Hi Canie,

I'm now the proud mother of four. Four cats that is. Strangely, I lost both of my babies last year and when I moved here two forgotten girls adopted me. Momma and Kitten-Kitten, little tuxedo girls. Then my daughters best friends father died and her cats needs a home, so we adopted Tiger, who must weigh a good 14 pounds and is orange stripped and Ariana, the most strange cat I've ever seen. Calico with a little head, large dropping body and little tiny feet. She's really weird.

So perhaps before the next moderate quake arrives near me we'll see which puddy tat has the best seismic detector skills. I have to teach them to meow by magnitude. Four meows equals a 4 magnitude quake and so forth. If they get to 7 we will all go into hiding.

Petra