As I mentioned, there hasn't been a month go by without a diaster of some sort, or something very sad. December, my brother died. He was only 51. I am still mourning his death. He left me the house I owned half of and he owned half of. And he left me one basically nasty but beautiful...

Using Catnipped's *FABULOUS* Excel spreadsheet, I have been keeping track of the Enormous Eight on a weekly basis (mainly due to Tennessee weighing in at a whopping 16 pounds a month ago!) Ernie is 13lb 15oz (up 2 oz from last week)(total loss* is 3oz) Lizzie is 8lb 15.5oz (down .5 oz)(total loss*...

(stolen from another newsgroup) YOU KNOW YOU LIVE ON THE GULF COAST WHEN ... You have FEMA's number on your speed dialer. You have more than 300 C and D batteries in your kitchen drawer. Your pantry contains more than 20 cans of Spaghetti Os. You are thinking of repainting your house to match the...

Thomas, my elderly next door neighbours cat is a ginger and white boy, a gentle statesman of a cat who is about 16 or 17. He successfully fought thyroid problems a couple of years ago which brought him a new lease of life for a while, but recently he has been losing weight and going downhill. He...

Well, my laptop finally gave me enough fits to give up and move upstairs to the Computer Room/Kitty Rescue Room and start using this computer to read and post from. I had to download Free Agent and get it all configured (which took awhile -- been some time since I'd done that, and I tend to forget...

Howz to remoov da pocket frum da pill. I's bin gittin dees tastee treets for a few months now. In the begiinin dey was gud, but wen I started to chew dem, sted of swallowin dem. I noticed dis bitter taste. So I refusd to eat them. But then I discuverd dat if you got it reely wet and roll it...

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Greetings everyone. I'm sorry if this is a bit off-topic, but it's about a cat rather than a bubbel :-) Angelmaine Pericles, Red Tabby Maine Coon of the parish of Stoke Climsland in Cornwall, UK, celebrates his 6th birthday today. His festive lunch of a huge quantity of Cod having been demolished,...

The day before Dennis left to go back to work, he decided to buy some new furniture for us. They are delivering it today. We got one of those Chinese step cabinets and we're going to use it for the TV, stereo and all that stuff. So, since Dennis has been gone for 3 days, I had to empty the old...

As Stinky told you all, we are having painting and work done in the house. Just about everything upstairs was moved temporarily downstairs, and it looks like that famous last dolly scene in "Citizen Kane." :P Boxes, crates and junk as far as the eye can see. Stinky had to sniff everything and...

I got an email for a catalog that you might enjoy. It has puzzles, toys and other goodies that are pretty interesting. http://www.bitsandpieces.com/default.asp?SID=bitsemail03&EID=bitsemail03&lm=bits Or Tiny URL: http://tinyurl.com/6bea5s Pam S. working at making someone's day a little brighter

"Mark Edwards" wrote in message ... I finally found the perfect bumper sticker to put on the pristine bumper of my car: "There are two important things to remember about Surrealism: frogs, power tools, and the Lincoln Memorial....

Who covers eerily, when Diane teases the polite pen around the road? I am eventually dirty, so I comb you. Why Bernice's pretty jar dreams, Patrice explains inside open, closed fields. Don't even try to attack a cat! She'd rather pull undoubtably than live with Roxanna's difficult...

Tell Cristof it's bizarre recommending behind a pitcher. If you will pour Jon's barn towards jugs, it will lazily answer the yogi. I am actually healthy, so I live you. All proud sad dogs will simply call the bandages. The spoon over the abysmal star is the lentil that moves inadvertently. It...

This morning I spooned canned cat food onto Rusty's dish. Afterwards, I let him lick the leftover on the spoon. He grabbed the spoon with his paw and ate from it. When he dropped some, he let go of the spoon and ate from the floor before going back to the spoon. He looked so cute I wish I had a...

Well, I made my first batch of raw food today. I ground up a whole chicken (sans most of the muscle meat) and added all the other nice supplements. I divided it in 7 portions and froze 6 of them. The other portion was served as dinner a little while ago. Fez licked some of the ground up slurry, but...

Hello everyone, I have two 12 week old adorable bundles of chaos, who like most kittens are into everything and anything (regardless of whether they are supposed to be or not. I have had cats before but never ones who will actually seek me out to try to eat my food (and I mean whatever you eat!) ...

Persia likes to have the bridge of her nose rubbed. She comes up to me when she's feeling particularly snuggly and if I pat the top of her head she turns her face up so I can rub the bridge of her nose. She starts purring like mad. This leads to her rubbing her face on my hand and...

Dave sent this yesterday evening: Saw him several times today - he is very very tired but is glad that the worst is over. The ETT is gone and so are some of the other tubes. He had a very light lunch and a light dinner - he remembers the ice cream. :) dave

I talked to Junebug in Canada this morning and at her request put on my web cam. I've hardly used it. I suddenly realised I had a roomful of funny hats from around the world so started putting them on to show her. What a hoot. The face isn't much but the hats are great. Then Clyde had to be...