Deep thought for the day: I don't miss volunteering with the cat rescue people, but I sure do miss seeing kittens.

As I may have mentioned previously, every morning at 6:00 a.m., I am awakened by what I call "The Alarm Claw." In addition to lovingly applying his claws to my face, Chip basically starts to do his best impression of a mountain goat by bouncing repeatedly onto my head. If I scrunch down to hide under the covers and Chip can't scoop me out, he goes ( Read more... )

I thought I would post a little update about Sprat! When I rescued Sprat on May 1, he weighed a whopping and rather unfortunate 23 lbs. Sprat's current weight is...

( The dramatic tension! )

Who knew there were so many videos on this fascinating website called YouTube! ;) Some of them contain cute cats ( Read more... )

This morning, I got to watch sumo wrestling as nearly 40 pounds of cat clashed in the hallway in a brief, but fierce battle. The earth shook, the angels wept, then we broke up the fight and the participants went back to their separate corners and pretended that they hadn't just done that ( Read more... )

Thanks to the amazing and wonderful fairyarmadillo, my foster cat Ghost has found a home! Ghost will now be living with fairyarmadillo's dad and stepmom up in Lake County.

I wish it had worked out for him to stay with me, but he just wasn't happy here. I'm so grateful to fairyarmadillo for setting this up and helping make it happen. It just couldn't have worked out more perfectly. His ( Read more... )

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My mom is in the midst of having the kitchen remodeled, so there are contractors and workmen stomping all over the house and the whole place smells like fresh paint and varnish. As a result, her cats are very traumatized and mostly hiding in the closet or under the blankets on her bed. She showed me the presents she plans to give them when this ( Read more... )

I posted this to the Kittypix community, and I thought I'd give it a shot here too.
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Last month, I started volunteering with Give Me Shelter Cat Rescue, a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco which tries to save cats from "death row" at Animal Care & Control. Some of these kitties are up for adoption at a local Petsmart, and I've been ( Read more... )

So, uh...

Does anyone want a kitten? Or two?

I'm going on a kitten-snatching mission on Saturday. The kittens are 6-week old tabbies with white socks. I wish I could keep them, but I can't. :(

HALP! :D