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This is Larry for Ariel. She and her three cats, Atom, Dinky, and Emily, gave us some wonderful Cat Chat articles this month. [Harry is at Rainbow Bridge now.] We are gratified that we can offer this regular article about some wonderful cats and their human beans with visits by a dragon! Please visit the Memorial Page for Ariel's mother. Click the cat wagging its tail graphic to visit their net home. Thank you. Now here is Chester the dragon, Atom, Dinky, and Emily with Cat Chat:

Cat Chat Reruns

Emily: Grandpa bean habs been so so so furry sick alla dis month, an poor Mom, she habs been going up to da people vet bean place ebery day an making calls on da phone tingy to her sisters an doing all sortsa stuffers an she's jus xausted, she is! An me an Chester an da boys, we's been working eggstra furry hard to try to hep her rest and stay not sick, cause ifn she gets too tired she gets furry furry sick! She could eben hab anoder ub dem weird fallin sleep wid her eyes open widout nosin it spells like what she habed a couple ub months ago, an we sure doesn't want dat!

Atom: We sure doesn't! Dat sceered us all half to deafers!

Dinky: Yeah, it's not good atall to hab Mom bein so tired an sick-like. An so like da Em Queen say, we's bin workin like crazy cats to keep her feelin good. But an dat come to be a problem...

Chester: It sure has! Because, since we've been working so hard looking after Mom, we haven't had a minute to write any Cat Chats, and now here it is the end of the month! So we all talked about it and decided to pick out four of what we think are the best Cat Chats from a year or two ago that maybe some of you people and kitties haven't ever read. And even if you have, they are really good ones, so we think you will enjoy them. The first three are from when it was just me and Harry and Em, and the last one is the first column that Atom Ant got to talk in. He sure was different back then!

Atom: Dat column is baressin! Me sounds like a plete goofball!

Emily: Yous was! Yous still is, but not so bad. I had furgotted what yous were like when yous first came. Yous hab really growed up a lot! So, anyway, here are our Cat Chat reruns. We hope yous all enjoys dem. Grandpa bean, he seem to be getting better, so we'll be back to our regular Cat Chats in November. Have fun reading our old stuffers!

Cat Chat 10-07-01
How Chester Came To Life

Originally pawed 3-2-99

Hi everyone! This is Meow Harry...

And Emily Mew...

And me, Chester the Dragon!

Emily: It hab bin a furry quiet week, wid notin' much happnin attal...

Harry: Just the way us kitties like it! So we all decided...

Emily: We decided dat we would tell yous all how it were dat Chester come into our house!

Harry: Emily! You always interrupt me! (swat!)

Emily: I jus get eggcited is all. Tails and Claws...

Chester: All right, you two. Let's not start this again. We have a story to tell, so let's get to it.

Harry: You're right, Chester, and when you're right you're furry right! OK, so, the thing is, see, Mom likes dragons furry much. She like them so much, she have them all over the house...

Emily: Mostly where me and Harry can't get to dem!

Harry: That's true, but they're not real dragons. They are stuffed nanamals, which we don't like to play with anyway, and little metal dragon statue thingys, and stuff like that.

Emily: She hab a dragon frigidater magnet too, cause I sawed it oncet when it fell off da frigidater. And dar be dragons on her website too.

Harry: Yes, but those are special computer dragons. They're not like Chester at all.

Chester: I'm a computer dragon...

Harry: Yes, but not in the same way as the ones on Mom and our's site. See, now, we'll tell you all about it. Cause Mom like dragons so much, she saw this dragon in a catalogue, and she just had to have it.

Emily: It were a stuffed nanamal type dragon. At least at first it were. Anyway, Mom got it in da mail what come from da outside box thing. We neber go up to da mail box thing cause it be across da highway and dat be too fur away, and besides dar be nasty cars up dar on de highway. We don't like dem cars not atall!

Harry: Yes, cars are furry dangerous things, I meow. Specially when Mom puts us inside hers!

Emily: Merow! You said a mouful dar, Harry! Anyways, we jus hep Mom check da e-mail, what come on da computer. It furry much better dan dat old box mail, and funner too!

