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As I set off for my "after work" walk early this evening, I didn't know if I felt more like Red Riding Hood or the Pied Piper. These jaunts are taking on a slightly surreal quality, and at times are absolutely HILARIOUS.For starters, my traveling companions are a fifty-something pound dog and a six pound housecat named Meatball. I've written about both these guys before, Lucky is the border collie...

Tim Cat has left me, but he has taught me a lot in the 3 1/2 years he was with me.He came to me when his previous family left the area and left him behind. I didn't want an animal because I have no income apart from a Government pension, but neither could I see this cat go hungry. So I called him Tim and we managed to get by with careful budgeting.I suspect that at some time he'd been a...

I was posting the article, on traveling with your pet via an airline today and in it they mention "pet airways". I have never heard of this before and instantly had to know what it was. Basically, they are an air carrier that strictly carries animals. You pay about the same as a ticket for a human on a regular airline, but instead of your pet riding in the cargo area, they ride in the amin part of...

I just got done ordering $35 in kitty treats on the internet. I think I should have my head examined. For that amount (including a whopping $8 in shipping), I'll be receiving three two-ounce packages of freeze-dried chicken, which is the ONE treat I can give my "primary" cat, Smokey, that the spare cat, "Meatball," won't push him aside for and gobble up. I feel like the Henry Kissinger of the...

"Smokey and the Bandit" used to hang at my house. Smokey is the sixteen pound housecat, and Bandit was the chocolate lab that had to adjust to him when he first came home as an itty bitty kitten. Bandit passed on a year and a half ago from old age, and running true to form, there's a new dog Lucky barking at the wild turkeys in the yard.But every once in a while my front door seems to become a...

My favorite "spare" cat has embarked on some new frontiers of his own. Since moving in three months ago, he's become the first four-footed critter to check out the fresh dog food in Lucky's bowl...though he also scarfs up leftovers, cat food and senior cat food. The other day he made a dash for the tennis ball that I threw across the living room for...the dog. Meatball got there first. But in the...

There have been many amazing cats in my life. When I was little -- Missy, the Siamese who let me rub my face in her fur. As I got older, sisters Mischief and Tallie -- Mischief would "talk" to me for hours, or just listen if I needed to vent. Now, Travers and Laila brighten bad days by greeting me as I walk in the door. But the most amazing cat to ever live may be Cinnamon, an Abyssinian...