well I ended up with another barn cat on saturday...I swear I must have "sucker" tattoed across my forhead. My neighbor came over and said come to the house I want to show you something...so what do I do??? I go...and he brings out this little kitten covered in burrs and he had all of this green goop coming out of his eyes and he was coughing. SO what do I say? yes I will take him??? My neighbors have what I call the intensive care for cats...they have 5 cats all of wich have severe medical problems...like....diabetes/liver problems they even give one cat an IV twice a day....they had just put down their oldest cat who was 19 and didnt want another one. So 60 bucks poorer from going to vet's this morning I have another barn cat. He's about 4 months old he weighs 3.2 pds and is relativly healthy. No feline lukemia or aids and is now on upper respitory meds/eye drops/and the vet wormed him........he's eating and drinking and seems to be feeling much better today/guess a antibiotic plus vitamin shot has him feeling better......kg

One of the old classics. Another was one posted by someone who called herself "Mother"...big into ornamental grasses. She posted something about rules for eating in the form of biblical commandments. and speaking of Catdude.....reminds me of Tammy of fudge fame. Anyone hear from her?

He-he-he-he...ha-Ha-HA-HA-HA-HA...!!! That is so true! Minus of course the baseball bat part. Speaking of balls this reel reminded me of our last cat Gypsy. She was an adorable seal point himmy that was a perfect pet in practically every way but one: she had this annoying habit of waking Rob up in the morning by jumping high in the air then landing square on his ... ahem ... well you know. Guess she knew it was a guaranteed way to wake him up. She never tried this with me because she knew it would earn her a one way flight through a glass window. I'm not nearly as sweet in disposition as my partner Rob. :) Patrick

I love that. Our poor dogs get so worried when the cats come near and try to rub up on them. One of the cats ADORES the dogs, and wants to lay with them, but they're all afraid of him! One of my cats has taken over the dog bed in my office-but only when the dogs aren't in there with me. The dogs aren't afraid of that cat, and he actually encourages them to chase him.