If anyone is interested, Orb, winner of Kentucky Derby is listed as "favorite". We are sending purrs that all horses and jockeys are safe from harm. The weather report said it is a wet track. MLB and TuTu

Chloe has taken a liking to crackers - like Ritz crackers, except a different brand and whole wheat. If she is in, she won't let me munch on them unless I give her one, maybe two. She picks them up easily enough and munches away. She does, however, leave a lot of crumbs for me to clean...

He keeps dipping a paw into a cup and licking the tea off the paw. He's got three water bowls, but he prefers the leftover tea.

I have a lot of barky dogs in close vicinity to my house, so the sound of barking dogs isn't anything new to my cats. But there are times that Rhett and/or Scarlett will growl at the sound of the dogs barking, then go run and hide behind the couch or some other furniture. Shamrock is never...

All the extra food that Abelard has been wolfing down lately is definitely putting weight on his bones. He's heavier when I pick him up, and I can start to see the difference, too. Best of all, when I stroke his back, it is harder to feel the individual spinal vertebrae. Dave agrees with me on...

Wish I'd done this earlier. Finally got sick of waiting for YouTube clips to download before watching them, and decided to contact my ISP. Apparently, according to them, I was maxed out on speed, but I could always buy more data (which is not the point - I don't use much data because I can't...

I exchange cat sitting duties with some of my neighbors and Dusty is so timid that I never see him when cat sitting although I do play with the other four cats in the household. Serene's son stopped by last night to let me know that Dusty had apparently gotten out through a partially opened...

Somehow Smiley managed to sit on my TV remote and turn the TV on in the middle of the night, came as quite a shock ;-) -- Nik Simpson

Thank you, John McMaster, and kitty Cinder (great photo!) and neighbor's brown "kitty" (another great photo). Blessings and a very happy holidays to you and yours! Jill

If you're near a WalMart you might want check the pet food section, I think they might be going to discontinue carrying 9 Lives canned. We got several cases here for .10/can today (5.5 oz.).

Yesterday evening I was putting the finishing touches to my conference presentation. Lastly, I read it out loud to see how long it takes to read. My time slot is limited to 20 minutes, so I had to clock it carefully. When I started reading, Nikki started answering back! She looked very worried,...

I know I've disappeared for a good long while, but I have had almost nothing but something terrible and/or depressing happening every month since last July. And I think I've done my fill of depressing and terribly posts! (Well, I have to make just *one* more, because it is cat-related) My...

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I am ever amazed at the intiution of cats. It seems that they can tell, even before the "d" thing, when someone is going to come to the house. I can tell by watching their reactions, whether it is a known person or salesman (of goods or religion). I am even more amazed at the intelligence of...