Today, from the vet, to say it's time for him & Tigger to make an appointment for their annual health check and injections. It's always a nightmare to get him into a box. He turns into a starfish. Tigger is not so bad as he's not so bright, but they sing all the way there and back. I...

I have a new electric stairlift. When I am riding it, Cotton likes to jump up on my lap to ride along with me. Silly girl.

Buffy's eyes are difficult to capture but I just got a really good pic of them. They're blue around the pupil and outside of that they're light green. She's got really pretty eyes. :) http://i60.tinypic.com/2ue65jp.jpg Jill

http://www.today.com/pets/trumpyourcat-reveals-cats-donald-trump-hair-t31961?cid=sm_fbn

I think it was here that I read about a crinkle sack. I'd heard of it before, but this time I decided to give it a try. It arrived yesterday, and was an enormous hit. Sam thought it was the best thing he'd ever encountered! He rolled on it, wrestled with it, knocked it across the floor and...

UK is set for a heatwave, and today it was 27C. Boyfriend loves hot weather. He went out this p.m. and didn't return for his tea at 3.45 - the time that he moans about all the time (is it time yet?) I kept opening the back door to see if he was there because he is a creature of habit. No. I...

He went out on Friday night around 8.30pm and didn't come in for his 10 pm sprinkles. I looked for him- he was at the door by 10.15 but he came inside very slowly. I knew the moment he came in there was something wrong, as he would usually go straight to his dish, he didn't. He sat there,...

Spicey has come home from the vet, and her legs seem a bit stiff, probably from being constrained to a cage for the better part of a week. Even with Dot and Buster here, the place seemed so empty without her! She's currently going all around the house, sniffing everything, and alternately...

Same cat, the long haired black one. Lots of singing and so I went outside. It's not always a good thing as it give Boyfie the advantage and so he chases it and bowls it over because his meowmie is behind him. But it was up to Boyfie to fight him and they did have a skirmish. so I scared him...

Cats have the common sense not to become coyote food: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/06/150630202036.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/11/131113143600.htm Interesting conclusion you can draw from that first article: the US is not as different from the UK as regards cats...

It's driving me mad. Our houses are attached and every time they leave it it barks for hours. and howls. Weekends are the worst, they leave it alone all day. I do expect a dog to bark if I have one next door, but it's getting too much. They recently had a baby and the dog seems to have gone...

Does everybody who has indoor-only cats still get them all their shots? I just got a card saying that Koala will be due for an FVRC-P shot next month. Neither of my cats even shows an interest in going outside, and nobody ever brings animals here. Koala has finally gotten to the point where he...

If he thinks he hears me wake up, no matter how early, he starts meowing outside my bedroom. When we had the bath pooing thing, I leapt up when he woke me up, but I soon realised that he just wants me to get up, whether for his breakfast or because he just wants to see me again, I don't know. So...

I love this photo I got of her inside her little crackle sack: http://i62.tinypic.com/2mn4uvq.jpg Jill

This is kind of hard to explain but I'll try. :) This is my bedroom: http://i57.tinypic.com/2j4a3ps.jpg Nope, I don't make the bed all neat and tidy like that every day. Heh. I keep the bedspread/duvet turned down at the end of the bed. Buffy showed absolutely no interest in playing around...

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33380669 "Cat v mouse: it is probably the most famous predator-prey pairing, enshrined in idioms and a well-known cartoon. And cats, it turns out, even have chemical warfare in their anti-mouse arsenal - contained in their urine.''

Two weeks ago she wasn't interested in boxes. I had an empty box sitting on the dining room floor. Today, she was sniffing at it. So I moved it to the living room. Not 2 minutes later, Buffy in a box! http://i59.tinypic.com/4jt8oy.jpg I had several more boxes in different sizes in the...

Spicey has continued to go downhill despite yesterday's treatments with anti-neasea, fluids, and antibiotics. So today, I gave her over to TED for and IV and continued intensive treatment. She's scheduled to remain at the hospital for the next two or three days, and she'll get x-rays and...

Isn't that what we were taught as children if (for some *unfathomable reason*) our clothing caught on fire? Stop, drop and roll. In the case of cats, they just do it to be cute. :) I was walking back towards the computer, Buffy was walking ahead of me. She must have thought, "Oh no! Not the...

This is about as Japanese as a Japanese news story can get... http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/29/tama-the-cat-3000-attend-elaborate-funeral-for-japans-feline-stationmaster ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- e m a i l : j a c k @ ...