Chester: I thought we were supposed to be talking about me!

Harry: Sorry, Chester. Us kitties do get off the subjec sometime. Where were we? Oh! Mom got this stuffed nanamal dragon in da mail box mail. She call it snail mail, cause it's so slow. Heehee. Well, she just loved her new dragon so furry much that she put him right up in top of the computer, so she could all the time see him. She said he would protect the computer. And then something magical happened! You see, Mom have so furry much work to do on da computer...

Emily: And we tries to hep, but da keys on da keyboard be too close togeder fur us to do da typing. So one day Mom say, she say, "I sure could use some hep wid all dis computer stuff."

Harry: Well, she didn't say it like that. Mom doesn't say stuff like "hep" and "wid."

Emily: Whateber. Dat's what she say, anyway. So, dat night when Mom were sleeping...

Harry: And we were sleeping too, cause we always sleep with Mom...

Emily: Why dat stuffed nanamal dragon, he jus kinda woked up!

Harry: He sure did, and merow, did he surprise me the next morning when I got in my computer chair! He started talking to me, and I didn't know what was going on!

Chester: You should have seen you're face, Harry! It was so funny! Heeheehee...

Harry: You should have seen yours! You were so happy to be a real dragon that you almost fell off the computer. Besides, you never seen a kitty before, so you were surprised too!

Chester: I was indeed! It was amazing, being a real dragon. I'd always been stuffed in a box with other dragons like me. I don't remember much about it, because I wasn't really sentient yet...

Emily: Sendy-ant? What do that mean?

Chester: It means aware, and alive. But all it took was Mom Ariel's wish, and suddenly I was real! A real live dragon! It was wonderful. Much much better than being a stuffed animal in a box.

Harry: Well, I went and run and meowed to Mom and Emily that there were a strange creature on the computer. So Mom come out-she was in the shower getting all wet, like she does every morning, and when she saw Chester she was so surprised she bout jumped right out of her skin!

Emily: I were so surprised I bout jumped right outta my fur! It were scary kinda. But Chester be a nice nanamal, so I stopped being scared. But Chester wasn't his name yet...

Chester: I didn't have a name yet. Mom Ariel hadn't named me. We animals have to be named by human beings to have names, just like other human being have to give their children names so they have names.

Harry: Us kitties don't have to have human beans name us to have names. We have our own special secret names! How do you know anything about human beans naming their children, anyway?

Chester: I read about it on the computer, silly! As for your names, you still have to have human being s give you names. Otherwise what would they call you?

Emily: He got a pornt there, Harry. So anyway, Mom named Chester "Chester", which I tink be a furry fine name fur a dragon...

Chester: I like it too! Emily: And now all four of us lib happy in our cozy house, and Chester type fur Mom, and he type fur us too, if we feed him chocolate! Harry: Chester types for Mom for free, tho.

Chester: That's because it was Mom Ariel's wish that made me! And I agree with Emily. We four are all very happy now living together in this nice house, talking and eating chocolate and playing on the computer. Well, that's the end of the story. I hope all you kitties and human beings liked it.

Harry: Is that the end of the column?

Emily: I hope so, cause me getting sleepy.

Harry: Yes, me too. Time fur a nice long cat nap. Goodnight, eberyone!

Chester: Bye! See you all next week!

Cat Chat 10-14-01
Moon Mousies

Originally pawed 2-11-99

Hi! This is Emily Mew!

And Meow Harry. Me and one of our kitty webfriends, Ebony, have been having a furry exciting discussion....

Emily: Tell them about the moon-mousies!

Harry: I'm getting to that! See, Ebony says that since the moon is made of cheese, there are lots of mousies there to catch, cause mousies eat cheese. I like cheese and mousies...

Emily: I don't like cheese furry much, but I lub mousies! Yum!!

Harry: So if we could get to the moon we would be in kitty heaven! Lots and lots of mousies to catch! And Ebony says that they are slow, cause they have to wear oxygen bottles to breath. I was worried about that, cause I really don't hunt much anymore. I'm retired, you know...

Emily: I hunts lots and lots!! I could catch them mousies wid or widout them oxy-gin bottles!

