Thursday, February 21, 2008

Signs Your Cat has a Personality Disorder



1.Couldn't muster up sufficient disdain if all nine lives depended on it!
2.Teeth and claw marks all over your now-empty bottles of Prozac.
3.No longer licks paws clean, but washes them at the sink again and again and again...
4.Doesn't get Garfield, but laughs like hell at Marmaduke.
5.You realize one day that the urine stains on the carpet actually form the letters N-E-E-D T-H-E-R-A-P-Y
6.Has built a shrine to Andrew Lloyd Webber entirely out of empty "9 Lives" cans.
7.Spends all day in litter box separating the green chlorophyll granules from the plain white ones.
8.Your stereo is missing, and in the corner you find a pawn ticket and 2 kilos of catnip.


Later! Cappy

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Did you know?


Abraham Lincoln loved cats. He had four of them while
he lived in the White House

Monday, February 18, 2008

Cats In The News


Just like with people, diabetes rising in pets
But 'Catkins' diet, Weight Watchers-type programs and new meds can help

By Kim Campbell Thornton
MSNBC contributor
Kim Campbell Thornton

The 9-year-old Australian Terrier was drinking a lot of water and urinating frequently. So his owner took the little dog to her veterinarian, John Hamil of Canyon Animal Hospital in Laguna Beach, Calif. A urinalysis and blood work revealed that he had diabetes.

As with people, the incidence of diabetes in cats and dogs is increasing. Not so much of a problem in decades past, diabetes now affects as many as one in 50 of the animals, some statistics show, especially pudgy pets.

“There is no question from what I know that is published in the literature that obesity is on the rise, No. 1, and No. 2, diabetes is on the rise right along with it,” says veterinarian Robin Downing, hospital director of Windsor Veterinary Clinic in Windsor, Colo.

Diabetes results when the body doesn't produce enough insulin, a hormone that processes glucose (blood sugar), or properly use it. As a result, the body's tissues cannot use glucose for energy, and the sugar builds up in the blood and urine.

Veterinarians say that while obesity clearly is linked to diabetes in pets, it appears to contribute to the disease differently in cats and dogs.

Fat cats are prone to diabetes because they develop insulin resistance, meaning their bodies don't effectively use insulin. As a result, the pancreas pumps out more insulin as well as another hormone called amylin. “When you get too much insulin secreted, you get too much amylin secreted as well, and that tends to aggregate and destroy the insulin-producing cells,” says veterinarian Richard W. Nelson, a professor at the University of California School of Veterinary Medicine in Davis.

With dogs, obesity is associated with an increased risk of pancreatitis — an inflammation of the pancreas — which can then lead to diabetes because the body doesn't make enough insulin, according to a report by Jacquie S. Rand, a diabetes expert at the University of Queensland’s School of Veterinary Medicine in Brisbane, Australia.

'Catkins' diet and other aids
Not every dog or cat that develops diabetes is fat, but any way you look at it, obesity and diabetes are linked. The good news is that obesity is preventable and reversible, and oftentimes so is the diabetes.Go here to read the rest



Elusive lynx make comeback in Colorado
State biologists are raising, releasing cats after they went extinct there
SOUTH FORK, Colo. - Volunteers opened the metal animal crate in a campground here. A lynx, its footsteps soundless, sprinted from a nest of hay and vanished into the snowy Weminuche wilderness, its fur a perfect match for the winter-deadened landscape.


Researchers released four Canada lynx early this month, another step in a reintroduction program started in 1999. Biologists hope lynx being reintroduced will repopulate a species considered endangered in Colorado and threatened in 47 other states.

The Colorado Division of Wildlife plans to complete the release of 218 Canada lynx to the San Juan Mountains by the end of April. While the reintroduction program cannot be classified as successful yet, researchers said there is definite progress.

Lynx, brown and gray wild cats similar to bobcats, weigh between 18 and 44 pounds, and have tufted ears. Their broad paws -- a trademark feature -- act as natural snowshoes and help them move through the winter landscape. Trackers describe the cats as shy, elusive animals who enjoy living in dark timber. Go here to read the rest of the story
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A cat that fled a house fire is back home in Albuquerque, N.M., after turning up some 240 miles away. The black and white cat named Miko disappeared in December, on the night of the fire.

About two weeks ago, Miko's owner got a call from an animal shelter in Pueblo, Colo., saying her cat was safe.

Officials at the shelter speculate that the cat, trying to keep warm, hopped a tractor-trailer and rode it to Colorado.

When they found her, her collar was missing. But shelter officials scanned the microchip in her neck and came up with her owner's name.



source: MSNBC NEWS

Friday, February 1, 2008

PETEY AND FLUFFER

Hi! PETEY!


COME ON LETS PLAY


HEY WAKE UP FLUFFER!


HEY PETEY, I AM SWEEPY!



OK, I'LL LAY HERE ...


