Dennis just got back from Burma last night and we're frantically packing and will be heading to Bangkok tomorrow afternoon. Our flight to Canada leaves at 8 am on Saturday. We'll be in Calgary from October 9-15, Vancouver from October 15-18 and Victoria from October 18-25. Whew! It's been 22...

A picture of the naughty doggie at the Battersea Home, who's been opening the kennel doors: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/041004/photos_od_afp/041004151107_iafxy9y9_photo0&e=7 He's lovely, isn't he? ;) Theresa Stinky Pictures:...

This afternoon the volcano at Mount St. Helens blew off a huge plume of steam and ash. It blew for 20-some minutes. This small eruption had been preceded by a few weeks of seismic activity. The earthquakes started out at levels smaller than 1 on the Richter scale, but grew to over 2 shortly before...

I'm on several Yahoo groups, one of them has a lot of cat lovers in it and they sometimes send cute things like the following to the group. http://www.dansdata.com/kitten.htm I'm still reading it, and am still saying AWWWWWW. Pam S.

Boyfriend has been playing around with being a hunter. Some mousies and voles, some easy birds, like the tiny wren, some bigger collared doves "can do, can eat eventually" and a larger woodpigeon that he wasn't quite sure what to do with once he had it in his mouth. (Had to get a neighbour in...

I have tracked down the latest smell of cat pee. One or both of them are using the waste-master hole in the kitchen sink for their nightly urine needs. ARghhhhhhh. Disinfectant, boiling water aghhhhhhhhh. I've had them under hot lights, used paw screws and sleep deprivation but neither will...

I'm taking Francis off to TED this morning. Can't put my finger on it, but Francis is just not himself. He's looking miserable and he's losing weight, so it's off to TED we go this morning. Francis is my laid-back, eternally happy cat with an obvious joy to life. Right now, he's missing a bit of...

As I've posted, Ding is getting social again after the trauma of his mystery disappearance (walkabout? Mothership) and TED visit. In the night recently, I've occasionally awakened to turn over, and something was odd. Mr. Clark often sleeps on me. 16.5 pounds of solid cat do have their effect, at...

If you've ever wondered what your cat looks like in infrared: http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/image_galleries/ir_zoo/cat.html They've got loads of other infrared animals too! The puppy is particularly cute :) Al.

Oh, do get your cats a collar with a bell on,( joke) like I did a few days ago, to stop Boyfriend catching things. It doesn't work. Something small and brown suddenly shot across the kitchen floor (door open) with BF after it (rat, mouse?) They rushed out into the garden. Did he get it or not? ...

Background: The squirrels around here are no dummies. They know they have plenty of time to get away if a cat spots them on the other side of the chain link fence. It's common here to see two tuxedo kitties, and one mostly white, black and white kitty, crouched down, tails lashing,...

Hello. Wee Tashie's dad here. She's pretty good as far as scratching goes. She uses her post and a stack of newspapers out the back, but there's one thing we have trouble with. She likes to lie across my lap when I'm at the desk (like right now). Sometimes she waits to be lifted up, and sometimes...

Sammy IS getting better, not wishful thinking on my part. About a half hour ago she was sitting on the drafting table by the bed, so I decided to weigh her again to make sure she hadn't lost any weight - nope still weighs in around 11 lbs, in fact gained 0.1lb since Monday. After the weigh in I...

Is there anything sweeter than a sleeping kitty? Suz Macmoosette Thank Heavens There's Only One =^..^= =^..^= =^..^= =^..^= =^..^= =^..^= Waiting for inspiration. Please hold while I contemplate my navel.

There is a mother cat and 4 kittens that have been around my neighborhood all summer. I found out that the don't belong to anyone.The past 2 days I have seen the mother and one of the kittens around again. I have never tried to rescue a cat before. Are there groups that will come and trap them? I...

I really should be studying.......... But Imp is in a frisky mood. I know that when his tail starts twiching, so I grabbed the laser pointer. He immediately started to chase it. Even though he's done this before......... The red bug had to DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1124829.html?menu=news.quirkies Baby's name sounds rude A Bedford couple named their baby son Drew Peacock before realising it sounded rude. The baby's father Russell said he only twigged it when he put it in an internet search engine looking for famous...

I'm a bit concerned because Nocturne is not a very active cat. She spends the days curled on the bed--not moving for 9 hours or more--the evenings with us, the nights asleep at our feet. She will not play with us. If we dangle toys in front of her she has no interest. I have seen her playing on...

Arrrrrrrggh, the daily grind. I hate to say it, but ever since school started back up again, there haven't been that many animals. In one sense that's good, you don't have a ton of dogs to walk. On the other hand it gets quite boring after a while. Then I'm finding myself trying to find...

Cleaning out the ancient archives on my work PC, I discovered the first few paragraphs of my yet-to-be-published Gothic Horror novel, which I started back in 1995, long before I started writing cat anecdotes. And trust me, the cat anecdotes (despite their abscence at the moment) are far far...