> > My guess would be that there's another Pandora out there, looking for a > chance to prove her "mousing" mettle...
Hundreds, unfortunately. I volunteer with a local adoption center, so I get to see many wonderful cats in the course of a year. My experience is in socialising semi-ferals; at present I've got four that I've had for a year which came to me as hissing, spitting four-month-olds, but which are now handleable. I've also got a beautiful four-month-old from this year who is just about ready for adoption, and last week I got another four two-month-olds fresh out of the traps. Not to mention my own five resident cats, of course ... Here's one of my fosters from last year: (Warning: image captured using non-pentax equipment) <http://www.panix.com/~johnf/temp/willow.jpg>