I have a dear friend I met online several years ago, and she is the President of the Board of Directors of a no-kill shelter. They have a raffle once or twice a year. This year's raffle featured a couple of things: a really nice candle basket with all sorts of goodies, and a beautiful, hand-made...

For the last few weeks, I've been trying to identify where the smell of cat pee is coming from in my living room. Eventually I found out today. Someone has been peeing behind the sofa. I have my suspicions who it might be, because I caught Cleo middening in the kitchen so it looks like another vet...

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We picked him yesterday afternoon from the shelter. He'd been neutered, wormed, deflea-ed, vaccinated, and tested for FELV and FIV (both neg). He's cleaner than when we first saw him. He's a lovely cream color with tan points. And he's closer to 3 months old than the 4-6 I originally thought. And...

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is a program available across the US called Angel Food Ministries. You can order boxes of food for half what it would cost at the grocery store. The food is donated by food distributors, the same people who would supply restaurants. The food is then distributed by local churches. But you...

As if Queensland hasn't had enough already, Cyclone Yasi, a category 5 cyclone (hurricane) about as big as the continental USA is bearing down on them as I type. My SIL in on a small resort island off the coast of Queensland that is right in the path o fthe eye. She, and the other 'essential...

Niobe had her first vet appointment yesterday. Our ears survived the car trip as she let it be known that she'd rather be at home. I figured she was closer to five pounds than six. To my astonishment, she weighs 7.8 pounds, or about 7 pounds, 13 ounces! Guess I don't have a potential second...

Alright I am very annoyed here I was sitting at the counter staring at cats who are on the counter where they were not supposed to be. My DW decide to feed the cats for me; how nice. Of course they look like ha ha momma lets us here neither here nor there this is what happens in marriage and...

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