I have missed you guys dreadfully. A few people got ahold of my work e-mail address and have kept me posted of many of the happenings on the group. Even though I haven't posted I have thought of all of you and sent purrs and prayers for everyone. We lost Paint Job last year. She was the one...

NEW ENGLAND TEMPERATURE CONVERSION CHART 60° F: Southern Californians shiver uncontrollably. People in New England sunbathe. 50° F: New Yorkers try to turn on the heat. People in New England plant gardens. 40° F: Italian & English cars won't start. People in New England drive

Aw, do I feel terrible. Today is vaccination day and Chester is just sitting there looking at me. He won't respond with his usual orgy of delight when I say hi to him. He just sits and stares. He has had bad reactions in the past and last year he dragged around for 4 days afterwards, even with...

I have probably been reading to many scary news items. I had a nightmare Tuesday night. I was in a dark place and a dark figure approached me and got around my neck with its hands and then got face to face with me. I fought back with all my strength and finally was able to get hold of it and...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/03/20/humphrey.dies.ap/index.html -- Hugs, CatNipped See all my masters at: http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped/

She's been doing well, appetite wise, since she was home from hospital, but her streaming green nose stuff has never cleared up properly, although not quite so frequent. However, I don't think she likes having it any more than I liked it last night when she sat on my chest purring while I was...

Maya woke me up early this morning by pushing the fish food containers from the stand to the floor. She is our official "gravity tester". I went back to sleep thinking nothing of it. Some time later, we woke up to the sound of something crashing around under the bed. We figured it was just the cats...

Yesterday I was awoken at 4 a.m. by the noise of a cat fight and galloping feet. KFC and Boyfriend do have their ups and downs but they rarely actually fight although it has been known, once or twice, and always in the night. I briefly considered getting up and going downstairs into the cold...

TED finally called with the thyroid tests today. They came back A-OK. So his thyroid is good, his kidneys are good, his liver levels were elevated, his eye isn't healing up, he lost a tooth, he has a galloping heart beat and high blood pressure. Could just be heart disease. Not much we can do....

It's about a month to go until Samhain (that's Hallowe'en to you non-pagans) and that means it's time to break out the decorations! In years past, I could go all out on decor since Smokey isn't interested in anything that 1. isn't soft to sleep on and 2. isn't made of food, and Nocturne has no...

I haven't watched VH-1 for a long time until this evening, so I have no idea how old these are... Has anyone seen the "kitty" promos they're running? One of them has animated kitties dressed up as Joan Jett and her band singing "I Love Rock 'n' Roll". Another has the animated kitties dressed up...

I, Cap'n Pine Cone esq. announce my candidacy for Gov'nor of the Golden State. I figure that I am much handsomer and more articulate than all the other candidates for the job. I, being a feline, am a natural champion of animals' rights, including the right to life, neutering, and the pursuit of...

I'd like to ask a favor of posters here. Several times lately, someone has mentioned their weather. I have a hard time remembering where people live. When mentioning weather, it would be kind to those of us who aren't as young as we used to be if you'd give a clue as to approximately where you...

Remember folding up pieces of paper, cutting out diamond-shaped holes in them, and then opening them up to reveal a snowflake, or other symmetric pattern? Here's some art made by cutting things out of paper: http://www.petercallesen.com/index/A4PAPERCUT_000.htm And here's another one, with a very...

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/South/04/16/shipped.cat.ap/index.html In summary, this article (with photo) is about what happened when a man in Tampa, Florida opened a crate of bird cages that had been shipped to his business from China - out jumped a cat. The crate had been shipped by boat from China...

Nancy was just leaving the house for work and saw Mr. Scruffy lieing by the side of the road - looks like he had been hit by a car. She's rushing him to the vet around the corner now.

We were over at my sister's house today and they have a kitten that is of the orange tabby persuasion. He has two paws on each front foot. It is the most unusual thing I've ever seen. He has two front feet with 5 toes on each foot. Then on the inside of the two front feet he has two...

It's another sunny day and, flattered by all the attention she is getting from so many boycats, Nikki posed nicely for a few more pictures: http://tinyurl.com/2b4ww http://tinyurl.com/23s97 -- Marina, Frank and Nikki Email marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi

I was shocked to see a TV programme last night which seems to suggest that Americans who cannot have children get baby monkey instead and some people breed them and take the baby away from their mother at 10 days old to earn 3000 dollars. Is it true? I was disgusted to see a couple get a baby...

I have mentioned before that there is a black neutered boycat that lives two doors away who hates Boyfriend. He is often in our garden showing off his superior age and strength, he's quite a big cat and has one of those "in yer face" personalities. He is very confident that he is just "wow!" If...