FIRST!

Ok that was lame for being first. Doze feet, day are CUTE CUTE!

Well, very sorry for the ouchies, of course, but bring on the kitty photos! We can't see too much of the insane kitty posse, you know. And you need to rest that finger. I hope it isn't a crucial knitting finger, too! That would be a disaster.

I love the toes! Frankie is so beautiful! I don't think I can do the math for the feet at our house:
5 felines = 20 feet. 1 K9 = 4 feet. 4 Humans = 8 feet. That's 32!!!

But what's fun for us is our inappropriate namings:
Hogan - female
Fred - male
Miss Lizzie - male
George - female
Sweet Pea - Not so sweet

Good luck with the typing. I can manage all those typos with all 10 fingers in functioning order.

For some reason, after hearing of this supply drawer accident, I'm impressed that you graduated from wood shop having enough fingers left to slam one into a supply drawer!

No offense, though. I'm not one to talk, considering all of the bruises and cuts that I get at my very dangerous office job. I'm just saying... wood shop would have been dangerous for me!

Learning to type was the only thing of value I took from my high school experience. I'm a good southern girl, after all....

I believe the exposure of kitty paw pads is one of the rules of cuteness over on CuteOverload.com. And multi-color spotted paw pads? Uber cute. But then, Frankie exudes cuteness, even without the flashing of the paw pads.

I love Frankie! (Don't tell Soba.)

Cute Frankie pics!!

And OUCH! I hope it heals quickly.

I took three years of typing classes. Yes, I know, I'm weird. 7th & 8th grade, & again in 11th. The last time was only so I could join FBLA. I needed *some* kind of a business class, and I suck at math, so typing it was. I had a HUGE crush (sadly, unrequited) on the FBLA president, and thought this would be a way to spend more time around him. Then he went & got elected national pres, & wasn't around as much. *sigh*

Good thing it wasn't your camera clicking finger! Easy to tell you are much younger than me. No gurlls allowed in woodshop in my day and boys in typing class, eeuuuw. Good thing my dad taught me to use tools. I stink at typing even with 10 fingers!

The real concern ought to be, how will your office injury affect your kitting?

Love those kitty paws!

Precisely the way I've typed for 45 years. Yay us.

Your poor finger! I'm sending lots of pink sparkly thoughts your way.

We need a picture of the finger!

Hello? Workmans Comp!
You should be home resting your digit on a pillow and with all the wonderful writing that comes from those three fingers they should be insured for at least a million. Lord of London!

Lords of London

dangit

AHA!!! I should have come here first, because I do so thank you for the sympathy! :)

I will not be posting pics of my finger, it is gross, but luckily it has not impeded my knitting, I got almost half a hat done last night during the grammys!!

Owwie. alternate ice and heat, it'll be ahhlright!
I broke my big toe once in the office when I dropped a folding table on my foot. got a bitchin paper cut on my lip from licking an envelope one time.

we should be getting hazardous duty pay or sumthin.

wow. sounds like tres good excuse to self medicate ala vino.

Also, I am so jealous of your wood working skills. As single female in charge of paying the taxes on the home for the four feets, I sure could use some handy and some skills.

Oh. wait. That's why I was looking for house boy.
Right then. Carry on.

1/2 a hat? I am envious. Hvin chemo side effects, can't feel fingers, yet still crave knitting. I've ripped out row after row :-((((

Aw, the foot, so cute, the finger, so painful! I recommend ice and hot ginger tea (to compensate for the coldness of the ice).The foot count at our house is 28, not counting the mice in the basement. (The cats are not allowed in the basement. The mice are too smart to come upstairs. I haven't actually seen a mouse in over a year, so I tell myself they got tired of the slim pickins and moved on. I hope.)

I ruptured an achilles tendon once while working at WalMart. All I did was squat down to straighten up the felt squares in the fabric department where I worked. There was a loud snap, and then the pain hit me. (owwwwieee!)

