I never understood the cliché about the husband pacing the floor waiting
for the mum to get serious about giving birth.  Until now.
Mandy says that Sonya stayed under the bed and purred all night long.
She came out on occasion to eat her kitten food, get a sip of water, and

If I were to yell this in a group of military, the answer would be to
scream back "F*ck You!"  However, I'm hoping to get updates on you, your
family (furry and bare) and how life is going.
We're all doing well.  Calvin came up on the bed early this morning and

Sonya hasn't done it yet, but we're still in early days.  She's settling
in and is showing her sense of humor by waiting for Amanda to walk by
the bed, or sit on the bed with her feet on the floor.  Sonya then slaps
the back of her feet, and ducks back under the bed.  She has ...

I ran into Marilyn, Brandy's foster-mama, at the store where she works. She
has a new fosterling, a longhaired tuxie who was shot full of BB's by some
bucket of filth. They have hit nothing vital, just lodged in some muscles,
and the BB's will be removed tomorrow when she goes in ...

Well, our Threadclimber 5000 arrived yesterday! We spent about a couple
of hours assembling it and we both put in a 30 min workout on it. It's
different from any other exercise machine I've tried, but it does seem
to be a good workout. It comes with a hear rate sensor and I was ...

A co-worker's wife is seriously ill, in the hospital with an infection in
her spine.  According to a phone message, she has undergone surgery to 12 of
her vertebrae and has antibiotic dripping into her spine. One doctor says
she should be fine, but the neurologist said she may ...

Rob wasn't too pleased, but I told him that the power of the purr is
bigger than he is.  We picked up Sonya about an hour and a half ago.
Sonya is a gray and white tuxedo and ready to give birth at any moment.
   Rob said that he'd rather not deal with a pregnant mum, but we are ...

We got over 2ft of snow last night plus drifting. The weather people are
calling it a wintercane (hurricane with snow) Baha might be able to donate a
"bit" of snow too.
Suz

Hi group,
Patty has asked me to post this to the ng. You can email Patty at:
short7 [AT] netzero [DOT] com
Hugs to all,

His name is Morgan, and he is doing well. He is just about a day old now,
and is eating well. <G> I just posted a couple of photos in the
alt.binaries.pictures.animals ng, and I hope you enjoy them!
Patti

She's still at it even though we cover the sink with an oven slide with
a tin-foil tray at the end so that she can't sniff water through the
edges.  It is all liberally spread with cat repellent.  The thing is you
have to use the sink!!!   Eventually someone leaves off the cover and

Well, I recovered a sort of kitty condo thing from the trash about a
year and a half ago.  We put it in the basement (just for a few
months, mind you) to make sure there were no nasty germs or whatever
on it.  It needed two poles recovered in carpet, and was missing the

I signed up on the feline asthma yahoo group and today received an OT
email for a site that sells a Crazy Cat Lady Action Figure with extra
cats.  I just had to share with you all.
http://www.mcphee.com/amusements/current/11377.html

I have a suggestion for this.   Instead of having a competition which
always divides people into one winner and a heap of losers and sometimes
results in hurt feelings by people feeling their stories were left out,
why not have a readathon of all David's stories and nominate the ...

Please allow me a little venting and a few more purr requests.
I am having one heck of a time sleeping.  I've always had occasional bouts
of insomnia and usually when I sense something like this coming on I'll take
a valerian root capsule about 30 minutes before bedtime.  It works