Quick, somebody start a flame war - it's urgent, I need a recipe! ; My ex Monster-In-Law had only one good thing going for her - she cooked, and baked, from scratch, anything she put on her table. I'd gotten most of recipes and techniques early on in the marriage, but one this one that I'm...

Baggy was trying to wee last night and couldn't, this morning he still hadn't used his box and was very distressed. I took him straight to the vet where he still is, they're going to give him an anaesthetic and catheterise him. I've got to ring them this afternoon to see how he is and when I...

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...

Without time to go deeply into details or even an outline, I ask for good thought-energy and purrs sent this way for me and my owners to be able to get a good home together in the near future. Help, help, HELP!?! I know things can go in any direction but with you all pulling & purring for us,...

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...

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...

BUT! this one has a happy ending :) I'd been told for 2 years that I didn't qualify for any sort of government assistance because (1) I don't have children and (2) I have an IRA. This didn't make sense to me because single people have to eat, too. I finally found a woman at the Tennessee Dept....

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...

I was bringing the dogs out for their walk the other morning and it was not quite dawn and raining, not great visibility. However, the dogs alerted me that something was going on. Samantha, the Shi Tzu puppy, was barking in a hostile manner that I have seldom heard from her before and Bear, the...

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...

Little Delta needs your purrayers please... she went to what was supposed to be her forever home the other day, and John just had to go and pick her up from the vet tonight - somebody who was supposed to love her didn't :( She's going to be living with John now (along with the three foster cats he...

In fond memory of Dave... Cast of Characters: Sammy - 9-month-old female kitten Jessie - 5-year-old female cat Mommy - MUCH older female human Mommy walks through the sitting room, looks at the Christmas tree

*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"...

Got up early this morning, well at least early for a Sunday. Even after 10 years after retirement from the Army, I still wake up about 5 most mornings. Most of the time I just turn over and go back to sleep, but this morning Sammy noticed me awake and decided it was a perfect time for some quality...

It was as I feared. Her kidneys were too far gone. So I made the painful decision; Persia went to the bridge this afternoon. The vet gave me a little heart shaped stone "memory box" with some of her fur in it. She will be cremated and her ashes returned to me. Heartfelt thanks to all of you...

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...

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...

I love how cats imitate the positions of those (other felines, humans, dogs, whomever) around them: http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2009/01/cat-and-baby.html -- Joyce ^..^ (To email me, remove the X's from my user name.)

Since I've reached the stage in life where I've been reading the obits to see if I'm on the list yet, in reading them this morning I found one a bit unusual. A beloved lady had passed on and, of course, there was a list of survivors - - husband, son, step-sisters and -brother, beloved friends - ...

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...