To *everyone* - thank you. It's the morning of the first big day. I have a sneaking suspicion I'm more nervous than he is.... It's a dull, grey, damp day - I just hope it's not an omen of bad things... Cheers, helen s (biting fingernails...)

A number of very kind and generous souls have given the most adorable gifts and cards to Cary. I've tried to thankyou personally, but the e-mail addresses I have for you don't seem to be working. I'm really sorry I don't have the time to write toyou with a personal thankyou using actual...

Ok, its been about 3 timeouts for Shamrock tonight. I just don't get it with him. He has these moods where he relentlessly attacks Shadow (and me!) and tonight is one of those nights. It is like he is possessed and will not ignore; leave him alone; go find something else to do. We played earlier...

Hi all! I just spoke w/Annie, they have made it to Pittsburgh safe and sound. Had a little trouble getting out of Houston, other than that it was fine. Her hubby is going in for surgery on Thursday, but at this point they don't have a time. She will call me later and let me know - I'll keep you...

One of baby Catherine's favorite games is peekaboo, especially when played with the lime green flannel blanket we use to protect the carpet from baby emissions and the baby from the dirty carpet. The blanket is about twice the size of a regular receiving blanket, but not large enough to qualify as...

We're going to get a new 3-piece suite. If the price is right, we may get leather. If the cat uses a leather sofa as a scratching post, how much damage could she do? -- David Cowie david_cowie at lineone dot net Containment Failure + 3962:45

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...

The Cat Album updated with the rest of the Bruiser pictures I sent in. They are the same ones I posted to the animal pictures group so nothing new for you I am afraid. All are about 2 months old. Pretty strange with Bruiser how light he looks from underneath and so dark from above him. But is not...

Funny.... sometimes she opens her mouth and meows but nothing comes out! Yet she appears to be very sincere and fully intending to tell me something. What's this about? The other morning she was walking along the edge of the bathtub, and she went " " (really, she looked like she was meowing but...

I'm always talking about Wilson's Independance the keeping of himself *to* himself, never sits next to me, or even in my chair, even though he follows me everywhere, waits for me, watches everything I do sometimes he'll sit between my feet, and nights, when he thinks I'm asleep, he'll make a nest...

ok, so i get a call from a friend as i alwasy seem to do when there is a stray cat around their house, they think cause i volunteer for PAWS that i can take in any cat out there. well my friend finds this cat, she is female orange declawed cat, so stupid me, i go look at the cat BIG mistake. well...

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I wonder how many of us talk some kind of baby talk to our cats, sometimes even without necessarily realizing it. My mother says I talk to Stinky the same way she talked to me and my brother when we were toddlers. "What's for breakfast today? Why don't we go see?" She pointed it out to me when...

Update on last week's purr request. Dweeble is home, and his trachea is healing well, and fingers crossed he will be fine. Sadly Lulu (my mum's 14 year old cat) didn't make it. She refused to eat after the surgery, and went downhill very quickly, she was put to sleep this morning, poor...

Well I am just sorry but I don't like not being owned! I need a furry master to put me in my place. I need rules. I need to know my proper station. I cannot just go through life free!!!! So... it has been decided that we will be getting 2 kittens. We had been seriously considering getting a...

From cnn.com: FLORENCE, South Carolina (AP) -- An Army helicopter with three soldiers aboard vanished during a training flight in bad weather, and a search was under way Tuesday, authorities said. The UH-60 Blackhawk was on a flight from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to Florence when it was...

I don't think I've mentioned it, but I am now a great aunt ;-) The small human kitten whose existance makes me a great aunt has taken her first steps in becoming well-versed in the craft of understanding the feline as a superior species. I am informed by her mother that she has carried out a first...

After the rain last night, I just took the day off, I hate mowing wet grass, and checked out the campgrounds. I had a good drive checking things out. Out on the refuge I saw the usual buffalo and long horn cattle, and had to stop at one point to let some long horns cross the road, mamas with the...

Little black cat is sweet, healthy (but may have a touch of ringworm, which is being treated) but unfortunately very pregnant. She's been abandoned by her humans who moved house and just left her. A friend of mine found her and is currently looking after her, but cannot keep her.

I have caught Pearl watching TV several times lately! She is my first TV watcher. It's pretty amusing. She looks like she's really taking it in. Tonight it was a home improvement show. Go figure. Karen