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Pamy
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01-02-2002

Wednesday, October 12, 2005 - 6:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
Watching, I love your story and I am glad your DH is a kitty lover too!!!!

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Wednesday, October 12, 2005 - 6:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
Chuck Cunningham syndrome is a term that refers to a television series in which a main character or a character otherwise important to the show's plot is removed without explanation. The term comes from the character Chuck Cunningham in the American television series, Happy Days. Chuck, the oldest of the three children in the Cunningham family, initially appeared in the Love, American Style episode "Love and the Happy Days", which subsequently inspired the Happy Days series. In the series, Chuck appeared during the first season of the show (usually as a superfluous character who said he was on his way to basketball practice). Chuck was written out of the series at the beginning of the second season with the explanation that he was going to college. After the second season, he was never mentioned again. Subsequent episodes referred to the Cunninghams as having two, rather than three, children.

On the Happy Days reunion special that aired February 3, 2005, a series of clips was introduced that not only pointed out that Chuck disappeared, but that he was played by two different actors over the course of the series; both of them were then brought out, a surprise to Marion Ross and the rest of the cast.


Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Wednesday, October 12, 2005 - 6:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Cunningham_syndrome

Watching2
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07-07-2001

Thursday, October 13, 2005 - 10:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Watching2 a private message Print Post    
I had a nice long post all written a few hours ago and then the board went into maintenance mode..so well.. I'll try again! But you do miss the excitement of me having to post quickly because Misha knocked down something really heavy and loud in the kitchen! LOL

Ahhhhhh...now I get the disappearing syndrome! There's a joke on All My Children how one of the boys went up to get his skis in the beginning and never came back down. Some long ski trip and they forgot he was on it! LOL

Pamy, unfortunately my DH is not all the enamored with pets anymore. I tell him he should go live in the "grumpy old men home." LOL When my kitty Jade died almost 3 yrs ago, he kept saying we couldn't have any more cats and that I had a dog and that should be good enough. WELL!!!!! You know that just was NOT going to wash with me! I was so mad at him!! I did wait a few months and kept talking about how "when I get another" so I was surprised when he got all pissy when the kids brought me the kitten in a stocking on Christmas Eve. He was soooooooo mad! I couldn't believe it! Of course, she has to be the kind of kitty who just HAS TO make her presence known in naughty ways none of our others ever dreamed of! LOL She's what the vet calls a "wool eater." She goes through periods where she behaves and then she must get a craving or something and starts stealing socks and we find them chewed in her food dish! I thought she'd get over it when she grew out of teething, but nope! She was just this little bit of a thing and one DD was having a fit that her older sisters rats had chewed her new Christmas sweaters when we discovered it was Misha! Last night I go in the bathroom after DH was in there and sure enough, there's shredded toilet paper on the floor! I keep giving my DH packages of socks from Misha for any occasion it will fit! LOL

Lkunkel
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10-29-2003

Thursday, October 13, 2005 - 4:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lkunkel a private message Print Post    
Speckle is starting to come around to Typo existing.

Bopper, otoh, is really coming to love his baby brother:

BopTypo01


Lkunkel
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10-29-2003

Thursday, October 13, 2005 - 4:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lkunkel a private message Print Post    
Bopper is also very protective of his little brother:

BopTypo02


Watching2
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07-07-2001

Thursday, October 13, 2005 - 4:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Watching2 a private message Print Post    
Awwwwwwwww how sweet Lk!

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Thursday, October 13, 2005 - 4:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
Awww so cute lk!!! So sweet!!!


Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Thursday, October 13, 2005 - 4:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
ummm, whose naked butt is that in the background!!!! AWESOME

Lkunkel
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10-29-2003

Thursday, October 13, 2005 - 5:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lkunkel a private message Print Post    
Julie, actually it's my thigh.

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Thursday, October 13, 2005 - 5:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
Darn, I thought is was more exciting that that!

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Thursday, October 13, 2005 - 5:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
LOL Watching!!

