Archive: ‘Tabby's Place’ Category
September 3rd, 2010 [3 Comments]

Riding headlong into a hurricane

by Angela

KatrinaAnd I don’t mean Earl.

I’m referring to Katrina - but not that Katrina. Well…not exactly.

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September 1st, 2010 [6 Comments]

Everybody loves Barry

by Angela

100824-barry-21They do. It’s just a true fact.

So why is the “young Mr. Grey” the fourth and final of the Jersey boys to await his forever home?

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August 31st, 2010 [8 Comments]

Willie makes way for marmalade

by Angela

tiptree_marmalade_orangeoldtimes-01166314The Marmalades are on the move again. This week, the ginger cats and their honorary-marmalade friends moved on up from the Special Needs Suite to Suite A.

Along the way, they also upped the ratio of “orange” to “non-orange.”

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August 25th, 2010 [10 Comments]

The Weez’s big, baaaad win

by Angela

EloiseFunny how words can have elastic meanings.

Friend can mean “close, cherished, intimate acquaintance,” or “guy I accidentally bumped into on the way to study hall 47 years ago who just found me on Facebook.”

Bad once meant “bad” (as in, “you’re a bad chef, because your chicken stew tastes like vomit”), then it meant “awesome” (”I wanna be like them baaaad dudes”), then it meant “bad” again, and now it’s having a renaissance as “awesome.”

But perhaps the most elusive word in our lexicon is adoptable.

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August 24th, 2010 [7 Comments]

Cuteness cubed

by Angela

guppymisu-achilles-atlaseliI love when someone adopts a cat. I love when they make it a double.

And I swoon with glee when they supersize the order and adopt cats in triplicate - or triplikitten, as the case may be.

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August 23rd, 2010 [13 Comments]

Forever loved: Pitzel

by Angela

Pitzel our loveIt’s always too soon.

The only consolation in losing a love like Pitzel is trusting what lies ahead.

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