Harry: So then I asked Ebony, I said, but if the mousies have to wear oxygen bottles, then we would too, and it would be furry hard to eat mousies and cheese with an oxygen thingy on my face! But Ebony, she says that we are special, and can breath space, so we don't need no oxygen bottles!

Emily: Oooo, yes! Isn't it such a furry egg-citing thought?? So many mousies too slow to run! Heehee!

Harry: Well, at first I thought that maybe Ebony was pulling my tail, but then I thought, well, we kitties are furry furry special people, so it just makes sense that we can breath space, even though mousies and beans can't!

Emily: Right! Egg-zactaly! So, when are we going?

Harry: We have to figure out how to get there first...

Emily: Didn't the cow jump ober da moon? We could get on a cow and make it jump....

Harry: I don't know, I think that's just a story. I never seen a cow that jumped over anywhere.

Emily: You neber seen a cow!

Harry: Neither have you. But I was thinking, there isn't any aminal that can jump better than us cats, and I have never know a cat that could jump to the moon. I have seen it up in the sky, and it looks furry far away-even further than the highway!

Emily: But, but...how does we get to the moon-mousies, den??

Harry: I was thinking hard on that, and I memembered that on the teevee there are stories of cats on bean ships, and in the books that Mom reads there are cats on space ships. Now, I meow that beans have space ship, and they have gone to the moon. Any space ship surely needs cats, to keep the mousies all eaten up and make sure everything runs right, so I thought we can take a space ship!

Emily: Ummm...where does we find a space ship? Oh! Is they those noisy things that fly ober the house alla time? That place not furry far away at all. We could get there easy, I meow!

Chester: Ahem. Those things that fly over the house are little bitty airplanes. The space ships are all in Florida. Anyway, that little airport may look close, but it is further than you cats have ever gone, even if they had space ships. Which they don't.

Emily: Oh...how do we get to the moon-mousies then, Harry?

Harry: Florida? Florida is where our web kitty friends Ebony and Abby live! We can go see them, and they can show us where the space ships are!

Emily: Ooo yes, that would be furry much fun! We could hisspit and chase and eberythin, and then we could all go to da space ship place and go to da moon and eat moon mousies! Um...where is Florida?

Harry: I'm not sure, but it can't be far, cause when we paw to Ebony and Abby, it takes only a few minute or two to paw back, if their bean has the puter on.

Chester: You silly cats! Florida is way far away! Mom would have to drive you in the car.

Emily: Hissssss!!! Da car! Me don't get in no car no way no how, cept when Mom pushes me into that box and takes me to the Vet bean.

Harry: I hate cars too. I don't want to ride in the car to Florida!

Chester: If you don't like riding in the car, you're going to like riding on a space ship even worse!

(long pause) Harry: We can't walk?

Chester: Oh, sure. It would only take you, oh, two or three moons.

Emily: Two or three moons! Away from our cozy house and Mom and da bed and da frigedater?

Harry: What would Mom do without us to help her make the bed and make the house cozy by leaving fur bits on the carpet and patrol our territory and eat all the mousies and moleses? Emily...

Emily: Me nose what you thinking, Harry. Me think it too. We needs to jus stay here.

Harry: We could maybe get Ebony and Abby to send us some moon-mousies when they go to the moon to chase them...

Emily: That's a furry good idea. You paw dat to Ebony. But now, all dis talk of mousies be making me hungry. I'm going outside to hunt.

Harry: And I'm going to take a nice catnap and dream about moon-mousies. Goodbye to all our bean and kitty friends. Paw to you all next week. And if you goes to the moon, send us some mousies!

Cat Chat 10-21-01
Rainbow Bridge

Originally pawed 5-5-99

Hi! This is Meow Harry. I had a little cold last week...

Emily: An I'm still on a diet!

Harry: Emily! Not getting all the Yum-yums you want isn't as bad as having a cold!

Emily: It is to me! Mom is being furry mean to me. (sniff)

Chester: She's not being mean, Emily. She wants you to stay healthy. It's not healthy to be fat, not for humans or for kitties.

Emily: Humph!

