Great news! Maybe there's more progress ahead... :) -- Victor M. Martinez http://www.che.utexas.edu/~martiv

I don't really believe in an afterlife, but if there is one, I hope Nikki is now young and healthy and breathing freely, hunting voles on an eternal summer island. Nikki came to me in October 1988 as a fiesty little girl, who immediately took over the house and made Frank her adoptive mummy....

I have a friend who has three cats, and while she was driving me to hospital the last time, I asked her whether hers liked catnip or not. She said two of them did, and one was absolutely mad about it. I told her that I'd bought Kitty & BF a catnip mouse (no interest) and then a catnip spray, which...

I was telling my co-workers about the precious persian this morning and how I felt it was somehow fateful when I saw her when my supervisor walked in and said "My mom's 17 y.o. siamese died". I mentioned about this cat but not suggesting she tell her mom about it or anything (you know, it...

I was woke up to some bad news about Rumble's Blood work. His Glucose level is 437 instead of a norm of 170. He is diabetic. I am going to have to go in next week and learn how to give him insulin 2 times a day. I am going to definitely need some help from the group on how to deal with it. I...

I hope you have a great birthday tomorrow. -- Adrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera) A house is not a home, without a cat.

Hi all my name is Katherine and I have 4 children..... London age 9 persian, Genevieve age 8 DSH swils, Scotland age 7 DSH (he's "special"), Lil Nicky Jimmy age 7 DLH orange and white (but he prefers to be called ginger colored). We live in PA with our meowmie and our daddy. Thank You Katherine...

"badwilson" wrote in message ... Hmmm, Vino is a male cat with such an oral fixation! It all starts off as harmless back foot cleaning. Then he really gets into it. Stretches all his toes out as far apart as they will go, really gets in...

Anyone using a Weazel Ball? A Weazel Ball is a baseball size motorized ball which travels across the floor powered by a AA battery. It comes with a tail but I removed that. My 14 1/2 pound cat seems to like it, as usual acting shy at first. I will give it a couple of weeks to a month and report...

X:no-archive I hope I did the above right. This is the first time I've ever tried it. Most of you will remember my birthday post, about the two kittens and the horrendous situation that occurred, and that I was only reasonably able to rescue one from the animal abusing family. The other night,...

wel guys i finally bit the bullet and got dsl and wow is it fast, no more gmail for me, now it is att.net

On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 11:47:41 +0100, "Soft Kitten Co" wrote: Petra kitten was very much part of my web site www.kittens.co.uk. Many of you sent in suggestions of names for the kittens Lexi and Petra. Little Petra had enough traffic sense for her...

This is both on and off topic, but anyway... Lately, a girl (no, woman) has more and more made it clear to me that she thinks I am the answer to her dreams. On Friday she told me in pure words. Of course I was flattered, because I like her very much, too, but... I just don't think I can do it. We...

Hi CN. I sent this to you privately yesterday, but am posting too in case it didn't turn up. SO sorry to learn this. Major purrs from my 3 boys that the pain isn't too great. Empathy from me: I lost disc L3/4 in 1982 and L4/5 in 1984 in necessary removal operations. Plus a scar tissue etc....

I figured out how to edit and compress the video I took. I put it on the RPCAPhotos group on Yahoo (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RPCAPhotos/files). The format is Windows Media and it's almost 4MB in size, my apologies if you can't open this format; let me know and I'll send you a file saved as...

Last night, Betty started smacking her lips and occasionally rubbing at her jaw, which was unusual, so I checked her mouth and found that a lower fang seemed to be slightly misaligned. I set up a vet appointment this morning to have it looked at. The vet found that the tooth was very loose, and...

Monday morning, I walked out the front door, down the short walk way to the driveway to get my keys out of the ignition of the truck, and go back to lock the front door. I locked the door, went back to the truck, petting Big'Ead, who was on the walk way (Big'Ead is our recently adopted recentl;y...

Their new user interface is just about unusable. Very very slow, often doesn't succeed in loading complete pages, and worst of all: I used to access pages via their RSS feed in my Firefox bookmarks toolbar. That is no longer being updated, and there doesn't seem to be any way of getting a list of...

Lately, there were problems with mice getting in through the walls behind the kitchen counters. I found droppings on the counter, in drawers and three dead mice in glue traps. I clogged up the gaps connecting the counter to the wall. Still a big hole inside the conter where the water pipe connects...

I hate it when I have to stay awake till the watch is over. This one's on until 1:00 AM. The sirens in this town are not loud enough to wake me. I need to get a NOAA weather radio that can be set to sound alarm when a tornado warning is issued. Also need to cut a trap door in the floor so I can get...