Posted in Cats on May 14, 2008 | No Comments »
Sasha died today after a long fight with breast cancer. She took a turn for the worse on Saturday, but bounced back on Sunday and Monday, deciding, after 15 years indoors, that she wanted to spend her last days outside. She promptly dove into the pool on Sunday afternoon. So, we [...]
Posted in Cats on May 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Tiger Lily and her five kittens are doing very well. Here the kittens have come out from their room to play and meet some other cats.
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Posted in Cats on April 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A couple of years ago, some friends of ours, Tony and Jane, began feeding a stray cat who had somehow wandered to their isolated property in the hills west of the city. Their own cat hated the newcomer and refused to let him inside. But he was sweet to humans, and eager to [...]
Posted in Cats, tagged Cats on April 11, 2008 | No Comments »
A year and a half ago some acquaintances began feeding some stray cats, a mom and three kittens, at their front door. They managed to catch one of the kittens. Because of cat allergies, they couldn’t keep it, but they knew whom to call. So, we adopted Toby. My younger daughter [...]
Posted in Cats, tagged Cats on March 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Fifteen years ago, one of our daughters’ babysitters found a beautiful, long-haired kitten in a dumpster near campus. She wanted to keep the kitten, but her parents wouldn’t let her bring it home for the summer, so we kept it for her. When she returned in the fall, she was living in an [...]
Posted in Cats, Religion, liberty, tagged freedom of speech, Islam, Osama Bin Laden, Religion on March 21, 2008 | No Comments »
Flemming Rose proposes that we answer Osama Bin Laden’s latest with defiance.
What should the response of Europe be? More cartoons or less cartoons? What kind of civilization are we, after all, if we refrain from mocking and ridiculing bin Laden and his followers?
In related news, the Bangladeshi cartoonist who drew a cartoon about a cat, [...]
Posted in Cats, foreign policy, tagged Cats, China, Tibet on March 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Protests are spreading throughout China.
And, China’s treatment of cats is worth its own set of protests.
Posted in Cats, Politics, economics, tagged Cats, economics, free markets, Obama, political correctness, responsibility, Serbia on March 16, 2008 | No Comments »
Posting has been light this week, which was my spring break. Despite the well known spring break acceleration of time, however, the explanation has little to do with spring break and much to do with a cat, an open laptop, and a bottle of Hefeweizen. Luckily, the cat and the laptop survived.
Here are some [...]
Posted in Cats, tagged Cats, kittens on March 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A week ago, I got a call from a friend asking me to look after his animals while he was in the hospital. He also asked me to feed some stray cats who hang around his complex. One of them turned out to be pregnant. I wanted to give her a safe [...]
Posted in Cats, tagged Cats on February 29, 2008 | No Comments »
I recently wrote about Patch, the Hemingway cat we adopted when she had serious medical problems after giving birth. She had two kittens. This is one of them, Jean, a quiet cat who loves the warmth the satellite TV receiver produces. Like her mother, she has very soft, rabbit-like fur. She [...]
