Gee, Blue, thanx for all the DOG links (not to be confused with sausage links. Norman still remembers you and Tuffy. For the time being he has had to give up his courtship of my wife, as he has developed some kind of 'mange' and his hair is falling out (perhaps it was the Old Spice). He's not in the best of moods, although he is thinking of buying a tupee for ... uh ... his ass.

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This is the irrational season
When love blooms bright and wild.
Had Mary been filled with reason
There'd have been no room for the child.

-- Madeleine L'Engle

Tuffy went through a stage of biting off his fur such that two bald patches were created on either side of his behind. He would have required a double-toupee!

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Since when are the first line and the last line of any poem where the poem begins and ends?

~BlueAeroplane ~cat-man-info

Ah, well then Tuffy can sympathize. Norman is now wearing his lampshade and a sweater. He's not speaking to anyone. He's pissed. People keep rubbing various ointments on him. He feels miiiiiiighty low.

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This is the irrational season
When love blooms bright and wild.
Had Mary been filled with reason
There'd have been no room for the child.

-- Madeleine L'Engle