Okay, as soon as the sun went down, WHO should come trotting down the front sidewalk but KATO! I KNOW he hid under the porch all day! I called him and stomped the concrete and told the cats and chihuahua to find Kato-to no avail. But as soon as the sun goes down, out he comes! He's down in the "workshop" now, in an escape-proof ferret cage (?) eating and drinking. What is his game ? Is he trying to tell me that if I left his collar and I.D. on, he could come and go like a kitty-cat? Well, the cats MAY be declawed this week-so no more free range for them, either! (My kids are against this 200%-but it's wrong to let them out at bird breeding season, and wrong to let them out when they have no claws, so I'm stumped! I've saved 2 baby chipmunks already-and my kids say"tree rats! Let the cats have 'em" I guess we DO draw funny distinctions that have no real basis in logic.....but....that's the way it is! Karen [Posted in FML issue 1931]