Got fired from WM (they were probably scared that I'd file a workmans comp claim) and went back to school a few months later...to take typing classes! (refreshers...had typing in high school) and now I can type over 120wpm. (maybe faster, havent checked my speed for awhile)

Now all I need to do is find a job where I can just sit and type all day. (my dream job would be one where I can sit and crochet or knit all day)

If I ever win the lottery however, I'll be opening up a yarn store (with an online store too)

But Laurie! How will you knit?! (I actually live in fear of injuring my hand or arm so badly that I won't be able to knit. Yeah, I can quit any time I want, man!) :) Hope your finger feels better soon. Tell Frankie she has some seriously cute toes!

Oh Laurie...you might be able to use the dictation software that comes with most computers nowadays to just speak your blog posts into the computer. No typing required.

I'm just not sure those programs will be able to type out the words "eleventy" and "y'all".

You just mentioned the two classes I almost failed in school -- typing and woodshop. I typed with two fingers and she was always yelling at me. And I made a "duck" shaped paperholder in woodshop, but the duck was missing his head.

Sorry to hear about your injury.

Office-supply related inuries: I feel your pain. I tore an ACL at my job two years ago. I was not wrangling a horse, wrestling an alligator, capturing a snapping pit bull, or getting a cat out of a tree.

I was trying to retrieve a box of staples from behind the office-supply cabinet. :)

Foot count at our house: 36.

Hope the finger is better soon. Drink green tea and lots of water, cleanse your system or bruise-gunk.

Laurie, I'm sorry about your finger: my husband closed the garage door on his yesterday...ouch! I hope it gets better soon! I think it is so awesome that you took wood shop in H.S.! I am a 45 year old girlie and I want to take woodshop! I think power tools are SO empowering! I love your Frankie: she's such a lovely doll!

Must bite cute kitten foot!!!

Do they even know how cute their feet are?!?!? I can't resist them!!! The hands and feet of human babies are NOTHING compared to the utter cuteness of cat feet!

As soon as the funky finger gets better, you need to post a video of the typing. I am curious now!

And I crocheted a pair of baby booties last night during the Grammy's. So, see? We ARE multi-taskers!

I thought I was the only one who dropped typing class to preserve my GPA! Ironically, the first real job I got out of school was as a word processor. I typed less than 20 WPM with about 11 errors. It was my sparkling personality that got me the job. I hope you feel better soon.

Ouch, ouch, and ouch again! I SO know what that feels like! Years ago I had a drawer in the office slide closed on a finger and I thought I was going to pass out from the pain!

Most important thing - you can still post kitty pics and you can still knit. Yay!

I love kitty paws, too!

Oh, and foot count: 6 normally and every other weekend when the kids come it's 10 or 12, depending on who comes. This past weekend it was 14 (one was a friend of the kids).

I had a wicked wicked paper cut last week that made me unbearable. I still managed to knit (duh), but was whining about the stupid cut all week.
those kitty toes are the best! I love to scratch my kitties between the toes, to see how far they can spread 'em!

Re injury : poor baby!!

Re household feet : 12 (cats); 6 human on permanent basis, 2 extra when university's out.

Hope the injury does not interfere with ladylike handling of corkscrew or glass.

All best wishes for a speedy recovery, and I will add my voice to the applause for the kitty pix.

I had a kitty related injury recently. Not quite as severe as yours, but enough to affect the typing. My cats don't like it when I have to pull them in from the outdoors, because (apparently) they love it so much and forget to eat sometimes. So, when I grabbed one from being outside for at least 24 hours and she freaked and scratched up one of my fingers. I'm okay and it didn't hurt that bad, but I didn't realize I was bleeding until 30 minutes later. May our injuries heal.

I dropped typing class in high school too. I didn't even think about the gpa angle I was just so bad at it I couldn't bear to think about lasting the whole semester. My poor teacher, she tried, she really did try. Mrs Kirk, the teacher, had managed to teach everyone else she ever had to type. Until me. She had taught my Mother to type. But not me. I'm much better at it now, although it'd be terrible without my backspace key. I think the internet is responsible for that. I am still really bad with the numbers because I'd given up the class before I learned those keys.
We have 14 in the foot department.

The fastest I've ever been clocked typing is 102 wpm, but that was a few years ago...

I never knew any other professional keyboard users did it as weird as me!! How your typing technique resonates with me, and for a very similar reason. I didn't take it as a class til college, at a time when my GPA was still pure and unsullied, and I wasn't about to get a "B" in TYPING forgodssake. So I got to where I'd sneak a peek at the keys during the time tests, and it just went downhill from there.

