Conference misery::feline_v1

    Heh, heh, heh! That was a great story! I snickered the whole way thru
    it!! I love to bring out the catnip!! We always do when we're enjoying
    a special treat. It's only fair, right?!? And it's great entertainment
    for Mom & Dad too!!
    
    You didn't bore this feliner in the least!! Thanx! ;*)
    
    Bonnie

    It's amazing what they'll do to get to that stuff - watching them
    trying to get at it is half the fun - the other half for me, is
    watching three different reactions after they get into it (watching
    each of them guard their little pile of 'nip from eachother cracks me
    up as well).
    
    Your story made me want to go home and cuddle with my babies, turn on the
    TV or read a book with the best company in the world - kitties.
    
    
    Giudi+3

    Karen,
    
    Boy, I've missed the Bandit's Latest Antics.  Good to see that he and
    T.K.  haven't changed..
    
    Remember the *money* you saved by not having to go to aerobics.  When
    the two of them had a little fun with the toilet paper/napkins/paper
    towels. "Bend, two, three.  Bend, two, three."
    
    Sandi and the Storm Troopers.  
    
    PS.  I call Thunder - ThunderKitty when she goes thundering down the
         halls.
    
    

    If I recall correctly that was Hartz catnip you used, right?  That
    stuff is pretty stale.  Can you imagine what they'd do for FRESH
    catnip?  Haddeleigh House has some excellent fresh nip.
      Nancy

    We have a friend that grows catnip and he brings my guys over
    a tree atleast every other week.  Boy...do they go crazy.
    
    I also bought some catnip in this little burlap bag at the UCF
    in Fitchburg.  They love lapping those.
    
    BTW...remember we talked about all the little missing balls in
    the house...and we thought they went the same place the socks
    went in the dryer.  Well..Ha ha...I found the magical hiding
    spot in my house...and found 8 plastic bottle caps, 3 spongey
    balls...and 38 tin foil balls.
    
    Sandy
    
    

    Tabitha LOVES lighters!! We have to make sure they are hidden in the 
    house, or she's bound to hide them w/ all the foam balls & crumpled
    candy wrapers & those little rings at the top of the milk jug!! She
    LOVES them too!! She runs around w/ them in her mouth, it's SOOOOO
    cute! 
    
    Every now & then we lift the coffee table & retreive her toys for her,
    & then she chases them right back under there!!
    
    Her latest fun toy is a big map, it's rolled up & I stapled it so that
    the tube is large enough for her to crawl thru, she's been having a 
    blast w/ it!! We put it up against her kitty condo as a little tunnell
    & she goes nuts on it! UP, UNDER, THRU, OVER, AROUND, "watch out mommy
    I'm-a-comin' thru!"  vaaaaarrrroooooommmmm!!!
    
    Bonnie

    RE .6
    
    Thanks, Bonnie, for the *neat* idea for a new toy for the kittys.  I
    will start looking for something that I can roll-up and they can
    climb through.  I wonder if a rug will do the trick??
    
    Sandi and the Storm Troopers
    

    We started out with our guys by rolling up a big poster and they liked
    it so much that we ended up going to the pet shop and buy two carpet
    covered tunnels.  It ended up being the very best purchase we made for
    the brats - they use it for scratching, hiding, chasing, perching and
    stashing their stuff - it was money very well spent as it's used
    constantly by all three of them - not like some other things we've
    gotten them with which they lost total interest  - like the 7 ft.,
    $250 condo/cat tree that they don't even look at any more.
    
    What the He** mom, it's only money!
    
    Giudi +3

hi karen!  long time no read eh?  i know how you feel.  i have not been
in this file as a noter for about a year myself.  i do skim as much as you 
however.   i feel as though i know you and your kitties as verne and shirl
grew up at the same time.  they went through all the same things
at the same times.  whenever i saw your notes i knew that sooner or later
verne and shirl would be going through whatever it was that you wrote
about so i always would read them.  i am happy that most of them were 
were very happy ones.  now that i think about it, there are several 
friends in here that probably grew up at the same time, right?
anyways... only cat lovers will laugh and cry about these stories.  
i get alittle sad when i know that i don't spend as much as i should 
in here though.  the file had helped me through the younger years 
with the kitties and without it, i would of been one terrible mother.  
these our my first babies and i still worry alot about them but i'm
basically an experienced feliner now; thanks to all the great people
in here.
so enough sobbing, i just wanted to say hi and tell you that i love
your stories.  oh, and btw, verne is 14 pounds (only because he *still*
eats shirly's food when she turns her back) and i'm trying to get him
to lose weight too.  may i suggest some wire tops from champagne 
bottles??  they do wonders for cats that need to be exercised and they
even do wonders for you!  ha ha.. in moderation of course. take care--

cj, shirl and verne.

    I enjoyed reading your story, too!  Your cats sound like a pair of rogues.
    
    Regards,
    
    Karen (and Georgie)