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Oh, yes. We have four cats: Alice, who is ten years old, Dinah, who is four, Agamemnon, who is six months and is getting his surgery tomorrow! And then there's Achilles, who is about seven months.

We got Agamemnon from a friend who found him under her car in the rain when he was about five days old. My daughter (8) and I bottle-fed him, and he's the sweetest thing you can imagine. When he was old enough to play, the older cats didn't want anything to do with THAT, so we went to the humane society and got his "separated-at-birth twin," Achilles.

The names Agamemnon and Achilles were the one condition set by my husband. If we couldn't name them those names, then we couldn't keep them. (Like THAT would ever happen.) We thought the names fit, though, so we have two fierce warrior kitties.

We also have two 3-year-old red-earred slider turtles who live in a lovely 55 gallon aquarium that I made for them. It's 2/3 water and 1/3 lush tropical landscape. They are quite happy. The FISH was one of the 12-cent feeder fish we occasionally bring home for the turtles, but this one was very small, and my daughter couldn't bear to let the turtles eat it, so we didn't put it in the aquarium. It's been alive for about two months now, which HAS to be some kind of record---at least for me!