But, I still go maybe 70 wpm now, using six fingers and only one thumb... I never use the right-hand shift key cuz I always used to hit Enter by mistake (too-long '80s fingernails!), and I never space left-handed. The crooked wear pattern on my keyboard is a sight to behold. Yet for other feats I've developed an office reuptation as the resident Word guru... if they only knew my secret shame. ;)

I'm so sorry about your injury. Hope you feel better soon.

There's a fantastic typing program called Mavis Beacon teaches typing. There's lots of graphics so while you type, you can try to beat race cars on the screen. There's lots of other games on it too.

When my son was young, and he was off school for the summer, he used to involve himself in projects. One summer I suggested he do the Mavis Beacon program for 1/2 hour a day. He loved doing it and by the end of the summer, he could type 120 words per minute. He graduated university last summer and has kept up his speed which made all those papers he wrote go by so much faster.

Sorry to hear about your finger. I'm wondering if it's the moon or something. I slipped in cat urp this morning, fell and twisted my ankle. Well, at least I can still knit.

OWWIEEEEE!!!!! Hope you gotta lotta kitty lovin' to make you feel better.

And we're okay with the kit p0rn. Them's some awfully cute catlettes!

Wow, we type the same way! I can really blaze along when I'm writing, but when I'm keying in what's printed somewhere else, not so much. I had a college roommate that used to hang out and watch my hands while I typed, too. (She was also fascinated by my ears. I wonder what she's doing these days?)

Knit on, carefully.

Yeah, I've always been amazed by the speed of your hunting and pecking! You would not think three fingers hunting and pecking could produce content so quickly.

OOOO Me loves kitty toes!

I am also one of those typers who types to hard and with too few fingers... I think I use 4 fingers & I have to look at the typewriter & then I still make mistahes. Like why the hell does "the" ususally start out as "hte?"

Wow - 40 wpm with 2 fingers. I am impressed!

I got a C- in typing in H.S. You're right - shop class was much better!

I did finally perfect my 10 finger typing when I went to MSOE and discovered the internet in its infancy. One is only expected to become proficient in typing when they spend 12-18 hours in a chatroom daily. (I was slightly addicted to a bbs) Needless to say I ended up dropping out in my 2nd year when I couldn't pass Calc III. and decided to go into art :)

You are so smart...wood shop huh. When I went to school in the dark ages they would not let "girls" take wood shop. Take care of that injury as I would hate to miss any of your stories.

I've often wondered, so now I'm asking: Is Franklin Delano Rosencat a girl? It's such a boy's name, but calicos can only be girls. I must know!

~smooch~ (That's for the finger)

Maggie, she is indeed a girl :)

OUCH! I managed to stick with typing, even through a cooking class mishap (lesson learned, don't mix popcorn balls with your hands) and passed both. Of course I probably garnered a lot of sympathy from my typing teacher when he watched me type with three fingers and two thumbs for the rest of the semester. There was no opportunity to transfer out in my school -- everyone took metal, wood, sewing and cooking and typing. However you type faster with your three fingers than I do with all mine...

Oh Laurie, purple? El yucko that musta been one heavy drawer. I personally am perfecting picking up furniture with my toes. Glad I don't need those to type.

BTW the woodshop thing, totally get it. When I was in high school I opted out of Home Ec because I already knew how to cook and clean and didn't like it one bit. Hubby always jokingly says that when I told him prior to marriage I wasn't domestic he thought it meant I didn't do animals LOL

So I took Agriculture/Shop and was the only female in the 3 years I was there. Transfered one year to another high school and they about had a cow when they had to let me in their ag/shop class coz "girls" weren't allowed.

Loved being stuck in a welding booth with a hottie learning to run a bead! Plus the guys all liked me in the class because I was the only one that bothered to learn all the answers on tests so they could copy.

But I learned one crucial lesson never-ever-ever wear a shirt with bat type sleeves while using a table saw. Quite dangerous.

I could not tell what that first pic was at first, I hoped you weren't getting raunchy on us or something, but when I realized it was a foot (not a paw, because cats are more human)well then it was so cute I just wanted to pinch it. Sorry about your oweeee, no fun.

