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So sorry but I have been swamped... anyone who has sent me christmas cards please send me your addresses again and when I have them I will send you all hand-written letters... Working from 830 am to 11 pm at night makes it quite difficult to get to the post office... oh and if anyone else...

This is a labor of love. A true story, and an attempt at my mission of being a super-hero. I hope you enjoy. I know it needs editing I'm sure for grammatical errors, but I wrote it in a more simplistic fashion as to reach as large a range of readers as possible. Linus’s Blanket: A True...

I have decided I would like to publicly share my story "Linus's Blanket" on the forum here. Seeing as it is being so hard getting a literary agent, and the story needs to be out there, I thought nobody would oppose, but I was wondering where on the site I could put it? Hopefully, maybe even if I...

So Majel darted out the door last night. I got her stuck in the door, but she kept edging forward, so without thinking I grabbed her by the tail, then drug her back enough so I could scruff her and put her back in the apartment then close the door. Now, for those who don't remember, Majel came...

So I've been visiting this 13 year old blind Siamese mix at the shelter for about two months now. And the shelter let us foster her at my mom's house - my apartment's roof is leaking so she's not coming for visits any time soon. The good thing is we probably will NEVER have to bring her back...

Why is it that people think a dog is more deserving of medical care than a cat? I know this is not the whole of the population, but I've even seen it in my own family. My sister Natalie spent $10,000 trying to keep her Great Dane alive - he got bloat, they had the surgery, he was in ICU, and...

My cat Linus passed away August 24, 2009. We put him to sleep due to complications with tooth resorption. (Kidneys and heart failing.) Losing him was like losing a limb. I miss him every day. I mean it's not like I spend every day crying uncontrollably, but there are still things that...

Trying not to cry. Majel just tried to bite me. I reached down to pet her and she was sleeping and she lunged at me. She's never done anything like that before. In response, I just tried to soothe her and tell her it was okay. All day she has been trying to be close to me but she's not a...

My cat Majel has no fear of the outside. She is a resuce that was found outside and ended up at the animal shelter where we rescued her. She has really bad nightmares that scare her, but that is the only thing. She is a little slow. It took her six months to learn her name. I'm not used to...

So I love cats. I love everything about them. I find out what they like and I always work to give them that. Majel has adopted one of my stuffed animals and bathes it and brings it around the house. That's great. She loves to play tug of war. I do that for her. She likes when I sing to...

Okay so I burned my belly on the stove at Wendy's today. Bleh... We got a new stove and it has protection on the front but not the sides to prevent you from getting burned. I got burned rather good. Not third degree, but it's blistering and swelling and part of is starting to leak! Is the...

Okay so Metro hasn't been feeling well off and on for months now. My mom is convinced that he is just eating too fast, and is trying to implement means in order to get him to not eat so fast. Seeing as he's not my cat, and is hers, there's not much I can go but urge her to take the kitty to...

Linus was my absolute world. He was my cat for almost 10 years. I can't tell you how closely we were bonded and how much he truly was my son. We had an almost telepathic connection, and was always a snuggler. When he was lonely we adopted a cat we named Mandarin - because my husband is...

Been having welts since the beginning of May. On my head, sides and bottom of my feet. Just thought I was having a bad allergy season. The night before last could hardly sleep. Woke up, and I'm like, "darn welts again" at like 3 30. Went to bathroom, had to pee, looked at side and HOLY MOTHER...

My mom has a cat named Metro and he over the last few months has been puking off and on. We attributed this to hairballs. Today he puked while he was here and then started pooping because he was puking so hard. His bathroom is in the basement so I brought him down and he pooped. Didn't seem...

So every year I have to drug poor Mandarin with valium once fireworks season is upon us, or else he will throw himself at the windows, growling, trying to get at them, and then shake uncontrollably. Don't like giving him valium. It makes him hallucinate when he's coming down and paw the walls...

We used to have a dog if he was barking you could coax him down to a "whisper". Is there any way to train your kitties to do this? Majel has absolutely no volume control and has to scream at the top of her lungs when she talks. I love her being talkative, but sometimes in the wee hours of the...

So we're taking Mandarin in for his yearly. I have been trying the last few months to get him to take l-lysine. No success. There is not a way I can get it in him without him and I completely stressed. And here I thought I was such a good caretaker and he proves me wrong! I'm scared to push...

There are bright shiny pieces of chrome on the new shower that we just got two days ago, and Mandarin is scared of them. Anything I can do to make him not scared? This is the room we keep their cat box in so I don't want him scared to go in there.

I really worry about her sometimes. She has what I can only explain as horrible nightmares. She will thrash around in her sleep and wake up screaming, then come looking for us for consolation. Last night was the worst night. I thought someone was throwing up, and I heard my husband stir and...