I'm always fascinated by watching our cats drinking. I've learned that when they lap, their tongue curls under, not up, when they scoop the water into their throats. And I've seen some odd ways that they get it into their mouths. Just recently Sophie has adopted the habit of placing her paw on the...

Great fun. Watching a lioness wander past the car, close enough to touch: seeing meerkats with tiny ones: and so on. The high spot is, of course, driving through the baboon enclosure. Halfway through a baboon got on the bonnet and got to work, gnawing the windscreen washer until the top...

I'm not a frequent poster here, but am not a total stranger. Milo, my big longhaired black 17 year old cat, was scheduled to be put down 20 minutes ago. He'd been fighting kidney disease for a while, and was on subQ fluids 3 times per week to keep him going, but had gradually been losing...

We feel that we would like to post a response to the many comments we have received by email (containing varying degrees of abuse) and that have been made here following our action in putting KFC to sleep. Firstly we would like to say how sorry we are for the sadness that has been caused to so...

I had always thought that cats didn't care for sugary items. We have about 150-200 hummingbirds that we feed every season. My wife was mixing the boiled sugar/water concentrate and Rambo started drinking the concentrate. He also likes popcorn, peanuts, cashews, wheat crackers, turkey bacon, home...

I'd like to share a conversation with you that I just had with the Love Of My Life. It was about Mooch, our resident stray who eats his meals on our veranda and sleeps there in his own special bed-chair. The LOML had just returned from the veranda where she'd given Mooch his second or third meal of...

Not entirely off topic, because this will involve one of Shmogg's whiskers. But it is mostly off-topic. The yarn is a black chunky acrylic. The pattern I want is for a long cardigan / short coat, it has to go over my butt. My size is 24 in Australia, which makes me a 20 in the USA and a 22 in...

An hour or so after we came home from church on Sunday Silver started making loud meowing noises in the livingroom... she likes to 'hunt' her mowsie and to tell us about it so we assumed that was what she was doing. The meowing continued so we said 'here Silly, we're all in the craftroom'... more...

I'm sorry I haven't been around as much as I would like: every year, in the spring, when I get rain, it messes up my DSL connection. Some days it won't work at all, and others it is intermittent. I just have to wait for drier weather; the phone company won't do anything. The buried phone lines in...

Today the kitty is sticking to me like glue. She's not usually much of a lap cat, let alone a chest or shoulder cat. But for some unknown reason, today she's all over me and won't leave. And she keeps looking into my eyes and rubbing my face with her head. I know she loves me, but this is a...

http://icanhascheezburger.com/2009/05/12/funny-pictures-too-many-stairz/ -- Marina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki.

http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=Mojo

The night before last I was in the local supermarket and this guy was buying about a dozen bags of frozen chips and seeing me look a bit surprised he said "I run a pub around here and we've run out" so I said "Oh which pub?" and he said "The Little Driver" so I made a note to myself that when they...

......into a fuzzy gray and white casual vest. Easy, just leave said vest on the couch. The BF is a little miffed because Mayhem has been napping all curled up on the couch, slightly in between two cushions.....and on his black vest he wears for formal occasions. I mean it is COVERED in grayish...

A friend of my mother's sent this to her. http://kitten-pictures.com/198/kitty-crashed-my-laptop/ Ann

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Early Sunday morning, Internet woke me up by scratching my face (he usually does this if it's time for food, but not this time). Trill came into the bedroom, and walked a few steps, peed, walked a few steps, peed with blood. I have seen FLUTD and blockages too many times. The last thing I...

Just a couple of portraits of the cats: http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o185/frankiennikki/Jan-Jun09/IMG_1291.jpg http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o185/frankiennikki/Jan-Jun09/IMG_1292.jpg -- Marina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki.

http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=Polly

Patches -- She is finally venturing out some. She decided her home was the four walls and a window in one of my spare rooms. While she's always had the ability to get out of there (the screen door that takes the place of the room door is closed but not fastened most of the time, but slightly...