Nasty thunderstorms moving through this area and it's pouring down rain. It's keeping the temps nice and cool, though. Persia and I are hearing the occasional burst of thunder but she came out of the closet (so to speak!) to meow at me and get some scritches. She might finally be beginning to...

Dear Friends: I am very stuck!! I have a 2 year old cat that I have had since she was a kitten. I found her behind an automotive garage when she was three weeks. I took her to a vet and he allowed me to bottle feed her for 4 weeks. She is healthy and has all of her vaccinations. She is spayed...

I got a visit from the head of the city utilities department today. No one can account for the excessive readings on my electric and water bills. I'm wondering where to turn next for help in investigating this matter.

I had to nip up to TED's today to get some food for Robbie. It's a very quiet specialist cat clinic, and as well as your normal run-of-the-mill moggies, he also deals with a lot of pedigree cats. A lady was there with a litter of Siamese babies. She breeds and shows Siamese, and the 12 week old...

I just witnessed Tommy allowing Eli to win a play-fight. He even yelped once, as if to say "Hey, man, take it easy on me!" Tommy's the boss, Eli knows that so well, and I think a big part of why he was so aggressive toward the younger and smaller kitties before, was always being lower in status...

It always seems that there are few pictures that convey domestic contentment that are quite like that of a person relaxing in his or her living room, no worries, rapt in their knitting and the quiet wonder of weaving something useful and tangible out of the vague tangle that is yarn. Of my cats I...

I've mentioned that my therapist has two cats, one of whom (Yin) is always with me during therapy. The other one, Baby, was older, frailer, and more shy. I never met her because she stayed upstairs, at least when company was around. My therapist brought Baby to the vet to help her to the Bridge...

I was working the adoptathon for my local no kill rescue society today (and tomorrow and Sunday) when I ran into a couple who were interested in an older cat who might not otherwise get adopted. I immediately told them about Calico who is 9 years old and has the thyroid problem. They were...

It was on the 5th of May, 2003 that DD made her journey to the Rainbow Bridge. DD had been Nancy's companion for a few years before Nancy and I married. When Nancy and I moved in together we each brought a kitty - I brought Cleo and Nancy brought DD. The kitties settled in with each other...

A young lady knocked on my door in the summer of 1997, she had a very large cardboard box with her and in the box were 2 very frightened, jet black, 6 month old kittens. she had found them in her garden when they were about 3 months old and it took quite a while before they trusted her enough to...

We were adopted (literally) by Sonny a year and a half ago. We put the story of how he chose us, for those who want a light read and a few photos, here http://web.ncf.ca/ai151/sonny.html The 2 bottom photos on this next page http://web.ncf.ca/ai151/sonny2.html were taken yesterday at the vet's...

Any one else watching this guy WOW good magician

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Iowa City Fines People Who Feed Stray Cats CLERMONT, Iowa (AP) -- The city isn't going to pussyfoot around when it comes to stray cats. The City Council has decided that anyone who feeds the cuddly creatures are aiding a nuisance. Mayor Rodney Wagner says police could photograph people who feed...

This exchange also appears in the thread, "How loud does your cat purr?" but I think it deserves its own posting because of Matthew, and others like him. Matthew aka NMR wrote: Rumble is loud that when he was a little kitten palm size when I rescued him after I chased the person down that...

"Singh" wrote in message ... In the past few days I posted a few stories portraying the Master Species of Cat to be not only our superiors (as we catslaves know) but our object of veneration. But I do swear that cats seem to know the ...

I've told you guys how Sammy comes up to my desk chair and taps me on my arm when she wants to play with her wand. I have little holes all along my left arm because pokes me with her claws to be sure to get my attention. I was concentrating on a particularly hard bit of code just now when...

I've already told you about the enormous success that the scratching post was (NOT!) So why, oh why did I buy a beanbag bed for Kitty? I thought it would be nice for her old bones to have a bed that would adapt to her shape. I put in on her bed by the fire and covered it with her favourite...

Either the original robin is back, or the behaviour of the orginal has been learnt by the offspring... Remember how back in 04 I posted about a robin who would fly into the utility room and take dry catfood from Waffles's bowl? Happened again this morning :-) Cheers, helen s

Look at this cat!! http://www.mycathatesyou.com/cats/2006/05/1