Houdini went to vet and his pee is not bloody...he is still peeing all over...vet thinks we just need to retrain him.....

thx for all the good thoughts and prayers, looks like we dodged a huge bullet!

Thx again, I appreciate it more than you will know.


Pamy
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01-02-2002

Thursday, October 13, 2005 - 5:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
LK, what cuties!!!

LOL Julie!

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Thursday, October 13, 2005 - 6:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
So CUTE!!

I certainly hope you and Houdini have escaped, Pamy!!

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Thursday, October 13, 2005 - 7:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
My those are cute pictures!

That is wonderful news Pamy! I’m so happy for you and Dylan!

The re-training part may be a bit of a challenge but it surely can be done. We had a cute little kitten. She was a purebred Exotic Shorthair. The breeder was a bit eccentric and raised her purebred cats in a barn on her farm. We thought this was great – we were getting a purebred “farm cat”.

It was great until we brought her home and she proceeded to pee in the living room. We thought – oh well, accidents happen. Well it wasn’t an accident. She proceeded to happily pee everywhere. We were fit to be tied – we’d never heard of training a cat. My wife and I would be sitting on the stairs at 1:00 AM, trying to get her to pee before we went to bed.

The good news is she finally learned after a few days. Once she learned she was really cute about it. She’d be sitting in our bedroom and all of a sudden get a funny look on her face and then go tearing off to the litterbox!

She ended up being an absolutely wonderful cat.


Redstar
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07-08-2005

Thursday, October 13, 2005 - 10:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Redstar a private message Print Post    
Oh, Pamy, such good news! I hope Houdini stays well and retrains easily!

Lkunkel, loved the pics of Bopper and Typo. What a handsome boy Bopper is!

My kitties are both doing very well, too. Phoebe has gained back weight and grooming herself again. Emma is back to playing and gets her surgical staples out on Saturday. And Phoebe will actually tolerate Emma sitting on my lap at the same time she is - as long as Emma kind of creeps in there and goes to sleep. The moment Emma gets the least little bit feisty, Phoebe growls at her. I'm glad Phoebe is letting Emma near her. I checked on Emma's stuffed animal that I had put in the kitty house on the climbing tree earlier. It had a stiff area on it, and at first I thought one of the cats had peed on it, but no smell. I figured out that poor little caretaker Emma has been grooming it. She'd take such good care of Phoebe if Phoebe would only let her!

Moondance
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07-30-2000

Thursday, October 13, 2005 - 10:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Moondance a private message Print Post    
Pamy get Dr. Elsey's Precious Cat "Cat Attract" Cat Litter It is GREAT stuff. it really helps! I am so happy to hear about his pee!!!!!

Watching2
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07-07-2001

Thursday, October 13, 2005 - 10:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Watching2 a private message Print Post    
Pamy - That's great news about Houdini! I hope all the bad stuff is over and he takes to the litter box soon. We had problems with one of our cats when we first got her. She peed NEXT TO the litter box, but we figured it was because she came from a crazy household with a ton of kids and other cats. She did well except we always knew when she did something wrong. She was all white and her ears would get flaming pink and she'd be slinking around behind the couch or chair and we'd know to look for something. It wasn't all the time, just when something upset her and she'd leave a "present" in the window sill or go on the floor in the basement. But she had a rough kittenhood. The other kitten we got from the Humane Society had feline distemper and she got it. We went through 2 wks of daily trips to the vet for fluid injections and I had to force feed them every two hours. Worse than having babies! I was racing home from work on my breaks and lunch hour - fortunately I had a nice boss and didn't live far. We ended up losing the one kitten but we pulled her through. I guess we named her appropriately given how she'd get upset. Her name was Spook but we also called her Boo Boo or Boo Boo kitty - ala Laverne & Shirley. The other kitten was black with white markings and we called her Magic - but her "magic" didn't last, sadly. I still remember someone thinking we were really out there in naming the cats when they thought their names were reversed! I was like uh...no.. Spook... like a ghost! We got them around Halloween. Sheesh..some people!