Harry: Well, anyways, like I was saying, I had a cold, and my eyes were running and stuff and I wasn't feeling furry good atall. It started on Friday, and Mom said that if I wasn't better on Monday she would take me to the Vet bean, but I got all better by Monday and am just like my old self again. But anyway, while I was feeling bad, Peanut Butter, you know my brother who is an angel kitty?

Emily: We know who Peanut Butter is!

Harry: Well, some of the beans and kitties reading this might not know. So Peanut, like I told yous oncet before, he come and snuggle with me sometime, even tho he's an angel kitty, not a real fur kitty anymore. Well so, while I was feeling sick, he came and snuggled with me and made me feel all better. And while we was snuggling, we meowed a lot bout stuff...

Emily: I heard yous meowing at each oder, but I didn't hear what yous were saying.

Chester: That's because you were too busy pouting about not getting all the Yum-yums you want! Heehee!

Emily: Was not! I was outside chasing all da nanimals and habing furry much fun, and taking long cat naps on our bed. So, I guess you want to tell us what you an Peanut meowed about, huh, Harry?

Harry: Yes, I do, cause I thought it was furry interesting and I thought maybe all the beans and kitties what read this column might like to hear about it.

Chester: Well, on with the story, then, Harry!

Harry: OK. Well, while me and Peanut was meowing, I got to asking him what it was like at Rainbow Bridge, and if he were happy there and stuff like that.

Emily: He tol you bout Rainbow Bridge?? What's it like dar, did he say?

Harry: Well, he said that it is beautiful there, and just a perfect place fur all kitties and all other pets too. See, Rainbow Bridge is the place where all the pets that ever owned and loved beans go when they leave here this earth here. Peanut says on the other side of the Bridge there is a big big field of grass and trees and bushes and flowers and all sorts of nice stuffers like that. And it's always sunny and warm, cept sometime there is a little warm rain so as all the stuffers is green and happy.

Emily: It's neber cold dar? It don't snow or nutin?

Harry: No, nor ever thunder either. And there is lots of fun places fur kitties to explore, and trees to climb, and no kitty ever gets caught up in a tree cause they can just fly right down when they want to. And there's lots and lots of mousies and moleses and lizards and birdies and snakeses and other fun things fur kitties to play with, but the kitties there just play with the other nanimals, cause no nanimal on da other side of Rainbow Bridge ever hurt any other nanimal.

Emily: You don't get to hunt there? I don't like that!

Harry: Peanut says you don't have to, and don't even want to, cause everything there is all full of love and peace and sunshine and stuff. Even the doggies aren't nasty or slobbery.

Emily: There's doggies there?

Harry: Of course! There are all kinds of nanimals there what loved and were loved by their beans here on Earth. And ifn a kitty want to play and talk to a doggie, he can, or else da doggies just leave you alone.

Emily: OK, but ifn you can't hunt nor kill no nanimals, what does you eat dar?

Harry: Peanut says there is this special extra yummy tuna stuff and cream and milk and all kinds of yummy things. See, there are angel beans there, what take care of all the nanimals and make sure they have all the things they need. And the angel beans, they have houses with lots and lots of places fur kitties to play and sleep and hide. And the angel beans love them and scritch them and brush them and make them all happy and cozy.

Emily: Who are these angel beans, anyways? Where does day come from?

Harry: Well, it's sorta compekated, but Peanut says that some of them angel beans are people who are waiting for their own pets what owned them to come across Rainbow Bridge, and some are beans what have already met their pets there but stay there in the fields on the other side of Rainbow Bridge to help take care of all the nanimals. All of the houses are big, like I said, and the kitties and other nanimal pets can live with whatever bean they want. Peanut, he lives with a bean who has stayed there with her own kitties and her bean family too, and Peanut stays with this bean and lives there with Miss Priss and Fuzzy Bear and Tinker and Fred Purrbox and Misha and even Princess, who was me and Peanut's mother kitty. And Captain Beyond too! And Peanut, he's seen BC there, but she is just as wild as like down here, and never stay at any one bean's house. She just goes in to eat wherever she wants to. And Tinker, he spends most of his time outside too, like he always did, but he stays mostly at this bean angel's house to eat.

