Pet Channel

Today I started working with a wonderful little 12 week old puppy today that was of a mix I’ve never seen before and has a wonderful mash up name. This pup was a cross between a Cavalier King Charles and a mini Poodle. It’s a Cavapoo and was it ever cute!

As 2005 comes to an end, lists of all kinds are flying around rating the best, worst, favorite and most popular things for the year. One company you may be familiar with is Veterinary Pet Insurance Co. and they have just released their list of the top dog names for 2005.

To make the experience more interesting the mix is enhanced by liberal doses of meatware: dogs, sleeping cows, ducks, goats, herds of sheep, hopping crows, nearly blind kittens, abandoned puppies, lumbering elephants, dashing school children, women descending from buses, porters ferrying huge loads of greenery atop their heads. They enter and leave the roads with little concern or awareness of the passing traffic, perhaps guided by a sense of pre-ordained destiny.

We’ve just spent the past week in Cape Town, leaving my beloved brother-in-law to keep an eye on things at home. Which he is actually notoriously bad at - and has, as usual, not really managed to do. Usually, we return to my poor child of a siamese cat in some or other state - clenching its little cat buttocks together under the strain of a bladder infection….with a deep slash near his bum since he’s decided to impale himself on something during the course of his cat adventures.

To realize this, one has to refer to the Club Constitution and Objectives, all related to the aim of protecting the uniqueness of the cat breeds, creating a loving and caring environment and concern reasons but nevertheless, MCC or KKM strives towards these objectives in the form of organizing activities, amongst others:

If I put little cowboy hats on them could I pass them off for the parts that Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal play in the newly released Broke Back Mountain?

I was reading Fark at lunch and I came across this story about squirrel proof bird feeders (including one that launches the squirrels). Judging by the 2,570,000 pages Google found when I searched for “squirrel proof“, there are a lot of people with the problem.

I was up at the cottage in the Smoky Mountains, and was lucky enough to receive all sorts of visitors to the bird feeder. A pair of rose-breasted grosbeaks showed up one day and stayed around for quite some time. This is the female of the pair.

I feel in love with some tangerine geckos this week. I’m debating buying them with some of the leftovers from the bonus. Given that geckos normally live about 15 years, and that these particular geckos are desert animals, whereas the regular green ones I had were aquatic (harder, much harder to care for), I’m getting the itch to own and play with lizards again.

Now, I must admit that since I am a crazy cat lady, I am not really a bird person. I defend the right of an outdoor cat to have a tasty bird meal if he can catch it and would never put a bell on a cat’s collar to protect the birds. I have never owned a bird feeder and have never been too eager to have one: It just seems to me that the only “benefit” of owning a bird feeder is that you invite all the neighborhood birds to gather and leave their droppings all over wherever you put the feeder.

Tonight, Calvin get a sleeping pill (@mitriptyline) and I get half an @mbien.

It’s sad that I have to give antidepressants to my cat.

Sometimes, for no apparent reasons, M just switches to a crazy cat mode. All cats do it.

The march will start at 3pm in Victoria Park. Participants are being asked to dress in black, as did participants in the July 1 march in 2003. A huge rattan bird cage will be carried at the head of the procession, signifying that Hong Kong's democracy is being constrained.