China Gluten Blocked After Pet Food Recall
Chemical Melamie Found In Wheat Gluten Samples
WASHINGTON -- The government has blocked imports of wheat gluten from a
company in China because of contamination, acting after the recent pet-food

All of today's entries on www.cuteoverload.com are kitty toes!!
Theresa
Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh
Make Levees, Not War

I haven't posted in ages.  Been really insane on my "part-time" IRS job
which mushroomed to 30 hrs/week!
But this is a new pic of Bruver, my outdoor kitty. He's gorgeous now, altho
still won't let me pet him unless he's eating.

Today's favourite kitten toy: a foot-long piece of foam rubber pipe
lagging.  First they just tried to kill it, then realized it was
light enough that you could lift it up if you grabbed it by two front
paws and reared up on your hind legs.  You could then wield it like a

Thank you all for your purrs and good wishes to Hobbes.  As I
reported, I took him back to the vet on Saturday and they felt that
the wound had enlarged simply because dead tissue had fallen away.
They did, however, recommend a medication to put into the wound to

One of my co-workers had adopted her first cat 6 months ago.  His name
is Spencer and though he's the only cat in a household with three
other dogs, it doens't stop him one bit.  In fact, for fun he likes to
sneak up on the chihuahua and suddenly pounce and then take off

She's been laying on the floor in front of the TV and gazing intently at the
nightly news for the last 20 minutes.

We have a white bath mat in front of the vanity in our bathroom, which
is on the 2nd floor of the house. The litter boxes are in the
basement, a full two staircases below our bathroom.
Yesterday morning, I noticed a brown smudge on the bath mat. When I

I have a king-size bed.  So I have 4 pillows on the bed.  Two are just sort
of backdrop, if you will, as they match the bedspread.  But the other two
pillows I use (well, mostly the one on the left side).  Persia, the intrepid
tapping cat (nose, cheek and shoulder) has taken to ...

<Special thanks to the current pet food disaster>
1.  Stumble out of bed, open bedroom door to be greeted by gang of cats, one
of which has a drinking straw in her mouth (Betty), in hopes of playing
fetch with Daddy.

I've got a very boring educational documentary playing on the TV. A guy is
giving a lecture with a slideshow of black-and-white diagrams, and he's
using a red laser pointer -- which Billy and Tommy are chasing around the TV
screen!

An email from Flippy reminded me of something nice that happened this
weekend and I thought I'd share.  When I took Hobbes to the vet on
Saturday, we didn't have an appointment so they put us in a room,
weighed Hobbes and left us there.  They checked in with us once or

My company announced a week ago that they will be closing their doors - so
as of this Friday I will be out of a job (and Friday will be my last pay
check since they don't "hold back" a week or two).
After everything we've been through we don't have any "cushion" in our

Here is some pet food recall haiku I posted to another group. Y'all
may or may not find it funny (grin):
Pet food is recalled:
Pets are dying from bad food.