Scary Spice
Spice is sick. How sick, we weren’t sure, so we took him to the vet on Wednesday morning. Taking a senior cat to a vet is like logging onto webMD. The symptoms could be the common cold, or deadly cancer! …
Animals
Throwback Thursday – Don’t Look Ma!
The old Jim Stafford song Spiders and Snakes lumps both icky creatures together as if you must hate both if you hate one. For me, that’s not the case at all, and I proved it when I cohosted the KOOL-FM morning show years ago and a snake wrangler brought one of his slitherly pals into the studio. …
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The Heimlich Validation
If I asked you to identify Henry Heimlich, you might say he’s the guy who invented a life-saving technique called the Heimlich Manouver. And you’d be right. But did you also know that he’s not popular in the science world? For one thing, who puts their own name on something that saves lives? If that was common, a defibrillator would be known as Johnson’s Chest Paddles. …
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Throwback Thursday – Lee Roy Meets His Great Love
Lee Roy the border collie has been gone for going on a decade. Now, our friend Barry has a new puppy, Carly, and seeing her regularly, coupled with the rediscovery of this photo, has been bringing back sweet memories of Lee Roy. …
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Six Months of Sugar
It’s been six months since I first visited Miss Sugar, then named Kitty, at the London Humane Society. She had a cone around her head and was recovering from a stomach bug, and even though she looked rather forlorn, I knew I had found our next fur baby. …
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Missing My Best Buddy – Posted Feb 7 2014
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A friend of mine posted this photo on Facebook.  If you’re on the social media site you know you’ll see similar pre-captioned photos like this every week (memes) on topics ranging from illnesses to political issues.  But this one made me burst into tears. …
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Cat Scratch Fever
Finally, someone in authority has said it: house cats should stay indoors. …
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Spice’s Big Adventure
Spice, our almost-toothless, clawless, senior, indoor cat got out on Saturday. By the time we found him, we could see our breath from the incoming cold. And in-between was the most frantic I’ve felt…maybe ever. …
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Top Media Releases of 2015
Sometimes media get it wrong. But sometimes we’re working from information that gets it even wronger! (I know!) …
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Alpaca Pals
When it’s gotten stressful at work, I’ve often jokingly said, “I’m going to start an alpaca farm”. …
Crazy Cat Lady Confirmed
This is how it happens. You get one cat. Then you get another. Then you stop thinking that talking about your cats is boring to other people. Then you buy Christmas stickers in the scrapbook section of Michaels and it’s suddenly out of control! …
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Kitty News
We’ve been a two-cat household for more than a month now and things have settled into a routine. Our new adoptee Sugar, or Miss Sugar, is a delight. Spice is making sure she knows she’s #2 and he’s #1. There have been some incidents of hissing and chasing but no actual fights. They even get affectionate sometimes. …