Sometimes, when the phone rings, Little Miss runs over to the phone. If
the answering machine picks up, she will stand over the phone and look
at it. Then, she flips the handset off the receiver using her nose.
It's the funniest thing to watch her do. So, now I tell people when

I came home this morning to my brood and there were three oreo like cookies
on the floor.  You can tell that they had a grand time with these cookies--
but, ironically, I have never bought these kind of cookies and haven't had
visitors here in like a month--hhmmm--maybe a treat from ...

Along with boxes and paper bags, cats adore string.  I was digging around in
a junk drawer and found a very long heavy (like a shoelace) string, about 6
feet long.  Lord knows why I have it but have it I do.  So I wrapped it
around the doorknob of Persia's favourite closet with the ...

We just had a scary thunderstorm. Pouring rain and lots of thunder and
lightning. Rusty was, as usual, hiding under the computer desk.
I was worried about window leaks from the strong slashing rain.
Then the power went off.  I had some difficulties finding my candle

In an IM chat shortly before she left for the island, Marina had
directed my attention to a thread here from some time ago, where she'd
said that our lawcat Tiger was missing.  Sadly, it was true; he's been
missing for months now, and we have had to assume that he's at the RB.

Cat caught a sparrow right under my nose last night. For some reason it was
languishing in the border so I came out to stand over it knowing that cat
was out there. Unfortunately I had my hands full. Suddenly the bird move an
inch and cat shot over and pounced. I called my wife ...

I know many of you are already familiar with Tucker's tale but for new folks
who'd like to know his story...
Our backyard seems to have the hobo equivalent of "good eatin'" here marked
somewhere on the Ponderosas -- this probably has to do with the fact that I

I've been posting OT a lot ... let me try to post something on topic
=)
When Oscar's particularly happy to see me or Eric, she drools.  As far
as I can tell, this only started in the last year or so.

In my kitchen is a small trash can with a flat lid. I store empty pop
cans there. Sheba has adopted it as a perch to supervise me in the
kitchen. She can better see what I am doing from a higher vantage
point and I can see her so I don't have to shuffle my feet to avoid

IBKFergus may be growing larger, but she certainly isn't growing *up*.
Nothing is safe from her. He favourite hobby seems to be knocking breakable
things off surfaces I thought were cat-proofed (ha!), playing "herd of
stampeding elephants through the Serengeti" in the dead of night, ...

My best friend's baby has literally just started to crawl in the last
couple of days, the 5 cats are not amused!  One bolted through the cat
flap and has not been seen for 24 hours, one has already had a (small)
fistful of fur pulled, one never takes its eyes off her, only one is

For those of you who have cats who qualify under the heading of "goofy,"
like our little black guy, Robin, please note there is a possibly amusing
cat (actually, kid) toy in the Froot Loops cereal boxes (we have the 1/3rd
less sugar variety at home now) that say "Wobbler inside" on ...

I set the table, including a glass of raspberry juice, and went back to
the kitchen to get my noodles.  Arriving with noodles, I see Tyche
sitting on the table merrily dipping her paw into my juice.
Now she has three white paws and one pink one.

You learn something new every day: I just found a quick way to eliminate
troll/heckler messages from the NG using Outlook Express.
My original process was: (1) highlight one of the unwanted messages, (2)
click the Message menu, (3) select "Create Rule from Message", (3) follow

Well, the manager brought round another letter today... they say it
was a 'clerical error' and they'll get back to us in the 'near future'
with accurate information. In other words, they just gave everyone in
the building the same letter, because most of the tennants never sent