Hi Daryl,

>>> But, the pet will give you that soulful eyes look. :P

>> Yes... I can can hear him/her now:  "It WASN'T ME!!" hehe... ok, this time
>> perhaps :)

> There was another cartoon, where there are these 2 cats. Above one of
> them, you see *POOT*. The other cats screams "DUDE!!", and the other one
> sheepishly says "'Scuse Me". 

hahaha :)

>> Truthfully, my male yellow lab NEVER looks guilty... he somehow has been abl
>> to skip that gene I think :)

> Yet, while the dogs are ashamed when they're bad, the cats boast about
> it!!

I think in the cat's mind they've never done anything -wrong-... Distasteful to
some (ate the canary, peed on the carpet, etc. etc. etc.) but not unexpected
given their basically feral nature.  We have two feral cats that we adopted a
number of years ago (5 years ago perhaps), and we _still_ don't see them
jumping on our laps, etc.  It's almost as if they "tolerate" us :)

> My Mom told of a cat that found a plant of it in the yard...he kept
> gnawing at it, until it finally killed it.

Sounds like these two over here.  There were originally 4 of them that we
adopted.. One moved in with our neighbor and never returned (she's still there
), another a male in the litter took off, was recovered for us by
a 'cat trapping' lady at our old house in Windsor and then the bum took off
again here in the Ithaca area never to be seen again.  Everytime I hear coyotes
in the distance I wonder if Leo is still 'out there'.  Anyway, at our house in
Windsor where the 4 kittens lived until we moved here, there was a catnip plant
in the yard.. that plant lasted about a year then the 4 of them tore it to
shreds!  They killed it good. 

>> Cornell :)  That's right around here.  We swear at those students every time
>> have to go to town since they clog up everything and sometimes don't pay
>> attention to what's going on right in front of them   Bah, it's probabl
>> true of all college students 

> I'm so thankful I went through college 30 years ago.

Same here.. I can't even imagine what it costs now.  I know my daughter's
college loans are epic.

> Back then, I paid
> $400 a semester, $100 for books, and $20 for a 1 year parking permit.
> Each fall, the local college, the University Of Arkansas At Little Rock
> (UALR), has a campus wide picnic at the Bailey Alumni Center (I'm a Life
> Member of the UALR Alumni Association). In the past it had been
> hamburgers with all the trimmings, but this past year, it was pulled
> pork BBQ sandwiches. I had to miss it one year, as I was prepping for a
> colonoscopy the next day, and I hated that!! With it being August now,
> fall classes aren't that far away, so I need to find out when it will
> be.

Hope you are able to enjoy it this year :)

> Anyway, I was at one of those recently, and talking to several very
> pretty female students (they were at least 35 years younger than me),
> and I told them what I paid. They lamented "I wish it was like that for
> us", and I asked what they paid per semester. When they replied "$9000",
> I felt like Fred Sanford "It's the big one, Mabel!!". :P I asked why so
> much, and they said "Dorms"...to which I admitted, that'll do it.

Yes, when they put in Dorms at the SUNY (state university New York) the price
of college skyrocketed as well.


Take care,
Janis

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