Could I please ask for some purrs for my BIL? Some of you may remember I asked once before, when he was struck down by some mysterious ailment. Well, we do know more now, but I don't want to go into too much detail on someone else's illness. It's serious but not life-threatening and surgery...

Hi all:-) as you know, we are owned by 11 cats, which we love dearly. And because of that, I installed a daily ceremony, which I want to let you know about:-) But first I have to tell you, that our cats prefer kibble instead of canned food. Every night, when I go to bed and placed myself in the...

Hi guys, I've just spoken to Pam Shirk as of 22:30 GMT, and she seems in good spirits. She has been downgraded into the Stepdown unit (whatever that is) which suggests that they are getting things under control. She's got no idea how long it will take to get her better. She's asked me to pass on...

Freddy has joined my household and is getting along just famously with Mongo (the loudmouthed lovable siamese *******), Luna (a persian puffball), and Bob (a chuhuahua/peckonese/jack russel terrior rat-dog). Freddy is without tail; He was picked up from the animal shelter by "halo" and on display...

Well, this morning when I walked out the door I heard Jona talking to somebody. It wasn't the usual male throaty call from the Somebody; it was high-pitched squeaks! Jona was looking under our neighbor's car and seriously talking. It looked like she was trying to convince Somebody to come out. ...

Got an email from my errant nephew, Alex. He's got to be, what, 25 by now? Last time I heard from him he'd decided he must be gay. Now he's decided he's not. (sigh) And he's planning to get married but I have no idea to whom. He claims he started a new job and he told the managers during the...

Sorry, but school is definitely OUT and maybe some of you folks who use gmail could switch to something else! I just can't deal with the crap right now. Persia slept cuddled up to me last night. And I applied for a job as a receptionist at her vets' office. Jill

http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9724139-1.html?tag=nefd.only My first thought, upon seeing the topic line, was "Horrors!" Then I realized that it was only intended for cats that weren't internet- savvy, like the ones that post here. :o) Seems that someone says they've written a program to detect...

I went and got the mail and bzzzzzzzzzzzzzz! Dammit! I let in a fly. Not to worry. The boys are on the case. Dante gets this one. Straight up in the air, and SNAP!!! Fly's gone. Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh Make Levees, Not War

W00t! My favorite blog won a Webby award! http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current.php#webby_entry_weird Of course it's in the "Weird" category, but if a daily diet of cuteness is weird, I don't want to be-- not weird. :P I consider CO in the same essential, sanity-saving category as RPCA. I...

Contaminated Feed Could Affect Farms Nationwide http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/01/recall.poultry/index.html Exerpt: "The protein products from China that are affected include: wheat gluten, rice gluten, rice protein, rice protein concentrate, corn gluten, corn gluten meal, corn byproducts, soy...

Last night, there were several heavy thunderstorms, and heavy (much needed rain). It hasn't broken the horrid humidity yet, but at least the temperature to go with the horrible humidity has lessened. It has made getting a good night's sleep difficult what withthe thunder and Fluffy barking her damn...

This morning I saw on the news that a woman got sick after eating her dog's tainted food. The news story is at http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=f5a44797-005c-4df5-ad43-e1d844768c49&k=0

I have a king-size bed. So I have 4 pillows on the bed. Two are just sort of backdrop, if you will, as they match the bedspread. But the other two pillows I use (well, mostly the one on the left side). Persia, the intrepid tapping cat (nose, cheek and shoulder) has taken to crawling up on the...

Just a short note....Eric and I are pretty well exhausted... We went for a visit today at lunch and got an update from Dr. J. She's tolerating the tube feedings quite well, as long as they don't overdo it. One of the other vets in the practice told Dr. J today at the Monday am breakfast meeting...

Hi Some of you may remember that apart from this group one of the people who kept me sane while Dave was in hospital was a very old friend called Tessa, who had her dad in hospital at the same time?. I just emailed her to check if our usual lunch date was on and she just told me her dad passed...

Tomorrow, April 21, my sweet Lily was born somewhere in the streets of Montgomery County, MD. She was taken to the Last Chance Adoption Center who then turned her over to our local PetSmart store for adoption. My daughter took me there the day after my Jazz left for the RB because she said I...

Carrie works as a groomer in one of the local PetSmarts we patronize. She lost her 10-year-old cat, Rosie, when she moved to a new house last fall. Despite ads, flyers, searches of old and new neighborhoods, Rosie was never found. Last week, our PetSmart hosted an adoption day for one of the...

The cats have been patiently waiting for the last 14 months to run around outside, and it's made me very sad as well as costing a lot of money for cat litter, but today I got *very* lucky in that a neighbor decided to replace his welded wire fence with chain link, and gave me a mess of t-posts...

I'm sure we've all had some interesting conversations in the cat food isle. Cat people usually do. However, it's rare for a dog person to be there. So I'm in the aisle, picking up a few cans of cat food to bolster what I have at home. And this kinda creepy-seeming guy comes over, puts a big...