Talking to my folks over the holiday, it seems that things could change radically this year for my dad. He may be asked to leave Washington DC earlier than he origionally thought (which was Oct 2006) so that his job skills can be used back in Europe by his employer. He is no longer planning to...

This, I love! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/4609832.stm "Making a bad impression frees cat" "A Cornish firefighter has managed to free a kitten stuck up a chimney for five days - by impersonating a dog. Hours after going to her new home in Penzance kitten Smirnoff got stuck...

Hey I just happened to be looking through the pictures on an eBay listing when up comes this really cute cat! Obviously pussy was feeling neglected while the owner was taking the pictures, so did what any neglected pussy will do - GET IN YOUR FACE!!! If you want to check it out, go to www.ebay.com...

RPCA folks first met Abelard July 10, 2003 with my first post to the group. At that time he was already a year old and I've never posted about how he came to live with me in the first place. So here is that story. It started with a lawnmower. I needed one, but I hate the kind that make noise and...

Rocky is not fluffy. He's a 20 pound, small frame tabby and TED says diet or die. Soooo, open feeding is thing of the past. His dinner gets put up when my Lovely Bride and I leave for work (we're not dumb as stumps, we want to get some sleep). This was Day One of the ordeal and LB called me about...

There's a big fire burning in the Orange County, California hills. It's not threatening us here in Highland; the only effect it's had has been closing the toll road I take home and making me take a long detour. However, there is a mandatory evacuation order in effect for 1500 families. The good...

Since the ringworm test was clean last month, I brought home the catbed my niece gave me for Yule. I put it in the sauna, since that's where Miranda has mostly been sleeping lately. Caliban was the first to try it out. http://tinyurl.com/a565d Later I found Miranda sleeping in...

Lily is growing up. :o) I found a baby canine fanglet on the carpet this morning. So, I had a look in Lilys mouth and it seems that her adult teeth are coming through. My little girl is growing up! She's also getting spayed in 2 weeks time. They are babies for such a short period of time. I...

Well so far I've asked for purrs a good few times and no new job has materialised Perhaps for a reason as there's one place I really want to work at and I now have an interview (2 weeks today and I am already a nervous wreck!) so can those purrs be spared please? Lesley Slave of the Fabulous...

It was 01/06/2006. Ooops... her 4th anniversary. Oh dear! She showed up on 01/06/2001 it was her anniversary of yelling at my back door! Oh no! Time to let Persia in! Please let me in! It's cold and I want inside, pulleeeeeze? Poor little grey girl. I want inside, puleeeeze? Sad little...

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/01/04/turnpike.cat.ap/ Cherry Hill, NJ is near where I live, so this particular kitty's story was on our local news. He's a pretty little furball who survived a 70-mile ride clinging to the underside of an SUV. (The driver had no idea her feline passenger was there,...

I had occasion to show off the famous photo of the famous Abelard on the famous mycathatesyou.com website yesterday, and took the opportunity to view some of the latest additions to the site. Willie is among the most hateful: http://www.mycathatesyou.com/cats/2005/12/72

They rang from the vet's office today. They have Frank's ashes for me to pick up. I'm taking the kittens in for a ringworm test next week, so will pick up the ashes at the same time. Next summer, I will scatter them under the same wild rosebush as...

Some of you may have heard that we're having problems with brush fires here in Texas. The governor has likened the state to a "tinder box" because it has been so dry for so long. They speculate that the cause of the brush fires are people ignoring the burn ban. Because of this aerial fireworks...

Bandit, at sixteen, is meaner than ever if not as agile. She comes into my office, but can't quite manage a leap onto my lap. If I reach down to lift her up she growls, hisses and tries to bite my hand before she settles down in my lap to start purring. However, if I don't reach down and get her...

I just put some recent photos of the Highland kitties up at http://catfolks.net/20051231/ I haven't taken the time to build a nice interface page, but I'll see about doing so later. The CaliCat show is one of our neighborhood strays that comes to our place for food.

Happy New Year for all of you all over the world! May 2006 be a better year than 2005 for all of us. We just returned from spending a great vacation in Mexico, Tom's first x-mas with my family. It was a blast. I hope all of you who celebrate something this time of year had a good time. Now for the...

Mark Edwards wrote: Now this is really weird. A couple of men in Dallas (just up the road from my dad's house!) stole a cat at gunpoint! No money was taken - just the cat. http://www.nbc5i.com/news/5823941/detail.html I fear this cat might have been...

Siamese cats are not by nature a needy animal. They are aloof. Masters of all they survey. They may permit scritches if it makes us happy and they may even share the occasional purr. Physical closeness is also permitted and everyone knows shared body heat is a good thing. And of course an...

I just went downstairs to bring in the laundry and I saw a lady taking a shortcut through the complex - with a very small black shape following behind. She was ignoring it so it obviously wasn't her kitty and I've never seen it before in my life. I took a few steps towards it and said 'here puss'...