Catblogging

Dozer is our most recent cat. We got him from Orphans of the Storm about three years ago. He was about seven years old when we discovered him in a cage outside the adult cat room. The sign said "If you pet me I will purr very loud." We got him out of his cage and started petting him and sure enough, loud purring. Sort of a jackhammer cadence, loud and slow on the inhale, … [Read more...] about Dozer

This is Ripley. He's the first cat my wife and I got together after her previous cat Rover passed away. We got Ripley—and all the cats to follow—from the Orphans of the Storm animal shelter about 10 miles north of Chicago. Orphans has some of the cats and all the kittens displayed in a bunch of little cages, like at a pet store. In addition, they have a couple of … [Read more...] about Introducing Ripley

This last weekend, my wife and I stopped by the Chicagoland Family Pet Expo. I took pictures. Most of them were pretty bad because I was trying to take them in ambient light with a handheld camera and they came out blurry because of camera motion. I also took a few pictures with the flash. I usually hate my flash pictures, but some of these didn't look too bad. First up, a … [Read more...] about Pet Show

This is Buffy. I put up a picture of her first because she always hides when people come over. Many of our friends probably think she's a figment of our imagination. … [Read more...] about Network Security