I got a birthday present for myself! The old-timers to this ng know I've suffered from insomnia for years. Valerian Root capsules seem to help. Melatonin tablets work but give me very vivid sometimes disturbing dreams. Years ago I had a "sound machine". I won a gift certificate from some...

Purrs for the cats and dogs that died in a fire in Quebec https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1431487

I haven't seen any posts from her in a while. I hope everything is okay. Jill

I took her wash bucket to the bathroom to change the water, but she heard the water running and followed me. So I gave her the bath on the bath mat, as we've been here before. I decided to have my bath since I was there anyway. Smokey zonked out on my dirty clothes on the floor. I made the mistake...

Direct from the LA Times: "In retrospect, lighting the match was my big mistake. But I was only trying to retrieve the gerbil," Eric Tomaszewski told bemused doctors in the Severe Burns Unit of Salt Lake City Hospital. Tomaszewski, and his homosexual partner Andrew "Kiki" Farnum, had been admitted...

There is this rather antiquated listserv thing called the Dataw Net where I live. It's sort of like an intranet email server for people who live here. Someone just posted the "Any one missing a very friendly cat. In our yard at ." Here's the picture someone snapped of what is a beautiful...

It used to be so busy here. I guess all the cats have their own FaceBook pages now. I wouldn't know, I'm not on any of that Social Media crap. Yes I'm old. :p Smokey still loves her baths BTW; she cries until she gets her baf. I'm lucky if I get away with two 'baths' a day. We have developed quite...

Smokey is the sole remaining kitty from our original clowder, but she is getting up in age. Between her arthritis, her laziness and her belly she finds it hard to wash some of her parts. Combined with her loose stools this has led to a sticky/stinky cat. But she still has all of her marbles and she...

It's been 3 years since Buffy's former owner, Carol Morgan, passed away. There was an invitation on the online community where I live for adopting her cats. She had a Tonkinese (or was it a Burmese?) cat that bullied Buffy and some other cat (never heard much about it). Buffy was the orange...

Yesterday afternoon a wicked thunderstorm blew through. Dear sweet Buffy, who has been through two hurricanes with me without flinching, heard a loud crack of thunder and took off running. She hid under the dining table. Usually she doesn't even notice storms. I wonder what was different...

Hello all, Mark Edwards is in the hospital - he had emergency surgery last Thursday. He is recovering well, and hopes to be out as soon as possible. Mishi

I know this group is designed specifically for cat lovers and I do love cats myself. However, an event of such magnitude like 'World Turle Day' deserves recognition by all animal lovers. Enjoy the link provided or research other sites that can provide what it is you're looking for. HAPPY TURTLE...

I have never really been able to capture her eyes well in a photo. They are green but have blue around the pupil. Her eyes remind me of glass two-toned marbles. I keep trying to figure out if there is actually a marble named after a green blue glass like Buffy's eyes. Any old marble players...

Much to my surprise, Nipsy is doing pretty well. I guess that shadow in his lungs wasn't cancer because he would certainly be dying from that by now. He does have a serious heart murmer but I don't know that anything can be done about it. He is sneezing more now though, which could be a sign of a...

http://cdn.ebaumsworld.com/mediaFiles/picture/1753786/82416164.jpg -- Dr. Auric D. Hellman

Upstairs in my local pub is flats- shared by Aaron, Dean and Crostin. Manager, bar man and chef respectively. As it's a very old pub it has a rodent problem so although Aaron is allergic to cats a while back they acquired a half Bengal kitten to deal with that.. Solomon aka Solly had grown into a...

What happens when Minnie met her tail: https://s17.postimg.cc/7fqrumy27/DSC01031.jpg Bored but what the heck...! John D. Kasupski Niagara Falls, NY

After a good play session with the fishing wand toy she hopped up on her kitty cradle to watch the birds outside. :) https://s14.postimg.org/7exqag7xt/beauty2.jpg Jill

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/your-cat-doesnt-love-you-science Rudyard Kipling was right. Cats really do walk by themselves, and do not need their owners to feel secure and safe, a study has shown. Although absent owners might worry that their pet is pining, in fact, cats show no sign...

It's the time of year where I live when static electricity due to the changing of the seasons and shedding combine to make a keyboard with a cat nearby a *magnet* for fur. Here's the hint. Rub a dryer fabric softener sheet over the keyboard. It actually picks up cat fur while leaving behind an...