This must be very near you: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17884897# Mexico 1968: Olympics as an excuse for a massacre of the opposition Athens 2004: Olympics as an opportunity for corruption on a country-busting scale Beijing 2008: Olympics as pretext for mass evictions

That she no longer likes her renal food. Which is brilliant because I just bought 48 pouches from the vet for her at an enormous cost on Friday!! sigh She's fed up with it, I think. She preferred to hoover up Boyfie's pouch of ordinary food salmon/trout this morning. The vet did say to me...

Well, Dennis and I are back home in Thailand. We got in to Bangkok late on Tuesday, so we spent the night with my friend Elsa, then drove home yesterday morning. Vino was soooo happy to see us, he purred non stop all day! He was very impressed with the new litterbox we brought him from Canada...

I don't know about you, but down here in the mid-South I have these really disgusting crickets that always appear in my outdoor storage room on the patio every summer. They aren't regular crickets. They are pale brown and have extra long "jumping legs" and they can truly jump about 6 feet :) One...

You came to me years ago as a stray and I've never known your age. When you became a renal patient 6 years ago and got cat flu at the same time you almost died, but got a next life and did very well to everyone's surprise. But then you got cancer and that can't be solved with pills and diet...

I can't have any sort of plant-like things in my house, otherwise Buffy tries to eat them. Well, I found a (new in the wrapper) scented Christmas candle in the hall closet. I guess it belonged to my mother. I'm not a candle person by any means. It had a decoration of fake holly with fake...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070316/ap_on_bi_ge/pet_food_recall Pretty serious.

Reading Phoenix's post I saw that she has more female owners than male ones. Until recently we were owned by more males than females, which has recently evened out. Ok, what genders of your owners, are there any reasons to be owned by one gender over another? I'll start out, whether that is ok...

I just received the November issue of Catnip magazine (it's edited by the Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine). Guess who's on the cover? Luna and Maya, cuddling together in their high-rise bed from when we lived in the condo. The guy who wrote the article posted a message to one of the...

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I was reading the group just now when I heard awful screaming just outside in the garden, like a cat fight but more so. I rushed outside and shouted but they didn't stop fighting. I didn't think to get a torch first, it's completely black dark here which doesn't help because I can't see in...

This certainly seems to be the year of the Pirate. Find your inner pirate, learn the lingo, and more at http://www.talklikeapirate.com/ppi.html LOL, Pam S. who never realized how piratey this year was going to be.

This might be controversial, but I trust this group to not start a flame war over it. This is a legitimate question, not fodder to start a fight. For those who want/have d*gs as well as cats... Would you adopt a pitbull puppy to live with your cats? I won't even ask about an adult d*g. But...

I caught the shrew! I caught the shrew! Cheers, helen s --This is an invalid email address to avoid spam-- to get correct one remove dependency on fame & fortune **$*$om$$

Dear rpca folks, please look gently upon me, I who may seem to be an interloper and I guess am properly called a "lurker" (although I have posted just a bit here and there). I began subscribing to this newsgroup when the good folks here were on Tak's case about getting a cat. And avidly followed...

After Buffy spent a couple of minutes on the freshly washed "crackle sack" I looked around and she'd disappeared. I figured she'd wandered into the den, or maybe the guest bedroom. I got up to do something and guess where she was? In the carpeted barrel of Persia's old cat perch....

There is a great anniversary celebrated this week. No, not that one-- the anniversary of the day I took my sweet little buddy off the subway tracks and brought him home. It was seventeen years ago. (NB: Stinky's seventeenth purrday was celebrated nat the beginning of the year) Life certainly...

$5.37! That's what the kid behind the counter at Taco Bell said to me. I dug into my pocket and pulled out some lint and two dimes and something that used to be a Jolly Rancher. Having already handed the kid a five-spot, I started to head back out to the truck to grab some change when the kid with...

Hi, i've got one interview tomorrow, and another on wednesday... purr extra hard for wednesday (that one pays more :) ) Kristy -- -- (( /\ /\ )) /@ @\ ((

My lover died of hiv related illness recently. He had a little yorkie named Rooney. On his death bed he made me promise to take care of him after his death. I said of course! After he died, I took Rooney out into the country and dropped him off on the side of the road because I hated that little...