Just got my baby scale and weighed Basho. He's 8.25 lbs, when I took him to the vet last week he was 8.18. So he's not losing weight, that's good! I also got my meat grinder and I found a local source of chicken hearts. Now I'm just waiting for the supplements to arrive and I'll be ready to make...

Autumn is in full swing, and it's Rush Hour in my back yard. Birds all over. Squirrels bounding around, waving those outrageous tails! Both of them on the ground, rummaging around for food, making maddening rustle rustle noises. Stinky is on the sill, all aquiver. Theresa Stinky Pictures:...

Please.... with my cat and my small parrot :) Love you guys! Jill

Whoa. I'm getting a new computer for my birthday. I'm so excited. (Even though it's just a cheapo Dell)....BUT I now have a circa 1996 Packard Bell, with Windows 95. I can't open half the websites people post, and if I do, it takes forever (if the thing doesn't just lock up). Forget animated...

I'm getting emails like the following from Weather.com: ______________________ An excessive heat warning remains in effect until 7 pm CDT Tuesday. A hot and humid Sunday was observed across extreme southeast Kansas and the Missouri Ozarks. High temperatures ranged from the mid 90s to the low...

Thank you all for your purrs and prayers and good wishes for my boy. I am positive they have helped. DH and Mike and I went to Florida today to see an internal medicine specialist, and were there for most of the day. The clinic had various specialists (even a veterinary opthamologist!) and only...

I know several people here are planning to travel to the US soon - did you see this news item from Friday (2 April)? from: http://www.cnn.com/2004/TRAVEL/04/02/fingerprinting.allies.ap/index.html U.S. expands fingerprinting program to closest allies Friday, April 2, 2004 Posted: 2:32 PM EST...

It seems to me I've heard people mention giving their cats tuna flavored water to get them to drink more water. Does anyone know where to find such a thing? -- Joy Don't believe everything you think

I have this neighbor who seems to be convinced that I'm starving my cat. Her concern was touching at first, but now it's just getting annoying. A bit insulting, too. If you've followed my story about Smudge conning the neighbors out of food and treats, you can jump over the next several...

We had a little earthquake in Northern CA tonight around 8PM. I was sitting at my desk at work when it suddenly felt like one of the janitors was rolling a cart of heavy concrete blocks down the hall. It was a 4.4, which isn't major, but is definitely something you can feel. However, it wasn't that...

My final day at my temp job is Monday. I just got the letter telling me what my unemployment compensation will be. And as little as I was making as a temp, the unemployment comp is even less. This is not good. :o( What's not helping is the bout of depression that's rapidly setting in, which makes...

Sorry folks, its been along day and I just sort of got snarky. I cancelled the message that I sent, but it probably got through to some news providers anyway. Just wanted to say sorry for being bitchy, particular to Pat. I hope the spider bite doesn't cause you too much suffering. Yowie

Sorry to dump this on you guys, but I need to vent somewhere that is understanding and sympathetic and nonjudgmental. And this is the place. Don't know if you know the story of Daniel, Joel's younger brother. 3 years ago, Daniel had his drink spiked and as a result went off his rocker right around...

I have lot of cat pics on a chip, do not have puter, so bought one at wally mart, stuck chip n watched my cats pics, also had c-d made as back up in case i ever get puter. took hour for them go thru 500 pics, as I am very much electronic challenged, on & off is the max for me lol Michael Lane n ...

5-month-old Sammy, along with my three adult cats (Bandit, 14, Demi, 6, and Jessie, 5) is cooped up in my bedroom while my mother-in-law is still here with her 3 dogs (2 large, one small) and one neutered male cat. The male cat is being kept shut up in an upstairs bedroom, and isn't really a...

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/your-cat-doesnt-love-you-science Rudyard Kipling was right. Cats really do walk by themselves, and do not need their owners to feel secure and safe, a study has shown. Although absent owners might worry that their pet is pining, in fact, cats show no sign...

I know I've posted about this before but just curious. I keep hearing that milk is bad for cats, yet I grew up hearing about "cats and cream" (or milk). I know lots of people buy special "milk" for cats; goats milk and soy milk. When Persia first came to me I asked the vet about giving...

Here's an update about Natasha, my 16 year-old mistress who spent one Friday morning about 10 days ago coating my house in vomit. Today was the re-test of her out-of-spec blood test results (kidney and pancreas). TED said at the time that just about anything could have caused the kidney and...

So, I noticed that the active ingredient in Benefiber is Guar Gum. I googled and find all sorts of info about how it's been banned from weight loss supplements. Why is it not banned as a fiber supplement? Are the amounts involved much smaller? What bugs me is...

I still can't quite wrap my mind around the fact that it's June in the USA and hot as h*ll, and the catslaves in Australia and New Zealand are talking about winter and coming cold weather. It's like when my husband tried to explain to me that events that occurred in deep space millions of years...