Yesterday evening, braving snow and driver stupidity, we went to pick up our youngest cat from the vet ( Read more... )

This morning Miss Elsabeth of the house Stubbylegs apparently got tired of hanging out with me at my laptop and trotted into the bedroom to be with the cats ( Read more... )

We picked up Darcy after work yesterday. He was still groggy from the anesthetic so it was a quiet car ride home... but he seems to have come through perfectly well ( Read more... )

Well, it looks like the weather has finally caught up with us, the temperatures have dove way down, the wind has come up and giant fluffy snow has been falling for a lot of the day.  It's actually quite pretty if you're in a sheltered location ( Read more... )

This week-end was the week-end that the family got conscripted to go back to my home town and help my Mom get things ready for winter ( Read more... )

Henry, our little mackerel cat is still reasonably young, and there-fore if you see his eyes go black as lumps of coal, something is going to be destroyed.

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Well, since the cheapness is part of me, and that I just can't seem to let an idea (good or bad) go, I've been poking away at the Drobo idea s'more.

Thinking that such a device has to been a relatively popular idea, it dawned on me that someone else has probably already attempted to build their own version of it.

I found a journal that may be a ( Read more... )

Poll Add-a-cat

As many of my friends have posted cat-related motifiques the last day or so, I figured I'd add my own not-entirely-related bits ( Read more... )

For some reason an article on CBC caught my attention; firemen reviving two cats that were extracted from a burning house.

What I didn't realise was that the firemen actually carry air masks designed specifically to administer air to pets. I don't know how specialised these actually are, but I did find it an interesting tidbit.