After being offline for nearly 2 weeks, I finally made it back today.
My laptop, which I've been using almost exclusively, has died, or at
least the monitor end of things has. I get a white screen, regardless
of what I do. But if I plug it into a stand-alone monitor (like one

News connectivity back for the moment, although this is the second backup
computer -- main computer had a bad disk crash before leaving for St. Louis,
and the LINUX/Windows machine was power-dead this morning.
Things are slowly recovering, although not the same without my own cats. ...

Miranda the sex-kitten. ;o)
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Several weeks ago I posted about kittens that will be needing
homes in Maryland. I have updated pictures of them.  I failed to
write that they are my sisters cat Amber's kittens. She was
supposedly spayed, and on one of her escapes to the OUT, she ended

Last evening Mooch, our little tuxedoed resident stray, spotted a bird
while he was eating from the food bowl we always put on the veranda for
him when he appears. In a black and white flash he abandoned the bowl
and leapt for the bird, caught it in mid-air and made off with it. It

As I mentioned in another thread, I'm going to be writing, or at least
trying to write, Pine Cone's sea adventures. Thanks to Helen M, who will
be working with me, we have a possible "in" with a British publisher.  I
don't want to use anyone's cats' names without permission from ...

I haven't seen this mentioned here yet:
Fresh Step has the cutest commercial out.  Basically, they say if your
cat has trouble finding its litterbox, than you must be using Fresh
Step.

There are many illnesses that ferrets commonly contract, and it is
difficult to know exactly what to do in every situation to ensure that
your ferret stays healthy.
Ferrets can become a huge burden if they are not properly trained. They

This poor abandoned German shepherd ... He's 27 pounds.
He's an old guy.  He should be enjoying his last few years in a soft
cushy bed with a loving family.  Instead he's at death's doorstep.
I really really hope that in the last couple of minutes of this show,

My acupuncturist's wife / secretary has been working on trying to
get my claim to my insurance company -- they gave her the wrong
routing numbers or something.
Anyway, finally it goes through, and what does my *lovely* insurance

Persia keeps staring at me with those big green/gold eyes of hers.  It's not
time yet for her to be fed but she's doing her darndest to psych me into
thinking it is.  She's purring very loudly and saying "meowma".  Oh!  She
just this moment tried a new tactic... she licked my foot!  ...

I saw him on Thursday.  It was mostly just a preliminary meeting to
talk about my symptoms.  He's waiting to get the test results from my
doctor's office before deciding what tests to give me.
He said that random assignment will get the same results as a GI

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WASHINGTON -- The House has passed legislation that requires pets to be
considered in future emergency preparedness plans.
The measure mandates state and local preparedness offices to take into

It's black, so it can only belong to Imp.
He likes to hide, but this is sort of a semi-hiding.  He likes to go
under the bed and leave his tail visible.
I'll say "Hi, Imp, I can seeeeeeeee YOU!!"