Several years ago, I moved out of my parents' house and into my first apartment. My parents were also moving, and I won the custody battle for my dog, Puma (RB), a sweet black lab mix. He'd spent all his life with a large yard and plenty of visits from everyone in the neighborhood, and I soon...

Got a letter from my credit card company declining my application to use my "credit protection insurance". The reason cited was I didn't notify them of the "event" (lost job) in a timely manner. Uh, wrong. I have a copy of where they wrote and acknowledged it. So I called and pointed out I have...

http://www.pawbreakers.com/prodinfo.html Seems like a cool idea, would love to try them on Vino. -- Britta "There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast." -- Unknown Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album

Robin has an active imagination. And, being an indoor kitty now, he gets bored. So his active mind invents ways to give him some fun and activity. He is really good at catching greeblings running through the house. Even when he is resting in front of the wood stove with the other cats, he is on...

Instructions: Climb into bed. Call "Here kitty kitty kitty ... come sleep with me!" Wait about five minutes. Get up to use the bathroom. Kitty will come running. Get back into bed. Kitty will find a reason to play in the bathroom. Call the kitty. Kitty may jump up and knead your side but...

kittens? vet? status quo? Charleen

Does anyone have any suggestions for a friendly bulletin board or forum for catlovers?

Speaking of the Murphy's Laws site, here's one I thought you two (both being cops) would really appreciate: http://www.murphys-laws.com/murphy/murphy-cops.html (FYI, Kerrie, I do like cops (smile)) -- "The universe is quite robust in design and appears to be doing just fine on its own,...

Hi Folks, If all goes well, I'll just be gone a few hours, but my system needs to be re-booted half a dozen times a day. There's some unknown app running in the background and messing up my system. My virus definitions won't update because of some unknown problem in Windows. In short, it's time...

Rosie is napping soundly on top of the upstairs cat tree. She had quite a morning. She was sitting in the driveway, as she has been doing lately, supervising Jim's work on his projects in the garage, and otherwise minding her own business, when the neighbor's d*g got loose and came bounding after...

What's your fave cat book? I like The Cat Catalog (now out of print - came out in the mid-70's) because I was given it as a gift when I was 19, by my ex-SIL - and it has really held a lot of sentiment for me over the years. It contains fun discussion about history of cats and practicies of various...

On my low-fat, healthy eating regime, one of the snacks I occasionally allow myself are low-fat rice crackers (seaweed ones). Today I discovered why the rice crackers in the open packet felt *moist*. I discovered a certain one-eyed, black-furred ladycat with her head in the packet... licking and...

Mark Edwards wrote: What is the line about "being on the wrong side of every door"? The weather is wet and cold. Buster decides he wants out. So I let him out. He seems to like it. A little bit later, Buster is at the window, and wants back in. So I open the door, and he comes in....

Hi Everyone, Thank you all for your kind words -- you really helped me. I'm feeling much better now -- last night I got a phone call from one of the adopters, to tell me how thrilled they are with the little cat, how their mother (who hadn't seen her) adores her and marvels at how self-confident...

Just in case for some reason someone might be looking for me, I'll be in Manassas, VA visiting my family and don't expect to be playing with newsgroups till I get back ... -- monique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca

This is slightly on topic, in that a good number of Andre Norton's books involved cats, and she has a number of them as pets. On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 17:14:48 +0000 (UTC), (James Nicoll) wrote in rec.arts.sf.written: spotted on rec.arts.mystery From Laura J. Underwood's...

Went to the cat show today on my annual trek with my friend. Of course, stocked up on peacock and pheasant feathers. Got new toys of an ostrich plume on a stick which was very well received and another wierd feather of varying lengths on a stick which mimics a big spider on the floor and that is...

I get the biggest kick out of just watching Molly and Jake interact. Molly raised a litter of kittens before we got her, and one in a while she gets the uncontrollable urge to wash Jake's face. In true momma cat fashion this is done by knocking him down and sitting on him while she cleans...

I'm all set to watch the Oscars, I've got my dinner, computer and of course I've got my beer. :) heheehehhee And I run into the kitchen for a seconf helping of chikcen to find MISCHIEF on the stove sniffing around I want to watch the Oscars!!!

I saw this at Petco today: http://tinyurl.com/4sz6h It's a cool idea, except I wish they made it bigger. Even my girls would not fit in that little box, but I love the "bookshelf" concept. I'm going to try to find a manufacturer address to write them. I think it is a great idea but needs to be...