The military was kind enough to give me two weeks of post-deployment R&R time, which I am currently enjoying. This is the perfect time to do everything I ever put off, and the very first item on that list is "get a kitten." So everyone, I'd like you to meet Strafe. ( 4x 800x600 photos below the cut! )

Nursing home cat predicts patients' deaths with uncanny accuracy. I wonder if Oscar can see something we can't...

Here's the article written about Oscar for the New England Journal of Medicine.

When I lived in Russia (think 1996 era) our first cat was a stray by the name of Tiger. My father maintains that this cat was possessed by supernatural influences, and he is probably right. The first adjective that anyone ever associates with Tiger is always "EVIL". Tiger liked to lay in wait for us in hard-to-see places, destroy random objects ( Read more... )

( We're a *very* computer-savvy family... )