we got a letter from the uc davis vet school last week: "Presidio Way Veterinary Hospital has made a financial donation to the Companion Animal Memorial Fund in memory of Spike."

aw!

this fund supports research for problems that confront small domestic animals - dogs, cats, birds, exotic pets, and others.

in the past two years we've cared for two cats as they died of cancer - first nooka (lymphosarcoma) for several months in 2002 and then spike for just a few weeks in 2003. they both lived long kitty lives. nooka was just with us for the last 4 years of her life and spike's been with me since he was born in 1992.

i spent time looking through the database of cats (particularly black cats) at the san francisco spca last week - at petharbor.com - and had to close my browser window before i really became a crazy cat gal.