Two nights ago she pooped on the shag carpet in the bedroom several times. It was very loose. I thought it might have been a reaction to a goat milk treat (I give a small bowl of goat milk about once a week, and between all 9 cats none of them get very much). I had to lock everyone out of the...

It's our beloved friend's Joy's bithrday:) Joy, you such a sweetheart, and much beloved here. ==^oo^== O (Mosey singing) HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPY BIIIIIIIIIIIITHRDAAAAAAAAAAAY TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO YOOOOOOOOU

********JULIE******* Do NOT read this post, except for below the ****Special Note to Julie**** I don't even want to talk about it. Ike's winds destroyed trees, power lines, who knows what else, and I was without power from last Sunday until just today. Most of the time I just lit my...

He's voluntarily relieving himself in the right place most of the time now. Meowmie is very pleased.

I bought mysef a new swivel chair for my desk. It was delivered in a huge cardboard box with different compartments for the parts of the chair (yes, I had to assemble it myself). It is long, with two compartments lengthwise, and then there's a crosswise compartment at the end. Anyone with cats...

This is making the rounds in email, so many of you as cat lovers have already been gifted it in your inbox. :) LITTLE KNOWN FELINE AILMENTS Having conquered cat flu, triumphed over tapeworm and braved behavioral quirks, it is time to focus attention on some oft-observed, but...

Francis has been doing his usual adoration of hens today. I've been out mowing a very overgrown lawn. In the process, I've taken to tops off several anthills. Cue henny clucking of excitment as they attack the ants, goggling them up and any ants' eggs that have been exposed. Poor Francis, he...

Due to Maryweather's sudden death a while back, I had one slot in the maximum number of cats I feel comfortable keeping. Before Spooky's death last week, I had already agreeded to take an adult foster. Due the the turmoil in the clowder surrounding Spooky's death - pretty much all last week - I...

Barney saw Mark, who is the senior vet and ferret specialist this morning. Mark seems to think that Barney has a Duff heart as he's got a very irregular heart beat and it skips a beat then speeds up and slows down... So, he's doing a few simple tests and an abdominal tap to check the fluid in his...

Barney Ferret will probably be making his way to Rainbow Bridge tomorrow morning. He's been ill for a while with an abdominal mass that has been getting bigger and he has been going steadily downhill, so I've made the decision to send him to the bridge if that is what the vet recommends. I've made...

I haven't written anything because I've just been too upset over this. For background, one of my nieces (one of twins) had a liver transplant when she was 7 months old. That part is FINE and the liver is perfectly healthy. But that is a whole story in itself. At 4 years old, her portal vein...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2959996/Cat-saves-chicken-by-a-whisker.html -- MatSav

Any fans of the TV show "Cold Case"? It's another police detective show, but with one twist: the cases this department works on are all old and have "gone cold". Then some new evidence surfaces and they reopen the case. I swear, one of the writers is a cat lover. For one thing, the main character...

.... because we have rats. Rats that like chocolate. My chocolate, to be precise. I'm still not sure how it managed to slip into my drawer and how it took all the individually wrapped, all dark chocolate squares out of the bag without chewing on anything. Now there's an electric zapper under my...

Received for a friend in Houston and thought you might relate. *Things that Ike Taught me...* Here are a few things that I learned while dealing with Hurricane Ike: 1. Coffee and frozen pizzas can be made on a BBQ grill. 2. Hot pockets taste pretty good deep fried on the outdoor cooker! ...

What we need now is a recipe thread. So, here goes. We noticed that there were chorizos for the first time in the deli. Having heard Victor mention them, we got some, but had no idea what to do with them. First of all, I tried to fry them, like I would regular sausages. This didn't seem to do...

I went round to visit my aunt this afternoon and introduced, Georgie, to the 'red dot greebling', for a normally laid back cat it was great fun watching her chase it round the room. Afterwards, Georgie found the only patch of sunlight left in the room and plonked herself down in it. I took a...

We're getting into mud-slinging again. There are people in this group who like Kyla. There are people in this group who don't like Kyla. I think we have a good idea of who the members of each camp are. I don't care. Kyla, please don't respond to those who say hostile things about you....

Now, of course, I wish I had lots and lots more video of him. I almost forgot that I had this, and I'm so glad I remembered it. This was just about a year ago-- and you can see how healthy and beautiful he was, at age sixteen. He's on the daybed-- HIS place-- playing around with a scrap of...

Amber was 14 years old yesterday. She is a bit lame (but Cosequin seems to help) but she eats well and seems happy. ---MIKE--- In the White Mountains of New Hampshire (44° 15' N - Elevation 1580')