I got to start the day with an argument with my mother over Dad’s mail and some credit card bills that hadn’t been paid. Since this is a public forum I won’t go into the details but suffice it to say it was not a good way to begin the day ( Read more... )

Well, another surprise in the wonderful world of kittens - Squirt, the kitten formerly known as Frack, is in fact, female. We never looked all that close as most ginger moggies are male but we decided to make sure before taking her to the vet. At least we were spared the embarrassment of HIM telling us! Anyway, she was dewormed and got her first ( Read more... )

Well, as katequicksilvr wrote the other day, it looks like our little Frack will only have his newly adopted brothers and sisters for company. It's really a shame, because he really can't play with them the way he did with his brother: Merlin's too big to wrestle with and the others are just too old and crabby - they just hiss at him. Without Frick the name ( Read more... )

I really don't want any more cats in the house. Four is quite enough, and it's been especially hard on the two females. Since Lara & Julius arrived, Rags has gone from Scaredy-Cat to the Bitch Queen from Hell. Lara has become the Stress Goddess, hissing at Merlin and especially Rags (but not Julius - she's used to him), and occasionally spraying ( Read more... )

I picked Frick up and of course, he had fleas. I couldn't find any on Frack, but if Frick has them, I'm sure he does too. The label on the Advantage box says not to give it to cats under nine weeks old or under two pounds. I know they're at least ten weeks old, probably twelve. Since Frack is the smaller of the two and he weighs two pounds, ( Read more... )

Some months back we started receiving visits from what we thought was a stray cat. She was tiny, had striking blue-green eyes, was very friendly, and obviously pregnant. So we started leaving food out for her and I started calling her Doll Face (we had just watched "Chicken Run") which we eventually shortened to Dolly.


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