I have been around on this newsgroup for a while, and I really do appreciate the stories you all are giving us here. What I don't like, is the obvious connection some people here are making between "purring" and "praying". Purring is cute and a sign of good wishes, prayers are a religious...

Hey everyone.. this is just a small rant. It turns out that some cat rescue groups around here cut a notch out of the tip of a kitty's ear to show the he or she has been neutered or spayed. While I'm all for neutering and spaying to reduce population, is this mutilation really necessary? I look at...

YYYAAAAAAAAAAYYYYY! Purrs for an easy transition for Brandy into her new forever home! Hugs, CatNipped "Singh" wrote in message ...

This post is actually about two things. First, has anyone seen the movie "What the (Bleep) Do We Know"? (Sometimes written as "What the #@$*! Do We Know".) It's a documentary about the total weirdness of quantum physics and how all matter in the universe is mostly emptiness, with a few bits...

Does anyone have any simple, tasty recipes for a corpulent kitty? Cali's been through another bout of bunguppedness. So I'd like to break her of her preference for dry food. She does not get enough water and is getting porkier by the day. The vet pushes the A/D, but she hates it. About the...

We feed every "stray" cat within a 2 mile radius of our house (as I'm sure most of you here do too). There is one solid gray cat who, at least at one time, must have been someone's pet since s/he (can't get close enough to tell) has on a flea collar. The problem is that the collar looks like it's...

This morning we caught the mother cat. She is now in the cage with her kittens. They are now laying against their mother. The tiger kitten was purring when we first put the mother in with them. Last night DH was petting the kittens and this morning I was petting them. We think the mother was a pet...

I rushed ahead and looked at Webshots - she is *so cute*!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm glad its going better than expected. Poor Frank being dissed like that - I'm sure he'll be a favourite uncle soon! In some other thread somewhere, I posted that Mere is going to *know* that she's adopted - one of these...

Ever wondered what your name would be if you were a cat? Try the Fluffy Kitty Name Generator: http://rumandmonkey.com/widgets/toys/namegen/64/ I am Nightmare Perriwinkle. Yeah, sounds about right. Yowie

I am sitting with the rescue box next to me (shoe box with air holes put in the top...). In it is a robin fledgling. BAH! Marble sneaked out this evening, unbeknown to me. I'm sitting on the downstairs loo and I hear meows & scratching sounds. Now either I was doing something quite dreadful on...

We had a birthing last night. One of my father's horses finally dropped her colt sometime between 10pm and 7am this morning. I haven't seen him yet, it's raining and I didn't want to drag the kidlets outside long enough to walk to the barn but I bet he's a cutie!! Grace

Hi all. It's too cold here! Right now it's -1F with expected high of 4F changing to -5 by early evening. Not to mention the flurries and lake effect snow. SIGH. I was supposed to work today but called the boss and requested a jail break, which he summarily approved! Now onto topic. With the...

In my kitchen! There's one under the cupboard at the moment, scratching as if it's trying to break free. I've put down Ratsak (poison), for the past week, but no good. I sent my landlord a *very* stern letter yesterday, but they might not get that until monday. Under Victorian Law (my state in...

Just a heads up: my niece seems to have posted a lot of new pics of the kittens at 4-6 weeks old. Raging kitten fever! http://mia.daug.net/kitten2.php -- Marina, Frank and Nikki Email marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi Pics at http://uk.f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/frankiennikki

This morning I decided it had been long enough and it was time to dose the Fantastic Seven (TM) with Revolution (a topical medication for fleas, ticks, worms, and all kinds of parasites). I got the seven vials and put them in my pocket. Fez and Rufous took it and didn't even notice it! Such good...

I don't often do this do I? But it's a bad night. My mother's cat, her darling 14 year old Lulu, is in the vets with severe constipation, and will be having a very expensive enema tomorrow. Purrs please that this will sort her out, and that there isn't anything more sinister wrong. And,...

I was out last evening collecting the kids from their various after school events and picking up dinner. It was the kind of night you don't like to be out. The classic dark and raining night. A few blocks from home a little poodle trotted across the street in front of the car. I wasn't going...

here, so the Touchstone crew were all gathered on Sammy's new storm shelter. Sammy wasn't nearly as scared tonight, perhaps because we were just brushed by the storms and didn't get as much thunder. Anyway, I went and laid down next to shere she was hiding under the bedspread. Little Bit soon...

A sure sign of warmer weather... Waffles out in the garden in the morning and within minutes I hear "MMMOOOWWZZ!" quickly followed by a small dead rodent being dropped at my feet. Obviously she thinks I require protein for breakfast. Yesterday's breakfast offering was a mouse. This morning's is a...

I found my brother and his family (they're all scattered, some in Baton Rouge, LA, some in Waller, TX)! They had to move from Chalmette to Houma, to Thibodaux, to Baton Rouge (and some to Waller) - so they're just now getting a chance to breathe for a moment and get their bearings. My niece saw...