My long haired gray calico has tufts of fur in the middle of her feet. When I want to make her crazy I cut the tufts off.

Do you ever sniff the cat's feet?

Does that make me weird[er]?

Owie!!! You have my sympathy! Sadly, I'm all out of guilt-cash.

I've always wondered how God or (enter Supreme Being of Your Choice Here) got the line of color demarcation on Frankie's face sooooo clean and even. She is one gorgeous feline. And the paw picture is so cute I almost can't stand it. One of my kitties has a pale pink paws...with just one black dot on one pink pad. Argh. The cuteness.

Have a great day and hope the finger is better toot-sweet!

Owowow!

"Do you ever sniff the cat's feet?"

No, but I sniff my cat's cat breath when she yawns.

Does that make me wierd?

Hope the finger gets better soon!

I type with two finger on my left hand, three fingers on my right hand, and both thumbs firmly on the space bar... and I still top 120 WPM. I also have (after years and years) broken myself of looking at the keyboard. So, yes, thats right - I blind hunt-n-peck. People watch me type just to be mystified at how I do it. *I'm* mystified at how I do it! :)

Cat photos rock and just how does Mr. Rosencat keep those paws so clean? sorry about the purple finger tip. You'd think they'd at least let you have 30 paid days off to rehab the finger! ;)

i have a master's degree and 20 years of work experience and yet the single most important skill i've ever had is being able to type 80 wpm while never looking at my hands.

There must be a hurt-your-typing-finger disease going around. Last night I gave myself a steam burn on my left index finger, and later my husband proceeded to cut his left index finger on a knife when he was doing dishes (since I was already maimed!).

I hope your finger heals quickly!

My Frank is a computer programmer and he types with two fingers and is pretty speedy about it. I think my top speed with 10 fingers is 80 wpm...

I took home ec at one junior high, and then we moved to another city. Well, I wasn't about to take home ec again, so I signed up for woodshop. The teachers freaked out when they realized I would be the only girl, and moved me to a class with one other girl, who was something of a hood. Frankly, I thought she was more dangerous than those other boys.

The sad thing was, the woodshop class was basically designed to teach kids how to go work for the local Chrysler plant in town, so I didn't learn very much, except a healthy respect for powertools and the importance of safety goggles.

Hope your finger gets better soon...I've done stuff like that too.

Yowee, I know how much that drawer crushing hurt! I've done the same and once had a finger shut in a car door.

Ice and lots of wine . . . and we love cat pics, no need for words!

Aw! I want to tickle the little cat toes! Mary does not like it much when people try to tickle her toes, so the desire is very strong.

Please be careful with your three typing fingers! A life without CAP posts is a life not worth living. Also, I manage plenty of typos and other various grammatical erros (hello? subject and verb must agree?) with all ten fingers (though I use all ten fingers it might be worth noting that I do not, in fact, use them in the traditional manner).

Sometimes less is better. :)

Also, some of the letters have worn off my keyboard. Though I do use look at the keyboard off and on (I don't strictly touch-type), there are others that use my keyboard that sort of need the names printed on the keys... This has resulted in much ire directed at me...

Owies!! Doesn't it suck how you can't ever get sympathy for little injuries that yet cause you EVER SO MUCH daily agony?!?!

Well anyway, you've got mine. Hope the finger feels better soon!

Geesh, thanks EVER so much for making me think of the feet thing. We have twelve human feet on the floor around here...no WONDER I can't ever keep the floors clean...!

There is nothing in the whole wide world as cute as kittie toes. I bet I tell Creepy a dozen times a day how much I love her toes ... and she refuses to let me touch them! Ungrateful fur-ball.

Sorry about your finger, but I'm so glad that nobody called your name while you were dealing with the circular saw in woodworking class!!
How are you going to knit with this purple finger sticking out like a sore thumb? Good luck.

My brother loves to tell the story of his high school typing class (Back in 1960, he's my older brother. Much,much older). The teacher was nearing retirement and The Brother insists she had a wee problem with the bottle. The boys in the back row would time the bells on the return to ding at the same time and each row of typists would join in until the whole class was going, "ding...ding....ding...ding" in unison until the poor woman ran from the room. Ah, the 60s.

