I just signed the Endangered Species Act Legacy Pledge to show my support for the important protections for our most vulnerable species of fish, plants and wildlife. Will you join me? For over thirty years, the Endangered Species Act (ESA) has protected our most vulnerable species from vanishing...

On 2005-01-12, CATherine penned: Today I stopped in PetSmart to get some catfood. As i stood in line, I noticed a hanging rack with a new kind of laser pointer. I had tried one several years ago and my cats weren't interested. But this one was different; smaller, but brighter and it had...

http://www.skippyslist.com/skippylist.html Rob will love it :) Gracie

It was colder than usual last night. And I woke up earlier than normal with a headache. Probably caused by the dog and cat that were nearly sleeping on my face. The cat was curled completely around the dog, who was happily curled up next to the cats belly. The way the cat acted when he woke up...

They even have an SUV! http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?pcatid=9183&N=2002+62745 Can you imagine??

Sam has decided that the newspapers on the floor pose a threat to me. He will put his head into the pile of papers looking for the ones that need killing. After finding the right ones he will bite them and then poke his head between the sheets of paper to check his progress.After they are...

Seeing Yowie and I were going on about labour shortages inAus. and New Zealand I just had to post this website. http://www.picknz.co.nz I live in Hawke's Bay, a beautiful area of fruit trees, sun and sea. They are desperate for fruit pickers - hmmmmmmmmmm. Could be a way to meet B & C & FSP er...

I know this has been posted here before, but it's just so amazing it bears to be posted again. I love this house, and I'm sure the cats love it too. I wish I could offer mine this kind of luxury living. The pics are great, and so are the...

A friend just sent me a link to this site; I think everyone on this newsgroup will appreciate it ;-) Be sure to have your volume turned up for this - not to deafening levels, just audible ones. http://60gp.ovh.net/~cleanyou/ -- Rhino

I'm finally down to fewer than 100 unread messages! .... so I felt the need to add to everyone else's backlog. Er, sorry 'bout that. -- monique, roommate of Oscar the (female) grouch ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Eros was adopted! Eros has a home now! *cheer!*

Does anybody know what happened to Joyce Wermont? I haven't seen a post from her since well before Christmas. I thought she might be on vacation but figure if that was it, she would be back by now. I hope she didn't leave the group because of all that political BS that was going on :-( Joyce, if...

Well, Eric and I are staying home this Christmas. I'm glad to avoid the stress and expense of travel, but sad that I won't be with my family. Well, Eric's my family, too, but you know what I mean. Anyway, a little anecdote from before I met Eric: Several years ago, my brother K bought a...

We've coined a term in our house: tabby-morphisis In our house, we have two tabbies - Pixel and Sneakers. They are best buddies, and both like to play. Sometimes I will be playing with Pixel with a string, and I'll head down the hall expecting him to follow. But the tabby who catches the string...

OK, I don't usually read fantasy, but I love Tanya Huff (she wrote two great books about a female master sergeant in the space marine corps - VALOR'S CHOICE and THE BETTER PART OF VALOR (and hey, does anyone know if she came out with any more in that series??)). So, I picked up and read SUMMON...

I finally got video of Sammy sucking her toe. I don't know why, but the mpeg comes out much darker than the video on the camera, so you might have to adjust the brightness of your monitor if you can't see it well. Also, if you turn up the volume on the player and your computer you can hear...

"Catharsis" did a week of "Understanding Cats with special guest speaker Dr. Baxter". (Baxter is a cartoon squirrel.) Each day's comic is a photo of one or two kittens doing kitten things along with commentary by Baxter, and sometimes counter comments by Aya (the cat character, and one of the...

Got the furballs a cat tower for their Winter Solstice gift. Just arrived a couple of days ago. WOW! What a hit! Both of them have stopped clawing the furniture, preffering the rope coiled poles. & It's better than an arobics workout, the way they're playing on it. Currently, they're...

I've been thinking about getting one now that I have 2 cats. However both Kage (4) & Thai-ger (.5) like electronic toys and I'm afraid that they will think this is one and somehow break it. I've looked on Ebay and see a lot of broken, parted out and refurbished units which makes me think they are...

I am looking for a site that sells those hanging sisal covered scratching boards but that has fleece on either end. Pearl has worn hers clear out and I only see them with plastic on the ends now, but I would like to find the old kind with the fleece on the ends. If anyone has seen them, please let...

I was awakened this morning by an unfamilar motion close to my head. Stinky was on my pillow, as he often is, completely filling up my vision as my eyes opened. But this morning, he was hard at work, maybe two inches from my head, facing me, one leg pointing straight towards the ceiling (doing the...