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Adopt-A-Pet

Kitt3n13 shares this story about accepting personal responsibility and making sacrifice for the sake of another living creature.

I just took ownership of a new kitty. :) I already had my one little fuzzy guy, now I have a little fluffy guy, too.

My friend's ex-girlfriend basically abandoned the cat with him when they broke up and he's had it for over a year. He feeds it and stuff but doesn't take it to the vet and all. Anyway, the cat was sick a few nights ago and I took him to the vet. The bill was over $400 (not including all the tests they had wanted to run, which would have made it over $800!) and I had to pay half for them to start treating him. My friend refused to pay that much and said he would just have the at put to sleep. He's four years old and just the sweetest little kitty! Plus, the problem he had seemed to be the same thing my cat had when I first got him and it's been under control with a special diet for over four years. Anyway, long story short, I took over as his cat's owner and used my rent money to pay the vet bills. I got some help from a couple of animal services groups and a friend of mine and her mom. But, I can't get a new apartment now until I make back the couple of hundred I spent on the cat. He's doing well now, though, and I'm glad that I took care of him. I got him from the animal hospital last night and it turned out to be what I thought it was and all he'll need to do is stay on a special diet. (Which my other cat is already on anyway.)

We applaud Kitt3n13, who will also returning to school full time this fall. Too many people act irresponsibly when it comes to the giving of pets as gifts. They forget that a cute puppy or kitten is a living creature, requiring responsible care and maintenance, and full time love.

And this is a timely story also...this Easter, forget giving the kids a real live bunny or chick. Take them to a petting zoo where they can learn about live animals, or, if you think they are ready for the responsibility, take them to your local animal shelter or rescue facility and adopt a pet. An adult animal, which is house broken and already acclaimated to children, is often a better choice for your family.

FANTASTIC NEWS!!

This came in from Sharonlower.

Dear Mistybunny:

I wanted to share my great news with you!

IAM IN REMISSION!

I had the Bad stomach flu and was ready to go to the hospital Monday. They did blood work like crazy too. I thought my Ovarian Cancer, stage 2, was back again. So they did a CA125 blood test and my count was only 12 !! Last count was Oct.99 and was 17, after my last chemo treatment. The marker is 35 and if it goes over its back to surgery. So mine is going down. Iam sure if I wasnt so sick it would be lower. So My 2nd Anniversary is June 14th and I will be CANCER FREE in REMISSION.

Now Thats Good News!

Love SharonLower

Congratulations Sharon!

On Monday, April 9th, AngelPie_Mouse will celebrate her birthday. Birthdays are always celebrated because they represent milestones of joy and living. We just don't mention what milestone, but it is one that might qualify her as to be appraised in the Antiques Roadshow.

Happy Belated Birthday Greetings to Sunshine_dm who celebrated her birthday on March 8th.

CONDOLENCES

The founders of CFC would like to extend our condolences to Debi (aka lady_d_the_diva aka voluptuous_vixen_6988) who lost her Grandfather and Step-Grandmother in March. Both died within a week and a half apart.

Have you got some club news--special events, awards, recognitions--or personal news--birthdays, marriages, new pets, new babies, new computers or even woes--you'd like to share? Mistybunny wants to hear from you pronto! Please write Mistybunny@yahoo.Com.

HTML: Lesson One

Rule #1 in HTML: What you turn on, you must turn off. The commands that manipulate everything in HTML (HyperText Mark-up Language) are called tags. They appear between < and > brackets. Think of tags as electrical switches. When you begin, you turn the switch on; when you finish, you turn the switch off. On and off are both necessary with very few exceptions (among these <p> = end stop, line space and <br> = end stop, next line). Example: To make text appear BOLD, the ON = <b> and the OFF = </b>. The / (forward slash) is inserted as the off designator.

One command set I've been asked to show you this issue, how to turn an image into a hyperlink. Before you write the command you should know the dimensions, location, and the name of the image you will be using and the location address you want to send the page viewer to. The full command would be:

<a href="LOCATION TO SEND THE VIEWER.html"><img src="IMAGENAME.EXT" width="SIZE" height="SIZE" border="0"></a>

What's going on in this command structure? The tag <a href= says anchor at this point the hypertext reference. It is the literal "if the next part is clicked, take the viewer to." The tag closes with an end quotation mark and the > sign. Please know that quotation marks are very important. Miss the end quotation mark and HTML will not read any other information until another quotation mark is encountered.

The next part is the description of the image you are using in the link. The portion border="0" says do not put a border around the image. Putting a number other than zero in that space would create a border the width of the number on all sides of the image, the default is a single line. In a hyperlink, the border would be in the color you defined for visited, unvisited, or active links or the browser default colors.

And the final portion of the command, </a>, turns off what is included inside the hyperlink. Without it, everything to the end of the page or to the first encountered </a> off-switch would be included in this link and would only activate this link. All following text would be in the link color and underlined. It's not a pretty picture.

And, thus, do we come back to the first rule of HTML: What you turn on, you must turn off.

Included with this newsletter are two full page articles with exhibits.

• Article: How to Save Your Members List (Clubs) by AngelPie_Mouse
  A step by step discussion for both Internet Explorer (IE) and Netscape browsers.
• Article: Owner/Moderator Message Designs (Groups) by AngelPie_Mouse
  Two cut&paste HTML command sets with descriptions and illustrations of the results. You don't need to be an experienced HTML coder to use them.

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