NOW I AM WIDE AWAKE , I 'LL CLEAN YA UP!



!ZZZZZZZPECK ZZZZZZZZ ...PECK ZZZZZZ... PECK, PECK


"One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives." - Mark Twain
Love, Cappy



Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Just Thinkin Bout Cats



Really make me smile. If you have never been owned by a cat, you have really missed an exciting time, Especially early In the morning. Below are some thoughts on cats that other catowners have thunk;0)




"Managing senior programmers is like herding cats."- Dave Platt




"Never try to out-stubborn a cat."- Lazarus Long




"Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a cat."- Franklin P. Jones




"There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast."- Anonymous




"Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this." - Anonymous




"Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow." - Jeff Valdez




"In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats." - English proverb




"As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat." - Ellen Perry Berkeley




"Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are the boss of all humans ."




"Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later." - Mary Bly




"Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia." - Joseph Wood Krutch




"There are many intelligent species in the universe. They are all owned by cats." - Anonymous




"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats." - Albert Schweitzer




"Time spent with cats is never wasted." - Colette




"Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well." - Missy Dizick




"Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want." - Joseph Wood Krutch




"I got rid of my husband. The cat was allergic."

Monday, January 28, 2008

A Cat Joke



Did you hear about the cat who drank 5 bowls of water? He set a new lap record.

Did you hear about the cat who swallowed a ball of wool? She had mittens.
What is the difference between a cat and a comma?
One has the paws before the claws and the other has the clause before the pause.

What do you get when you cross a chick with an alley cat? A peeping tom.

Why don't cats play poker in the jungle? Too many cheetahs.

What is a cat's favourite song? Three Blind Mice.

What did the freshman computer science major say when he was told that the work stations had mice? Don't you have a cat?

What is a cat's way of keeping law & order? Claw Enforcement.

How did a cat take first prize at the bird show? He just jumped up to the cage, reached in, and took it.

Why did a person with an unspayed female cat have to go to court? For kitty littering.

Why did the litter of communist kittens become capitalists? Because they finally opened their eyes.

Why are cats better than babies? Because you only have to change a litter box once a day.

What is the name of the unauthorized autobiography of the cat? Hiss and Tell.

What do you get when you cross an elephant with a cat?
A big furry creature that purrs while it sits on your lap and squashes you.

What does a cat do when it gets mad? It has a hissy fit.

What do you call the cat that was caught by the police? The purrpatrator.

What happened when the cat went to the flea circus? He stole the whole show!

What is a cat's favourite colour? Purrrrrrrple!

Where does a cat go when it loses its tail? The retail store.

What does a cat like to eat on a hot day? A mice cream cone.

What do cats use to make coffee? A purrcolator.

What do you call a cat that has swallowed a duck? A duck filled fatty puss.

If lights run on electricity and cars run on gas, what do cats run on? Their paws.

Why is the cat so grouchy? Because he's in a bad mewd.

If there are ten cats on a boat and one jumps off, how many cats are left on the boat? None! They were copy cats.

Is it bad luck if a black cat follows you? That depends on whether you're a man or a mouse.

How does the cat get its own way? With friendly purrsuasion.

What do you call a cat that lives in an igloo? An eskimew.

What has more lives than a cat? A frog because it croaks every night.

What is a cat's favourite subject in school? HISStory.

What do cats like to eat for breakfast? Mice Krispies.

How do cats end a fight? They hiss and make up.

What's happening when you hear "woof... splat... meow... splat?" It's raining cats and dogs.

Why are cats such good singers? Because they're very mewsical.

What do you call newborn kittens who keep getting passed from owner to owner?
Chain litter.

What is the cat's favourite magazine? Good Mousekeeping.

How many cats can you put into an empty box? Only one. After that, the box isn't empty.

Why do you always find the cat in the last place you look? Because you stop looking after you find it.

If a cat can jump five feet high, then why can't it jump through a three foot window? Because the window is closed.

What is a cat's favourite movie? "The Sound of Mewsic."

What does a cat that lives near the beach have in common with Christmas? Sandy Claws.

Where is one place that your cat can sit, but you can't? Your lap.

Why did the cat put oil on the mouse? Because it squeaked.

What side of the cat has the most fur? The OUT-side.

What is a cat's favourite car? The Catillac.

What kind of cat will keep your grass short? A Lawn Meower.

Why did the judge dismiss the entire jury made up of cats? Because each of them was guilty of purrjury.

What do you use to comb a cat? A catacomb.

Why did the cat run from the tree? Because it was afraid of the bark!

Why is it so hard for a leopard to hide? Because he's always spotted.




LATER, CAPPY








Friday, January 25, 2008

CATS ARE WONDERFUL

The Picture to your left reminds me of Boy.
I had boy for nine years. I loved him dearly. He died on Dec. 17 2oo7.
I know Boy went to Rainbow Bridge. I will always cherish the years you owned me Boy.
Love,Cappy