The doctor called me with Lindy's results. Her BUN and creatine are both higher than they were a month ago, which is not good. The doctor hopes that getting her onto the special food will help. There was blood in her urine, so they're going to do a culture to look for an infection, which may...

A couple of years ago, when I exchanged my PC for a laptop, I figured I could make do with a much smaller desk, and so have more space in my home. So I bought a small antique desk at an auction. The big old desk went into my compartment in the basement. Now, with Caliban lounging and filling...

Well not just Jill. Just watching morning television (Martha Stewart - to lazy to find the remote) A new Scotch Brand product advertised. Fur Fighter. http://www.3m.com/brands/scotch/furfighter/productDetail.html New to me anyway, and it looks like it might work.

Tyler is 11 years old now. He's a glamorous looking cat with long hair, and one of the biggest cats I have ever seen. His lifelong pal Orly is 14, a short haired ginger fellow and not much smaller. Every evening they sleep at opposite ends of the sofa. Once every evening, Orly will get up,...

Saw this on the web today: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?o=5&f=/g/a/2008/10/21/dip.DTL -- Joyce ^..^ (To email me, remove the X's from my user name.)

One of my friends, an author, is a proud "rat person" who is none too fond of cats (yes, I find it strange too.) She warned me that her latest book has some, er, rather unsavoury feline references, which I will not mention here as you folks will not appreciate them, but she wanted me to know in...

One hour? Daylight Savings Time. Love Kyla --going back to bed.

Could anyone be more smooshy? http://s120.photobucket.com/albums/o185/frankiennikki/Jul-Dec08/?action=view&current=IMG_1119.jpg http://s120.photobucket.com/albums/o185/frankiennikki/Jul-Dec08/?action=view&current=IMG_1121.jpg -- Marina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki.

I didn't sleep very well last night... When I finally got up to pee at 10 am, I got surrounded by the furry committee so I groggily fed the cats and went back to bed. As I climbed back into bed next to my sleeping boyfriend, he says, "Uh, I already fed them." *pause*

Jake is unbelievable. This morning he went out for his morning constitutional. Then went over and flopped down into his usual sunny spot under the orange tree. Only due to the changing season, it was still in the shade. The sun was only a few feet away. But he laid there and looked...

This is cool! I wrote to the Ontario SPCA after reading about the cat who fell 17 stories, survived with (relatively) minor injuries, and is being held at the shelter while they search for the cat's owners, who had moved away and left the cat behind. My concern was that this cat would be given back...

http://cdn1.ustream.tv/swf/4/viewer.45.swf?cid=317016 This is sooo cute - it's a live puppy cam of some shiba inu puppies. Celeste found the link on one of her forums. Christine

Anyone here got any experience with senile dementia in a cat? Our Ishtar seems to have it. In the last few months, she's started having spells of meowing at nothing in the middle of the night - it's not about food and she's not in pain, stroking her will settle her but she'll just start up again...

Last time the neighbor asked me to cat-sit I wound up in the hospital! Let's hope that doesn't happen this time. I'll be making sure Schwartzy and Fedders are fed and watered and clean their litterbox. They are indoor/outdoor cats but she particularly said she needs me to make sure Schwartzy...

Persia's having a blast. This is the first time I can remember she didn't get a furry mousie lost under or behind a piece of heavy (read: immoveable) furniture. This little mousie toy has stuck around in the living room for whole two days now. She's having such fun batting it around, tossing...

I voted I am just waiting for this day to be done. Either Hell, Heaven or Both begins at the end of the vote

I thought it was the end. 28 days without newsgroup access. My ISP says it is an "improved news service", being "outsourced". I have been finding keeping up with NGs tricky for some time. I shall carry on here, but if there are any more ISP problems, I might disappear. Please feel...

I ran over to the Animal Rescue League (the local shelter) again today. They're great about letting me look in all the cat cages, even the new arrivals. No Sam. But you know what really tears me up? They have 5 rooms full of cats, and when I walk in all of the kitties start yelling "Me! Me!...

This is so cool! It's like the "Cat's House" in Southern California, but for people whose taste runs to cleaner lines and neutral colors. Also, this house is just *designed* that way! http://www.moderncat.net/2008/10/08/unbelievable-cat-friendly-house-design-from-japan/ -- Joyce ^..^ (To...

I was browsing the Helsinki City shelter's web site, and it seems they found a pregnant homeless kitty who gave birth to *nine* kittens. There's a picture, but you can't make out much more than a pile of fur (and one b/w kitten in the foreground who seems to reach out and grab my...