Every heard of walking a cat?

I'm not gonna lie - I do. It's really cute, actually, and Andromeda [my cat] enjoys it too. Wanna know how I got her to do it? There's actually this whole training that the cat can go through.

Start as early as you can, it's easier to train a kitten.

Use an "8" shaped cat harness, not a collar, for walking. But have a small collar with an ID on the cat, too.

Get the cat used to the harness in the house without the leash. Put it on before you fee him so he associates the harness iwth something pleasant. Don't leave it on very long.

When he is comfortable iwth the halter, put the leash on and let him drag it around. Train when the cat is hungry.

Use the cat's name, followed by "heel" as you would a dog. Move forward a couple of steps at a time very slowly. When the cat follows, give praise and a treat.

When the cat is comfortable with the lease, take him outside. Train on the grass and around bushes, which will interest the cat more than a sidewalk. Don't train in busy areas that may scare him.

Be sure the cat is up to date on vaccinations.

Walk the cat in you yard only so it won't get frightend by cars and dogs.

Always carry the cat out the door so he won't get frightend by cars and dogs.

Always carry the cat out the door so he doesn't get used to running out the door.

[sources: Laurie Clauss, Cattails Feline Health Center, catchannel.com]

~Ah Bientot

Daniel Radcliffe is coming to Broadway!!!

Ok, by now you should know that Meaghan, Mollie, and I are all huge Dan Radcliffe fans! If you don't...well...you've got a few problems to work out. Anyway, down to business -
Yes - the rumors are true, Daniel Radcliffe is going to star in Equus once again. It's also coming to America this time! Awesome, right? So I went through the notice that tells you all about it, blah, blah, blah, and here's some information about it. (this is so you can correct any rumors you hear)

• The play is showing on Broadway sometime in September 2008
  
• Daniel and Richard Griffiths will open in Equus in New York next September.
  
• For Daniel it's the fulfilment of a dream he did not think possible. (that's a quote)


• Ms O'Toole will now play Jill opposite Alfie Allen when Equus tours the UK, starting at the Chichester Festival Theatre on January 31.
  
• Director Thea Sharrock will begin rehearsals next August.


• The play, as readers of this page well know, is about a teenage boy who blinds six horses and how a psychiatrist explores why.


• The play will probably produce the biggest goldrush at the box office since Nicole Kidman disrobed in David Hare's The Blue Room last century.

Well, there you go. I hope you'll all take heed to these facts and enjoy the play if you decide to go!

~L8A G8AZ

equus. coming to broadway. dan will be in the states. and i can't go. :'(

Isn't that great. Mom said that I can't see equus till i'm 15. Equus is coming to Broadway in September. Who knows how long Dan will be there? No idea. With all of the HP stuff going on, he could be there, or he could not. So, in september, he will most definatly be there. If I could go, that's all i would want for my birthday, christmas, easter, christmas, my birthday... Just the chance to MEET dan, SEE him in person. wow. But mother dearest won't let me go. I don't think that I blame her, though. I wouldn't let MY kids go see Equus. really. I wouldn't care how desperatly in love they were. Why Dan couldn't choose to do Wicked, Rent, PHANTOM!!! ( I want to see that one.) Hairspray, TARZAN!( i don't want to see that, but if dan was in it, I would go!!!). but no, he chose equus. gr. life is unfair. BTW, got out of detention.

Fake.

Fake
By: Meaghan Schultheis

People plaster on a fake smile,
People are popular.
In their own cliques.
Give something to one,
You'll never get it back.
People are fake
People don't feel
People make fun of those who do feel
No one cares.
People see your pain,
And they keep walking.
Everyone is fake.
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Yes, I wrote this one. I was feeling all depressed in science class, and I wrote poetry. This is my favorite. Comment!

Poem

A Prayer to Everyone
by: Andrew C.
Well in this day and in this age
In this scene on the stage
We've found our nuclear war
And the simple teenaged protest lyrics
The words of the new anti-adherents
Will be ground into the floor.
The Uncle we called Sam
Back 'fore the war in 'Nam
Won't look a day ahead
I'm done arguing religion
I guess it's your decision
Either way we'll all be dead.
But I guess I can only hope
That we'll open our eyes and see;
Until then, good will to all
I pray for you and me.
Well in this smoke and in this fire
In this battle that's dear and dire
We've found our hurricane's eye
And the daily hated complications
The wars below the tide of nations
All take this time to sigh.
I've struck gold now in this life
I've found love and beaten strife
I hope you fare the same
But I'm done wading through the crosses
The new Crusades that bring such losses
The arsons of the flame.
But I guess I can only hope
That we'll open our eyes and see;
Until then, good will to all I pray for you and me.
Well in these minutes before the end
In this hour time seems to bend
We've reached the end of the road
And all the murders and greenhouse gases
The careless tossing of the masses
Makes no lighter the load.
And still at our creeping doom
Where for God there is no room
We fail to see the light;
I guess that I can only hope
That the wiser men will cope
And that this song is right.
But I guess I can only hope
That we'll open our eyes and see;
Until then, good will to all
I'll pray and never flee.
...
Until then, good will to all
I pray for the whole of we.


(Uh! It's sooo unfair if you read all of his poems and songs it makes you feel bad that you can't write that well! I guess I just have no redeaming qualities what so ever. Oh well)
~Bye

:'( saddened.

Yeah. I am sad. Today I got a detention for not getting something signed. NOT GETTING SOMETHING SIGNED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How stupid is that? I can answer that. Really stupid. so on monday, I am gonna have to stay after school. Get this, MY PARENTS AREN'T EVEN HOME! I had to get this thingy signed by my parents. I needed to get my grandmother to sign it.
So, last night I had a fight with Abby and Lily. I was reallly PO-ed at them, so I didn't want to talk to anyone when I got home. So I went up to my room to do my HW. I was still cooling off when I finished my HW, so I forgot to get the thingy signed. Now, I have a detention. It's on Monday, so when my mother comes home, the first thing she hears from me is, "Mom, I have a detention today. Can you sign this detention form and the Progress report (which i think i may have lost.) Oh yeah, Mom, the progress report says that I have two missing homeworks."
Then my mom goes..."meaghan, you are grounded. You have to quit Drama, Concert Choir, and Softball is no more. Life stops for you."
Then I cry, and everyone makes fun of me at school. And Mom didn't sign the detention slip so I get an office refferal. Then I get a Saturday school. Life sucks.

Poetry

"Simple Math"
Andrew C.
Who said that three and three are equal to six,
or that branches fallen from trees must be sticks?
Who says Z is not lettered the fifteenth,
Or that above is up from beneath?
Five and five is twenty-six,
Say the laws that govern me
And one and one still equals two
Us two, the two of we
Where have gone the infidels
That did believe in a universe of ways?
To whom have all my spirits gone
In the final hours of these darkest days?
Whither hast my heart landed:
In the small town of No-where?
Or is it, perchance, furthur down the road
In the world's own land of a lair?
Five and five is twenty-six,
Say the laws that govern me
And one and one still equals two
But who's the second of we?
Where have gone the mathematicians
That sought the last of Pi?
To whom have all my enemies gone?
To their corner of the sky?
Whither hast my soul landed:
In no-man's measure of Hell?
Or has it landed in Elysium
Where most of all is well?
Five and five is twenty-six,
Say the laws that govern we
And one and one still equals one
The one and only me.

Isn't this the best poem? Why didn't anyone tell me Andrew could write like this!? Thank you Meaghan for posting it on you 'journal blog' from computer class. Now I'm gonna post it on here too. :P