Oh you poor thing.... I hope you feel better soon. Hopefully your coworkers aren't like mine and didn't laugh hysterically first and then see if you were ok after.

I sniff my cats' feet all the time (well, except for just after they've pottied), but it's a nice warm smell. Have to experience it to know what I'm talking about.

What a coinkidink that you posted Frankie's peds, I posted Doodle's multi-colored jelly bean toes last week, under the post - "Let Us Paws for Just a Moment." Check it out. I also posted face close-ups too. A bit blurry as I'm using "too dark, use flash" mode.

Aawwww... I SO wanted to take Woodworking in school, but I was made so much fun of that I took Home Ec. instead. *sigh* Stupid peer pressure.

Hope you heal quickly. My father typed the same way... Three fingers on each hand... and he typed about 80 wpm.

Hope the finger is better soon! The best advice I ever got was to take a typing class. I had to give up choir for it, because they were at the same time, and I LOVED choir.

If you smootch those cat toes, your finger will heal in no time.

I have a friend who wrote (and had published) a 900 page novel.

He typed the whole thing onto computer with his index fingers alone. Looking the keyboard.

I type well, but actually I'd rather know how to use a power saw.

Ouch! I managed to get my thumb caught in a hole punch a couple of weeks ago. There's still a mark!

Laurie-
Poor baby! I HATE those kind of things! FYI- get some homeopathic Arnica at the healthfood store or Whole-paycheck (about $5) it makes it go away MUCH faster (can you tell I do that a lot?).
And Erin- data entry. Sit. Type. ALLLLLL day. Try your local University, they need people to enter info about donors and research contracts all the time. If you get a good boss, you can download books on tape and listen to your favorite books and work all day. That's how I paid for my post-bach work.
Best of all- No retail customers or re-stocking. I love people, but the sweet folks barely made up for the you're-a-lowly-retail-clerk-so-I'll-be-an -ass people. Juuuust SO not worth it!

Bossy types with two fingers. Toe. Uh, she means 'two'. Typos are apparently the side effect.

OMG! I favored shop class too :) But I skipped home ec classes in favor of shop, not because I was boy crazy, I just didn't like the girly stuff!

I hated typing class! I didn't suck at it, I just didn't like it, mainly because of the teacher. We had a teacher who was great, and then he left and we had this crazy chick named Miss Bloom take over. Anyway she was a total ditz and we made up names to call her like Miss Broom, Broom Hilda, Groom, Doom, etc. I sat next to this kid named Dan, and we were using Macintosh computers (but these were ancient...talking like 1988). Anyway, Dan figured out the command that would copy the line he just typed and paste it, so he would cheat whenever we had to type the same line over and over for practice. I think this Dan guy runs a software company now. Go figure.

You might be interested, having the same deep love for him that I do, that Peter Jennings typed the same way. ABC News did a promo spot about it a couple of years ago and it's always stuck in my mind.

So, you know, great minds and all...

We've got 26 feet in our house!!! 3 humans, 2 dogs, 2 cats & a hamster. Thank god they don't all wear shoes.

I hope you're finger feels better soon.

Three fingers? Not two, but three? hahaha.

Have you ever read the play "Words, Words, Words" by David Ives? Hilarious. It's about a scientific experiment; three monkeys in a cage, typing into infinity will eventually come up with Hamlet. You have conjured up this memory for me.

Aww tortie paws are so pretty! My Sunshine's very similar - and has nose freckles - cuteness!
Hope your finger gets better soon!

Love the Frankie feet!! Those are some darn cute feet running around your house.

I type better when I look at the keyboard too and I don't use my little fingers much.

I love cat toes! We spend a lot of time admiring them, quite often on command, over here. Our calico knows the quickest way to get her way is to roll on her back showing both sweet, white belly and little, pink pads at the same time. Question, why is it that furry toes are so cute on cats and yet creep me out so badly on people?!

28 feet. Me, darling boyfriend, his 14 year old son, two calico kitties, two hamsters, two rats, and five guinea pigs. Do I count the two bellies that drag on the ground??

