The Furminator, as most of you know, is a deshedding tool, looking sort of like a flea comb with a long handle. I used it on both Dot and Burt, and as it's reputed to do, it does remove a surprising amount of fur. As I run it through their coats, it does have sort of a "pulling" feel to it, so I...

This morning I lowered myself into the bathtub and relaxed. Meanwhile, Emily our grey mischief-maker jumped down from the sink cabinet and stretched out on the bathmat on the floor. She looked at me, struck a cute pose, and meowed loudly. This called for a reply. I told her she was a glorious cat,...

Cap't Pine Cone Esq, I hereby dutily inform you that rather than sitting on a boat in water to undertake your travels, have you thought about catching a plane? As an experienced intercontinental traveller with lots of airmiles (and a rucksac) I can say that flying is all it is cracked up to be,...

I can't believe I've had the little booger for a whole year!! A year ago I saw that little scrap of black and white bitty muscle his way up to the front of the cage (over, under and around an older, calmer roommate), plant himself by the door and NYOW-WOW his little head off-- in a way that would...

If anyone has some purrs to spare can you purr for my friend's cat to get his furry butt home. My friend moved house a week and a half ago, and has been keeping the cats in. Unfortunately, her husband left a window open by accident and Charlie disappeared sometime over Friday night. Charlie is...

My computer is infected with a virus that's common with many members of RPCA. My anti-virus program won't block it. It goes by different names. In my case it's usually the Martha Virus, but it may also be the Emily Virus or the Sophie Virus. Here's what it does. After I've been working at my...

Suki is a klutz. She often misses her jumps (although this has in no way stopped her trying to leap Mount Improbable) and this afternoon she was busily cleaning her unmentionables when she just fell off the top of my PC, sending everything flying. She just got up, shook her head, and missed...

Just wondering if there is anyone in the Far North Dallas(Texas) area that is looking to adopt 2, sweet, young ,5 mth old(? or there abouts)kitties? They need Inside forever homes!....One male yellow tabby and one female calico....Our A!!hole neighbors have turned them out to fend for...

SEZ ME, DANTE. WEE ALREDDY HAS DA LAZZANYA SMELLZ AROWN HEER. (And nice pork sausages-- Stinky) MOMMY SEZ ITS FUR @MORRO. AN DAT SANDY PAWZ IS COMIN 2NITE. MOMMY AND GRANMA HAS DER "DRINKEEZ," ADN MOMMY IZ GOING TO WATCH AN OL "WORL SERYOUS" GAYM 2NITE-- AN GIV US GUYZ TREETZ. I LIKE...

Yesterday was a city holiday, and I wasn't working. I felt energetic (and the buses were all disrupted), so in spite of the rainshowers, I visited some friends, paused after leaving there and heading to the regatta (the reason for the holiday), paused en route to use a computer. I eventually got to...

I've had many cats and the majority of them have hunted to some degree, but I've never had one like Rose. She brings me things every day, sometimes more than once. Yesterday she dragged a rabbit home that was at least half her weight, a feat made more remarkable because to get it home she had...

Persia's having a blast. This is the first time I can remember she didn't get a furry mousie lost under or behind a piece of heavy (read: immoveable) furniture. This little mousie toy has stuck around in the living room for whole two days now. She's having such fun batting it around, tossing...

One of the cats has ripped out the corner of a window screen.Actually she (or they) probably had help - it's the screen on a downstairs back windown, which is nearly at ground level, and I suspect there may have been a, ummmm, lively discussion at the window between the inside cats and the outside...

Uncl Bill wuz sittin inda bigbig chair inda wivving rum anna I wuz settling in to seep for uwile on hss belly ann chest. DEN Bear jump offa da couch an YELLED at meee. I wuz so startled dat I dug my cwaz intooo pour Uncl Bill. Dat wuz bad anna neow Uncl Bill won' sleigh Bear becuz ittiz hiz furst...

Integration with the rest of the household seems to be coming along pretty well. Little Bit has explored most of the rooms fairly thoroughly, and gets around as if she's sighted, which is quite something to watch. She does get startled sometimes (things do get moved around here and there, and...

Further confirmed my cat slave status today. I was expecting a phone interview/pre-screening. I usually close the door so not to be distracted by external noise. When Senyah was going back into the living room, I asked to "Close the door, but not quite all the way, so the cats can go in and...

Monsieur has declared that feeding dry food out of hand is not enough for his Mastership. Turning up his nose at can food, I received permission from the vet to mix in a scoop of meat baby food. this too was not appropriate. Monsieur must have his food warmed in the microwave for him now, after...

Just got off the phone with her husband who is back at the motel. Christy is doing much better than expected. The staff plans to have her up and walking around a bit a couple of times tomorrow. For anyone who wanted to send her a card, he anticipates by the time a card could reach the hospital...

Following her op last week, my brother took Miss Lily Whiskers to see her TED for a check-up last night. She was apparently very well behaved apart from escaping from the exam room and going to suck up to and say hello to the receptionist, who also happens to be the head vet tech. (It's a very...

As you know, Miss Whiskers had her op to remove her left eye this morning. She is now back home, sacked out on a ho****er bottle covered in a sheepskin fleece, having eaten 2 packets of kitten whiskas. I think she's going to be OK. ;o) The vet says that she's skinny and underweight, but I think...