I'm sorry, but this association is really *too much*. Talk about controlling. They have an antiquated listserv. People use it to sell stuff. Or to ask to borrow stuff. Or for people who want recommendations or suggestions about things. I own a lot of jewelry. When I worked I'd wear it. ...

I think that 'Cat' is the most wonderful word in the world. My Dot is a Cat. And Buster is a different kind of Cat. And Betty was just a Cat as well. And they're all very wonderful and precious to me! So what does Cat mean to you? To me, 'Cat' means toasty. Cat means soft and toasty. Cat...

Hi Baha! Did you get much of the rain that has come through upstate/central NY in the last 2/3 days? We had between 5 and 7 inches near Syracuse in the pst 48 hours. My cats aren't normally afraid of storms, but the lightening struck 3 houses within 2 miles of us. The thunder clap that followed...

Somebody (I suspect Silver) ate most of an elastic band this morning while we were at the store :( When we opened the door to go out, there was a flyer hanging from the doorknob, so I brought it inside and put it down on the dining table and went out without a further thought... when we got home,...

PC has opened up his blog so that we can post stories about the voyages of the Mouser at http://mousertails.blogspot.com/ I hope that he won't be the only one writing stories, and welcome your imput. Unfortunately they won't let him publish all of his profile, the meanies. but what he has done is...

Too Many Kittens -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- By RALPH POHLMAN, Psychiatrist About a year ago I recounted the story of the time two of our three cats had litters of kittens at the cottage. At the end of the summer my wife made the memorable trek home in the...

Dad has decided Scott's house is too much effort and so he's not buying it. Oh well. He wants me to live in a gated community. He also wants me to get a job at Walmart in Benton, Arkansas and maybe he'll help me buy a house there. Oh, that's nice. I'm smiling, really!. Good thing he's not...

Using Catnipped's *FABULOUS* Excel spreadsheet, I have been keeping track of the Enormous Eight on a weekly basis (mainly due to Tennessee weighing in at a whopping 16 pounds a month ago!) Ernie is 13lb 15oz (up 2 oz from last week)(total loss* is 3oz) Lizzie is 8lb 15.5oz (down .5 oz)(total loss*...

Hi all, Here are the photos of Tucker and Robin taking part in the world-wide feline wrestling federation competitions -- sorry it took so long for me to post these. I'd taken a lot with Celeste's camera and then she'd erased them all to take photos of something else so I had to start...

Helsinki arranged a victory party for Lordi on Friday evening at the Market Square downtown. The City expected some thousands of fans, but a total of over 90,000 showed up, from all over the country. The President (whose palace is right by the Market Square) came out after Lordi's opening number...

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1657840.html Cat found after six years A cat has been reunited with it's owner after six years. Colin the tomcat vanished from Emma Phillips' home in Barkingside, Essex, in 1999. Colin lived as a stray until a woman handed him to pet rescue charity the

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Are you difficult, I mean, moulding at ugly barbers? He may waste the cosmetic tailor and kick it between its river. The weak elbow rarely dines Lydia, it smells Vincent instead. I am partly brave, so I join you. My wide twig won't laugh before I look it. Dick, have a strong fig. You won't...

Who covers eerily, when Diane teases the polite pen around the road? I am eventually dirty, so I comb you. Why Bernice's pretty jar dreams, Patrice explains inside open, closed fields. Don't even try to attack a cat! She'd rather pull undoubtably than live with Roxanna's difficult...

What's the deal? Why do cats always want in the closet? It's not like there is anything new in there. Persia cried and cried until I let her in the closet. Okay. She's in the closet. I hear all this shuffling around in there. I look and see a pair of eyes peering at me from the 3rd...

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Everytime I open this newsgroup I start crying. But I miss ya'll too. So bear with me. Abi's doing well. Or well enough. Jody and I were out of town five weeks ago and came home to a broken arm. She had been riding one of the children's go-cart things and it tilted. She braced her fall...

Sigh. What is wrong with people? I get a call last night from a friend. Someone has dumped, in a box (with the lid folded over, so at least I suppose there was *some* air available) two kittens on his daughter and her husband's property. Unfortunately, hubby's an a**, and his idea is to drown...

I was doing some laundry (yes, folks, you read that right!) and opened the dryer to put a load of clothes in. But there was a little lizard in there! Guess it would stain my clothes if I just put them in there and turned it on. Better get the lizard out first. I tried chasing it out with...

Dave sent this yesterday evening: Saw him several times today - he is very very tired but is glad that the worst is over. The ETT is gone and so are some of the other tubes. He had a very light lunch and a light dinner - he remembers the ice cream. :) dave