I believe that Mike was not asking that posts dealing with the deaths of lost fuzzies be removed or banned from the list, but that it really isn't neccessary (or appropriate) to carry on for screens and screens about each minute detail of the grisly details in a public forum. It's bad manners in the real world to foist the detailed death of an animal-family-member on a large, public group, and there are some conventions that..shall we say...die hard. Laurel "a complicated life has so many opportunities..." -Karen Finley ================================================== Laurel Gilbert, American Culture Studies [log in to unmask] Bowling Green State University, Ohio http://www.bgsu.edu/~lgilber/ [Posted in FML issue 1429]