This is the coolest thing ever: the store for rathergood.com, the people who did the Viking Kittens, has a feature where you can design your own T-shirt. It's not cheap, but I'm seriously considering ordering something.

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oystergal introduced me to Two Lumps, a great cat webcomic. It centers on two Russian Blues. Ebenezer is the cat most of us fear we ( Read more... )

I'm about at my wit's end with Joxur. For some reason, he started peeing on the landing again. We put plastic down and he ignored it, and eventually shredded it. We tried blocking it with boxes, and he went right in front of the box. We got a plastic carpet runner and put that down, and put a scrap with the nubby side up against the wall, and he ( Read more... )

Joxur made it onto Stuff On My Cat, with a little help from Oeuf, the vibrating bunny.

We stopped by the drugstore tonight to get a couple of things, one of which was some Gold Bond medicated lotion for me, to help with the flea bites. I just took a shower and put some on, and now ( Read more... )

For the past couple of weeks, Joxur's been scratching and grooming more than usual. At the same time, I started itching, and I noticed what looked like bug bites. Putting two and two together, we realized that Joxur had picked up fleas; since he's an indoor cat who hasn't lived with other cats for almost a year now, we figure they must have come ( Read more... )

It seems as though Joxur's still peeing on the carpet. The vet didn't really find anything last time other than a mild bladder infection. I'm wondering if it's because I haven't been able to completely clean it up, so he can still smell it and thinks that's a place to go. I've tried using vinegar, and I'm going to get some Bitter Apple tomorrow and ( Read more... )

( Warning: Massive Cat Ahead! )