mjhicks

@mjhicks (317)

United States • Age 63

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Collars on cats

jugsjugs @jugsjugs (12967) 9 Nov 09

I have 6 cats they are all ages.None of my cats wear collars as in the past someone had tightened one of my cats collars soo tight that if i had not seen it,it would have died.Well the other night i was in the kitchen and my cat...

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mjhicks Put a paper collar on him for the next week or so. Write a message on the collar that he is not a stray and to not put a collar on him etc. A paper collar will not pose a safety risk if he gets it caught on something it will easily tear off... hopefully the...

10 Nov 09

World's smartest cat

TheRealDawn @dawnald (85139) • Shingle Springs, California 29 Oct 09

This morning I was stretching and Oreo came over and wanted love. It's kind of hard to pet a cat and pull your body into the shape of a pretzel also. So I scratched his head and then I told him, "go see Dearra, she'll pet you." So...

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mjhicks All cats are smart but choose when & where to show off. it's an attitude thing. One door will be open to go in and out but the cats will often insist someone open a different door. Why walk all the way to the back door when they can get the humans to open the...

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Anyone sick with a cold?

Shar19 @Shar19 (8231) • United States 28 Sep 09

It's that time of year again. The time when everyone starts to get the fall/autumn colds. Everyone in my house is sneezing and sniffling. I'm sure it has something to do with the kids being back in school too. Germs are floating...

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mjhicks The sneezing, sniffling, and coughing may not be colds but seasonal allergies. There are many things that bloom this time of year as well as the seasonal changes can irritate asthmatic conditions. I'm allergic to Jackaranda trees... those beautiful purple...

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Black Cats

sysdexlicwriter @sysdexlicwriter (1619) • United States 20 Sep 09

We saw an article recently that there is a large amount of black cats at the cat shelter that are not being adopted because people think they are bad luck. We have a black cat that is the sweetest little boy cat. He has been...

black cats and luck

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mjhicks I think blacks cats are mysterious and yes I would adopt one.Where I live the shelters do not allow adoption of black cats during the month of October. Around mid November they once again allow black cats to be adopted. This ensures they are not just used for...

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Issue with fleas

jterrock @jterrock (276) • United States 17 Sep 09

I have a 4 year old Golden Retriever...her name is Emma Sue. I use flea medicine on her once a month. Although last month I used Frontline but the few months before I used a different product that I had gotten a free sample for in...

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mjhicks natural remedy: http://www.fleatreat.com/ keep using your regular treatment til you start to see an improvement. You can double the dose for the first couple of weeks to boost the level then use the regular dose to maintain. No chemicals.

18 Sep 09

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Kidney stone

Chaitra Vasanth @chaitra001 (3278) • Bangalore, India 16 Sep 09

Hi friends, My husband was hospitalized on saturday for severe stomach pain and after the scanning report came we found that he has stones in his kidney.. Now the doctors have given medicine for a week and have suggested for...

kidney

stone

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mjhicks I have a family history of the stones and knew what was happening when I got the first one about 15 years ago. I've been through many and had lithotripsy a few years ago to break up a large stone. Its a kind of non invasive surgery using sound waves to shatter...

17 Sep 09

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What are your plans this weekend?

ivygrey @ivygrey (550) • Philippines 11 Sep 09

I will be hosting a benefit rock concert this weekend. We only do this annually so I'm very excited, I love concerts especially when you have really wonderful crowd, But this concert is different from our previous concerts. We...

benefit concert

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mjhicks I will be volunteering as a net control operator in the command post for the Route 66 Parade in Duarte Ca. My VERT team provides communications and safety support services for community events. We will be assisting the LASD Temple Station Hamwatch along side...

16 Sep 09

Never use your hairdryer in the bath or under the shower?

katerina @thea09 (18305) • Greece 14 Sep 09

I'm so happy that this instruction came with new travel hairdryer I was just pulling from its wrappings otherwise I might have been tempted to try to both wash and dry my hair at the same time. How many people out there can so so...

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mjhicks How about " Do not use while sleeping." for such things as a curling iron. There are those knot heads that use tings in an ill fitting and unsafe manner then sue the company because the instructions didn't say "Do not..." There is a case where a woman...

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Will you paint your bedroom wall in black?

sasalove @sasalove (1709) • China 14 Sep 09

My friends just kidding me that if she has a dorm of her own, she will paint it in black. I don't know whether the joke will come true or not as she will do whatever she can do. LOL And I just jokes back," Is there any black paint...

in black

wall colour

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mjhicks All the walls in my house are Swiss coffee (range of white) except the bathroom which is blue tile. When I was growing up the older brother of a friend painted his room all black with black carpet. In regular light it was just plain black. But turn on a black...

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how can your forgive someone when thy are not asking for forgiveness?

HelScream @HelScream (2822) • Philippines 15 Sep 09

i was just wondering in my last discussion many replied to forgive my gf for the wrong accusation she have made but the thing is how can you forgive someone when she is not even asking for it and does not see her faults on the...

forgiveness

love

problems

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mjhicks Holding unforgiveness is poison to the soul. It does much more damage to you then the person for whom you hold a grudge. Forgiving others cleanses your own soul. Weather or not the person has asked for forgiveness or acknowledged their wrong makes no...

