I've been reading the stories here about how much trouble it is to eat
around the cat - holding the sandwich with one hand and pushing the cat
away with the other, etc...  Nope, never happened to me.  Rita just
isn't interested in people food.

Rene S alerted me to questionable ingredients in some of the prescription
food, and sure enough I saw this one that really scared me:
Ethoxyquin
A Google search turns up:

I was very surprised today when I got a card from Dewi, it only took two
days from Australia to England. That will take some beating. :-)

I'm making a bunch of the Xmas cards by hand this year.  Got some green
and red paper and have spent the evening cutting and gluing and shooing
Mischief off the desk.
The main pic on the front is one of the following pics

my f.cking snatch itches sooo bad
no more f.cking doggys again
oooo f.cking yeast infections
i need a battery acid douche

Here's a slightly naughty (should be safe for work) version of the "Im
in UR blah doin blah" cat pictures:
  http://tinyurl.com/y4gfvy
Hugs and Purrs,

I can't believe it!  A portion of the quote in the paper tonight says:
One juror simply refused to consider whether two brothers were guilty
of.......
.... "When they won't even deliberate, it's insane," said District Attorney

I found a black cat sitting under the truck just as pretty as you
please. It ran out under the door because Frank started growling
through the screen like a maniac. (He is such a little scrapper). So I
put some Fancy Feast under the truck, left the door cracked. The food

If I do say so myself, this one's a keeper :-)
http://tinyurl.com/yymaj3
Susan M
Otis and Chester

I never post anything about Bosley, the grandcat, so thought I would,
just this once.
Bosley was my son's cat. He went to work for Hallburton Special
Services, and was gone from home weeks at a stretch. Bosley had to have

Samwise has crystals in his urine and the vet has put him on Hills c/d food.
There is no problem getting him to eat it, but the food from the vet's
office is expensive .
Does anyone know of any other brands of food I could look into for him.

Just thought I'd give you folks a little closure.
First, I'm happy to say that the two of them are living together
in relative peace now, and that Tigger is no longer sequestered
in the back bedroom.  They don't interact much, but that includes

Well, inspired by yesterday's success with the cats and camera, I spent a
good portion of the evening being a celebrity cat photographer as the boys
mugged for the camera.
There is a sequence of pictures of Otis grooming Chester, an intimidating

Miss Violette had been gone just around 3 weeks.  I was still in great pain
and DH was very sad.  It was a year ago at the beginning of November.  We
had come home after a long day of work and the weather kept getting worse.
As we sat in the van having the last cigarette the wind ...

I'm trying to get my elderly mom to stop giving her cat (with a granuloma
like skin condition on her hind legs) Fancy Feast and try Hills low
allergen Z/D prescription diet formula to see if it was the Fancy Feast
that's the problem.