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Welcome, Tr1sha & Jazzy.
Welcome, Brenda, Lynxie & Richard.
Lynxie wrote: "Do I get extra points for including Kitty Thomas as one of my authors? hehehe"😹
October Celebrating 200 Years of RSPCA | KITTENS1-31 October, 2024
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K- Murderously Sweet by Kate Bell 9/10 1★
I- Innocent in Death by J.D. Robb 2/10 3.5★
T- The Air Raid Book Club by Annie Lyons 7/10 4★
T- The Dry by Jane Harper 8/10 5★
E- The Fine Art of Murder by Emily Barnes 11/10 2★
N- Nerve by Dick Francis 3/10 3.5★
S- Something Wicked by Carolyn G. Hart 16/10 1.5★
C- The Door-to-Door Bookstore by Carsten Henn 14/10 3.5★
A- Always By Your Side by Julie Haworth 10/10 2★
T- The Bookshop Book by Jen Campbell 19/10 3★
S- Jeremy Stone - The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton 25/10 3★
S- The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin 20/10 4★
E- His Name Was Walter by Emily Rodda 17/10/24 5★
A- A Charmed Death by Madelyn Alt 22/10 2★
S- Sinclair - Mrs Sinclair's Suitcase by Louise Walters 21/10 2★
O- Outrider by Mark Wales 12/10 3★
N- The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George 18/10 3.5★
Participants:🙀=completed
🙀BookConcierge
🙀Brenda
🙀catsalive
🙀Denise
🙀Frankie
🙀Jackie
Jazzy
🙀Lynxie
🙀Richard
Sadie
🙀Sarah
🙀Tari
🙀Tr1sha
October 2024 Word of the Month: Celebrating 200 Years of RSPCA / KITTENS
Since 1824, the RSPCA has worked to prevent cruelty, promote kindness towards, and reduce the suffering of animals. Their vision is of a caring world in which all animals are respected and treated with compassion.
Tis the Season… for Kittens!
In 2022-23, RSPCA Australia received 33,747 cats, almost 40% of all animals, and approximately 2/3 of these were kittens.
Unfortunately, 18.44% of these felines had to be euthanased; however, a staggering 64.41% were rehomed - go RSCPA & all the adopters!
Cats start breeding when the days start getting longer, usually around August here in the southern hemisphere, and they continue to breed throughout spring and summer. This means kittens are starting to arrive in our shelters now by the hundreds.
A queen (female cat) can start to breed from as young as 4 months of age and can produce up to two litters every season. That can quickly add up to a lot of cats – in just two years, a single pair of undesexed cats could could become 50 cats. They and their litters could go on to produce up to 20,000 more cats in just two years.
Kitten season can be a stressful time for your cat. A queen in season is a handful. They become agitated, roll on the ground, rub against everything and yowl repeatedly, and loudly! They also become desperate to get outside, especially at night.
Your undesexed tomcat will also become agitated, might spray urine and will also be desperate to get outside and find the ladies. Toms will often get into fights and can sustain terrible injuries or contract diseases like feline immunodeficiency virus (Feline AIDS). They are also more likely to roam and be injured or killed on the road.
All this cat action in the neighbourhood can also be very unsettling for your desexed cat and can put them at risk of being injured, especially if they roam away from home.
RSPCA works with communities all over the country to improve access to desexing so that fewer kittens find themselves without a home to go to. The relatively low cost of preventing cats from producing so many unwanted offspring far outweighs the cost to the community of caring for kittens in shelters. With community programs offering discounted or subsidised desexing, it’s never been easier for people to stop the cycle of unwanted cats and kittens.
October Celebrating 200 Years of RSPCA | KITTENS
Duration: 1-31 October, 2024
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Spell the word KITTENS using the options listed below.
If you want more of a challenge you could also spell one or more of these words: RSPCA, CATS, SEASON, QUEEN, TOM, SPAY, DESEX.
Spell Options:
1. First letter of the book title
2. First letter of the author's first or last name
3. First letter of the main character's first or last name
4. First letter of a series title (as shown here on GR)
LSC Guidelines
Denise wrote: "Hi, Denise in California, I found this group trying to find new challenges, and I like the spell out kind. I think I will join an open ended one when October starts"Hi Denise, Welcome to Lotsa Spell Cs. Feel free to join an active challenge when you're ready.
Congrats, Brenda!
Congrats, Tr1sha.
Nice work, Tari!
Welcome, BC!
Congrats, Karen!
Welcome, Jackie, Tari & Katrina!
Welcome, Brenda, Tr1sha, Richard & Bobbi.
Brenda wrote: "I'm going to break mine up, like with the pub crawl :) Book choices to come..."That's great. It looks less daunting that way 🦜
(moved this down so you can keep them together)
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Promise of Spring1 September, 2024->open
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BLUE WREN AND PEEWIT DANCE ABOUT ITS LIP,
PAUSING A WHILE TO TEST THEIR CHORAL POWERS.
AND NOW, A HINT OF FLOWERS...
