Your excitement is contagious, minque! I'm quite looking forward to hearing how it goes! Yay!

Meow too! Princess Juneipurr is already plotting ways to smuggle herself to Sweden for a play-date. (I caught her packing up her toy mice just a minute ago).

I know you will all have a wonderful time with your new family member.

So about 2:30 a.m., Princess Juneipurr shows up beside the bed and starts to meow. This is not the “I woke up and couldn’t find anybody" ‘mewp,’ but the serious meow. The one that says- “The house is on fire- The Martians have landed- That doofus Timmy is in the well again- We’re out of cat food.” You know- something important.

Recalling our recent unwelcome visitors, I get up to see what the problem is. Her Royal Mousity leads me to the den and starts to look intently at something on the floor behind my recliner. I squint (did not bother with glasses) to see what it is, fearing the worst.

It’s a bug. Maybe a quarter-inch long. I look at the alarm kitty. She looks back at me as if to say, “But it’s a SCARY bug!”

So I retrieve the Fluffy House Slipper of Annihilation and dispatch the threat. Then I tell the kitty- “Go to sleep."

You have so much to look forward to, minque.

SPEW! ROFL !!!

Yep....cats do that ALL the time.

B- b- but that's YOUR job, trey! Those of us who delude ourselves into thinking we OWN cats must learn to accept the fact that WE exist only for the purpose of defending Ms. Princess Juneipurr and (soon-to-arrive) Princess Indra and (the already arrived) Queen Zoria from threats to their comfortable, luxurious existences!

Here here. why, just last week a rogue spider had to be dispatched before Florry could have her well-earned ( ) nap.

There are three rabid cats living under my house right now. My girlfriend dared me to go in and beat one to death with a metal baseball bat that I keep around the house for protection.

I think one bit her...thank you for doctors. Then again...she is really sensitive when it comes to somebody attacking her so...should I really go in there and beat them to death with a baseball bat or just call the professionals?

I'd get the girlfriend first, what was she doing up under the house to get bit in the first place? Also, if the cats are rabid (which even feral cats rarely get rabies) - and your girlfriend got bitten, then she would have it. See if she avoids water. If she does, chain her up in the barn...etc.

The cats are probably just feral. All you have to do to get rid of them is to sprinkle fox urine around the perimeter of your house. They will leave, thinking a fox has taken up residence close by. Skunks will leave too.

There are humane ways to take care of this kind of thing if they really are diseased or dangerous. Call the local animal control. They will catch them and put them to sleep in a gas chamber if they really are rabid.

This post has been edited by mALX: Sep 14 2010, 04:38 AM

If they are indeed rabid, do you really want to risk that? If you go under the close confines of a house with a bat to fight three rabid cats, my money's on the cats. (ie: don't do it).

A little cruel too, doncha think?

This post has been edited by Acadian: Sep 14 2010, 03:06 AM

Rabid or feral- it is an important distinction....

In either case, call local animal control or equivalent. If they won't do it, check for someone who will remove them humanely and safely.

The other is not- or should not- be an option. I have been in the situation of having to put down sick and dangerous animals before and it should be done in a humane way.

You want me to piss near your house, ya gotta pay me first.

SPEW !!!! ROFL !!!!

She's here....OMG I HAVE A CAT!

Just gorgeous, she's been investigating our house for a couple of hours, and now she's tired, sleeping in our bed, by my hubby....

And I will spend almost a week with her..no work, just being with her

Hooray! I hope she is behaving herself.

Yay for you! It is so much fun watching a new kitty get comfortable. Give her a few days and then her personality will begin to assert itself.

Have fun with Indra and send lots of pictures!

Yay minque! Yay Indra!

Congratulations. I know you will love her!

Congrats on your latest addition Minque !!!!

So, my replacement wireless receiver for my keyboard/mouse combo came in the mail today. Which means that instead of the uncomfortable and frequently idiotic touchpad and keyboard of my laptop, I'm finally able to use my computer with ergonomic ease and mouse-enhanced certainty.

Of course, now I don't have much of an excuse to finish off Shivering Isles. Or, for that matter, getting back to my highly-choreographed fight-scene laden fan-fic.

*sigh.* It seems there's a double edged sword to everything.

We look forward to the mayhem, Captain!