Good News on the Booster

Plz! No paparazzi at naptime!
Our bestest buddy the Booster is doing really well and has regained much of the weight she lost this past fall, when we feared the worst. None of the tests we ran turned up anything: she was pronounced incredibly healthy for a 13.5 year old kitteh, but she [...]

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Booster Update

Boo is 13 now, and will be 14 in June.  She’s been losing weight noticeably.   We had blood work done, and it came back with all ok– not thyroid, liver function, or diabetes, any of which can cause weight loss in older cats.   Meanwhile, her coat is still thick and glossy and soft, and when [...]

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Stupendously Squishable Squee Alert!

I just discovered Squishables, big squeezy armfuls of plushy critter goodness. They has tigers! They has monkeys! Even sheepses! Squeeeee!

Cough. Ahem. I mean, they have a wide veriety of popular creatures, depicted as fat, fuzzy, balls of squee, err, um, as neotenous symbolic representations that invite tactile contact for [...]

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dancing mare

Absolutely marvelous dressage demonstration; also lovely for those of us with equine or ‘taur fursonas– how do horses dance? This mare is not just doing dressage, she seems to LIKE to dance! The freeze-frames one can do from this vid are great for getting tricky leg details right for art, too!
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in honor of CATURDAY!

Teh Mean Kitteh video; it’s great!!!
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Just on the off chance that you believe Wal-Marts aren't evil…

…it’s time to change your mind.
When confronted with evidence that recalled petfood with new UPC labels over the recalled labels was being sold in their stores, Wal-Mart had a number of choices.
“That’s terrible, we will check into it immediately!”
“We doubt it, but we will check on it.”
“It must be an isolated case, we would never [...]

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Keeping the kitties happy

I found a holistic cat care page with some advice, but, even though I am not a vet, my advice is different. Why? Because a lot of vets, even holistic ones, still have the ‘treat the symptom’ mentality that doesn’t always think about side effects. Do your own research, including talking [...]

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There’s one in every crowd,

…doing the impossible before breakfast: Mule gives birth (NPR).
They don’t know yet whether the foal is a mule, with 63 chromosomes, or a donkey, with 62. Or a chimera.
Maybe the little guy is the savior to the overworked beasts of burden, a virgin birth to a lowly pack mule. Born to [...]

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hospice cat iz on yr bed, cuz u r dying

Usually having a cat curl up next to you is a good thing. Not if you’re at this particular hospice, though, and it’s this particular cat.

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that there RAT movie

Some friends were praising it highly online, the new Disney/Pixar movie ‘Ratatouille’. I saw an excerpt on TiVo, and discovered that I am turning into a Grown-Up. Clearly I need to go off and do Irresponsible Things.
All I could think was: RAT. There’s a RAT in the KITCHEN. It’s [...]

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