A fun story, WadenJulie! Fantastic and bizarre enough to keep one listening all the way through. And I always like that touch of ancient history to lend veracity to the plot; to help take us out of the everyday, workaday world.

I\'m pretty much a dog person. And a bachelor. This tale explains both of these facts; it lays out the reasonableness and logic of someone who chooses my kind of lifestyle. Unless, of course, you\'re someone who likes losing their eyes to rabinous psychotic felines; someone who longs to be slowly sliced and diced to death by a thousand lethal cuts; a cat lover in other words.

Now some cats are totally loveable and not murderous at all, my friend says. This same friend assures me that the cat is the most affectionate and caring of animal companions. They will purr and lick you, even if you\'re not actively bleeding from multiple wounds . . . so he says. He told me these things after he returned from his last vacation, with Elvis, on a UFO, via teleportation, on the 10th planet, where they love cats.

And he\'s the sanest man I know.