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Hmmmmmm

Reminds me of the books . . . 101 uses for a dead cat etc.

Nice to know they can be ballast for balloons.

Some dogs find some of the tougher ones nice teething toys, too.

I wonder if the medical profession still has uses for cat gut?

Then there's those fun toys the CATapults. What did they CATapult over castle walls anyway--cats with a small bundle of straw tied to their tales and set aflame? That would have been very enlightening to thatch huts!

Then there's that fun game many dogs love--CATHER BALL--a cat tied to a rope that doesn't quite reach the ground and is tied to the top of a tall pole.

Perhaps there's an Aussie who could answer a curiosity. Do rabbits or cats make better shark bait?

Then there's the head office of a big city fire department--with a hallowed fountain in honor of so many of their calls. It's composed of 9 fire hose nozzels shooting great streams of watter perfectly verticle--at the tops of which are not balls--but 9 very wet tabbys wondering how long their 9 lives will last and whether all of them will be so wet.

And no, none of the above is true--at least--not in my experience. 'Tis just to give the cat lovers a tweak. I actually enjoy cats on occasion--as long as the allergy meds are stoked up.

I've NEVER tied two cats together and tossed them over a clothes line. But I've always had very vivid images of the probable outcome were someone to do such.

I've owned cats several times with mixed results. Just as with people, some are good and some are bad. My daughter asked us to take her orphan kitty because she couldn't keep it and we did. A year later, the sweet little kitty has ruined all the carpets in our house, driven us crazy by running in the door and hiding, caused a furor with our neighbors, scratched me up when trying to take it to the vet to get it fixed, then came home pregnant and the kittens crapped up the garage.

Now I'm a patient man, and I'll admit that not all cats are bad. But I'm perfectly willing to find out how many balloons this one will take. It will be poetic justice.