Bill, My many thanks for your gracious and obviously sincere apology. Forgotten. And I tend to agree with you -- descenting is cosmetic, unless the number of bombs per day creates a real problem and then it becomes curative. :) I thought about adding this after my last message, and since I'm on the subject, I think I will just add that in the message discussing ear cropping, I didn't mean to make it sound quite so personal -- I meant to be speaking not only on behalf of myself but on behalf of anyone who agrees with me so, it really should have said more like, `kindly give me and anyone else who doesn't feel so vehemently against descenting the same courteousy'. A small point, but an important one to me -- if I meant it to be totally personal I would have sent a private message. Anyway I doubt I'll be commenting anymore. I've made my point pretty clear. Descenting is a last resort but not a sin, in my opinion. `Nuff said. Laura Laura L'Heureux Kupkee U. of Illinois Vet Med Class of `96 [log in to unmask] [Posted in FML issue 1152]