The crossed eyes are not a problem! The vet says she is part Siamese so that also explains the long neck, the tightrope walking and the purtling talk. It doesn't explain the white fur with ginger colored markings. Several things are going on with her, right now. The major thing is the neutering will be a bit later. I'm not sure of the vet's reasoning but since she is not having long periods of heat, we will go along with it. The next thing, of equal importance is she got a dose of Revolution. This is supposed to take care of things like heartworms, fleas, some kind of tick, ear mites and who knows what else and it is used once a month. It is supposed to be applied to the back of her head. I am not sure we can tolerate just how sick she got. I guess it wasn't so serious as all that but she was obviously miserable for three days so I am wondering if it is worth it. Have any of you used it on your pets? Should we continue with it? The vet says she did have ear mites so her ears were irrigated again. She seemed a lot less upset about it this time. There were no baleful looks or vocal outrage and no cowering in the corner although she did get down on the bench again. Everyone got through it without scratches this time and they clipped her claws, just in case. Hopefully the second treatment and the Revolution will take care of them. Once again, I carried her in the mesh softside hamper. It is so much easier than trying to get any cat in one of the regular carriers. I do need to figure out a better closer though. She can get out much too easily. Once again, people thought it was such a good idea for a small pet. I think this must be one of those ideas that lots of people get at the same time. I have never figured that one out but it does happen to me fairly often. Has it ever happened to you? I guess the next problem to solve will be getting her teeth cleaned. She has some obvious tarter and it must be uncomfortable. Do they give her an anesthetic? Should it be done when she is neutered? How the heck do you brush a kitties teeth? I bought a tooth brush and toothpaste (tuna flavored)but I've never had to do this before. I think it may take both me and DH to accomplish this little task and DH gets pretty stressed trying to do anything like giving medication. This could definitely be a snapshot opportunity. How come all cats will sit on anything you are trying to read? I'm not sure how it could be genetic but every cat we have had would do it. Ginger now has added getting between me and the keyboard. More often, it is sitting or laying ON the keyboard. It makes such amusing noises and I make some unusual noises as well. She has changed the settings on the screen so often I have given up changing them back. There are three labels for "My Network Places", the icons are now on the left instead of the right, "Desktop and "My Documents" are right under the icons and everything else is scattered all over the place. No more clicking on something without looking on this screen. Half the time I lose most of the task bars, which can be very interesting. Thank goodness for "Computers for Dummies". She doesn't care so long as she can get scratching and head rubs and she can rub against my face, or sit on my hands. And of course there are those delightful noises. Oh, I forgot about the tightrope walking. The laundry room is a great play room. Not only can you curl up in the freshly dried clothes, you have all sorts of places to hide and climb. Getting to the shelves up really high was fun until you jumped and the rod for hanging stuff was too full. It wasn't much fun getting out from under all those clothes. It's lots of fun to sick your head in the washer while it is filling with water and during the spin cycle you have to sit on the lid. Mom won't let you get into the dryer with the wet clothes even if it looks like great fun. The best thing though, is to climb on the 3 section laundry sorter. While the top of the metal frame is fun it is much more challenging to walk on the fabric walls that separate the bins. Even if you fall you can't get hurt. Sandy

That's wonderful. How are you going to distribute the stuff once you get there, and where is "there", since New Orleans is inaccessible? You might want to coordinate with the Salvation Army or Red Cross to get the things there and get them to the needy. I sure wouldn't drive into that area with a truckload of anything right now and try to manage the mayhem that would ensue. Even God can't protect you from that kind of desperation. I was in SC after Hugo, working with relief agencies. Desperate people will hurt you. They don't mean to, it's not intentional, but they will surge forward in an attempt to get whatever you're offering, and someone invariably gets hurt. They will push, shove, and trample anyone in their way. Manners and common courtesy are forgotten when you haven't had food or water for a few days. I applaud your intentions, but you are talking about poor black people who have been largely forgotten and mistreated for centuries. They were desperate long before this hurricane hit, and now with the government taking so long to respond to their needs, they are furious, and understandably so. May God and all his angels go with you. You'll need them.

They make toothpaste just for toddlers thats ok if they swallow it.

I was in the same class as Stephanie in Ga. Called Hyper-emesis Gravitia. Or Puke your guts out. I was actually hospitalized basically 3,4 and 5 months respectively with each pregnancy. So what works will depend on the person. What I found was that sometimes it wasn't so much "what worked" as much as what wasn't as horrible comming back up. Malt-o-meal came up tasting about the same as it went down. Milk...way too chunky coming up. Citrus burned coming up. Sweet tea and peanut butter toast would stay down. Each pregnancy I had a craving and that would stay down...Watermelon with the first. Orange Hi-C (cannot even look at that stuff now) and Vegetable beef Campbells soup (not beef vegetable soup, but vegetable beef). And lastly the sweet tea and peanut butter toast. Experiment, and if its been longer than 48 hours since she's kept stuff down, then it's time to talk to the OB dr. Compazine worked OK, until I had a horrible allergic reaction. THorazine worked good...then they found out it can cause birth defects. Chlorapromazine worked just ok. But this was 20+ years ago. Good luck, and give her my best. "Morning sickness" is nothing to take too lightly if it is too much. It made my pregnancies VERY high risk. The good thing...baby is a parasite, it will leach off mommy all it needs, so even though Mommy will feel awful, baby will be fine. (usually) Vickey-MN