Oh, man, great thread! bc68, you have a gift! mb--glad you have two new babies! fc--all cats dead in one year. Oh my. That takes a certain fortitude of spirit. Isaac and Ariel will probably go around the same time, which will be saaaaaaaaaaaad. They're 16 & 17 now. I think of them as pretty frisky, but I cat-sat for my neighbor's 1 yr old Petula last week--the creature's demented! I forgot how fun a young cat can be.