Since Frank died, and Baha gave me the tip about her friend who carried a vial of his mother's ashes around his neck, I've been searching for a suitable vessel to put the remains of Frank's ashes in (I saved a little bit that I didn't scatter on the island). I finally found it, and it really...

FINALLY moved in!! The cats are in heaven with windows opened and two new cat tree houses. I still have a ton of stuff to do, but the living areas are all settled. It is so wonderful to see Maui and Oscar sitting side by side in front of the big bay window. I never thought I'd get this place...

There was a question posted to this group some time ago where someone wanted to know about the Furminator. I finally got around to getting one, and it gets a *fantastic* amount of fur with only a few strokes. I had no idea there was still that much loose stuff on my furbabies. I found that it...

Hi Everyone! Whew, I'm finally moved in, somewhat settled and back on broadband. The move went well, took 6 hours and 2 trips, but I got them to move everything and didn't have to drive back and forth with my car a whole bunch of times. I got them to place all the furniture in the correct spots...

As usual, our drought was broken/interrupted by the remnants of a named tropical storm. Ernesto, in this case. I'm so sad that there was a death attributed to the storm, and whatever property damage. I know that this morning there was a very bad traffic accident due to the rain (for those that...

Well, I've finally got myself a nice DSL connection at home and am learning to read the newsgroup in the proper way, i.e. with a cat curled in my lap and another purring at my shoulder. It's much nicer than grabbing a quick look at my desk at work during my lunch or tea break.

Tiger has had some badly matted fur on his left hip for quite a while. I tried a number of tools to remove this including a mat breaker, zoom groom. Tiger usually objected to my attempts. Finally, yesterday I was able to succeed using the tool shown in the...

My friend Hugh (Slave of Tigger, Chloe and Bandit) has been more or less continously out of work since November 2009 when Threshers off- licences closed. He's just been told he's got a place on a 10-week retail training course, which if he completes it will give him a very good chace of a job...

I've been meaning to integrate my various galleries of Naughty and Kiki into my web site for ages, and I've finally got around to it. http://www.stagg.hk/?page_id=310 Now you don't need to trawl through RPCA archives looking for individual URLs to get your fix of cute Chinese kittens! Cheers Al.

Bonnie's always been on the subdued and serious side- she plays with Sarsi and a fether onna stick but as for kitten mischief....forget it ...she's always reminded me of a character from some sort of romantic novel say like Jane Austen or Barbara Cartland- the sort who comes from a poor but decent...

http://icanhascheezburger.com/2009/04/16/funny-pictures-kin-stopz-nowhello/ This could be the Princess Rita. She luvs her pettins. Jane - owned and operated by the Princess Rita

I just got a text message from Nancy on my phone. You remember I posted a couple of months ago that Nancy had finally found a better job tht would get her away from the slave-driver that currently keeps her shackled to her desk 60 and 70 hours a week? And that her a****le boss was refusing to...

I took the interlopers back to their mommy on saturday. Orca(t) began investigating immediately, but Spot was (again) very traumatized by the change. Fortunately, this should be his last home for a good long while. Meanwhile, Princess Rita is thrilled to have her place back to herself again! ...

As I've often mentioned here at RPCA, Mooch our resident stray has been with us for over four years now, accepting our food and hospitality on our veranda where he has a chair-bed we heat in winter. Then there's his "retreat", a padded basement window-well at the rear of our house. All these years...

I've finally got some pictures of Cara. :) And also some of Miss Lily Whiskers looking cute. :) Try http://s229.photobucket.com/albums/ee41/leopardusweidii/?action=view&current=6effecd3.pbw or http://tinyurl.com/2oqy8y

ok i am back, and i am as caught as it is going to get, if ears could be cross eyed mine would be, but i am so glad, and grateful to be back... first, purrs for everyone's losses, and set backs... Gramby kept me up to date so my masters were able to purr where needed... second... i do have a...

After both of us busting our humps for ridiculous hours for long months, we're finally going to take a real vacation! We actually *are* going to fly back to Wisconsin to see Nancy's family over Thanksgiving. I'm not really crazy about the idea of flying (I haven't flown since well before 9/11), but...

Taken with Dave's camera, which is much nicer than mine! http://oddballcourt.com/twiggyfamily.html I also stuck one pic of a baby robin in the page....

Hello I'll admit, I don't know how to make a jpg into a link, and DH is busy on a project on his computer so he just threw this together. Only the Home Page words and Photo link is what you hit to view the pix, and thumbnails that get pretty large, and show a lot of detail. The other pages ...

It's kind of slow tonight, so thought I'd post a pic I took today. See if you can find Bootsie. She was *so* high up. She can climb like a monkey. Actually, it's a horrible picture and I feel awful about it. I just hope there weren't any baby birds in the house. I've got to have my son scoot up...