Dante likes to pick things up and carry them around, and often bring
them to me.  His toys, but also any number of things he finds lying
around, and since Martha Stewart doesn't live here, sometimes those
things can be pretty interesting.  I've reported here that he's

Well, it's been a few weeks since I've posted, and unfortunately it's
another round of purrs and prayers being requested.
First of all, I posted for purrs for a sick friend back in December, I
think. He was battling cancer, in the form of a particularly aggressive

I've just been standing in the kitchen, sipping from a mug of steaming hot
caffeine and as I did so I was watching the birds in the garden. As well as
many small birds on the various feeding stations, I noticed a couple of
female blackbirds picking up bits of moss & loose grass ...

My brother's Springer Spaniel, Maggie, has been a rough time of it. A
couple of weeks ago she was diagnosed with infected jowls. She went on
antibiotics, which gave her horrible diarrhea. Then this morning she had 3
grand mal seizure in a span of just a a couple of hours. Prior to ...

We were back at the TED this evening. HRFL has had a tummy bug and has
been *off* for a few days. It turns out that he has colitis, and
possibly a little bit of pancreitis.:o(
He's had something to ease the pain, and he seems to feel better, but

Cali has been making it a habit of having some Biscotti every morning before
retiring for her daily slumber. This morning the slave was a bit slow
breaking her off a piece, so she hopped over said slave and started chewing
on a whole Biscotti. :)

The night before last, I dreamed of h0p.  It was so good to see him again.
I was at my mom's house in the dream, and it was cold outside. I opened
the front door and h0p was there on the front porch.  I brought him into
the den and he lay in the sun under the front window ...

I am not going to have much time this week so
PURRS,
HUGS,
PRAYERS

I got presents this morning. It's our 9th anniversary together and Tom
bought me a couple of wonderful scented soaps, some bath salts and a
couple of metal bookends for my night stand. I took the presents out and
left the bags on the floor, with very interested cats all around ...

Shylock's new wife Enid is very ill and is in hospital at the vets as we
speak.  She seems unable to eat or drink. and has to be re-hydrated, x-rayed
and blood-tested.  The vet thinks it's possible that she's maybe ingested
some metal, like a nail or staple from the soil (earth) ...

I'm cat-sitting this weekend, for a couple of cats I've gotten to know
fairly well over the past couple of years, since I've had this client.
Her two cats are Sula, a small black girl cat, and Buddha, a big, fluffy
gray and white male. (He looks a bit like a very large Smudge.)

This is a story about Bom Bom.
Bom Bom is a pure-bred Devon Rex cat about a year and a half old. Despite
his young age, he has already become the father of a few litters of
beautiful kittens, two of them with my ex-wife's cat, Isis. He is such a

The vet just rang me with the results on the latest ringworm test
(finally!). NO RINGWORM!!! Yay! Whoo! HaPpY dAnCiNg!

Wasn't it you who has the new "office cat"?  I'm thinking I might get
one for my mother for Mother's Day, but I've lost your post.  Could you
post (or send) the url again?
Joy

for Kate and Jack.  I will be a nervous wreck, of course, so any purs
that my little ones have a smooth and uneventful surgery and recovery
would be very much appreciated.
Ginger-lyn