>I will tell you again, that the person I spoke to, said it was a
>Meerkat. I saw one dead on the road once,and I picked it up. I was
>told it was a Meerkat - guess it was not.

PFFFFT...I vote that we call it "Marilyn's Mustelid"!

So what if it wasn't a "meerkat"? Perhaps it's a local name for
something else. We used to call long, green grasshoppers "Cicadas" --
yet those thrumming, buzzing ugly bugs with enormous alien-looking eyes
are also "cicadas". The point is, the story was awesome, the little
guy/gal was fed, and Marilyn has added yet another mouth to her hungry
crowd. :)

>Let me tell you what it was. It was big, as big as a 10 month old
>kitten - it had a pointy face, soft dark eyes, had a tail like a rat
>only fatter.

Maybe an opossum? *shudder* (I have a VERY strong aversion to those
nasty critters...but it involves a tale from many years ago, sleeping
in the woods, a bare butt, and a hissing possum...but I digress...)
I still say it doesn't matter, regardless. :)

>Maybe it was an angel, checking me out for another assignment. If that
>is the case - would rather be wrong than be found wanting. The whole
>thing was very soul searching. I'll keep you posted, and if I have
>offended anyone - I'm sorry, it is a true story - just one of many
>things that happened to me.

There's your answer. How many of us, in your (freezing) snow boots,
would have done the same, I ask? Perhaps that is where you nay-sayers
should be placing your queries.

ANYONE "offended" by this story is being ridiculous, and obviously has
too much time on their hands if they have to pick nits over something
so silly. Ignore 'em!

Just my two cents'.

~Eri and her Toobsox in Texas

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