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I've been making pet products for about 10 years now, and started to attend the cat show circuit heavily about a year ago. Chances are, if you are anywhere between Louisville and Denver and attend a cat show, you might see me there. I'm the one that makes the PVC framed Cat Condos. They have...

It's taken me a couple of days to be able to come out here and write about this. We had to let Stumpy go on Christmas Eve morning. He had gotten so bad that he quit eating and drinking, and had a massive seizure when he vomited. There was no specific disease that took his life, he was just...

Hi Pam, and thank you for assisting us! I have a household of 7 senior cats. My dear old boy Stumpy (age 17) has been the clear alpha cat in the house since he was about 18 months old. In spite of the health issues most of his life (he has had an auto-immune disease most of it), he has always...

Last week I was asked to donate some of my toys to a national shelter make over contest. The sponsor, Vertical Cat had been discussing with me last year about developing a line of toys for her website. She thought about me when she was looking for companies to donate toys for the contest. She...

Nothing like jumping in with 2 feet. If there is a cat who will take to raw in my house, it is Koko. DH is entirely against the idea because he thinks its a lot more work than just dry/canned food. But I really feel that Koko's life depends on it right now. So I have a bag of frozen Primal...

Last night around 10:30 we were under a tornado warning in my area. A tornado went thru a small town (Harveyville) west of us, damaging about 50% of the town. Another tornado cell formed a little later about 10 miles west of us. When I heard that warning, I did our tornado drill in the house...

It's annual check up time in my household and this year, my poor baby Koko drew the short straw. She had been losing weight slowly over the last few years, but I wasn't prepared to hear that she had dropped down to 7 pounds. I hate when the change is so slow that you don't notice it outright...

Stumpy turns 17 in a few weeks. Not only did his pass his physical exam with flying colors, the vet thinks he looks better than he has in years, he's gained another 1/2 pound (good for his chronic medical problems), and the 2 newer vet techs wouldn't believe me when I told them he was 17 years...

Sometimes I want to comment on the recipes, but the threads are so clean with recipes that I don't want to muck them up with chatter. So I started this thread so that we can just chat about food and perhaps the recipes we share. I just made Gingersnap cookies. I had a recipe for them in my...

My mom made the best Crescent Cookies in the world. While she was generally a very non-creative cook (OK, her food was downright boring most of the time), there were a couple of things she made that were just pure comfort food, the cookies being one of them. When mom passed away in early...

I've been the recipient of 2 scammers in the past week and another last month and just wanted to share what they are doing so that you can protect yourself. The first one started with my website. A "woman" e-mailed me to say that she was in love with one of my fabrics, and could she buy some...

I haven't posted current pictures of my gang for a very long time. And thanks to my Secret Santa for asking for new pictures. I wonder what they have in mind?!?!? Here's Scarlett with the new toy that she stole from Stumpy this morning: Koko and Muddy wanted some action from it also...

I've gotten some really good pictures of my old boy Stumpy lately and wanted to share. He absolutely loves to drink out of our kitchen faucet. OK, he's 16 so I indulge him. He either stands in the sink to drink or balances himself on the edge. He does let water run over his head without...

I made this recipe up one day. My husband loved it so much that he told me I had to make it again. Having already forgotten what I did an hour earlier, I wrote it down the next time I made it up. Heavenly Hoagies Meat mixture: 1 lb. sirloin steak, cut thin against grain ½ cup coarsely...

First of all, thanks to everyone who submitted entries for the Name the Llama contest. DH and I were agonizing over a number of the names that everyone submitted. We had a great chuckle while reading thru the entire thread today, and honestly couldn't make a final decision. We've narrowed it...

I'm a day late (had to work late yesterday), but it's not too late to wish my darling sweet baby girl Scarlett happy birthday. We actually know almost exactly when she was born. On August 30th, 2001 at approximately 10AM, our dog Ellie Mae started to pace around the house frantically, running...

I'd like to hear people's experiences with geriatric cats. What types of changes did you notice with them? What changes did you make to accommodate their needs? What sort of medication or supplements did you introduce for them? I ask this specifically to get more ideas on how to manage my 16...

I'm not an expert in food ingredients by any means, and get more information from the folks here than I find by doing the google. I noticed that my local Petsmart has started to carry Friskies Urinary Health canned food. My cats personal junk food is Friskies canned food and I buy it for them...

April was kitten season around my house when I had a feral colony living in my old neighborhood. Today is Muddy and Koko's actual birthday. Pinky and Lucky were born sometime in April. Pinky turns 11 this year. We first saw him on the 4th of July 11 years ago. We were sitting on our patio...

Today is my baby boy's 16th birthday. Granted, I don't know the exact day he was born, but I gave him Earth Day as his birthday when I first found him. I was outside doing some gardening in early May and heard a kitten screaming from inside our storm cellar. I didn't know that there were...