Isn't this mostly the "dead-enders" who still think Bush is/was doing a good job?

Actually, it was someone that went to my high school on Facebook. I really need to unfriend some of those people. I specifically state in my info that I am a bed-wetting liberal crybaby and yet, they still get offended when they read something in my status that reflects my political views.

But cats in kidney failure are supposed to have lower protein diets. Because protein is tough on the kidneys.

Yes, Teddy was on one of those for a while. We still have a few cans left.

True and percy was on lower protein at the end, because his kidneys were getting such a work out -- but the idea is that starting them on higher protein diets -- with a lot of water might prevent some of these diseases.

I'll be getting an adult cat, so kitten indoctrination's off the table. I expect that after a month or so in the pound, anything I feed them will look like manna. Still, I'll keep in mind checking the ash content and so forth. I'm trying to walk the line between abattoir sweepings and feeding my cat the pet equivalent of kobe beef.

My cat lived happily on Meow Mix for years, but he apparently gained a couple of pounds over the past year (although I'm skeptical, since that was weighing him by drastically different methods), so I've put him on the Halo (Ellen Degeneres cat food!) + Iams or something that I bought in an emergency.

When I was a kid, the barn cats got fed milk mixed with water, bread and whatever table scraps were left over that day. Of course, they were free to eat as many mice, birds, etc. as they caught.

Oh, and sometimes my dad would squirt milk straight from a cow's udder onto a cat's face. They loved that.

For billytea: Scientists unlock secrets of Australia's giant 30kg koalas

Hundreds of thousands of years ago, giant versions of Australia's unique wildlife stalked the continent. There were kangaroos up to 3m tall and enormous wallabies, wombats and echidnas. There were also koalas: larger and weightier than the creatures sometimes seen today in eucalyptus trees.

Giant koalas died out about 50,000 years ago, along with most of Australia's "megafauna". For a long time, modern koalas were assumed to be dwarf descendants of those prehistoric animals. But now an Australian palaeontologist has established that the two koalas lived side by side – a finding that may throw new light on why the megafauna disappeared.

I'll be getting an adult cat, so kitten indoctrination's off the table.

Depends on the age. Rigatoni is almost 2 and still has a lot of kitten ways.

Maybe there were also giant Eucalyptus trees.

Our cats always got Purina, supplemented with the occasional wet food or people food treat, depending on their tastes. One of them was mad for green peas or melon. Current cat appears to supplement her own diet with chipmunks and birds, the less said about that the better.

After they moved him here from Moscow, my brother's cat went through a phase last year of refusing to eat anything but pate and shrimp. (I should note that these were things they tried in desperation after he refused absolutely everything else for nearly a week - not their go-to catfood choices.)