An idea for a mass purr day

Steve Touchstone had some very interesting
things to say about My weird kids [was An idea for a mass purr
day]:

Felix and Ava have daily purr/coo sessions.
Yes, the bird has been renamed. "He" surprised us this morning, after
20 months of acquaintance, with an egg [she's an only bird].
Guess Ava got tired of being called "he/him" and decided to provide a
little visible proof that she's a girl.

We'd actually been pretty solidly convinced we had a male dove before
that little surprise. :-)

I know didn't say you wanted any advice, so feel free to ignore the
rest of this post. First off, I don't really know a whole lot about
your type of bird, both of mine are cockatiels, but the advice would
probably work for Ava. From what I've read and been told, egglaying
not really good for the bird health, since they can become eggbound
and may need an adjustment to the diet (may need calcium, which they
can get from a cuttlebone which you hang from the side of the cage).

We offered her one when she first moved in with us, and she completely
ignored it. We've heard from other dove owners that softbills
generally don't like cuttlebones.

--
"The universe is quite robust in design and appears to be
doing just fine on its own, incompetent support staff notwithstanding.
:-)" - the Dennis formerly known as (evil), MCFL

CATherine wrote:


Since Amber died, my house is too quiet and I miss the rascal that
inspired so many stories. Maybe when I am through grieving, I will
find more humor in my household of cats. Maybe my broken heart would
benefit from a group purr.

{{{{Catherine}}}} We' are sending individual purrs while waiting for the
group purrs.


--
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

CATherine wrote:


Since Amber died, my house is too quiet and I miss the rascal that
inspired so many stories. Maybe when I am through grieving, I will
find more humor in my household of cats. Maybe my broken heart would
benefit from a group purr.

{{{{Catherine}}}} We' are sending individual purrs while waiting for the
group purrs.


--
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

CATherine wrote:


Since Amber died, my house is too quiet and I miss the rascal that
inspired so many stories. Maybe when I am through grieving, I will
find more humor in my household of cats. Maybe my broken heart would
benefit from a group purr.

{{{{Catherine}}}} We' are sending individual purrs while waiting for the
group purrs.


--
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

Seanette Blaylock wrote:



Yes, the bird has been renamed. "He" surprised us this morning, after
20 months of acquaintance, with an egg [she's an only bird].


Umm, what does this make you? A Grand-Egg? Grand-Wing? Grand-Dove? ;o)

--
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

Seanette Blaylock wrote:



Yes, the bird has been renamed. "He" surprised us this morning, after
20 months of acquaintance, with an egg [she's an only bird].


Umm, what does this make you? A Grand-Egg? Grand-Wing? Grand-Dove? ;o)

--
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

Seanette Blaylock wrote:



Yes, the bird has been renamed. "He" surprised us this morning, after
20 months of acquaintance, with an egg [she's an only bird].


Umm, what does this make you? A Grand-Egg? Grand-Wing? Grand-Dove? ;o)

--
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

CATherine wrote in message . ..

I like to receive feedback on my stories, too. Sometimes i get very
few and sometimes a lot. Sometimes the responses reply to a peripheral
part of the story and ignore the main part. You just never know what
is going to strike the reader. As for replying, I don't do much.
Partly from lack of time or I am brain dead after a hard day's work or
someone else has said exactly what I would say or say something better
than I could. But I do read and appreciate the stories. Sometimes I
really need the boost of a cute cat story. I will try to do more
replying, even if it is just a LOL!

Since Amber died, my house is too quiet and I miss the rascal that
inspired so many stories. Maybe when I am through grieving, I will
find more humor in my household of cats. Maybe my broken heart would
benefit from a group purr.


(((((CATherine)))))

I know how you feel. Even though I've become attached to Tallulah and
Hubert, and I'm glad they're here and enjoy their company, sometimes
watching them actually just intensifies the grief for my Mikey.