Emily: All of Mom's kitties what went before are there?

Harry: Yes, they sure are. Even Fleance and Begger, but they live with another bean angel, but sometime Fleance comes to visit with Miss Priss, who is his sister, and sometime she goes to visit him in the house he chose to own.

Emily: What about da doggies and stuff? Do they lib in da same houses too? Dat sound like an awful lots of nanimals in one house!

Harry: Peanut says that depends on what the nanimals want and what kind of pets the angel beans had here on Earth. In some houses there are kitties and doggies and ferrets and mousies and all sorts of things, and in some there is only kitties, or only doggies, or whatever. And anyway, there is lots of houses and lots of angel beans and lots of space so the kitties don't have to fight over the food bowls or the sleeping places or the window sills.

Chester: Are there any dragons there?

Harry: I asked Peanut bout that, and he said there aren't many, cause there weren't many dragons that owned beans 'til real recently, and besides, dragons live a long long time, but those that did own beans, they live over in these big warm cozy caves with their beans and they fly all around and sun themselves on the rocks and stuff like that.

Chester: That sounds nice!

Emily: But Harry, so Peanut he say that him and all of Mom's kitties are there waiting fur her?

Harry: And fur us too! Whenever a pet or a bean what loved a pet leaves here this earth, all the nanimals and angel beans there, they gather at the other side of Rainbow Bridge and welcome them. And sometimes the pets are so happy cause their bean has come to be with them, and sometime they know they just have to wait. And sometime lots of times too, other beans come from other parts of Heaven-cause that is where the fields by Rainbow Bridge are is in part of heaven-they come to greet their pets or their family bean that is coming cross the bridge. See, the Bridge, it's a long shiny thing like a rainbow, and on the end near Earth it just comes out of this misty like stuff. And sometimes the beans stay there in the fields with their pets and families and take care of each other and other bean's pets too. And sometimes they go off all together to other parts of Heaven.

Chester: But wait a second, Harry. I thought that beans...I mean humans, had to go to a place called the Pearly Gates and talk to this head angel guy called Saint Peter and see if they are going to get let into Heaven.

Harry: Oh, but that's the best part, see, cause God nose that beans what loved and were loved by their pets are the bestest kind of beans, so there is no question but that they get into Heaven. So these beans, they don't have to go to no Pearly gates. They get to just walk across the Bridge and be happy fur ever and ever with their pets!

Chester: That's just lovely Harry! (sniff, brushing away tears). It's so nice that God has made a special place and a special way for us animals and our humans to be reunited.

Emily: Yes, that is so furry nice (sniffing too). I'm glad to nose dat Mom and eberybody else I lub will be dar fur me fur eber in dose nice pretty fields. Thank you fur telling us about Rainbow Bridge, Harry.

Harry: You're welcome, both of you. I feel much better knowing that we will all be happy and together in that pretty sunshiney place. I don't want to leave Mom anytime soon, but I nose I can be happy with Peanut and the others waiting for her there at Rainbow Bridge. (sniff) Now I'm crying too! Why are we crying when it is such a happy story?

Chester: I think because it touched us all in our hearts. Humans cry too when they are touched like that.

Harry: Well, I hope all the kitties and beans that read this feel happy knowing that things will be so so nice when we all meet at the other side of Rainbow Bridge.

Chester: I'm sure they will. Now I think it's time to end this column, because we've talked way too long. But it was a beautiful story, Harry.

Emily: Yes, it was, but now it's time to play and run and be happy while we're here! An I think I'll lub up on Mom some extra too. See eberybody next week!

Harry: Bye everybody!

Chester: (sniff)

Cat Chat 10-28-01
Atom Ant

Originally pawed 7-30-00

Harry: Mom2 hasn't been feeling furry well and we all has been so busy heping Mom take care of her, and getting alla her stuff outta her old trailer (see, Mom2 hadn't brought alla her stuffers when she moveded in wid us. Mom and Mom2 have been moving stuffers bit by bit, but they been spending all month getting alla Mom2's stuffers over here). So anyway, we didn't even realize that we hadn't wrote a Cat Chat all month!

