they are 10 now and still act like they always did.  Should I be
changing their food to seniors?  They are not overweight or anything,
but is there anything special they need in their diets?

I was going to do round 2, but this morning's fire alarm inspired
today's SPECIAL tag team match:
PBC (Pletsch-Blacquiere Clowder) vs yours truly....
*BELL RINGS.  And keeps ringing.  It's a fire alarm.*

It's coming up on the bitties'....well, not adoption day.
Sucker-DP-Into-Being-Our-Mother Day is more like it.  We never formally
adopted them.
After finding them in a pile of trash, at 3 weeks old, DP began

With Persia on a diet <snork> I've felt bad about depriving her of her
gooshy food.  Hill's makes her prescription x/d in cans, too.  I just opened
the last can I had and gave her half of it.  Technically I should now only
give her 1/4 cup of dry this afternoon.

Tomorrow the cats and birdies go to the clinic with me where they will
be poked, prodded and boarded until next Monday.
I brought out the cardboard carrier and the other regular carrier and
put them in the living room.  Mischief and Imp know something is up and

This is a secret message written in special cat code so my jailers will
not notice and confiscate this.  I hope that if I do not make it out of
here, my journals can be used for future cats if they are ever in this
same situation

Oh dear, oh dear!!
The striped fiend refused to come in last night. So this morning, as soon as
I got up & dressed, I went to the front door, opened it, and in he ran. He
ran at a great rate of knots past Waffles & Francis who headed out of the

I love the city I live in. And now, even New York Times has found some of
the secrets that Oslo hides. Just read this:
http://travel2.nytimes.com/2005/07/24/travel/24dayout.html?n=Top%2FFeatures%2FTr
avel%2FDestinations%2FEurope%2FNorway
Welcome over! And if you are here, don't ...

Just got home earlier today after going to Bangkok and Chiang Mai with
Dennis and some friends from back home.  We had a great trip, great to
see friends again and of course great to see Dennis after his usual
month long work absence.

This is an urgent message to all cats, in hope that maybe we can be
rescued.
I, Mischief, and my fellow cats, Imp and Mayhem have been CATNAPPED
against our will.

I took the interlopers back to their mommy on saturday.  Orca(t)
began investigating immediately, but Spot was (again) very
traumatized by the change.  Fortunately, this should be his
last home for a good long while.  Meanwhile, Princess Rita is

Interesting short article in The Times today. Seems cats don't have the gene
that allows them to taste sweet foods.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1707077,00.html
Cheers, helen s

I have read posts about cats on the group that are often 14 lbs up to in the
20's, particularly USA cats.
Compared with this, mine are miniscule.  Boyfriend is around 7-8 pounds and
KFC is 4ish.  They both have access to all the gooshy and dry food that they

Gone two weeks and what happens?  A flood of messages.  Many about a
situation with which I'm not familiar, so I'll refrain from comment.  This
ain't the same RPCA I left!  :(
There were far too many threads to reply to them individually so I'll just