B- By a Narrow Majority by Faith Martin 1/10 3.5★
L- The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett 7/9 5★
U- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce 1/12 3.5★
E- The Mysterious Bakery On Rue De Paris by Evie Gaughan 3/9 3★
W- Judgement Day by Mali Waugh 5/10 3.5★
R- After the Worst Has Happened by Richard Gosling 2/9 4.5★
E- Ethan - Murderously Sweet by Kate Bell 9/10 1★
N- Keeper of the Swans by Nancy Butler 29/9 2★
A- The Crystal Singer by Anne McCaffrey 14/9 3★
N- Nerve by Dick Francis 3/10 3.5★
D- The Dry by Jane Harper 8/10 5★
P- Powers That Be by Anne McCaffrey 19/9 4★
E- Eleanor - The Lyrebird Lake Ladies Choir by Sandie Docker 28/9 4★
E- The Fine Art of Murder by Emily Barnes 11/10 2★
W- Outrider by Mark Wales 12/10 3★
I- The Irish Earl's Ruse by Emma Lange 15/9 2★
T- The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning by Margareta Magnusson 23/9 4★
D- The Torrent by Dinuka McKenzie 26/10 4★
A- Killashandra by Anne McCaffrey 16/9 3★
N- The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George 18/10 3.5★
C- Crystal Line by Anne McCaffrey 17/9 3★
E- Anne Elliot - Persuasion by Jane Austen 7/11 5★
A- Power Lines by Anne McCaffrey 20/9 3.5★
B- The Bookshop Book by Jen Campbell 19/10 3★
O- O'Connor - Glenrock by Lee Christine 11/9 4★
U- Underwood -Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller 20/11 4★
T- The Air Raid Book Club by Annie Lyons 7/10 4★
I- In Death - Born in Death by J.D. Robb 28/9 4★
T- The Collected Works of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin 20/10 4★
S- The Secret Life of Flying by Jeremy Burfoot 1/9 4★
L- Lockdown by Peter May 22/9 3★
I- Innocent in Death by J.D. Robb 2/10 3.5★
P- Poirot - Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie 31/10 3.5★
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P- Power Play by Anne McCaffrey 21/9 3.5★
A- The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton 25/10 3★
U- Bony Buys a Woman by Arthur W. Upfield 22/11 4★
S- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson 25/9 3.5★
I- Homecoming by Isabel Ashdown 28/10 3★
N- First Impressions by Nora Roberts 29/10 2★
G- Art Hour at the Duchess Hotel by Sophie Green 5/9 4★
A- Death Overdue by Allison Brook 5/11 3★
W- Mrs Sinclair's Suitcase by Louise Walters 21/10 2★
H- Always By Your Side by Julie Haworth 10/10 2★
I- Island in the Sun by Katie Fforde 30/10 2.5★
L- Alien Earth by Megan Lindholm, Robin Hobb 27/10 4★
E- His Name Was Walter by Emily Rodda 17/10/24 5★
T- Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree 4/11 4★
O- One Summer In Paris by Sarah Morgan 19/9 3★
T- The Terrible Tide by Alisa Craig, Charlotte MacLeod 6/11 3★
E- Bluestocking Bride by Elizabeth Thornton 14/11 2★
S- Stefan - Lightning by Dean Koontz 13/11 3.5★
T- Going Postal by Terry Pratchett 8/11 5★
T- Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor 11/11 3.5★
H- The Door-to-Door Bookstore by Carsten Henn 14/10 3.5★
E- The Edge by Dick Francis 18/11 4.5★
I- In Death - Creation in Death by J.D. Robb 9/11 4★
R- Strangers in Death by J.D. Robb 3/12 4★
C- Big Man and the Burn-Out by Clayton Bess 25/11 1.5★
H- Something Wicked by Carolyn G. Hart 16/10 1.5★
O- O'Neill - A Charmed Death by Madelyn Alt 22/10 2★
R- Maidens of the Cave by Lloyd Devereux Richards 24/9/24 2★
A- Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey 13/11 4★
L- Howloween Murder by Laurien Berenson 1/11 2.5★
P- Pumpkin Spice Peril by Jenn McKinlay 2/11 2.5★
O- O' Artful Death by Sarah Stewart Taylor 2/12 2★
W- Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops by Jen Campbell 15/11 3★
E- Manhunt by Janet Evanovich 26/11 1★
R- Reading Between the Crimes by Kate Young 3/11 2★
S- The Seachangers by Meredith Appleyard 15/11 5★
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A- Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume 17/11 4★
N- Night Watch by Terry Pratchett 18/11 5★
D- Dove Pond - The Book Charmer by Karen Hawkins 27/11 2★
N- Napoleon - Man of Two Tribes by Arthur W. Upfield 23/11 4★
O- We Solve Murders by Richard Osman 12/12 4★
W- Waite - The Notorious Rake by Mary Balogh 21/11 3★
A- Undara by Annie Seaton 13/9 3★
H- Gone with the Wool by Betty Hechtman 3/11 2.5★
I- Iwan - The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston 16/11 3.5★
N- Nemesis by Agatha Christie 26/11 4★
T- The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan 9/9 3.5★
O- One Man Show by Michael Innes 25/12 3★
F- Forzane - The Big Time by Fritz Leiber 14/11 1★
F- Flitworth - Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett 24/11 5★
L- Little Bookshop of Murder by Maggie Blackburn 25/11 2★
O- One Day by David Nicholls 1/3 3★
W- Mistletoe and Mischief by Patricia Wynn 24/11 2★
E- Eben - Portrait of Jennie by Robert Nathan 28/11 4★
R- In Five Years by Rebecca Serle 17/11 3★
S- A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins 30/11 4★
Participants:🦜 = completed
Bobbi
BookConcierge
🦜Brenda
🦜catsalive
Denise
🦜Jackie
Katrina
🦜Mary
🦜Richard
🦜Sarah
🦜Tari
🦜Tr1sha