Emily: We is sooo embarrassed! But we has bin furry furry busy. Anyways, beans takes vacations in da summertime, right? So, yous all can tink ub dis like our vacation! At least from writing da Cat Chats, dat is. Oh! Mom2 needs us! See alla yous kitties and beans later!

(Harry and Emily rush off) Chester: The cats are right. We have been very busy moving and unpacking things and taking care of Mom2. Plus we've had the new kitten to contend with. He's been quite a handful! Speaking of the kitten, whose name, by the way, is Adam Ant: he has been bugging me to let him have his say in a column. Harry and Emily are totally against this, but since they are busy, I thought I'd give the little fellow a chance.

Adam: Yous means me gets to writs a clolum all by meselfs?? (jumping up and down) Oh boy oh boy!

Chester: Actually, I will write the column. You just tell me what you want to say.

Adam: OK. Um...what does me say?

Chester: Well...why don't I ask you questions and you can answer them?

Adam: Ok, me can does dat!

Chester: All right. Well, why don't you tell us where you came from.

Adam: Me come from da leabes outside. Yous nose dat!

Chester: I mean before that. You didn't just appear magically in the leaves under the back steps.

Adam: Me didn't? What is magically?

Chester: I mean, you once had a kitty mom, and probably brothers and sisters, but none of them are anywhere around here. So, how did you get to this house?

Adam: Me has a Mommy. An she be a furry big kitty! She tooked me up from da leabes an tooked care ub me, an we pways alla time, an me sweeps wid her. She is a good kitty Mommy, she is.

Chester: You're talking about Mom. Mom isn't a kitty. She is a human being.

Adam: What's a hooman bean? Mommy is Mommy. Ub course she be a kitty. Eberybody be a kitty!

Chester: That's not true. I'm a dragon. And Mom and Mom2 are human beings. Human beings are people that kitties and dragons own. Kitties don't get as big as Mom and Mom2. They are a completely different species.

Adam: Yous are? A dragon? What's a dragon? What's a spishies? Me don't unnerstan yous atall. Mommy is Mommy. Dare ben't any oder Mommy, cepten if yous means Mommy2, who is ub course a kitty, but more like Emily dan like Mommy. Emily growls at me alla time, but she pway wid me too. Mommy2 pway wid me too, but sometime she spray nasty water in my face. Me doesn't unnerstan dat, cause after all me is jus tryin to hep her eat her food, like me does wid Harry and Emily.

Chester: (sighing) OK, let's try this again. Before Mom found you in the leaves under the back steps you had another Mom, who was a cat. Somehow you got separated from her. Do you remember how?

Adam: Anoder Mommy? Is yous sure bout dat? Me doesn't tink me member nothin like dat.

Chester: You don't remember anything about living with other cats and somehow coming here and lying in the leaves?

Adam: Um....(thinking very hard). Me tinks me member bein curled up wid lots of warm fuzzies. An me members a smell, soft an fuzzy an warm. Like Harry and Emily smell. Not like Mommy smell, or Mommy2 eider. Or yous eider, eider!

Chester: That's because we're not cats! So, you remember being with your cat mom? Then what happened?

Adam: Me guess me sorta members dat. Da smell an da fuzzy an da warm. An den, an den...it seem like sometin big tooked us up, and put us in sometin bigger eben, and we went real fast an me were sceered. An den it seem like me member bein in wet stuff dat didn't smell warm an fuzzy atall! An, but den, me smelled dat warm an fuzzy smell. An it were long an long fur aways, but me smelleded it, so me crawled to where me smelled da warm an fuzzy. It weren't da same warm an fuzzy, tho. It were differnt. An den me crawleded an crawleded trew all deese wet stuffers, an found da warm fuzzy smell. Dar was kitties dar, fur sure. But day wasn't da warm fuzzies like me nosed. An me were sceered, an curleded up in deese leabes. An den dar were dis loud noise ober me head, an me saw sometin big. An da warm fuzzy smellin tings came an was eatin, an den me heard anoder noise an sometin big pickeded me up an it were warm an it tookeded me into da warm place what me nose now be our house, an it gibed me sometin to eat and made soft sounds an petted me an dat were Mommy. So! Dat be how me was gotten here, me meow!

