good point, "S". however...without a leg rub, head butt, or purring session interspersed with those "love bites", how can one tell for sure? "i have noticed increasing hostility towards me by you in your last several posts"~pk eeeyup, me too. "you should be concerned when you confuse your friends and enemies"~pk alas, maybe persian kitty senses the loss of an unspoken affinity once perceived; call it sensitivity... no matter, i second this, too. "a wholehearted HISSSS for you S"~pk i do believe i love the persian kitty for this hiss! it's an appropriately hissed hiss, and were i a kitty, i'd have hissed you several times over already for the same reasons. and finally, persian kitty was responding to jon's initial question, "more hawkish?", by elaborating on the quote he was ridiculing in his post. she DID address his post. she was NOT responding to the paranoid ravings that followed it.