snakes and iguanas are pettable

They can carry Salmonella, though.

Cindy, we always had a dog growing up. We were *supposed* to be the main care givers but when I moved out on my own and got my first dog that was truly mine, I realized how much slack my parents were cutting us kids in the care and feeding of a dog. To kids, dogs are for playing. For parents, they are taking to the vet, cleaning up poop and vomit, bathing and worrying about.

It's kind of like babysitting vs. having your own kid.

I am very disappointed in you people. Half a moring of cat-discussion and not one of you has copped to imbuing your pet with your own personality!

I will be the designated copper. I have a talkative, furtive, paranoid cat, and am all three of those personality traits. I am, however, smart enough not to fall for the cat-equivalent of the Hidden Ball Trick, and I do not tend to run so fast that I crash into walls.

Alas that I do not have a fuzzy belly, for the greater raspberrying of all.

then there is always Furby, but you might want to shield the kids from [link].

BWAH! Actually, my kids would probably find that hysterically funny.

Mom, Cindy made me miss "Uncle Lennie" again! Sniff

I hear ya, babe.

EHC is too damn funny!

Did you see the first one? CR was narrating a bit about when he got into Corleone Jr. High. I wish I could remember the line that killed us, but basically, it was about his mother thinking he'd get a better education, because it was a white high school. At any rate, in the narration, Rock says something along the lines of "not a Harvard-type education, just a not-sticking-up-a-liquor-store-type education."

Neither Scott's family nor mine had much money, when we were growing up. Scott's one of nine kids and they grew up in a housing project in their town. By comparison, we had a lot more, because I was the only child. But my dad worked for himself, both my parents are children of The Great Depression, so we always felt poor, you know. My word, that made us laugh so hard it hurt.

Half a moring of cat-discussion and not one of you has copped to imbuing your pet with your own personality!

Given my cats, it would not be very flattering to me. This morning, Mister Kitty drooled on my head, had to be shown there was food in the dish, it was just a different dish and mournfully howled because he couldn't find me because I was in the shower. Where I am every morning. Which he knows. Devi turned to dash away from me and clonked her head on the doorjamb (I think she has spacial issues,) bit my calf and had to be put back up on the counter where her food is three times because she kept forgetting it was up there.

sara, you without a doubt have short bus cats. poor cute things.

I am nothing like any of my pets now or in the past.

You've met them! They are sweet, and sometimes fiendishly clever, but you can still tell their brains are walnut sized. OK, MK isn't terribly clever.

Actually, Uncle Lennie was a better uncle...I saw him a lot more often. My uncles are...not reliable, and could be called losers, at least interpersonally. Yeah. I loved it ,Cindy.

I would lie too. I would lie to my parents also.

I lie to Batman.

I am very disappointed in you people. Half a moring of cat-discussion and not one of you has copped to imbuing your pet with your own personality!

You posted this JUST to bait Hec, didn't you? I bet I can predict, almost-verbatim, what he'll say.

Probably belongs in movies, but I'm so far behind in my movie viewing that it'd be too dangerous...

Has anyone seen "A History of Violence" and if so, thumbs up or down? Looking for something to see tonight and this is the only thing at the theater we want to go to that might have broad enough appeal to the group.

A new CBS News poll hands George W. Bush the lowest approval rating he has ever received. Just 37 percent of Americans approve of the job Bush (who does not have a cat with his personality) is doing overall.

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