=Mark wrote: > I've been here long enough to have earned the right... :-) > > Actually this incident goes back to when Dinos roamed the net and John > Gunterman (AKA Dragonbreath) was having problems with his neighbors Long > Haired Show Cat which kept using his pepper patch as a litterbox... > > The next morning he was verbally abused by the neighbor who was sitting on > her front steps methodically cutting stuck together clumps of hair from a > decidedly unhappy feline. She threatened to sue as the cat would be out of > the competition circuit until said hair regrew whereupon John stated that > his peppers were worth money too. I said it years ago in relation to this story, and 'll say it again. Somebody, maybe just the neighbor, HAS to be full of... ah.... say litter box leavings. I CAN'T believe any person serious about the well being of a show cat (or any other, but I won't start that) would let it outside to wander around freely. Probably just claimed it was being shown to try to squeeze some dough out of the guy... -- Erich C-H # 2099 & First Lieutenant of the Moderate Corps