As soon as I wake up, use the facilities and go back to bed, "Meow Meow Meow Meow!!" I roll over, "Meow Meow Meow Meow!!" I have to hide my hands under the covers cause she has started to nip them. Five minutes later I have to roll over cause Mayhem has spotted bed mice and starts attacking...

Cheryl Perkins wrote: Given that he's so new to indoor living and has been seen by the vet twice in a week, I suspect behavioural rather than medical reasons. But I hope it can be dealt with by the usual disinfecting, removal of tempting targets like plastic bags, and provision of...

*Chester* has now jumped up onto the roof and *meowed* incessantly to be let in on no fewer than two separate occasions. *Chester* ran Otis off the bed lastnight (for a time anyway). *Otis* allowed the 9 year old next door to pick him up and carry him around. Things just aren't right. I have...

KFC is doing really well. She has already learnt that she gets her meal in the bedroom just for herself (without Boyfie) and she puts herself on the spare bed and says "prrrrt" Like: gimme my nice renal food here NOW even with auntibios in. I might be wrong, but she seems to have improved...

http://www.theolympian.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060821/NEWS/608210327 This article is all about a pack of killer raccoons in Olympia, WA. They're killing innocent cats. I thought this might be important for anyone living in that area or anyone with an outdoor cat in an area with raccoons....

.....and I'm lying there with my eyes half closed. I feel your presence and I can almost see you eying me up and down. I try to ignore you, and try to fight the urge within me to turn my smoldering eyes onto you.

It took us three days to drive from the S. Carolina Coast to Corpus Christi, Texas. We have a rental minivan with an awesome air conditioning system. Rosie and Cinder rode in roomy hard-sided travel crates. They certainly like boating better than traveling by car. Cinder complained (made me...

I got a call from Alexis (the middle girl, 12-year-old granddaughter). It seems St. Bernard Parish, being still population sparse, has decided to make the high school (Chalmette High) run from 7th grade to 12th grade instead of 9th to 12th as is usual. They held cheerleading try-outs and Alexis,...

My Lacey-Bug has a such a bad head cold and she is so miserable. She can't breath through her nose and today she began making a little puffhh noise as she breathed out through her mouth. It sounded like she was pushing her breath out of her lungs and she'd begun to drool. So of course I...

Since anything to do with cats is officially on-topic in this group, and Cthulhu is also (somewhat) on-topic, take a look at the sequence of web cartoons starting with http://www.twolumps.net/d/20060814.html. -- John F. Eldredge -- PGP key available from...

A while back I posted about reclaiming my fenced-in patio so Persia and I could enjoy sitting outside again. The apartment manager sent someone over earlier this week, unbeknownst to me. I walked out to get the mail and WOW! All the evil monkey grass is gone! So are the shrubs, bushes or...

Check out this fun version of an institution-- all stops on the Underground have been replaced by amagrams-- the real name is revealed when you mouse over it. I used to take the Hail Tuna branch of the Lent Car to Satan Dew! Theresa Stinky Pictures:...

I'm sorry to be so needy lately, but well...I feel like I'm over my head here and the stress from DH doesn't help. For several hours all I've heard is "take her to the vet, you have to take her to the vet...she has pneumonia, she's going to die..take her in the morning and leave her with the...

I have two older cats and one of my cats refuse now to use the litter box. We have recently moved and for a while she was sharing the litter box, but suddenly quit and using the bathroom every where on the carpet. We give both very much TLC. We believe our other cat is not letting her use the...

I've noticed the more authentic (ie, not in a "cooking healthy/ light/ lowfat/ etc" book) cornbread recipes always call for shortening to coat the pan. Would it be a disaster to use spray Pam or something instead? I just don't have much use for shortening, so I don't see the point of buying any...

I'm sitting at the computer, which is in a wooden armoire in our study. I have my right foot on the edge of the wood, so that my heel is kinda hanging in the air. I feel whiskers and a paw with claws. I look down and see Rufous pawing my heel. I say "silly Rufous, that's just my foot!" and keep...

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Mark Edwards wrote: Yay! One of the neighbors babysits a lot of kids, who all run around, sometimes near our door as well. A couple of days ago, I was out feeding Mrs. Wiggleworm and family, when a bunch of the kids came around to pet her and watch her eat. One of the little girls...

Cheryl Perkins wrote: Sam's had the big snip, and it seemed to go uneventfully except for a lot of difficulty getting him back into the cage to go home. I should have warned them. He *really* doesn't like getting into cat carriers! I've managed to put him in backwards, so he can't spread...

Kitty is home, I just fetched her. The diagnosis is CRF :-( with a touch of senility thrown in. Her thyroid and liver are fine and she doesn't have a UTI. Her white cells were a bit raised so she has antibiotics for a week. I'm not looking forward to pilling her twice a day, that's for...