NEW ENGLAND TEMPERATURE CONVERSION CHART
60° F: Southern Californians shiver uncontrollably.  People in New
England sunbathe.
50° F: New Yorkers try to turn on the heat.  People in New England plant

I just bought one of those little pots of grass advertised as a "digestive
aid" and noticed it had catnip too.
A little too late.
I now have two raving lunatic cats who hopefully will not continue puking on

What any observant cat slave could have told the experts...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3956833.stm
"Cats suffer stress, experts say
Cats can suffer from stress-related illness like humans, a study by animal

http://www.flippyscatpage.com/twelvedays.html
This, I posted a couple days ago. It had been forwarded to me, and I
cheerfully and ignorantly passed it on. Not know it is copyright, and
surprise!

It rained most of the night here and the fog is thick this morning. Billy
came in a while ago carrying a soaking wet, dead chipmunk, and for the last
half-hour or so he's been tossing it around so violently that he has finally
had to take a rest.

Many people seek new occupations and money-making schemes This set me
on a bizarre train of thought: - cat-related ventures which are doomed
to failure from the start by the very nature of the little darlings.
I've thought of a few, and perhaps you can dream up others.

Frank is home but he seems sort of dazed. He's very hoarse, so I suspect
he has been yowling a lot today. :o( He tries to complain to me, but can
only manage a croak. I don't like taking him to the vet school hospital,
and I'm going to try and avoid it in the future. The cats ...

I was sitting at my kitchen table, proofreading a PhD thesis (can't work
at my disk, because it's full of the old computer monitor and piles of
books and papers ;). I didn't realise that Nikki was sitting by my feet
until I moved one foot, nudged her and she squealed. I ...

After many days of hunting and seeking and waiting and hoping,  my DH came
home from work to find that Sweetie and Joe had finally lured the mouse out
and caught it.
Unfortunately, they don't know how to kill a mouse.  Neither one of them.

Many thanks to all who were pulling for Rocky, sending purrs to all of
us here. Some may consider swapping purrs a little strange, even
silly, but when you need them they really do help the recipient. I
know I collected those sent for Rocky, and they helped (may have

Remember how Mischief was rolling all over my swim towel?
I just brought a whole bunch of them home and spread them out on the
living room floor.
Now BOTH Imp and Mischief are rolling on them, tails twitching with

I noticed that our only cat which was 'adopted' by us as a kitten(her mother
was killed by a Raccoon) prefers to lay/sleep/eat on paper.  He will go into
a big room with lots of nice soft carpet or furniture, and if there is a
newspaper laying on the rug or on the furniture, will ...

A friend is paying me to make some curtains for her. I'm being very slow
and methodical about it, measuring everything at least twice to be sure
it all fits. The curtains are lined and the pieces are pretty large, so
I have to lay them out on the floor to make sure it's all flat and ...

Thank you, everybody, for your Chemo purrs. I am very sad to report
that Min's tumour was just growing too fast, and there was no time for
her even to be prepared for the treatment. She was helped to the
Bridge a few hours ago. My father, Min's foster-Paw just called to

Monday morning, I walked out the front door, down the short walk way
to the driveway to get my keys out of the ignition of the truck, and
go back to lock the front door.  I locked the door, went back to the
truck, petting Big'Ead, who was on the walk way (Big'Ead is our