And, in the past month, I lost one rat and my much beloved 20 year old cat. (Another calico, my first calico in fact.) That would have put us up at 36 feet which I think would have tied me for first place!! Do I get a prize? Money for pet supplies, I hope... Yeah, first place in the crazy parade.

You love that cold, little Roy man just as much as you can!!!

Awww Laurie! OWIE! I used to hit That Spot just Below the Knee on the corner of my desk drawer, that'll cripple you up for about a week. But we all LOVE the kitty toes and truly, I adore looking at Frank's unique face. My father (a journalist) typed with the first two fingers on each hand, FAST. His secretary once arranged a typing race between him and the teletype machine. The machine won - (at something like 140 wpm without error) but Dad was typing 90 wpm. Oh, and did I mention--this was in the days of manual typewriters? I had to take typing in 11th grade because "in case you don't marry right away, you'll have a saleable skill". PFSHAIWWWW!! However, I actually like the tactical sensation of typing, I wept the first time they showed me a self-correcting typewriter, thought I'd died and gone to heaven. Ice on the finger, wine in the glass and a liberal application of cats should spruce you right up!

Thanks for Mr. Rosencat. Now, the people I work with think I'M crazy too! I guaffed out loud (how do you spell guaffed?) and they all looked at me and quickly went back to work. Now the newest rumor will be that I've flipped MY lid and gone nutty in the office! :P Funny post as always, and I'm terribly sorry for your finger's loss. And for your stunted typing abilities.

That little kittie foot is adorable. I get such joy watching my cat lick his back paws it's a little embarressing to admit.

Susan...I've done retail (8yrs at McD's, and 9 months at WalMart)

I have to say that I hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate HATE retail!! My 8yrs at McD's was so much better than my 9 months at Wally World.

At least at McD's, people were in and out of the place...at WM, they'd come in, make you walk 50bazillion feet across the store to show them where the plate hangers were...then, on your way back to your department, you get accosted by no less than 5 people asking you where the bathroom is (right next to where my dept was), where the garden center is (turn around go, escort them to garden center) and other assorted things...then once you get back to your department you either get another jackass who makes you escort them to the soy milk (soy milk is in GROCERY...what were they doing looking for it in SOFTLINES?!?), or they're mad because you're not at the fabric cutting table and they've been standing there banging that damn bell for the last 5 minutes.

I never want to work retail ever ever again. I want a nice job where I have no contact whatsoever with human life other than the occasional coworker and the cute pizza delivery guy.

I'm going back to school for the medical transcriptionist certificate. Of course then I'll be stuck transcribing doctor's charts from doctors who learned English by watching Police Academy movies.

Hmm well!! Just as well I love cats too!

Hope your finger is better soon. Wish I could fly over and type for you. Could stash hunt and see my son at the same time. Better than 2 birds with one stone.

Cheers

I just started reading your blog and you've offically got me hooked all cuz of da feet. I love my little kitty toes! i've got two who have multicolored feet like that and one who just has the pink toes. they're all just so cute though. good luck with the finger.

We've got 18 feet at our hose too, but 6 of them are human.

Dude--I am just catching up on my reading and, although I read you a lot, I hardly ever post. However, today was special. You rock on getting rid of the debt. I am also inches away from dumping a ton of ridiculous old credit card debt. The inches will take an extra month now because Miss Ruby needs a new transmission, but still, it rocks! One more nasty credit card to go!

And one of my oldest friends got booted out of the National Honor Society for failing typing.

I wasn't as smart as you... I stuck with the typing class... and got a D. The only bad grade on my report card ever. It looked something like this: Physics A, Calculus A, Chemistry A, Various Other Difficult Subjects A, Typing D. But, now I can type 90 wpm on a good day, so I hardly care if I type by the "orthodox typing method" taught in all high schools. So, take care of that poor finger and just keep doing what works for you!

Oh, and for Imaginary Maggie--there are boy calicoes, they are just exceedling rare and almost always sterile because of the genetic abnormalities needed to produce one.

*(&%^&*(!!! So much for what I said about being a good typist! That, of course, should be "exceedingly."

I love cat paws! Hope your paw feels better soon!

Ouch! Hope the finger heals quickly. And I spent a lot of quality time this weekend checking out Natasha's paws.

