Hi all - Just to let you know that baby Babaneena (Figaro!) is still doing OK, taking a bit of time to get the feeding amounts right - too much seemed to be causing tummy upsets, and too little causing much mewing and searching for the milk! However she is still with us and every day is a bonus for...

Can someone tell me the cure? I can't afford to get very ill right now. It just happened an hour ago. Caught the little bugger in the act but too late to stop it biting.

Puurs to you that your writing block disappears! I wish you all the best! "Singh" wrote in message ... I've been busting my onions with writing projects for quite a while. It is my dream above dreams to be a full time writer, to be able...

Teri's Clowder in order of acquisition: Mouse is the only one of the current cats who arrived as a kitten. My sister's housemate came home in the wee hours of the morning, somewhat the worse for wear :) and heard a kitten crying. He was afraid...

I sent Smudge over the Rainbow Bridge this morning. She came to me with her mum as a foster cat approx 14 years ago. When she first arrived she sat in a corner, she wouldn't eat and we were really worried about her. After a few days I started to feed her by syringing food into her mouth...this...

Thea & Bono returned to their winter quarters this weekend, after more than two months at their summer residence. My parents brought them in the car and they had an uneventful 10 hr drive, cats sleeping - they know when it's The Long Drive and hardly bother to come out when they are offered to...

Well, I finally got my hospital appointment about my hernia today. Very nice doctor. Shook my hand when he came in and explained everything. After he'd examined me he said the defect in my muscle wall was quite large (as big as an orange) and that an incisional hernia was quite a different...

My brother sent me a text message today telling me that his Springer Spaniel, Maggie, had a grand mal seizure today. He got her to the vet and got a prescription for some meds, and should get the results of her blood work back tomorrow. We're hoping it's nothing serious. We are well acquainted...

Hi Everyone!! Sassafras needs to have her teeth cleaned and two of them pulled out because of cavities and I am really nervous about it. Are there any questions I should ask the vet that you wouldn't normally think of? I remember reading here a long time ago about a brand of anesthetic that was...

Dear all, Please could you purr for the lovely black cat (not IBKFergus) who went RB today after being run over by a car. Yowie saw the car who ran over the cat, but did not see the incident. She saw the cat in the gutter after the car left, clearly in a bad way, but was not able to catch it to...

This might be just a lark on my part, but we'll see. I received a message today about a job opening way outside of California. Nancy and I have been talking about wanting to leave CA for a long time, but haven't been able to do to family support needs. I have no idea whether we can resolve...

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She's got an URTI again. She starting sneezing late on Tuesday so I took her to TED on Wednesday after work. She had a very bad upper respiratory tract infection earlier this year that took six weeks to clear up and put her off her food, which it does because they cannot smell it and she...

I had a bit of an emotional outburst with Maya this morning. Let me rephrase that, I lost it. Maya decided when Bruiser arrived that I no longer had the privledge of brushing her anymore. Never mind that she liked it and had come to purr as the first stroke of the brush went through her fur. I...

Do any of you have cats who smack the glass (it's hard to explain) when they want to come back in? Harvey does it, it looks as if he's trying to scratch a hole in the glass. But he's just getting our attention. -- Willow: Then talk. Keep eye contact. Funny is good, but don't be glib. And remember,...

Went to the store last night and there was Maxine, the shop dog. She's not always there but she was there last night. She's such a sweet mutt. No particular breed that I can ascertain but she's got brown and black rather longish fur (now going grey around her muzzle). She's probably about 40,...

I was asked to write a story about my cats and cattery for a cat magazine that is distributed in NZ. So with Bev's help my story is below. ZEOTROPE BURMESE My love affair with the Burmese breed started 18 years ago when I purchased Cassie, my first pet kitten. I was quickly hooked by the

As some of you know, my long haired cat has some sort of allergy that causes her to lick parts of her hind legs and feet which causes sores. The vet thinks its a granuloma problem as she's tested negative for ringworm and doesn't appear to have fleas (she's mainly white haired). She's...

Will cats get bit and carry/spread/catch lyme disease? Do the usual shots prevent this? Boston news criers are warning about lots of ticks this year. Brad

I know I haven't been posting much. It's hard talking about Betty these days. But she's made it to spring! I took a picture of her a few days ago when she started using her warm weather squirrel lookout spot again, which has gone dusty and unused all season. I never thought I'd see her there...