I am so absolutely appalled that someone who has injured themselves, perhaps very severely dare not call an ambulance to go to hospital, not only because of the cost of the ambulance, but the cost of the emergency treatment because he is out of work and has hit hard times. This would never...

I am supposed to get clavamox pills into Tiger twice a day. Hiding in his food isn't working and I don't think he would eat "pill pockets". I wonder if I could smash the pill, mix it with butter (or vasoline) and smear the mixture on his fur. The alternative is a number of 20 mile trips to the...

Dear friends, Last Friday, our beloved Siamese girl Thalia was 17. If you look at pics 6 and 7 at http://community.webshots.com/scripts/editPhotos.fcgi?action=viewall&albumID=75033662. you might think that she is much younger :^)) The day before her birthday, Thalia spent the day with her vet...

My DW gives me so much entertainment it ought to be illegal. Some of you may recall I got her a horse for her birthday, almost exactly the color of the Budweiser Beer horses, but smaller. Patty gets a big kick out of riding him, because he is a professionally trained Tennessee Walker and has a...

I really wish I could claim authorship of this, but I can't. Don't know who the author is. Originally seen posted on another newsgroup. Cheers, helen s "ITS NO fun being a kid, these days. I know this because, as a million kids this morning hand in homework essays on what they did at the Bank...

I was testing out a camcorder yesterday on Betty and the pet mice. I captured the video of Betty into an MPG file, because it shows a couple of her behaviors that puzzle me sometimes. She always makes that murping sound, and she sometimes pulls herself along the lip of that little cat tree. If I...

OK, I'm finished Bandit's page and Demi's page, so that's it for now except for one thing - my "Friends" page is empty! Please send me links to your web pages or photo albums!!! Please, please please, pretty please???!! http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped/ -- Hugs,

Starting a new thread so Tweed won't think we're all gossiping about her. :) Mike wrote: The mistakes that bother me the most are the use of SEEN where SAW would be correct and the incorrect use of THERE, THEIR, and THEY'RE. Grammar peeves are like... well, you know. :) Everybody has one....

Here in the UK we have five channels of TV coming through our aerials, two of which are funded by licence fees not advertising. Naturally they compete a lot. Cable and satellite provide lot more of course, and Sky our main satellite provider looks on Sky One as its best channel. Tonight for ten...

Hi Everyone Well there is a new foster kitten to my family and I feel so sorry for her. She is pure black and she is a sister to my other foster kitten Heidi. Sadly the losers that owned the mother to these cats decided they did not want them and dumped them down the bottom of there garden for...

Here's hoping everyone has a safe and happy holiday season! Jill

Woman Dies After Squirrel Clogs Propane Line POSTED: 1:02 pm EST January 20, 2006 BEMIDJI, Minn. -- A woman is dead and a man is hospitalized after a squirrel became lodged in a pipe between the furnace and the chimney, causing propane fumes to enter a rural home. The Hubbard County, Minn.,...

This morning when I came back from watering the horse herd in a nearby pasture, Abelard was standing in the little wading pool I have in the yard. Just standing there, looking down into the water. He looked up at me as I approached, as if to say, "Look, mom! I'm in the pool!" I was so...

For ages, I’ve had cats in my lap while I sat in my recliner and watched TV in the evening. About 90% of the time I’d have both, although occasionally it would be just Pickles, and once in a while just Koala. Usually Pickles would come up first. She wouldn’t come up if Koala was already...

Well, this is another one I've never seen, and it sure wasn't funny at the time, but now that all is well, it was, well, a wild one! I'm getting ready to feed the critters their second meal of the day. Now, most of the time, they gather around me, and there is quite a bit of half-hearted...

I just returned from a week long vacation to S. Lake Tahoe. I did some skiing and got totally sunburned. The best part is that I won $300 while I was there. Anyway the last 3 days I was out there I decided to rent a car and drive out to the Pacific Ocean coast in California. My God what a beautiful...

It's been a month since my spinal surgery and, unfortunately, the pain has not gone away - which pretty much means there was irreversible nerve damage done (and I won't get into all those doctors I went to for 2 years who said nothing could be done, which prolonged the time the nerve was...

To use the litterbox. He likes to use the out for his toilet duties but it's really cold here. It was -5C last night so he was in all night. He asked to go out this morning when it was still about -3. He changed his mind when he saw how cold it was, returned and did the most massive pee in...

Last month when I got my electric bill it was for usage Sept. 25 thru Oct. 23. I expected it to be lower than the previous bill, because the big heat wave had ended in mid-September and I had quit using so many fans. But no, it was 70kwh higher than the bill for the prior month. I asked about it...

If the generous kitties of rpca could spare a few more purrs, I would like to ask for some for a newcomer - my DH has apparently had his cat magnet on again. Late last night, DH told me that a stray cat had turned up at the office, skinny and yelling and holding up one paw. As TED was closed and...