http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/dn8785.html
It seems cats can catch bird flu.  It's suspected that the cat ate an
infected bird.  
Chak

Yippeee! Got my laptop back today, and it is now working properly. It is
obvious that the network card has never worked as it should, since the speed
of my downloads is now really fast!
Will post new Memphis and Phoenix pics when I catch up.

I just got word today that I was NOT offered a job for which I
interviewed (for several hours) yesterday. And I really thought I
was going to get this one! I thought I had connected well with everyone,
including the hiring manager. They seemed pleased with my skills and

Well, the cat's are slowly figuring it out... Sage is intigrating with my
two nicely.  Play time is still kinda funny, Sage likes to be chased & tries
to encourage Chablis & Muscat to do so.... They look at her like she's nuts.
Happily, beyond a few days of hiding, stange behavior, ...

I am a cute cute hairy little girl with a cute cute little bod.
I was hard to keep, so my family threw me away. I lived on the streets.
My hair got all matted & ugly.
A kind foster family took me in but they first shaved off my hair.

NOT!!!  ;>
http://www.possibleplaces.com/CatNipped/Sammy_Movie/klutz.asp

Well, she is home from kitty hospital.  She is MUCH better.  She ate
half a large can of food tonight.  I've never seen her eat so much.  She
acted like she was starving.  Amazingly enough, when I brought her home,
there was no hissing and spitting from everyone because she smelled ...

Well, yesterday Princess Rita went to the smelly place and got stuck
with sharp things.  Poor baby. I had an unexpected afternoon off
work and thought this was a good time to get her yearly checkup.
It's been ONE YEAR since she came home with me.  Amazing.

I'm changing computers and moving at the same time.  Jim & I, along with
Cinder and Rosie are moving onto our boat.
I won't have much time for newsgroups until we get underway and settled.
The kitties have done well, so far, with the changes in their environment.

I have filed my taxes as a student for the year 2004. Now, I am trying
to file the taxes for the year 2005 and dont find the document that was
received after filing last year.(receipt for 2004).I now require this
document for filing this years taxes, and cant really go further.

I've been lurking and reading and sending silent purrs lately, but
I wanted to share poor Shamrock's Monday.  I dropped him off
yesterday for a dental because his breath has been really rank, and
when I went to brush his teeth (which I do not keep up with, bad

Here is a series of 6 photos of Pippin occupying the ground floor of my
daughter's doll house. Note that the yellow "staircase" is not attached
to the house, yet he managed not to knock it down.
http://tinyurl.com/n445s

see abpa, under 'resting'
sandra

Concord Police Department Officer Ron Turner is a fucken dirty black
pig cop
First the cop called for chp portable scale to get the
wt of my truck he could not get one then he had me

She is such a little sweetie.  She stays in my office with me all day long,
leaving only to go to the litter box or to go get a little drink or nosh.
Since she is getting, um, quite fluffy, I'm trying to get her to exercise
more (since my other three or at their ideal weights, or ...