16 Sep 09

What would you do......

dpk262006 @dpk262006 (58673) • Delhi, India 10 Sep 09

Hi friens! What would you do if you do not succeed after making all your efforts to accomplish a task, project, mission, goal or assignment. You know it that you worked very hard on your project and you went out of your...

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mjhicks My VERT team provides communications and safety support services for community events. Sometimes things just don't go as planned. At our most recent event we had a traffic & parking plan laid out but a general manager of the business hosting the event would...

11 Sep 09

Favorite Ways to make Eggplant?

3SnuggleBunnies @3SnuggleBunnies (16374) • United States 5 Sep 09

I have 2 eggplants I need to use up. I've never cooked with them before. And most say to peel the skin... I was under the impression you couldn't eat the skin? Is that true or am I remembering something wrong. So give me the low...

cooking

eggplant

veggies

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mjhicks I leave the skin on unless it has too many blemishes. I slice it into 1/4 inch thick slices, dredge in flour, egg wash, then fresh seasoned bread crumbs. Then I fry it in olive oil. If I am making eggplant parmesan I only lightly brown it then line a glass...

10 Sep 09

I kept getting lost!

cynthiann @cynthiann (18602) • Jamaica 9 Sep 09

Yep. I spent most of the first day on board trying to find my friends. The passenger service on the ship does not give out cabin numbers so, brightness here, managed to lose the paper that gave the cabin numbers and phone numbers....

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mjhicks I am so thankful one of my brothers taught me how to read maps and navigate at the age of 7. It was one of our many family camping trips with ours of driving from one place to another. i was being the typical kid strapped in a seatbelt buffing "are we there...

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Puppies and older dogs

sharra1 @sharra1 (6340) • Australia 29 Aug 09

We have a lovely 5 year old male dog who is fairly placid. Our other dog died 2 years ago and we had been thinking of getting a puppy for over a year. Well we found a puppy at last. She is a lovely feisty kelpie cross and has...

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mjhicks Puppies are like children, they will learn by example as well as direct teaching. Reward the older dog n the pup's presence for good, proper, or on command behavior. Praise, attention or a small treat whatever you reward system is. Tell the pup wait and have...

30 Aug 09

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Ever Wonder if animals talk to each other?

angelface23 @angelface23 (2494) • United States 19 Aug 09

Like in Look Who's Talking Now? That was just on tv last week. I have a cat and my friend brought her puppy over. The cat, Star, had a watchful eye on the puppy and at one point even went over and sniffed noses with the puppy. We...

animals

talking

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mjhicks One of my cats, Smokey, is nicked named Boss Lady as she like to talk, give orders, to everyone. She talks to our dogs, and has a special call when she wants them to come . She brings them "treats" live mice and sometimes avacados. She called them out one...

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injection, do you hate it?

yelrihs @yelrihs (298) • Australia 12 Aug 09

i hate injections.. i am always very nervous whenever i need to be injected, or having my blood tested. Funny enough, i was actually trained to inject patients, i used to do my nursing degree and injecting people was my daily...

injection

needle

pain

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mjhicks Injections are not so bad. I hate some of the "vampires" that try to draw blood.... stick me, miss the blood vessel and then go digging to find it. OUCH! you*##%@!! that hurts. I am what they call a hard stick lol. When I've been the hospital some techs have...

13 Aug 09

Does Your Cat Have Any Strange Habits?

elmiko @elmiko (6630) • United States 8 Aug 09

One of my cats every since its been a kitten has an odd habit with his water bowl. He will look into the bowl and can't figure it out because he can't see the water because its so clear so alot of times he will tip the bowl over...

animals

cats

pets

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mjhicks Many cats don't like the surface tension of standing water and will paw at it before drinking. I had one cat that would pull his bowl out into the middle of the floor while pawing at the water. The two cats I have now prefer to drink from a tall plastic...

10 Aug 09

do you forgive people who hurt you?

pyre82 @pyre82 (103) • Philippines 5 Aug 09

have you ever experienced being hurt badly by someone and yet you forgive him/her for what he/she has done. it may be a martyr thing to do for some people and yet to some it is the best way to live a beautiful life of no worries...

hurt

martyr

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mjhicks Sometimes forgiving is hard and takes a lot of prayer. Two thoughts on forgiveness. One - if you take the word forgive apart you have for and give. For as in the forefront. Forgiveness should be something that is at your forefront ready to chusion the hurts...

8 Aug 09

I'm Having a Bad Day

Bethany1202 @Bethany1202 (3431) • United States 5 Aug 09

OH MY GOODNESS! I should know better, but I just wrote a review on Associated Content. When I went to hit "Save and Next" somehow I'd inadvertently been logged out and lost all the work I just wrote! I should have saved it in a...

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mjhicks Only had that problem til I had three articles published and was given the paste feature. Even then what I wrote was first in a text file so I just hand copied. I goofed up a few times learning to navigate through the tools and had to start over but having the...

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