http://critterweb.com Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:41:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yesterday I was out in the yard just after dark and I became aware of a sound I couldn't quite place, sort of a wet clicking or popping all around me. My first thought was "oh no it's sleeting again" but I quickly dismissed that because it was waaaay too ... http://critterweb.com/2010/03/10/spring-has-gotta-be-coming-when-you-hear-the-worms-sing An orange cat got hit and killed right in front of our house trying to cross the road. When Joy was leaving for work, she noticed a big bloody spot in the road in front of the driveway, then off to one side by the house next door's mailbox, the ... http://critterweb.com/2010/03/08/poor-kitty A) Emptied anal sacs of geriatric dog #1 (a rather invasive procedure which involves rubber gloves and vaseline) after witnessing her moonwalk her butt across the living room carpet - check. B) Traced strange dead smell to geriatric dog # 2 and spent 20 min clipping, disinfecting, scrubbing, and removing ... http://critterweb.com/2010/03/07/sunday-morning The entire gallery can be found here. Winter thought she wanted out... 4258 4261 ...but changed her mind. 4264 The snowcat was joined by a snowowl 4273 if you look real close you can see our power lines - under the weighted hemlock branches. 4276 neighbor's house through the snowy fence 4282 Even the abandoned rundown house next to us ... http://critterweb.com/2010/03/02/more-snow-pics 4208 Lindsy turned fifteen this past month. The picture above is of her eating the last of the Pfeffernusse Christmas cookies from Trader Joe's - we bought her a doggie cupcake from a local petshop but it was hard as a rock. She loves Pfeffernusse so that was probably a better ... http://critterweb.com/2010/03/02/fifteen 4202 ...things start coming to life in there. http://critterweb.com/2010/03/02/you-know-its-time-to-clean-your-refrigerator-when March is starting off with a bang...as of right now (3:36 PM) we have about six inches of the "two to four inches" of snow we were supposed to get, and it's still pouring down. This picture was from around noon: 4218 I was originally scheduled to go to Oak Ridge, Tennessee ... http://critterweb.com/2010/03/02/in-like-a-lion-or-maybe-just-a-snow-cat I was walking a dog at the shelter today and ventured up the hill behind the building so we could really stretch our legs. Something caught my eye sitting on the hillside in the sun... at first I thought "wow, what an ugly cat" but then I approached for a ... http://critterweb.com/2010/02/26/the-sense-of-being-stared-at ...Because it snowed like hell again yesterday, everything's white, roads are terrible. If anyone needs me, they can find me huddled in front of our fireplace cradling my baby herb seedlings and waiting for spring. http://critterweb.com/2010/02/13/i-can-tell-its-the-weekend 4172 Ice encrusted fence We awoke yesterday morning to a sea of snow, slush, ice, and freezing rain. It was also pretty chilly because we'd turned off the heat the night before so we wouldn't have to worry about the heat pump seizing with ice.  I'd already rescheduled my service calls for ... http://critterweb.com/2010/02/06/we-got-off-fairly-easy-this-time