Hi All, This message from my friends in the Tampa, Florida area does mention their pets, but it's still OT. The gentleman is my best friend of some thirty years and after he and the lady married, she became best friends with DH independently of the two men. It can be scary to watch Lynda and...

Xoxo is going to TED for a dental first thing Monday morning. Purrs would be appreciated for our old buddy to have an uneventful cleanup. Thanks. Victor -- Victor M. Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM)

I'm trying to keep Persia active. Keep in mind there is no PetCo or PetSmart store within 50 miles of here. I love her but I'm not driving over 100 miles (to/from) just to buy cat toys. So I'm shopping online. She loves the little toy mousies I get from Walgreen's (that's only 12 miles away...

Appreciate all the concern, folks...this is a fairly serious sickness. Got to the vet last night with little trouble, somewhat surprisingly, and received lessons on tube-feeding. Got him home by about 7 pm. He was fairly teetery, but staggered to his favorite coverered litter box, got...

When i discovered this group an d got to know all the good people here,, I hoped it would be a long time before i needed to come to you wiuth the grievous news that one of our little ones has left us. A long, LONG time. Not so. Our dear Dolly, our Odessa went into sudden respiratory failure...

wrote in message ... Well, I have to give Smudge antibiotics (flagyl), and I guess it must be foul-tasting stuff because the vet gave me little empty gel capsules to put the pill in first. Flagyl *is* nasty tasting...

....on police officer's lap! This story was on my local news this morning. If I see it in an online newspaper I'll post the URL. In the meantime, the report was that a police officer was sitting in his patrol car when a cat jumped through the window. He shoo'd the cat out, but she jumped back in....

Yours truly is back in town and missing the cat terribly, but at least I can talk about them to you guys. Over 800 messages to read, so purrs and good vibes all around first. If you just want to go straight to the pics without reading my long-winded commentary, they're...

*tears* I'm crying because a cat lost her one true love. How "group-ish" is that and who else on this blessed earth would understand it and NOT be a member here already? This story is right up there with Shakespeare :) How beautiful Catherine. Grace "CATherine"...

My neighbor, owned by Fedders (RB) and Schwartzie, called to ask if I could take care of Schwarty (nickname) while she's gone for a week and a half, maybe two. She's moving! Putting her house up for sale and scouting an area closer to her son, DIL and grandkids. The problem is, he's a...

....have it sitting here next to me on the couch, and still can't grab it up quick enough to get snapshots and video of the masters' playing. Of course, first I have to find my glasses so I can actually *see* the phone and spend ten minutes looking for them before DH tells me they're on my...

Buffy figured out the crackle sack isn't just something to snooze on. You can crawl inside of it! I finally got the chance to snap a photo: http://i60.tinypic.com/2evztpt.jpg Tired of Buffy pics yet? ;) Jill

If anyone is interested, there is a very good video that has just been posted of Fritz "The Brave" having an asthma attack. I didn't know the symptoms of asthma when Sam first presented. After about 1 1/2 weeks of his coughing I took him to the vet and my description was "that he looked like he...

I need you guys' help. The vet told me to watch the burn closely for any change of color or appearance and if there is I was to take her in right away so they could do surgery. Well, the burn looks different than it did, but it might be that it's getting better. For those who can take...

Well, it's actually on Tuesday, but DJ got me my prezzy early: A dishwasher! He asked me a month ago what I wanted, and I'd been thinking and doing some 'online window shopping'. Well, yesterday, (Sat 1/10/04), we got up early and went to one of the local home improvement warehouses (this one...

A new neighbour came around to discuss something earlier. She saw Lily. After looking at her, and then at HRFL who deigned to come and inspect her, she said that she wouldn't have cats with only one eye, and she though I was nuts to have them when there were so many other *more perfect looking*...

Beast stopped eating the day after we arrived back in PA, Tuesday, his yowling went harsher and when yesterday he wouldn't even sniff the sausage patty brought home from breakfast - it was as though he waited to get "home". His cairn is just a step from Max's. I'm surprised at the depth of...

Hi, folks Boyfriend found out that Kitty FC was famous with her pic on rpca, and he wanted to be famous too. Unfortunately, he wasn't able to hack it. Faced with the camera, and still uncomfortable with being held, he wanted to get down. He is still shy. That's the first pic. The second is of...

Last week I wrote about how DH saved a chipmunk from certain death on the side of the road. Yesterday, we were able to save a turtle from death as it crossed a road. We were driving along, less than a mile from our home, when DH starts cursing, swerves and pulls over to the side of the road (I...

My sweet boy declined sharply over the weekend. His breathing is labored, he is too weak to walk, and I woke up in the middle of last night with him peeing in my bed. He wanted to walk around anyway, and he staggered around with me following him around. I don't want him to have any more...