But I am still fascinated by Ding's apparently newly favored bed:  
across a rack of hexagonal-head dumbbells.
Maybe it's that they are cool; the air conditioning should be fixed in a
few days, but until then...

Dear Hoomins,
You may already have heard my Meowmie talk about me to you.  Now granted,
I'm a kitten.  There are a lot of things I don't know about my human Meowmie
yet.  She's really very nice, most of the time. The thing about her that I

There's good news, and there's not so good news.
The good is that the leg appears to be healing nicely, and he's no
longer in the e-collar.  Compared to the two months plus of bandages,
hospitalisation and e-collar that we had last time, I think we've got

Evelyn, I sent you an e-mail about Bev's visit, since I'm also in the
Los Angeles area (sort of), but I just got a message saying it went into
the "suspect file".  :-(
I tried the phone number she sent me and it's not a working number.  I

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/3685652/detail.html
Man Gets Prison Time For Setting Kitten On Fire
That's all I'm putting here - follow the link if you want more.... or don't
if you can't stand these types of stories.

The other two, with minimum complaint, accept flea collars. Ding shook
his off within minutes last season.  Tonight, all I did was unroll the
thing, as he was enjoying the lap scratching (and I was not enjoying
grooming out the fleabits)...BOOM....struggle.

You've probably seen this before, but for those who haven't it's a hoot and
it's even worth a second look for those who have seen it.  I posted "Funny
Cat" to alt.binaries.pictures.animals, have a look.
Hugs,

If this is posted twice, sorry
Okay, since that last one was so depressing, here are some cheerful
vignettes.
Shelby the Whale was boarding this week and went home yesterday.

I hadn't realised how I baby-talked my cats until I listened to myself
critically today.
At breakfast:  You want dis?  Ainit yummy?  Scoffitup.
Which they did ;-)

I got another letter about those cats in Guernsey!

Move over Ed, Neville the wanderer's back in town
28.08.2004 - Hawkes Bay Today
Neville the cat who stowed away in his family's boat and jumped ship between
Havelock North and Taupo three months ago has decided to come home.

A new nephew was born at 1755 tonight.  Alexander Mark, 7lb 9 oz.  All well.
Proud Auntie Tina
otherwise known as Tweed

Back from the holiday. Worst holiday *ever* - I learnt the French for fleas and
cockroaches - long story will do a full report when I catch my breath.
Waffles, Francis and Marble pleased to see their humans again, and we are to
see them. Loads of purrs and headrubs from Waffles on ...

Hi all - Just to let you know that baby Babaneena (Figaro!) is still
doing OK, taking a bit of time to get the feeding amounts right - too
much seemed to be causing tummy upsets, and too little causing much
mewing and searching for the milk! However she is still with us and

Dogs are pure evil, admit it.