Red, I'm glad your kitties are doing better. I need to pull out some old pictures of when we got Tigger when Spook was about a year old. Tigger would climb on her back and be chewing on her ear and Spook would just look like - What are you letting her do to me? LOL It's nice to see Misha and our dog get along. Jade was very put out that we brought a dog in HER HOUSE and as much as Kellie wanted to be close to her, she'd have none of it. She didn't spit or growl, just made a wide circle around her. Of course, Jade got spoiled rotten and allowed to sleep all the places she was never allowed because we felt bad about her feeling displaced, so she made out alright! I'd love to get another kitten before Misha gets too old, but I might have to send DH to the "grumpy old men" home first. Sometimes that sounds like a good idea - to him, too! LOL

Lizziedi
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10-05-2005

Friday, October 14, 2005 - 5:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lizziedi a private message Print Post    
I'm very happy to check in here and see that many kitties are feeling better! That's good news, indeed. Pamy, I hope Houdini settles in to his litterbox training and all is well!

It was enjoyable & touching to read everyone's latest posts and stories. LOL at Chuck Cunningham Syndrome and the ski trip that never ends.

I also loved the new batch of photos:

Hypermom--Annabelle is gorgeous--she looks like her fur would feel like mink.

Finqwit--Fing & Tyke do look like twins in that picture. If you hadn't told us, I would have thought they were best friends! Pretty cats.

Lkunkel--sweet pictures! I'd seen the earlier one of Typo. Bopper looks so patient & Speckle is a doll. Glad to hear Typo & Bopper feel better.

Nancy
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08-01-2000

Saturday, October 15, 2005 - 11:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nancy a private message Print Post    
My Marble is soo funny--Right now she is sleeping in her cat carrier--(i had left it out from 3 weeks ago when i took her for her checkup)--took me awhile to get her in it when i took her to the vet--now she's loving it inside LOL

Shadoe
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11-04-2004

Saturday, October 15, 2005 - 3:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Shadoe a private message Print Post    
It's simple to introduce a new cat if it's kitten.
The old guy naturally will grumble, but eventually will give in and accept the little guy.
Even when that little one outgrows the old guy and decides it's OK to lie on top of him!

Shadoe(the little guy) and Booboo

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Saturday, October 15, 2005 - 3:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
That is not necessarily true. Many times a new rambunctious kitten will irritate an adult cat way more than a cat who's not as wild as a kitten. But then there are some older cats who prefer a kitten as the kitten may let the older cat be the dominant one. All depends on each individual cat...

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Saturday, October 15, 2005 - 3:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
Beautiful cats Shadoe! (Is the black one the gray one's shadoe?)

Shadoe
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11-04-2004

Saturday, October 15, 2005 - 4:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Shadoe a private message Print Post    
Julie,
You're right and wrong about the big guy and kitten thing.
My black cat Booboo is the most miserable cat I have EVER had - you do NOT pat her unless she 'allows' you that privilege. She hissed and growled amd smacked little grey Shadoe yet kittens are usually pretty tough and bounce on back like the little fools they are.
Eventually Booboo just tossed her skinny black paws up in the air and caved. Sure there are still times when she is pissed and definitely lets Shadoe know. Shadoe has learnt that one lesson well - If Booboo says don't bug me; then I will come back later.

I figured it was worth the initial fights because I am not home for hours and I don't like to see an animal alone. It's paid off pretty well too; I have come home to pictures like I posted, so I know it's worked. There have been times the Booboo has pretended that she did not realize they were together and jumps down when I get home.
She does not fool me - I have seen them together too often, but I let her pretend.

One thing though; she MUST be petted FIRST when I get home or she will hide for the rest of the night. After all, she WAS here FIRST! I give her that much.


Landi
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07-29-2002

Saturday, October 15, 2005 - 4:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landi a private message Print Post    
it didn't work out with belle and ariel that way either. neither one likes the other 10 years down the road! ariel had been around for a year and a half, and belle came in as a kitten. belle now outweighs ariel by 9 pounds. there is no harmony between the other, but they tolerate eating out of the same dishes and using the same litter boxes. but no companionship.