... and one for our friend, please. And make it sharpish!
As you know, the neighbours have a cat. KitKat. He's the striped twin of my
striped horror, Marble.
KitKat has had is sussed for some time that The Crazy Cat Lady that lives

I got a nasty shock tonight. My cat jumped on the desk, and rubbed
against my hands. After that I noticed a small cylindrical thing on my
finger...it was whitish, maybe 5 mm long, 1 mm wide, and it was moving
very slowly. A brief web search seems to suggest it was a tapeworm

Morning note.  Rob's condition has deterioriated over night.  He is
not talking
at all this morning, though he responds when  you tell him to do
something like

Carrots. Broccoli. Sugar snap peas. Baby corn. Water chestnuts. I'm watching
five cats fighting over what I couldn't finish.

This is disgusting!  I wrote a few days ago in a thread in h+b to defend
some of the HSUS practices, but this is absolutely revolting.  Read what the
Houston Humane Society (note: Houston, not the national HSUS) is advertising
as a "Valentine's Day special" for cats (free ...

I have a friend who is suffering from short-term memory problems and
it looks like they may have an (as yet unknown) organic cause... she's
waiting to see the neurologist and very scared, so can I please have
purrs for her?

I don't understand this:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/02/16/shelter.outbreak.ap/index.html
So, they are to go from not euthanizing to euthanizing in 72 hours? What
about doing things properly to begin with? They obviously were giving the

A PA neighbor sent me a note, her husband saw a box by the road on
Saturday, and investigated on Sunday, it was hald full of snow and a
kitten - she's holding it in their garage will get a vet to check it out
and aksed if I will adopt it when I return in April.  I said yes.  It's

http://www.wesh.com/news/10974018/detail.html
KINGSTON, N.H. -- Owners of a New Hampshire home are facing charges after
six kittens were rescued from the empty house, police said.
The owners were evicted two weeks ago. Authorities said they left behind six

I've been offline a few days-- and just got DSL.  I know, I'm the last
on the planet.  Anyway, I don't think I can get through about 2000
messages, so we're sending you all  all-purpose purrs.  
The snowstorm came through, then everything froze.   I have a serious

... when a full set of sharp claws suddenly embed themselves in my back
as I am chopping veggies for dinner - Miranda wanting to supervise me.
She settles down on my shoulder to watch intently while I prepare dinner.
... when I turn from the counter towards the fridge and see 5-6 ...

John bought me a beautiful box of chocolates for valentines day and it
came in a lovely presentation bag with tissue paper in it... I left
the bag sitting out in the livingroom for the cats to play with, and
Tessie jumped in and out of it quite a few times yesterday. She just

I finally got a decent picture of Pua.  She was sitting in my chair, looking
at me and sat still enough for me to get the camera.
The stripe on her body is a shadow from the arm of the chair; her body is
basically white.

Hi Evelyn,
I was reading about the Marpac machines on another group and came across
your name. I was wondering if you ever bought one and how you like it if you
did? I have the 'nature sounds' built into my clock radio, but they're quite