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1. about 14 hours ago on Breaking Cat News

   That came from [someone] on Usenet (remember that?)

   “They couldn’t get a clue if they danced naked, drenched with clue pheromone, in the midst of a clue herd, in the middle of clue rutting season!”

2. about 15 hours ago on Breaking Cat News

   Yeah, Burt is figuring that there’s no way they can get around/override the alarm system.

   Gutter is figuring “Who cares about alarms; we’ll just go in with the sirens blaring! What they gonna do, eh?”

3. 2 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   Raccoons are cats x 6! Everything is a play toy!

4. 5 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   Tim Powers’ Anubis Gates had me finishing the last page, staring into space for five seconds, and turning back to the front to read the whole thing all over again.

   It was fun the first read, but utterly delightful the subsequent reads.

   Of course, it was so convoluted that just reading the last chapter still wouldn’t have given enough “spoiler” to figure out what was going on throughout the book.

5. 5 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   We’ve had Merlin identify a bird from its song.

   “Robin. Cardinal. English Sparrow. Woodpecker. …(oh…) Mockingbird”

6. 6 days ago on Frazz

   We are not the Wicked Witch of the West! We don’t melt in the rain!

   Actually, as hot as it’s been, it feels pretty nice…

7. 6 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   I Googled (well, DuckDuckGo-ed) and got www. petfinder. Com/member/us/nc/mocksville/ davie-county-animal-shelter-nc423/

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8. 6 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   When the Cat Distribution System gives us a cat that we’re not sure we’re going to adopt, we have to keep him/her in the basement, as there are no other rooms that can be easily closed off from the other cats.

   The basement is well-organized, but full of dangerous stuff — sharp tools and various poisons and things that can be unbalanced and fall over — so they go into the foldable kennel, with food and water and a small litterbox and a box to hide in. They can come out and explore when I’m down in the basement keeping an eye on him/her.

   The latest two were Holly and Skeezix; after several weeks of calling shelters and rescues, only to be told “no room at the inn”, we rebuilt the door to the sunroom and brought her upstairs for the through-the-crack-in-the-door introductions.

   For Skeezix, I guess we decided that after we’d spent $1000+ on his visit to the emergency vet for huge abscesses, that he must be Our Cat after all.

9. 7 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   I was just told yesterday that there are Benedictine hostel/hospices all through the route from California to Indiana, and they will put you up (and Foxy, too) for no charge. I have no idea how you’d find their location or whether they need “reservations”, but just throwing it out to you.

10. 7 days ago on Breaking Cat News

    Count Spatula made one of those for a convention once — the “tirds” (censorbot replacement) were his absolutely glorious chocolate truffles. We spent the con saying (with our mouths full), “This isn’t sh*t; this is great sh*t!”