oops, i left my little cat locked in his feeding cage (long story, but he eats in a kennel) ALL NIGHT LONG. Poor little guy, he had to poop and tried to squeeze the poop out the grated door but that just didn't work very well. I was all frantic this morning trying to console him and clean up the mess while still getting to work on time in my hobble-boot. *sigh* praise be for him being on prozac, as he was quite chill about the whole situation (obviously, since he didn't cry loud enough to wake me up even though his kennel is on the other side of my bedroom wall.) and hopefully won't hold this as a grudge against me. Especially upsetting since he was totally experimenting with lap-cat behaviour last night, and i've been trying to coax him into lap-cat for years now, and i really hope he won't associate that with getting locked up all night.

smonster- does the behaviour change based on what shoes you are wearing (or not?) there seems to be a dissasociation btwn seated you and walking you....has anyone been kicking the cat recently? Ok, that sounds awful, but maybe if it's an indoor/outdoor cat? And i'm all for the feliway diffusers. I see such a change in attitude (yowling, anxiety, aggitation) when mine run dry.

Beth, I hope she's okay.

smonster- does the behaviour change based on what shoes you are wearing (or not?) there seems to be a dissasociation btwn seated you and walking you

Just after uni, one of my roommates and I referred to her boyfriend as "Scary Boots Man" when talking of him from the point of view of my cat. He was a really nice guy, but hearing-impaired, and had zero idea how noisy his footsteps were. The cat liked him well enough when he was sitting down, but ran when he clumped down the stairs.

I'm hoping she has just done the 16 year old thing and taken off and is hiding. But as far as I can tell no one has seen or heard from her

I worked with a sixteen year old who went missing from her home for three days but showed up for work on time as though nothing was going on.

I hope she is found safely, beth.

Beth, I hope she's OK.

ION, argh. Trying to get dinner with my family is ridiculous. And I am not being the difficult one! So far, I have rejected two restaurants and agreed to five. Then we agreed on a place, and then my mom started suggesting places again that she thought we might like better. Then she looked at nutrition information on the website and decided that everything had too many calories. I think we finally agreed on pizza. Everybody getting an individual pizza, of course, because nobody can agree on a large pizza that everybody likes.

Beth, I hope she is found quickly. Much~ma to her and hers.

So glad she was found safe beth.

We are in hour 8 of the drive from point B to point C, with 2 more hours to go. Taking 95 south of DC was my bad idea as that added 2 hours of stop and go angst to the trip. Yesterday's normally 2 hour drive to point B took 3 hours.

On the plus side we've seen license plates from 24 states and 2 Canadian provinces. Virginia's leafy plates still rank as most unreadable.