Allow me to preface this with information about me as a cat owner. I grew up with cats, nasty, ill-tempered, male Lilac Point Siamese cats. We went through three during my childhood, and to this day I don't know why I loved them. They were noisy, smelly and mean, clawing me in my sleep or just lazily reaching over and swiping my face ( Read more... )

I'm incredibly careless, and not in the usual way(s). Today, neighbor Bob and I installed (okay, he did most of the hard stuff and I handed him tools and shims) my new back door and in the process, I lost Hedwig! He apparently walked outside while I was getting the new door through to the back, and as he's super-shy and extra-scaredy, it probably ( Read more... )