Dooks to everyone!
 
First off: Carol, I am so glad Bailey & Elle are doing so well.  Its nice
to know they are great!
 
2nd: Troy: Right on!
 
3rd: Meghan!  How could you think any of us would not care about you and
Dervish????????  Sheesh, girl.  Glad we aren't the only ones who noticed
that suddenly their "baby" was a lot bigger!  Kit is the same way.  The two
new members, Genie & Scully, are starting to shape up, but they've a bit to
go.  Their coats are still a little dry/hard looking, and they've weight to
gain, plus manners.  Scully is doing better with the nipping, but Genie!  I
tried scruffing and hissing, but that just seems to send her into spasms of
delight, and she nips even more.  So now its just a really stern "No Bite"
Or "No".  Of course, this can be difficult while either being pants'd or
having the little bugger run up your pantyhose in the morning (sorry
fellas, the ladies out there know what we mean).
 
Socks has adjusted to "Houdini" Genie and Scully just fine.  Kit is in
seventh heaven, and the cats have finally figured out their outgunned,
outrun, and dead in the water!  Do have to tell to quick amusing things.
 
We use a fiber type litter, and on Saturday the fuzzbuckets were out and I
was downstairs.  I went upstairs with coffee and paper to spend time, and lo
and behold, there was the litter (unused, by the way) all over the floor!
Kit, Scully, and Genie were just booking around and giggling (I swear it).
I scoop it up into a lovely pile to get back in the sack and WHAM--its going
all over the place.  This little cinnamon colored head pops out, and there's
Genie, snorkeling through.
 
Sunday I go downstairs, and my husband and I are reading the paper, having
coffee and all of a sudden he says "Look, a visitor!"  Genie had climbed up
the tool kit and over the barricaded and come downstairs, which, by the way,
she was quite pleased with herself.  Larry took her back up, and before we
knew it, she was back down the stairs heading towards the kitchen.
 
We are now in the process of revamping the barricade to make it ferret
proof, also.  (And I hear the others giggling at her, too!)
 
Rebecca, Larry, & Sara
Socks (wow--a harem)
Kit(I'm still princess around here)
Genie(Yeeeehaaaa)
Scully(Chase the cats, chase the humans, chase the cats.......)
Chewie, Dribble & Sarabi (I can't believe this!  Chased off the bed by ....
OW!)
 
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Rebecca McFarlane
Secretary
Basic Medical Sciences
School Veterinary Medicine
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN  47907-1246
 
Phone:   765-494-8632
Fax:     765-494-0781
[Posted in FML issue 2484]