Home disasters!!! That made my day. My DH is handy and I don't think he has ever goofed up....But.. We had been hearing noises in the attic. He went up to see what was happening, thought it might be a rat or a squirrel. Turns out that it is a big raccoon. (how he got in, and how we got him out, is another story) Anyway, he manages to get him out and goes up to see if he can find where he got in. He manages to step between two ceiling joists and falls through the ceiling in the living room....well almost through, he catches himself by hanging on the joists by his armpits. there he is dangling, feet about four feet from the floor and he doesn't want to drop, afraid he will break an ankle or leg, and can't pull himself back up either. I put the softest big chair we had underneath him and tell him to drop. Nope, doesn't want to ruin the chair either. We argue while his arm pits get sore. Finally, he drops. No harm done to the chair, but his armpits and the ceiling aren't too great.

LOL..I am loving these stories! It's True Confession time. :-) As a young bride I decided to try to make gazpacho as one of the courses for a small family dinner party we were having. I thought a clove of garlic was the whole bulb. You can probably guess the rest. LOL The worst part was watching our family choking down the soup and pretending it was good so as not to hurt my feelings. As soon as I took the first sip, I stood up and removed every bowl. ACK! The second story came from a friend, also a young bride at the time, who was cooking dinner for her new in-laws. The recipe called for chopped green peppers. She kept slicing bell peppers and then tossing them into the garbage. Her MIL came over and asked what was wrong. My friend said, "There's something wrong with these peppers. I keep slicing them and there's nothing inside, just some seeds. I think they are rotten.". :-) Somehow her MIL kept a straight face through this conversation. LOL Marilyn

don't be sad, you didn't know any better. An animal like a cat or a dog needs meat- plan and simnple, its common sense. no grains, no fillers,ect. thats what killed your cats, grain, and mold, and all the other awful stuff that goes into most pet foods. you were ignorent, and people can get away with alot in this day and age when they say they just "didnt know" i remember hearing a story about a low income mom that couldnt buy powdered baby milk, so to save money she stretched the mix and made it so thin and watery the baby almost died, they saved the baby but it had brain damage.. and because she was "ignorent" brain damaged baby gets returned to the bad,suitation and momma get parenting classes. why she ever got pregnant and had a kid,is beyond me, just shows IMHO how stupid and selfish people are these days. Anyway back to the point. There are many natural pet food forums, like holisticat.com that would probably take in your cat/kitten, if thats what you want to do. if you keep the kitten/cat and wish to aviod grain based issues, you are going to need to feed something like Innova EVO, Orijen, Ziwi peak, this should run you about as much as vet food. vets crank up the costs, of food because they are in it for $$. or if they are not the people who make and sell them the food are, to a vet it makes perfect sense $$ wise to get people buying garage brands, then they not only get kickbacks from the food corps, but also money from frustrated owners, like yourself who suddenly have dental issues, or UTI, kidney issues.or cancers that the animals get after eating so poorly.

As everyone knows, beagles make excellent watch dogs and really horrible guard dogs. A man and his 3 or 4 year old son were walking by down our alley. My beagle started braying and spiking up because they had stopped to look at her. We went out and the man was laughing at her, and so was the kid. He asked his kid if he wanted to see the puppy and picked the kid up. Well as soon as the kid was up higher and she could see him better, she bolted. She was terrified. Came to stand behind my legs and bark and shake with her tail between her legs. The man and his son left, and I'll be darned if she didn't spend the rest of the night trying to 'track' the man and his son. She kept going back to the spot where they stood, sniffing the fence and following it all the way to where it meets the neighbors fence, over and over. I can't help but laugh at her, cause I know if she ever finds anything she's been trying to track, she'll tuck her tail and run the other way. She'd be the worst hunting beagle ever, I think. But she tries to do her job, thats for sure.