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If you were in the medical profession and learning how to intubate babies, which would you prefer: learning on humanlike manikins (which I might point out would not be suffering at your hands), or using live cats, repeatedly pushing a hard plastic tube down their throats until they are bleeding, swelling and scarred to the point where they are no longer useful and need to be killed?

I myself would choose the manikin, mostly because I don’t like to cause suffering to other living beings.  The manikins maybe don’t squirm, but they are very lifelike and the exact dimensions of a real baby, unlike a cat which admittedly is configured a bit differently.

St. Louis Children’s Hospital is using cats and ferrets for cruel intubation exercises in its Pediatric Advanced Life Support course despite the availability of manikins and advanced simulators.

You can help stop this by clicking HERE

or calling:  Please take a few minutes of your time to call St. Louis Children’s Hospital President Lee Fetter at 314-454-4253 and politely urge him to show compassion for animals by ending the use of cats and ferrets in the hospital’s PALS course and other related courses.

This is the best I could come up with, a digitally framed photo of Taco and Bella:

I used to think that Taco was a big cat, but then Bella moved in and took over the food bowl, now she’s positively gigantic.  I guess after being on the streets and going hungry a lot she’s real careful now about not missing a meal.

Doesn’t she look happy and peaceful?

Plenty of food, lots of love and attention, and a soft place to nap…ah the life of a cat.

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Apparently the dog’s owner forgot the dog was in the car.  After investigating the honking horn, she realized it was her DOG alerting her to the fact that he was locked in the car, and overheated.  That is one smart doggie!

Years ago I had a friend who knew how to card and spin wool.  She had quite a few llamas and made some extra money by shearing them and selling the finished yarn.  This gave her an idea to try saving dog fur and spinning that into yarn, which she then knitted into a sweater!  It was very soft, but the big problem was if it got damp, it smelled like WET DOG.  So I guess it wasn’t such a good idea.  I’ve always wondered if the same could be done with cat fur, and lo and behold, I’ve found a video about a woman who is a groomer and gathers up the cat fur, cards and spins it, then knits handbags with the yarn.  This is a very interesting video:

I found a whole website dedicated to dancing with your cat.  No kidding!  Here is the Dancing With Cats homepage, and it includes links to “The History of Feline Dance“,  “Pre-Dance Exercises“, and “Dance Tips”.

Here is the album cover to “Dancing With Cats” by David Parsons:

This album is $83 on Amazon!!   So there you have it, everything you need to know about the unique art of dancing with your cat.

Since ORANGE is not one of my favorite colors, we really couldn’t find any orange stuff in the house.  But outside we have a few pots of nasturtiums growing in various shades of red, orange and yellow.  This prompted a cat and nasturtium photoshoot, and this is what we came up with:

Sumari with Nasturtium

Taco and Nasturtiums

Mango with nasturtiums

And here’s an older photo of Bella back when I borrowed the tiger lily from the Wicked Witch:

Bella and tiger Lily

Here is one of my daughter’s cats, Carrot, trying out this lovely new baby seat:

She’s getting ready for the important job of Seat Warmer which should be available by September 12th.  I think she’s also checking those toys for safety and durability.  What a cat!

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Here is Taco wrapped up in some colorful wrapping paper.  The boys were wrapping presents for my daughter Nicole’s baby shower (did they use birthday paper??) and of course they thought it would be fun to give Taco a colorful paper cape to walk around in.  Taco thought it was great fun (the whole world is his playground) especially since he got to shred the paper when he was done posing!

Taco present

Poor Ricky!  He kept getting infections on his ears (I think it was something hereditary) and he had to have one ear cropped, then a few years later they had to do the other.  He is fine now, and he is one big, fluffy boy with quite a bit of “catitude”.

Ricky

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The recalled products are sold in veterinary clinics and specialty pet retailers in the United States and Canada.   A full listing of UPC codes can be found at www.iams.com.

This is only a partial list, please go to the IAMS website to see the complete list of dog and cat foods that have been recalled, and pass this information on to others.

For further information or a product replacement or refund call P&G toll-free at 877-340-8823 (Monday – Friday, 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM EST).

I couldn’t find anything “cat” relating to “public”, so I decided to tell you about what I’ve been doing all last week at the PUBLIC skating rink that I skate at.  We had a four-day competition, and here are a few photos of this very public event:

Rebecca doing the Chula Tango (2nd place)

Masters Team Dance Winners

Intermediate Freestyle-my awful sit spin-

Showcase, 1st place

You meet some VERY interesting people at these competitions, here is one of the speed skaters from PA out in the parking lot.  As you can see he is very talented! I can’t even get on a darn unicycle or juggle ONE ball, and here he is riding and juggling at the same time

Alex juggling while riding the unicycle

It was a lot of fun but, a little stressful, and very tiring!

You guys sure know your CHINCHILLAS!!! Yes that’s exactly what this fluffy little creature is, a chinchilla.

Until my daughter got two, I would never have figured this out, it just looks like SOME kind of rodent to me!

This here is one of my daughter’s many fluffy, furry friends:

Can anyone guess what it is?

I’ll post the answer Friday night!

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