My cat recognises several words thanks to consistent usage: "Clawsewitz", which is her name; "dinner", which means yummy wet food is incoming; "hot", which means keep off the hob; "come", which means saunter over here if you feel like it; and so on. But there is one word I deliberately taught her that is more important than every one of the ( Read more... )

Ah Piper, I miss you sometimes.

We need another pet, badly.

THE ZENBUNNY MADE ME DO THIS. BAD BUNNY. BACK IN THE BOX.


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I'm up far too late for a work night and I have to go to bed, which I should have decided BEFORE checking my friendslist, because now I have a bunch of tabs left open to read tomorrow or something.

Today we went to a fundraiser day at an animal sanctuary. Not much to do there, and no doggies to go and look at, but visitors brought dogs and so I ( Read more... )

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I sent my father some advice on introducing a dog to new cats with no bloodshed. This is actually quite straightforward to accomplish, and you can get the general gist from my abstract:

The cat's unshakeable belief in its own inherent superiority, and ability to convince the dog of the same in the face of overwhelming evidence, is one of the ( Read more... )

The prize for the answer is braggin' rights. Nowt else.
Complaint

My mistress bids me wait in durance stern.
With ignorance she blocks my path to joy;
Unjust delays are wrought at every turn,
My every plea set back by falsehoods coy;
Or else she seems to wilt, or then relent,
Yet in the granting, buck my earnest wish
With pale commital, watered- ( Read more... )