Every year, millions of day-old baby chicks are mailed via the U.S. Postal Service by commercial hatcheries and cockfighting breeders. The chicks are literally packed in boxes and sent through the mail, without food or water, and with no concern for temperature extremes. This inhumane practice...

The night before we became Pepper's family,s he was given a bath by the people who rescued her to get rid of most of her fleas. She certainly didn't have very many when we picked her up, but to be certain, we stopped on the way home and picked up some flea drops (for the back of the neck) from...

Saturday, the mother cat returned her kittens to the barn. My daughter found them and was able to scoop all four up and take them into the house, where they promptly went under the dresser in the kitten room. Buddy, their brother, who had been enjoying the life of a pampered cat was surprised when...

Is anyone else enjoying (???!!!) the latest round of ice/sleet/snow we're getting this a.m.? (I think it's headed to you, Pat, if it's not there already) I am just praying that the weather people are wrong, because they're expecting power failures statewide tonight because of ice...

one of the things that my spinal surgery took away was my ability to write. I can now do it, but not great yet.

What a stitch. I have been locked up with people who are saner than this guy. The post really isn't what it appears from the subject heading. It is the delusions of someone who isn't on their medication at the moment. I'm not saying to laugh at the guy, but it is an incredible insight into just...

I have just brought home a blue tick hound that someone dumped a week ago at the rest area. The kids that work there are, retarded for the most part. By the time I got there, the dog was so hyper. I got her to the TED and she is not chipped. He was too busy to mess with her today so wouldn't...

Hi cat-lovers, I have a list of CAT NAMES. Here is the link: http://www.flippyscatpage.com/catnames.html. Please check if your cat's names are on the list, and if not you can add them. Regards, Flippy in Melbourne, Australia. Catpage: http://www.flippyscatpage.com

OK - as you all know, I have 4 kittens that I will be adopting out, with the help of a local rescue agency. I was wondering if any of you have any sort of Adoption Contract? One that I could maybe use and/or modify to fit my specifics? I don't want these kittens to go to just anyone, and I want...

If I wrote my autobiography, people would think it belonged in the fiction section. Not all these things could *possibly* happen to one person -- except for me. Last Monday, I stepped out into the hall to find a group of the cats surrounding something that looked to me like a weird double...

Have been preoccupied, about a week, just skimming rpca. Have even whipped the Evil 3 into a frenzy of nerves here, even porker short furry people that they are, all of us anxiously awaiting word from Denver on imminent arrival of my first barekitten there.....early today - St. Paddy's (and *no...

I actually went out yesterday, it was a very warm day, and as we pulled into a disabled parking spot, I caught a glimpse of a small dog locked in a very hot car. Poor thing was so drenched, and panting, and so I called the police on my cellphone...next thing I know, police car, and a tow truck...

Yours truly is back in town and missing the cat terribly, but at least I can talk about them to you guys. Over 800 messages to read, so purrs and good vibes all around first. If you just want to go straight to the pics without reading my long-winded commentary, they're...

On 25 Nov 2004 10:07:52 GMT, (dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers) wrote: Waffles will not keep an E-collar on either. The only cat I ever had in an elizabethen collar tolerated it pretty well. Tiger was a large cat so the vet put him in a dog collar. His grooming...

Marina, thought of you a lot today; sending mega-purrs and hugs from us all. Christine, Omar, Midnight, Oreo, Robin & Tucker

Top of the list has to be Trouble. I didn't give Trouble her name. Hubby did. Or maybe she gave it to herself. She certainly earned it. The night we found her it took about two hours to catch her, one hour to research how to make kitten formula, another hour to go to a store for ingredients,...

Since returning from France there's been a visitor to Chateau Simmons. One that is not welcome according to the feline residents - especially according to Waffles. It's a lilac tortie point (I think) siamese, intact male. As the doors & windows are left open when we are in, so that Waffles, Francis...

ROFL!!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHzdsFiBbFc

Any of you using the Purina Indoor formula cat food? Our cats go on strike if we don't keep a bowl full in their eating area at all times. By the way our cats are totally indoor out door cats. They have unlimited access to the outside, but they use the litter box, eat and drink in the house. ...

http://tinyurl.com/2elfl BILLINGS, Mont. -- Billings firefighters usually don't do pet rescues, but Battalion Chief Tim Bergstrom said they agreed to respond to the pleas of a city resident whose cat had a litter of kittens in a tree. The woman called a veterinarian for advice, and he confirmed...