B. Kliban. I have the "GIFT EDITION!!!" with "4 NEW DRAWINGS!!!" Wahooo!

Jess - Yes, I'm serious. And I had the same book when I was a kid. (Somebody Kilban or Kliban or something like that, no?)

I love my cats, but they're rotten, evil, spiteful beings. They try to kill me every morning by suffocating me or tripping me on the stairs.
One of them I've had declawed twice. Yes, twice. The claws of death grew back. They are actually growing back again, (f'n vet) but I don't have the heart to put little AJ through that horror again.
One is obsessed with the shower. He has to be dripped on whenever you step out as he rolls around, purring. We call him Merv the Perv. (His real name is Elmo.. The wife says I am enabling him.)
Reading all this suddenly reminded me why I am a dog person... or in need of medication.

Jodi, you actually have to take Shana to the vet to get her declawed. No amount of anti-claw verbal assertion will get the job done.

Thomas, my cat loves you! He also owns me. :)

p.s. I'm sure he loves you too, Jodi. How could he not?! ;)

Hehe... I named my two after favorite authors, which means that they have slightly unwieldy "people" names.

Speaking of old cats, however, this past spring my parents lost their elderly feline, Sindy - who'd just celebrated her twentieth birthday.

What, was Shana practicing her massage techniques on you?

Aaron, are you kidding?? I had a cat named Qat! I got it from a comic called How to Draw a Qat. That's weird. *looking around the room suspiciously*

No comment.

I once had three pussies; two died of old age. I still have one, it's a little old but it still purrs and has most of its fur!

My last cat was named "Qat."

Yeah. What he said.

I've considered renaming Rutger, the more pompous of my two cats, Frasier. That would make Benny, Niles, which doesn't fit so well.

When my roommate got a puppy, suddenly Benny & Rutger looked like two grumpy old men, and for a while, I referred to them as Statler & Waldorf (the two old men in the theatre box in the Muppet Show).

Science Fact: Cats have scent glands in their paws and chins. When they rub these parts against anyone or anything, they're marking the object of this attention as "mine".

When marked by a cat, accept your fate by serving it food and water, pet it vigorously throughout every day, and clean its bathroom at least twice a week, even at the expense of your own life. When the cat grows old and dies, you must then take your own life as well, unless you have another cat alive at the time, in which case you must get ANOTHER cat to keep the other one happy.

Only through feline companionship can humans gain immortality, if only by associating with greatness.

I've always thought that you were special, but I am totally amazed, in awe even.

That you can enter a note to your cat telepathically while you are in bed! That is totally famazing!