I bought a new keyboard, and naturally, Caliban got the box. The vids
are very dark (it's very dark around here this time of year):
http://www.dropshots.com/frankiennikki#date/2007-11-01/11:11:45
This one is even darker:

I am afraid Minke died today.  Something very serious happened inside
him: the vet is not sure what, but he was very distressed for a short
time, and the vet said he had to be put down.
  Over the last year or so Minke had become very strange, never really

Okay, I said I had to set up to capture Bucky "not being cuddled", and
finally, after several false starts, failed movies and lots of cussing
(grin), I have put up a short mpg file on my web site.
Mind you, the file is STILL 28MB after all my efforts to minimize it

We live in Türkiye and we now have seven cats..
One of them is Bezelye (means "pea" in English) , she is 3 months old.
children brought her to us when she was only 3 days old, because her
mother had refused to feed her. She had parasite and she was very

A few weeks ago I spotted an obvious kin of Max.
I fed him; I talked to him; He preferred his freedom.
I saw him on the road today.
He didn't make it.

My number one boy Arthur passed away last night after 17 wonderful years
with us. We will miss him terribly. Can't write any more now, but there
are a couple of photos of him here
http://members.westnet.com.au/hcbart/inmates/arthur.html

Despite constant veterinary care for the last three months, and second
opinions, our Lyric has continued to go down hill.  At this point, I
know that she will soon begin to suffer, and I have made the extremely
painful decision to euthanize.   It has been such a hard week for my

Boyfie came in from rat patrol on Monday evening and went straight to bed
which is not unusual.  What was a bit unusual was the look on his face.  I
don't suppose anyone else would have noticed except me, who knows him so
well.

I have started a candle group for Minke which can be found at
http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=Minke
Julie

When Shmogg was still with us, one of the things he delighted in was
rustling through the bottoms of the vertical blinds. Anyone who has vertical
blinds will know that they aren't particular robust window coverings, and a
6kg cat rustling around in the bottom of them with great ...

From the Kitab al-Aghani of Abu al-Faraj al-Isbahani (d.967),
a vast treatise on music in 24 volumes and 10,000 pages:
  One day Ibrahim al-Mawsili [d.804, chief court musician to Harun
  al-Rashid] longed for a cellar of his.  In it there was a pond to

Maybe someone knows about this and has some advice.
My cat Charlotte has started a new habit.  If I put my shoes by the
front door, she pees on them.  I discovered this after I had company
for dinner, and I kept smelling cat urine.  No one else did.  I

Giving Mojo medication or arranging a trip to the vet is almost
impossible, like any good cat, he has a sixth sense that alerts tothe
prospect of either. As soon as his "spidy sense" kicks in he makes for
my bedroom and gets under the double bed  which is wide enough that he

It seems like the past 6 months there have been *so many* RPCA kitties
going to the Bridge.
By my count, no less than 11 RPCA cats have gone to the Bridge, just
since June.