John Cuteaux wrote: To learn French in France, I found this great school, located both in Annecy and Chambéry, in the heart of the Alps. Given the number of activities and the surroundings I thought I would share this ressource with others. http://www.ifalpes.com Let me know if you have...

Well, so far we've trapped the afore-mentioned possum, a neighbor's *very* large, *very* angry gray and white cat, and *TWO* racoons (in the trap at the same time!!!). But we have not seen hide nor hair of the little gray cat with the too tight flea collar!! I'm going to talk with the rescue...

Or should I say mechanic purrs? Or purrs for John? John called this morning. Even though he had his truck completely overhauled (by that I mean everything wrong fixed) before he drove up to Kansas, there's another problem. It's either the starter, solonoid or ignition switch (it's a 10 year old...

Sometimes being *way* behind in reading has benefits. In the NYT Book Review 10/26/97 :-) there was a nice review of a cat photo book so I logged into Amazon and bought it for a coupla bucks. Someone here can tell me post-facto whether it's worth it I'm sure, heh. and there are more available...

http://muttscomics.com/art/dailyarchive.asp?month=9&date=19&year=2004 -- Marina, Frank and Nikki marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki

I am currently considering the purchase of a male and female cat of the same litter. Is there any issue/problem for cats from the same litter to mate with one another? In other words, are siblings mating ok? Any problems or effects of their offspring? Thanks This post smells a little...

If you follow the below link, and read the headline only, you'll probably get a chuckle, like I did. When I first read the headline, I said "Well, DUH, whadja expect?". The story is sad, but still, the headline...giggles http://www.theindychannel.com/news/3783513/detail.html -- The ONE and...

Cheryl wrote: http://tinyurl.com/6h8l8 What on earth was this cat saying?? All I could hear was "get out of my way" at the very end. It was very bizarre. Joyce

The weather isn't nice today, it's been raining almost all day but Boyfriend decided he'd like to go in and out, anyway. I just let him in, hopefully for the night, shut the door behind him, he examined his food dishes, neither dry not wet suited and he went into the lounge. That's when he totally...

"I'm leavin' on a jet plane..." Early tomorrow morning I wing my way off to meet my long lost love again. This time for a 2 week working trip and sometimes hiatus. Poor Persia is esconsed at her boarder along with the feathered one, Peaches. Persia didn't seem to cry as much this time. She...

Nancy has been asked to come in to interview for one of the jobs open to here. I believe the job would suit her quite well, though it still doesn't pay as much as she'd like to make. But I *do* believe that she's the best candidate for the job. She's set up the interview for Tuesday. She says she...

I was using the Treadmill tonight, which just happens to be in the poop room (no terdmill jokes), when Smoke decided she had to use the facilities. She's not crazy about doing her business when someone is on the "silly machine", but she's very good about doing her business. So I turned my head to...

ANy advice, or checklist for drivng with my cat 8 hours? Should I ask my vet for tranquilizers? I have the cat carrier, will bring lots of bottled water , and some treats, but not much since I don't want her making too much of a mess.WIll also get a brand new litter box. DOn't want her...

I was in Phoenix at a diversity conference this week, I just came back a little while ago. This morning I called Tom and he told me there was a problem with the fish tank. It seems one of the cats got into the space underneath the tank and stepped on the button that cut off all electricity to the...

Helen, I don't know what Francis' kidney values were, but a very high creatinine value is common when cats are first seen with chronic renal failure. Usually, after treatment with IV fluids or sub-q fluids, the values come down from the "system shock" level to the "real" level. A good site for CRF...

Greetings... Y'all gotta read today's. http://www.queenofwands.net/ lal

Lula has a thing for jewelry. I habitually wear a watch, a bracelet, and my wedding ring, and she frequently seizes one of these with her teeth and yanks hard, hard enough that she'll succeed in breaking the bracelet one of these days. I can't figure out, though, whether she disapproves of...

It seems ages since since we heard from Baha, I've missed her. Are you okay, Baha? perhaps just too busy to post I hope. Brandy must be doing something we'd like to hear about, surely? Tweed

I'm ovulating this weekend. We're going to have another child, someday. But it just... it's difficult. I can't imagine life with a single living child. But I can't *not* feel like this is just a kneejerk reaction, a "replacement" of sorts. Guilt, confusion.... Don't really have a point to this...

The other night, as we lounged on the couch quietly watching TV, Sweetie came tearing down the stairs at light speed, turned hard to avoid slamming herself into the kitchen cabinets, did a Bugs Bunny claw burnout on the tiles (why they weren't flying loose behind her and hitting the fridge, I'm not...