Sometimes some of the posts here are terribly hard to read, because
they're so reminiscent of the last few months of Mike's life, but I
know how important it was to me, at least, to be able to come here and
vent and fret and obsess where there are people who understand.
Sometimes some of the funny or just incidental stories can be
lifesavers, and it's true it's easy to fail to post appreciation for
those stories.

Sometimes I just feel too dull to post much; I like to read everyone
else's stories, but don't feel like I have anything worth saying on a
given day. But then I think that enjoying what everyone else writes
without contributing much of anything myself is kind of selfish. I
really do appreciate the people who start threads and post stories and
keep the whole thing going.

Okay, I've drifted very, very far from what I had meant to say, and am
just rambling now. Maybe I should turn off the computer and go to
bed. :-)

------
Krista

CATherine wrote in message . ..

I like to receive feedback on my stories, too. Sometimes i get very
few and sometimes a lot. Sometimes the responses reply to a peripheral
part of the story and ignore the main part. You just never know what
is going to strike the reader. As for replying, I don't do much.
Partly from lack of time or I am brain dead after a hard day's work or
someone else has said exactly what I would say or say something better
than I could. But I do read and appreciate the stories. Sometimes I
really need the boost of a cute cat story. I will try to do more
replying, even if it is just a LOL!

Since Amber died, my house is too quiet and I miss the rascal that
inspired so many stories. Maybe when I am through grieving, I will
find more humor in my household of cats. Maybe my broken heart would
benefit from a group purr.


(((((CATherine)))))

I know how you feel. Even though I've become attached to Tallulah and
Hubert, and I'm glad they're here and enjoy their company, sometimes
watching them actually just intensifies the grief for my Mikey.

Sometimes some of the posts here are terribly hard to read, because
they're so reminiscent of the last few months of Mike's life, but I
know how important it was to me, at least, to be able to come here and
vent and fret and obsess where there are people who understand.
Sometimes some of the funny or just incidental stories can be
lifesavers, and it's true it's easy to fail to post appreciation for
those stories.

Sometimes I just feel too dull to post much; I like to read everyone
else's stories, but don't feel like I have anything worth saying on a
given day. But then I think that enjoying what everyone else writes
without contributing much of anything myself is kind of selfish. I
really do appreciate the people who start threads and post stories and
keep the whole thing going.

Okay, I've drifted very, very far from what I had meant to say, and am
just rambling now. Maybe I should turn off the computer and go to
bed. :-)

------
Krista

CATherine wrote in message . ..

I like to receive feedback on my stories, too. Sometimes i get very
few and sometimes a lot. Sometimes the responses reply to a peripheral
part of the story and ignore the main part. You just never know what
is going to strike the reader. As for replying, I don't do much.
Partly from lack of time or I am brain dead after a hard day's work or
someone else has said exactly what I would say or say something better
than I could. But I do read and appreciate the stories. Sometimes I
really need the boost of a cute cat story. I will try to do more
replying, even if it is just a LOL!

Since Amber died, my house is too quiet and I miss the rascal that
inspired so many stories. Maybe when I am through grieving, I will
find more humor in my household of cats. Maybe my broken heart would
benefit from a group purr.


(((((CATherine)))))

I know how you feel. Even though I've become attached to Tallulah and
Hubert, and I'm glad they're here and enjoy their company, sometimes
watching them actually just intensifies the grief for my Mikey.

Sometimes some of the posts here are terribly hard to read, because
they're so reminiscent of the last few months of Mike's life, but I
know how important it was to me, at least, to be able to come here and
vent and fret and obsess where there are people who understand.
Sometimes some of the funny or just incidental stories can be
lifesavers, and it's true it's easy to fail to post appreciation for
those stories.

Sometimes I just feel too dull to post much; I like to read everyone
else's stories, but don't feel like I have anything worth saying on a
given day. But then I think that enjoying what everyone else writes
without contributing much of anything myself is kind of selfish. I
really do appreciate the people who start threads and post stories and
keep the whole thing going.

Okay, I've drifted very, very far from what I had meant to say, and am
just rambling now. Maybe I should turn off the computer and go to
bed. :-)

------
Krista