is possible as many of the branches are big and sloped in the right direction. So, she makes it okay. On her last foray in the outdoors, she got all excited because she smelled that some feral cat had been in her