Well, we're having a couple over for dinner tomorrow night. I'd like it to be very nice since we're just getting to know them and they had us over for an extremely lovely dinner a month ago or so. Of course the dilemma is the dining room table. We'll have appetizers in the kitchen and then it...

One of my little semi-ferals is seeing TED today. She went off her regular food a day or so ago, but was eating beef baby food. Today she wouldn't eat even that. Bush Baby is a little over a year old, and she's no bigger than a 6 month old kitten. This came on really fast, and I'm hoping...

Our two cats, Edgar and Agatha, have always been picky eaters. They like fish stuff, especially with gravy and cheddar in it. When they first came, two years ago (they're brother and sister, about 4 now) we tried Fancy Feast and quickly discovered that if it was "classsic" (pate), they looked...

WE GOT SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 It's only about 4 inches here in B-ton, but they are predicting that it will continue to fall (it is still coming down as I type) and accumulation will be anywhere from 16 - 22 inches!!!!!! Snow Men-er...

I've mentioned before that Ping loves being in the bedroom with Bam-Bam, Barney & Betty (Betty has her own theme song: Black Betty, by Ram Jam (originally by Leadbelly), listen here (first song at the bottom of...

Haven't been here in quite a while. Losing my beautiful Kirby over two years ago sent me into such a tailspin I couldn't bear to stay with the group. But Flippy, bless her soul, has been sending all of those wonderful cat tales along religiously. All of you lucky folks with multiple...

I'm trying to keep Persia active. Keep in mind there is no PetCo or PetSmart store within 50 miles of here. I love her but I'm not driving over 100 miles (to/from) just to buy cat toys. So I'm shopping online. She loves the little toy mousies I get from Walgreen's (that's only 12 miles away...

Baggy was trying to wee last night and couldn't, this morning he still hadn't used his box and was very distressed. I took him straight to the vet where he still is, they're going to give him an anaesthetic and catheterise him. I've got to ring them this afternoon to see how he is and when I...

BUT! this one has a happy ending :) I'd been told for 2 years that I didn't qualify for any sort of government assistance because (1) I don't have children and (2) I have an IRA. This didn't make sense to me because single people have to eat, too. I finally found a woman at the Tennessee Dept....

Okay, I'm in a quandary. When I adopted my neighbor's abandoned, declawed cat, I assumed anyone who'd pay for a declawing would certainly have had the animal neutered. Now I'm not so sure. My new little girl has begun behaving suspiciously like a female cat in heat! Last night she began yowling...

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...

On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 19:48:55 +0100, Richard wrote: More on my 2 new friends, Buttons and Miss Muffet. I am having a problem worming them, but especially Miss Muffet. I just couldn't get anything down their throats without great anguish. I am a coward and gave up. They were pretty upset...

The pleasure of your company is requested at the new edition of my column (a part of Carol's bimonthly humor ezine): http://www.rainy-day-laughter.com/jaxblog I have archives too! Read 'em! -- ~ JAX ~ proud feline owner of Carol & Nia & 2 dogs

Little Delta needs your purrayers please... she went to what was supposed to be her forever home the other day, and John just had to go and pick her up from the vet tonight - somebody who was supposed to love her didn't :( She's going to be living with John now (along with the three foster cats he...

Appreciate all the concern, folks...this is a fairly serious sickness. Got to the vet last night with little trouble, somewhat surprisingly, and received lessons on tube-feeding. Got him home by about 7 pm. He was fairly teetery, but staggered to his favorite coverered litter box, got...

I was bringing the dogs out for their walk the other morning and it was not quite dawn and raining, not great visibility. However, the dogs alerted me that something was going on. Samantha, the Shi Tzu puppy, was barking in a hostile manner that I have seldom heard from her before and Bear, the...

When i discovered this group an d got to know all the good people here,, I hoped it would be a long time before i needed to come to you wiuth the grievous news that one of our little ones has left us. A long, LONG time. Not so. Our dear Dolly, our Odessa went into sudden respiratory failure...

Hi All, This message from my friends in the Tampa, Florida area does mention their pets, but it's still OT. The gentleman is my best friend of some thirty years and after he and the lady married, she became best friends with DH independently of the two men. It can be scary to watch Lynda and...

I know I haven't been posting much. It's hard talking about Betty these days. But she's made it to spring! I took a picture of her a few days ago when she started using her warm weather squirrel lookout spot again, which has gone dusty and unused all season. I never thought I'd see her there...

I need you guys' help. The vet told me to watch the burn closely for any change of color or appearance and if there is I was to take her in right away so they could do surgery. Well, the burn looks different than it did, but it might be that it's getting better. For those who can take...