This week has been grossly stressful. Therefore the hoomins are going to take a short break from their regular programming. That means I won't be reading or replying to RPCA for a few days. So purrs & prayers for those who need them. See you when I get back.

I had marked everything in RPCA as 'read' just before I left home for work. I sat down here at lunch time, and discovered 130 messages had been posted between 8:30am and 12noon. After working my way through that 130, I checked again (at 12:48) and discovered 20 new messages had appeared whilst I...

Nothing terribly out of the ordinary for a Thursday evening. Joel made dinner, we ate it and were sitting around watching TV. "We need need bread for tomorrow" he said. "Ok, I'll go out, I need to get a few more fish anyway," I replied, as the last of my neons was floating upside down in my...

Thinking that I was writing a personal e-mail, I mistakenly posted it to Catslaves. I tried to recall it, but no such luck, it has gone out to everyone subscribed to receive e-mail from Catslaves. It has been deleted from the group, but may have already landed in your inbox. I can only offer...

Some of you will know I am about to become a slave to a third cat. I pick her up tomorrow. In the photo, she looks *exactly* like Suki (ie, pure white & very fluffy), except for her eyes which are green/yellow rather than blue like Suki. But her eyes are *just* like Pickle's eyes. She's 18...

Picked up New Cat. She is even fluffier than Suki, if thats possible. I thought she looked pregnant until I picked her up and realised that she's actually just skin and bone underneath the fluff. At least I know that will change. Although white, she's very dirty. I don't know what to do about...

She's come out of the surgery fine. It was a little more complicated that expected because she had already been desexed. Ooops. Wish I didn't have to pay for it again, but better safe than sorry I guess. She due to come home this afternoon. yay! Yowie

Have any of you USA folks seen an Australian TV show called "Good News Week" starring Paul McDermott, Mikey Robbins and Claire Hooper? Just wondering because the above people were all wearing white poppies in last night's show, but we don't observe Memorial day (or any other even when wearing...

Apparantly there has only been 19 posts to RPCA since 8am (my time). Usually there's over 100 - is there's something wrong with NIN? Yowie

Had to share this: To my friends with Children: Why parents drink The boss wondered why one of his most valued employees had not phoned in sick one day. Having an urgent problem with one of the main computers, he dialed the employee's home phone number and was greeted with a child's whisper. "...

Funny: http://orangefish1.blogspot.com/2006/09/cat-muumuu.html Yowie

"tanada" wrote in message ... Pam S. who really doubts that cats could give a sh*t about politics, other than Pine Cone's rather abortive run at the governorship of Catifornia OOOOH! I bet he'd give the Guvinator...

Dave is booked to go into hospital for his operation on the 21st of November. For some reason its considered 'elective' surgery, so could be rescheduled at the last moment, but at least it soon. Purrs & prayers for successful surgery to go ahead on the scheduled date, and for a quick and...

And not off topic: For non-Wiccans, you'll want to see this page: http://www.thewica.co.uk/photo.htm But for Wiccans an others interested in the history of Wicca, the rest of the site is about the History of Scottish Wica (thats how Gerald Gardner spelt the word) and is probably the most...

Joel & I befriended an overseas (to us) couple via an internet game. In a gesture of friendship and cultural exchange, we sent them a box of uniquely Austraian goodies, mostly snack food and candy. They sent a box of goodies in return, but got the address muddled up and it was returned to them...

Shmogg is not well. The vet said without doing various tests, she couldn't say for sure wether it was diabetes or kidney failure, but by the symptoms (forever drinking, peeing innappropriately, always hungry, loss of weight and energy, howling) it was probably diabetes. She thought, given the...

Shmogg was assisted to Rainbow Bridge today at about 10:45am AEST. Yowie, catless.

Perhaps I'm mad... But yesterday evening I told Joel I thought perhaps I'd like to get a tattoo in Shmogg's memory, as something permanantly with me to remind me of him. Except I really couldn't decide what sort of tattoo or where. This lunchtime I was out buying DVDs at the local shopping mall...

She may be alot bigger than a standard cat, she may woof rather than meow and growl rather than purr, she may wave her tail when she's hapy rather than when she's mad, she may have lost her Dignity somewhere, and she takes up *far* more room on my bed than Shmogg, but she can nurse-cat just as...

Just struck me as hilariously funny: Duck Food One day while I was working in my office, this duck just comes waddlin' in. He looks around for a while and then jumps onto my desk and asks me, "Hey, do you got any duck food?"