During my shift volunteering at the local Humane Association (which does NOT
run the local shelter, but shares the building with it as they raised over
half the funds to build it), Sarah D, the Education Director asked me to
look in the picnic basket by her desk.

The kittens are loose, the kittens are loose, run and hide, the kittens are
loose!
Tayla was getting a bit too rough with the kittens and they were starting to
hide under the couch in Ben's office, so Ben and I decided to allow them out

Can this nasty thing cause symptoms that mimic pneumonia, and cause general
blood sepsis and gastrointestinal infection? I wonder if this is the case
with The Prophet Jeff, who lives way out in the country. His symptoms were
sudden like that.

I think with this summer, finally after I think three and a half years,
Molly is finally happy.
She was 1 1/2 when we got her, and had just raised a litter of kittens on
her own.  She didn't want to be touched and fought being picked up.  She

Not too good :(
Snowball lost 3 teeth. :( :(  It's small consolation to know that he would
probably even have lost them on an annual (instead of 2-year) cleaning cycle
as he has the longhaired cats' apparent genetic vulnerability to poor tooth

We let Tayla out for a supervised visit with all the rest of the Crews'
crew, but first we once again clipped all 18 claws on all 6 cats so that
weapons were blunted for the confrontation.
Of course there had to be an establishing of the pecking order.  First Tayla

What an adorable little thing and so hurt!
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/slideshow/news/13713883/detail.html
*R* *H*

I thought you might be interested in this HSUS campaign to
persuade the NFL to punish football player and alleged
dogfighter Michael Vick appropriately. Now that a grand jury has
indicted Michael Vick on federal animal fighting

"In order to keep a true perspective on one's importance, everyone
should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore
him." - Dereke Bruce - from the cats section of www.odd-info.com

Chibi, my disappeared cat (as of Feb.), may have been seen by my
cousin's husband!
Chibi was my cousin's family's cat for three years; she was just a
bitty stray when she showed up with her (nursing) mother in their

Interesting water bowls for our owners ;)
http://tinyurl.com/2doa9w
Jill

I wonder if it's because Google Groups has been hosed for the past few days?

Now that I know Archer is OK, I remembered a rant I was going to give...
My vet has two entrances and two waiting areas - one for cats and one for
dogs.  They do this specifically so that their feline clients don't get
scared or upset.  When Ben and I went in the cat entrance last ...

First, the participants in this little scene: Fluffy, senior female in the
clowder and a confirmed druggie - medium size, old, and not given to
sharing; Brünhilde, large and young female; Avery, middle age male and
larger than Fluffy; other cats (Tigger, Spooky, Sieglinde); and a