Had lunch today with Annie and Jim and their daughter Christine, who had
the grandson in tow.  Annie and Jim are in the Seattle area on a
whirlwind  "visit all the folks" tour and took time to have lunch with
me.  Originally DW was going to join us but she had a badly-bummed knee ...

My cat has covering her back and head they ar covering her and i
wondered if andone knew of a treatment i could try before i talke her
to vet and have them give  me a huge bill to check her out.
if you have any suggestions please let me know!

Ever since we introduced Ka'Shay to our pack  Spirit has become her guardian
and big brother.  Never to far away either of them.
     He has taken up this cute action.  He has become my mighty hunter  he
stalks Ka' Shays  toys  and brings them to my office hobby room.  He

Last night I was settled into one of the two computer chairs writing
and WooToo was in the other one (which, some of you will remember, I
had to buy to avoid fighting over the one) when she hopped down from
her chair and yeeked at me. Since 'yeek' seems to mean "do something,

Did you guys notice how bright the harvest moon was? The cats were so
restless, wanting outside. Like they *knew* the hunting was excellent.
I had a hard time explaining to them that the hunting was also good
higher up on the food chain than they were.

Yesterday evening: Blacky didn't like the remaining wet food any more,
so I opened a cup with salmon cat food for him. He munched away one
half, like always.
Then Andrea came home and Blacky invited her to a cuddle session on

Use common sense people !!  If cat sick take it to the vet.
If your human child were sick would you go ask a stranger on the street what
to do or post your question in a newsgroup about kids ?!?!?!?
If you can not afford health care for it then maybe it is time to think about

close the tin with a plastic lid. Here in town, I put ...

I've been reading all your posts about the hospital situation with Dave, and
what it's like and how they treat him.
I am not really surprised, judging by my own experience last year.  I found
the pain control inadequate too.

I hope it's only maternal paranoia. Roxie this morning started coughing and
at a point or two dropped little bits of what I'd call dingleberries, had
they stuck to the fur surrounding the dingleberry supply mechanism. A few
minutes before this, she ate her morning chow like a horse. ...

I found this Russian picture online and had to share:
http://tinyurl.com/hga7d   or
http://professional-geek.com/personal/images/cats/missing_pieces.jpg
Rough translation (VERY ROUGH - someone else is likely to have a much

Thanks to TED, Miss Lily Whiskers came home this evening. A bit sore and
a bit bald on her bum, but OK.
TED took X-rays this morning and had a good look. Lily did indeed have
an airgun pellet lodged in her back, but fortunately it wasn't very deep

Yesterday, Harry had a live bird in the house*, I figured someone else
caught it and Harry just usurped the spoils.  But Nooooooo!   Today he
brought in a chipmunk, not releaseable, then just now a vole, also now
with the choir invisible.  Now I know why when the catdoor is opened ...

An old classic by Monty Python, recently brought up on the Finnish cat
newsgroup:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mMCRru6JEo8