I had quite the scare the other night.  As dark sable Pan was ambling
across the living room, my heart fell as I saw that his hair appeared
to be thinning at the base of his tail.  "He's not even 2 yet," I
thought, "he's too young for adrenal!"  I picked him up and examined his
rump (Pan: "hey, quit it!  Leave my bottom alone!"), but couldn't find
any bare patches or really anywhere that the fur looked very thin.  Yet
when I put him back down, again it looked like he was starting to thin
out at the base of the tail.  It was a mystery.
 
The next morning, under better light, I examined Pan again (and in turn,
Pan again told me to knock it off).  Would you believe that the little
rascal's winter coat markings include a white ring around the base of
his tail and lower rump!?!  White guardhairs on a white undercoat made
it look like there was a patch of fur missing.  Aargh!!!  I'm sure he
thought it would be a neat trick to play on us, that little trickster
weasel!
 
signed,
a relieved Regina
Pan: *smirk*
Seti: *huh?*
 
Regina Harrison  [log in to unmask]
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"Is that my business?  Well, what is my business?  Do I know?  Did I ever
know?  Let s not go into that.  You re not human tonight, Marlowe.  Maybe
I never was or ever will be... Maybe we all get like this in the cold
half-lit world where always the wrong thing happens and never the right."
--Raymond Chandler, The Little Sister
[Posted in FML issue 4330]