Shmoggleberry, the at least 17 year old, cranky, geriatric cat, who sleeps 23.5 hours and then needs a rest, just dropped at my feet: A still warm, but thankfully dead, little grey mouse! I didn't think he still had it in him! And he said "mows, mows!" just before he did so, too! I don't think...

Well. I visited my brother's house today for the first time since Christmas. It's not that I don't love him, I do, but his 3 u/7 children are off the planet behaviour wise and I can only take it now and again. I went to see the kitten, tbhonest. I found him outside greeting my car. It's not a...

I made Webshots photo of the day!!!!!!! Go to www.webshots.com and go to pets The main picture there is Stripey Thing. I have been getting comments all day long - I got notified by email this morning because all the people were leaving comments so I went and looked and there he was. I am so...

I've been away for a while, mostly because I'm technically inept and couldn't figure out how to get on Usenet with my new IP. I've given up now and I'm coming in through Google :p Yes, I'm a loser. I see that we've lost Shmogg, which is bad news to come back to. Purrs to Yowie and family, he'll...

As you may remember, Fez *loves* his kibble (aka "crunchies"). He will eat some gooshy food, but if it were up to him, he'd eat nothing but kibble. He sits near the automatic feeder, waiting for it to dispense his twice a day dose of crunchies. He even puts his paw inside the thing to steal a...

I need for someone in another country (not USA) to aid and abet me in getting some Heath and Heather Tea, night time variety into the USA. It seems that they have changed their packaging and it no longer meets USA labeling criteria and they aren't very likely to go redesign it just for us...

Several times I've heard someone say it has been such a hard year, we've had so many kitties cross the Bridge this year. When did your cats adopt you and how old were they when they crossed the bridge? I would guess that the problem is that so many of us have been members of this group for so...

Remember MCG (Miss Callico Girl) the rescue kitty we were fostering? Well, the kids couldn't stand it any more and released her into the wilds of the house where she has settled in very nicely. She had a short hissing contest with most of the other cats and then a couple of nose touches and now...

I was thinking I'd like to visit Ireland sometime and was looking at places to stay. This one looks perfect, click on 'My Friends' http://www.cullintrahouse.com/ -- Adrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera) Cats leave pawprints on your heart http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk

I just wanted to touch base with everyone; I know I've been gone a long time although I've lurked recently. Real life this past year has just been so all-consuming that I just could not keep up--kid issues, parent issues, health issues, etc. However, since I last posted I'm happy to let you...

Scott went home last evening and he's doing very well. He still has one chest tube in. It's attached to a rectangular box he wears slung over his shoulder to collect fluid as it drains. (If it were black it would look like he was carrying around a tricorder from the old Star Trek TV show!) He...

Both my cats like to hang out on top of the fridge every now and then. It's where I store Mir's food dish between her infrequent nibbles (she's a grazer, and can take several hours to eat her serving of meat, and I have to store it out of Caliban's reach). Luckily Caliban can't get up on the...

I've mentioned before about Cleo's preference for peeing on the carpet rather than in her box. She gets locked up at night and for an hour in the afternoon, which helped in the beginning, but she's been incorrigible lately. She pretty much pees everywhere in her room, except her box. She even...

My brother and his dog Maggie are having a really rough time of it. Maggie had another really bad seizure this morning. Pat isn't sure whether she's going to last this time.

We celebrate purrdays, annipurrseries, and other celebrations on the first Monday in September, AKA Labor Day. I can remember Labor Day. Most of the time my brain is a LITTLE fuzzy and I have more memory problems with less excuse than my DH. I found myself doing some thinking as I watched the...

How do cats do it? What extra-sensory perception do they possess? This morning I prepared the carry-cage in the basement to take Martha to the vets. I carried it silently up to the second floor, passed this office where Martha had been sleeping, and set the cage silently on the bathroom floor,...

Lucky for us that Louie stayed home from work; Odessa started a dry coiuighing that was thereatening to turn into choking. He's running her to the vet now. Hopefully all it'll take is another steroid shot to reduce the throat inflammation, it worked the last time for her; otherwise it's xrays and a...

Not really roughhousing, since you need two hands for that, and I was holding the camera with one. It looks like she really nails me a few times, but she is so gentle, I never get a scratch from these sessions. http://www.dropshots.com/frankiennikki#date/2007-09-23/09:34:14 -- Marina, Miranda...

Lesley mentioned that Terry Pratchett had a new book out. So I sort of wandered into the local Barnes & Noble book store, to have a look-see. I found it, but I cannot enter a bookstore without cruising the computer-books aisle. Long story short, It cost me nearl $150 to get out of there. But I...

I'e mentioned Marilyn, our Brandy-candy's foster mama, on a few occasions. i heard she's gotten really bad with the ALS ("Lou Gehrig's disease".) I just heard today that they've put a feeding tube in her stomach; she is confined to a wheelchair; and though a very small, slight woman, needs a...