How do you get an animal spayed when the local vet orginizations keep
insisting on Catch 22 situations?
Basically, I can't do anything until I find the paperwork, and I don't
have the paperwork and I can't get more papers because I don't have

<shamelessly modelled on one of Lesley's posts>
Caliban: I'ZE TOO!
Miranda: Too what? Too fat?
Caliban: NO!!

The kitties here are fascinated by the skinny, starving creature I brought
home a few days ago. Poor thing, I'm still not sure it can be saved from
certain death, and the cats just won't leave it alone.
I found it by accident last Friday, in the town square, in front of a

Thanks to all of you for your sympathy and support.  It helps..
-- Eric, Kim and the Chigger Ranch Crew

Just making sure our cow poke friends are ok.  I saw bad storms rolled thru
Dallas -  Fort worth area
http://www.local6.com/weather/11881376/detail.html

Jim has been cleared to travel from Corpus Christi, TX, to Myrtle Beach,
S.C. so that we can remove our personal items and clean up Genesis for sale.
We decided for various reasons to drive and pick the stuff up instead of
shipping it back to Texas.

Sometime around today, two years ago, my little creamsickle girl was born in
a barn.

Hey, I just wanted to inform all of you, that I changed my name here
on this group from Lightwell to Bettina.
I am still the one from germany with 7 cats which joined this group in
September last year.

I took a series o pics of Caliban in the enclosure today. I especially
like this one:
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o185/frankiennikki/calprofile4.jpg
He looks so grown-up and serious, my baby boy. The rest of them (one of

Her 10th birthday.  She  was born somewhere during the Spring ten years
go.  She was found by someone  a few months later wandering on a major
street in starving condition.   She was taken in by a rescue group,
spayed and put up for adoption.  When I adopted her, she begged

I have five girl kitties, all between 3 and 8 years old.  All but one
a bit on the "fluffy" side.
I foster for our local SPCA and about 2 weeks ago took in a 2-3 year
old fully functional

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Onyx: All That Glitters
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see kitty

It is a lovely spring day today.  Rained yesterday.  61degrees and a very
light breeze.  Brilliant sunshine.
Charlie is out digging weeds out from under the cherry tree.  I went out to
ask him about some bank problem and we stood there and talked for a while.

one of my favorite things in this world is to snuffle a kitty wthat has just
come in from a nice cool evening outside.   :)
It even beats fresh clothes from the dryer.

They just keep adding and adding brands. The latest casualty is the
entire line of Nutro Gourmet Classics, which happens to be the favorite
food of our crew of picky eaters. :(
I have 6 cases I need to return and we're scrambling to find other non