Chester: Poor thing! It sounds like some mean human dumped you out on the road! You were very lucky to find your way down to our house. But that was very good, that you could remember. See, you did have a cat mommy. And you see the difference now between your cat mommy and Mom?

Adam: Yah, Mommy is bigger and smells differnt and isn't as fuzzy. But she's gots to be a cat! She jus a differnt kinda cat. Like yous be a different kinda cat. Eberyone be a cat!

Chester: (sighing) Whatever. How do you like living here?

Adam: What does yous mean? Where else would me lib? Dis be me house!

Chester: Um...your house?

Adam: Ub course! Me be king ub da house. Like, yous was saying dat bout Mommy being someone dat kitties an dragons owns? Like yous meant you and Harry and Emily owns Mommy? Now, me nose dat isn't true, cause Mommy be my Mommy an no one else's!

Chester: I think Harry and Emily would disagree with that. In fact, I don't agree either. We all own Mom and Mom2.

Adam: Silly dragon cat! Me Adam own eberytin! Me is da kitten, an dat mean eberytin and eberyone in da house be mine. Da counters be mine an da beds be mine an da toys be mine an da couches be mine an ebery ebery tin be mine. All mine! Teehee!

Chester: My, you are full of yourself, aren't you?

Adam: Full ub meself? Me gets full wid yummy food, but me doesn't tink me neber gots full ub me!

Chester: (snickering behind his claw) You mean that you own Emily and Harry too?

Adam: Ub course! Day be jus here to pway wid. Course, sometime day hisspit and swat me and bowls me ober an ober, but dat's cause day doesn't unnerstan dat me is in charge round here yet. Day will figger it out, me meow!

Chester: I rather doubt that. Adam, haven't you noticed that you're smaller than everyone here?

Adam: Ub course me notice dat! Dat's so as me can go into alla places all ober da house like eberyone else can't! Cept me can't goes outside da glass door. Me can get out dar, an me hab, too! Teehee! But Mommy, she alays comes an grabs me an makes me come in. Emily gets to go out. Why don't me get to go out?

Chester: Mom just wants to keep you safe.

Adam: Humph! Me is a big bad kitty! Me can take care ub meselfs.

(Harry and Emily come in) Emily: Hey! What's going on? Chester! How could you let that monster write our column!

Harry: What's this? He thinks everything is his?? Hey, you little monster, I run things around here!

Emily: And yous sure don't owns me! Hissspiiitt! Meerroooww!!! (smack)

Adam: Teehee! Emily wants to pway! (bouncing off)

Chester: He'll never learn! (shaking his head)

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“Dolphin Blue” 10.25.01 
by L. E. Shaffer © 2001 L. E. Shaffer

A gray silver fin
Arcs ocean green
Ripples break across
Mirrored aqua marine

Another distinctive fin
Rises from the depths
Crystal water sprays
Diamonds in gentle breeze

Dolphin fins one and two
Broach surfaces sunlit
Hot and reedy
As we hold our breath

Four, six, eight fins
Bespeak family love
Fishing, swimming
Sonar seeing all

Upon marker twins
Green and red
Topped by light
At Keys night

Dolphins only passing
Thinking deep thoughts
Surfacing fin and back
Boat barely noticed

Human wondering in delight
Pleasuring in the sight
As dolphins disappear
Into the starry night

© 2001 L. E. Shaffer

Hockey Puck
In the NHL, the Florida Panthers have had a really bad start to their season. In MLB, the Diamondbacks made it to the World Series the fastest of any club in history. The Yankees are favored to take it all and are sentimental favorites. In other news, the Marlins might not have long to exist as there is a rumor that the club will be disbanded in a season or two. In the NBA, the Shaq is still trying to make free throws, while Michael continues to wow us all. The NFL Dolphins are in first place, but who knows for how long? In the PGA, one wonders where in the world that Woods fellow is? In NASCAR, look for the venerable number 3 in the Busch series next year driven by Little E. under the Oreo sponsor banner.

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