All this talk of cat toes is making me miss my dog...a big Bouvier des Flandres named TinyMonsters (he was an oxymoron) his front paws were as big as the palm of my hand. Black toes with black/brindle fur sticking out inbetween the toes...

The only reason the talk of cat toes is making me think of Tiny is because his breed was well known for EATING cats...at least according to his breeder (Tiny never tasted cat...altho he had sampled several mice, and one homicidal/suicidal baby possum)

I used to sit and hold Tiny's feet in my hands too...last time I saw him at the vet I held his feet in my hands. (damn...I'm gonna go cry now...quick, someone show me cute cat pictures!)

It's amazing how little cat feet look to me. I almost wish I wasnt allergic to cats now. I'd like a cat like Roy...or maybe Soba...

CAP - have someone - anyone - kiss your finger pronto. Always works for me - at least for a little while.

Jo Ann - 5 guinea pigs!!!! That's a lot of guinea pigs. I loved my childhood rat Speedy - one of the best pets ever. Sorry 'bout your losses.

20 feet here - mostly feline.

Feelin' your doggie loss Erin - lost my Maggie May (blue heeler) year and a half ago. Sucks!!!

Now I'm going to drink a glass of chardonnay and toast all the wee furry friends past and present. And their feet too.

My ex is the system administrator for a science department in a university. computer and typing are his job. he still hunts and pecks with his index fingers. i wanna push him over and type for him!

I love kitty toes. I had a wonderful tuxedo cat. All of his toes were black, but he had white fur on all of his feet. I called them coffee bean toes, 'cuz, surprise, surprise, that is what they looked like.

Here is hoping that your finger heals soon.

Ah, yes- i also do the hunt-n-peck system of typing. I should have taken wood shop instead of sewing. I could build a bookcase!
so instead of the usual green thumb, you have the large purple finger??? Ouchie.

I have 6 cats of my own, usually a "foster" kitty or two in addition, and in the past 5 years, I have had over 150 kitties pass through my home until they could find their "forever homes."

However, Frankie is positively one of the MOST beautiful cats I have ever seen. She is gorgeous!

Omigosh, you don't type properly? Hon, it's a CRIME. I bet you put dark meat in your chicken salad and use Miracle Whip instead of Duke's Mayonnaise in the pimento cheese. I reckon we have to revoke your license to say "Y'all."

Heh. I type the same way -- three fingers and pretty darn fast. And also with mucho gusto -- I've worn out countless keyboards by pounding on them. My coworkers fear me.

Hope your finger is better soon!

When I had 5 cats at one time, I calculated that every time I sat down I had 70 pounds of cat lard sitting on me. Whoa.

wow! I can't imagine typing as much as you do without full use of all fingers! It must be an amazing sight to watch you type, lol. Hope your finger feels better soon and keep the kitty pics coming!

Coral

OMG. Just yesterday I had to replace my size 3 dpns because my big orange Charlie-cat chewed the ends off 4 of them while I was sleeping. I know, I know. It was just revenge for making him stay indoors forever. But I didn't know how to save the needles. Thanks for showing me the new trick!

I just read thru all the comments to make sure someone hadn't already mentioned it. And they haven't. So I will....here goes...I've made an informal "study" of smelling kitty toes. Seriously, I've sniffed my cat's, my friend's cats, my mom's cat --- and they all smell JUST LIKE SALTINE CRACKERS! I am not kidding. Go over to one of your felines and take a sniff. I'm right...right? (Oooo, I just previewed this and it's just downright wierd. I'm sending it anyway.)

so i did what you said, Rene, why, I don't know, probably because I'm a little off, but I called my one guy Snickers over, flipped him over and sniffed. His paws smell of arm and hammer fresh scent litter, with a hint of saltines. Very strange. Oooh here comes Comet (the cat, not the cleanser). Maybe I'll sniff his paws. Maybe I shoulodn't admit that in "public". Oh well.

It's like watching programmers type with two fingers at an alarming speed.

I got out of doing the final in my typing class by breaking my pinky. Got an acceptable B. I've since gained considerable speed.

My mom took auto shop in the sixties (in Oklahoma) just to be with all the guys. Some southern ladies are just smarter than others, if you ask me.