Please please start right now and join me in a newsgroup-wide collective purr for Cheryl's Shadow. She is on her way to the ER with him.

Please allow me a little venting and a few more purr requests. I am having one heck of a time sleeping. I've always had occasional bouts of insomnia and usually when I sense something like this coming on I'll take a valerian root capsule about 30 minutes before bedtime. It works (usually). My...

Our patio roof has been leaking and I have been putting a bucket under the leak (Ted said the next time it leaked ring him so that he could see where the water is coming from) Last night we had torrential rain and when I got up the roof was leaking in three other places and the bucket was almost...

Smoke's a Cheese commonsewer. I was having a grilled cheese sandwhich for supper, but used processed cheese product (slices) instead of the usual Cracker Barrel. So when I offered Smokey her usual taste she turned her nose up at it. She said that's plastic, not CHEESE.

Once again when a cat was found dead here from a heart attack someone came on from the USA and brought up the inside/outside debate again. It wouldn't have made any difference, FGS. I rarely enter into the inside/outside debate. It's safe here in the Uk and not in America and we must agree to...

On Cute Overload today, they have a video of a lion that was adopted from Herods by a couple. They raised him until he was too big, then rehomed him to Africa. They go to Africa to look for him, but forewarned that he is now "too wild". The reunion is heart-tuggingly sweet.

I know I speak for everyone when I ask you to re-consider leaving the group. I enjoy your delightful stories and want to keep reading them. Occasionally I have felt like you do over some replies to my stories or comments but then I have reconsidered and thought, "I am only mad at one person"...

Hi everyone, If you remember the incredible rescue story from last year on how JMS saved Buddy the cat, here's an update from the B5 moderated newsgroup. Christine "Jms at B5" wrote in message ... For those who've been inquiring...

I never thought I'd ever give away a pet. It's completely against everything I believe. And yet, this morning, I brought the sweetest, most lovely cat I've ever met to a shelter. I feel like the worst person in the world, even though I know that the shelter is extremely caring, that they will...

Here are some cute kitten pictures that a friend sent me. My favorite is the very stripey one hanging from a strip of cloth by its front claws - now that's one determined kitty! I'd vote for kittens any day!! (You'll understand that comment once you see the site - it's a bit bizarre, and...

We don't know why yet. We just found him laying in the pasture. He was not acting sick in the least, and his body did not appear to have been injured in any way. He was already stiff and cold when we found him, and he had a small amount of white foam in one nostril. Gloria will be taking him...

The hardest thing I have ever had to type. :( Last night it my best buddy suffered some kind of stroke that caused him to loose control of his legs. Within hours he became more and more weaker and quietly passed to the bridge while I held him in my arms. Just before he died he turned his head and...

I've been given a cat. And after I agreed, now I'm told the cat HATES to be in a carrier, and hates to travel by car. Oh, now you tell me. What options are there? Kitty sleeping pill? -- .. Christopher A. Young

Video story of Christian the lion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adYbFQFXG0U Snopes.com reports that this video story is true: http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/christian.asp MaryL

Just for fun... Rules: 1) Reply to the original post (this one), if at all possible, to make counting votes easier. 2) Post *one* link to a picture of one of *your own* cats, doing an upside-downy head pose, by replying to this post. 3) In your post, identify the cat doing the upside-downy...

While I was trying to go to sleep about an hour ago, I heard loud noises in the carport. I went out with a flashlight and found a huge possum, frothing at the mouth with a very hostile demeanor. Normally possums in the carport do not act this way, they just sort of ignore me or run off. Not this...

Dear all Yesterday when I got up, Kitty FC was not in the house for her breakfast as usual, but there was still some food in the dishes and it was obviously going to be a very hot day, so I thought maybe she just out sunbathing somewhere. She had not returned by 1 pm when I had to leave for a...

Things just keep getting better and better - NOT! Thursday the doctor told me my bloodwork showed I was very anemic and he said my blood pressure was through the roof. He gave me prescriptions for both. Friday I had a really *BAD* day at work - my boss was riding me all day long, even through...

I had to take Frank to the emergency vet today. This morning, he was straining on the litterbox, then a little gas escaped and two small, hard poops. Oh, I thought, he is constipated. I broke out the paraffin oil. Took some in a dropper, and had a huge fight with Frank before I managed to squirt a...

I have a visitor… Whilst out cycling tonight, the Unfit Family was pootling along the quiet lanes of Norfolk when "Meeeeow!!" It ran out from the side of the road. A black and white cat. We are in the middle of relative nowhere. This is an adult cat which is very friendly. There are no...